St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-05-29
Petitions and Ordinances for
SehOOI Tax.
Opelousas, May 3rd, 100,

Petitions and ordinances IOr
School Tax.
Opelousas, May 3rd, 1909.
To the Honorable President and Mem-
bers of the Police Jury of st. Landry
Parish, Louisiana.
Your undersigned property tax-pay-
ers of st. Landry Parish. respectfully
petition your Honorable Body to order
q special election in the Opelousas
| School District, being further designa-
ted as School District No. One I'll Of the
First Police Jury Ward, and bounded as
follows. to-wit: That The Court House
in the City of 0pelousas be taken as a
starting point, that lines be run Three
| miles North, Three miles West, -Four
miles South, and Four miles East from
said Court House or starting point that
parallel lines be run respectively
through the three and four mile points
North, West, South and East until the
North and South parallel lines inter-
sect the East and West parallel lines,
thereby creating a School District sew
en- miles square, and containing forty
nine square miles.
Said election to be called for the pur-
pose of submitting to the taxpayers OF
said district, entitled to vote at said
election, the proposition of leYying q
special tax of three [3] mills on the dol
lar for the period of twenty 1901 years
on all taxable property in said district
for the following objects and purposes,
viz: Said tax levy to be for the purpose;
if Unnecessary, of acquiring school grounds
in the City of Opelousas, La, for school
sites, play grounds, school gardens and
other things necessary in school deVel-
| opment, and, especially, for the COM
struction of a large and commod1ous
modern school building in the City Of
| Opelousas; and to provide for adequate
| F.riE,ro ord a~nVIinmauf nf aama The
title to which shall be vested in the
And your petitioners further pray
that your Honorable Body will embody
in the call for this election, the submits
sion to the taxpayers voting at said
| election, the question of issuing bonds
or the funding into bonds the taxes
this school district, by virtue of this
special election, for the purposes before
enumerated.
And your petitioners further pray
that this petition and the requisite or
dinanee ordering said election be duly
passed and published as provided by
law, and as in duty bound, your memo
~rialists pray fol. one and favorable con-
sideration in the premises.
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