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school Board Proceedings.
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the salaries of the teachers in
the other schools are paid.
Mr.. Lyman moved that this
Board shall pay one half the
salary Of the teacher of the
Rosas School, located in the Par
lsh of Evangeline.
On a call of the yeas and nays
the vote stood as follows. viz:
Yea: Lyman and Hawkins. Nay:
Vidrine, DAILY, B~oudreau, Car
riere.
Those voting nay assigned as a
reason for their vote, that this
school, being located in the par
ish Of EvangeIine, was not pro-
vided in the budget, and that
this Board has no prospective
funds which it could use for that
purpose.
MI. Lyman voted that the re-
quest of the patrons of the Chou
pique school, asking that it be
jointly operated with the Parish
OF Evangeline, be granted.
On a call of the yeas and nays
the vote stood. as follows, viz:
Yeas: Lyman and Vidrine; Nays:
DAILY, BoUdreau, Hawkins, Car
riere, and the motion was lost.
The same reason was given for
the negative vote as that given
on the previous question.
On motion Of Mr.. Hawkins
the following parties were ap-
pointed as committees to nego-
tiate for a school site in the First
and Second School Districts of
the 4th Police Jury ward, viz:
School District No. /, 4th Po-
lice Jury Ward. Lee Duckworth,
M. W. Dunbar, R. L. Hawkins.
School District No. 2, 4th Police
Ward-Wesley Budden, DR.. R.
G.. Hawkins, R. L. Hawkins.
On motion of Mr.. Hawkins,
Carl Woods was appointed a
trustee to the Upper Waxia
School vice George Mcdaniel,
resigned.
On motion of Mr.. Boudreau
the President of this Board was
authorized to accept title from
Mr.. w. c.. Miller Of a site for
the Saul Guidry School, and the
said President was also author
lied to accept title from Mrs.
Francois Simon of a site for the
Bristol School.
On motion of Mr.. Boudreau,
DR.. L. A. Guidry was appointed
a trustee to the Saul Guidry
School vice - Domingeaux,
On motion of Mr.. Lyman the
polling place for holding the
special election in District No. 2
of the 9Th Police Jury Ward on
Saturday, Sept. 80, 1911, was
fixed at the school house at Law
tell, and C. T. Bihm, Eugene V.
Richard and Alvin Young were
appointed as commissioners of
said election.
On motion of MI. Carriere the
following bills were approved
and ordered to be paid, viz:
St Landry Clarion, print
ing $136. 90
& Lawler, making
map District No. 2, 9th
ward 600
J N Toole, sundries Grand
Prairie Agr'l School 1920
School District No. 2 of the 9Th Police
Jury Ward.
Opelousas, La, Aug. %, 1911.
To the Honorable President and Mem
bors of the Parish Board Of School
Directors of the Parish of st. Lam
dry, La.
The petition of the undersigned prop
erty tax pay of School District No. 2,
5th Police Jury Ward of the Parish of
St. Landry as created and defined by a
resolution of the Board of School Dis
rectors of said parish, passed on the END
lay of Aug, 19i1. and being and consti-
C~ne-fourth of the property tax
oayers eligible to vote at such election,
respectfully pray that your Honorable
Body, acting within and under the au-
OF L16 COuSblIuIlOu duu Laws y I
Louisiana, do order that a special cleo
ton he held, in the manner required by {
law, for the purpose of determining i
whether or not: 1) a special tax shall l
be levied and collected in said District, t
md (2) debt incurred and bonds issued t
therefor as hereinafter set forth.
Petitioners pray that at said election t
your Honorable Body do submit to a {
vote of the property taxpayers OF SAID )
school District No. 2, 9th Police Jury /
entitled to vote at said election, {
following propositions, tO-wit:
/. To levy a special tax of five mills i
IN the dollar on all property IN School {
No. 2, 9th Police Jury Ward, of {
he Parish of st. Landry, Louisiana, sub.
to State taxation, annually, for a :
period of ten years, for the purpose Of: i
(a) Giving additional aid to public {
(b) Purchasing Cor constructing( 2
,nhlic school buildings, n for white
and one for negro children,
title to which shall vest in the public,
Or, constructing 2 public school build t
ngs, one for white children and one {
or negro children, and .pur- {
,hasing sites therefor, title to which |
hall vest in the public. 8
2. To incur debt and issue bonds to t
he amount of Five TIL usan q i
S5OOO.00) Dollars, to run not t
onger than ten years from date and to t
1ear interest not exceeding five per
,ent per annum, payable annually
the purpose of purchasing Cor con
,tructing) 2 public school build :
nps, n for white children and !
for negro children, title !
o which shall vest in the public; or r
constructing . public school buildings, y
me for white children and one for !
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