The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1911-07-22
NOTICE OF
ELECTION.

EA@A tVN,
herein below appearing, notice i
| hereby given that m election vii
be held of all the qualified tax
! payers of the city OF New locria
louisiana, on the nth day OF Au
gust, 1911, at the Court House, il
| the City OF New Iberia, between
the hours fixed by law, 10 take tn,
| sense of the taxpayers entitled Il
vote in the premises on the pro
position of giving 10 the Iberia
st. Mary and Eastern Railroad
Company fax for a period OF ter
u0} years, under the conditions anC
limitations and for the purpose.
set forth in the ordinance herein
below recitcd.
AN ORDIN
An ordinance ordering a specia
election in the City of New Iberia
Parish of Iberia, State of Louis
lana, upon the petition of moro
than one third of the property tax
payers of the said City entitled to
vote, requesting the same to take
the sense of the property taxpay-
ers Of said city on the proposition
embodied in said petition, which
reads as follows, to wit:
PETITION.
To The Honorable Mayor and
Board of Trustees of the City of
New. Iberia, State of Louisiana :,
We, the undersigned property
tax payers of the City of New he
ria, State of Louisiana, entitled to
vote therein on the proposition
hereinafter mentioned, respectful
Iy petition and memorialize your
Honorable Body to order a speci-
al election according to law OF the
property tax payers of the City
of New Iberia, State of Louisiana,
entitled to vote under the Consti-
tuition and laws of the State of
Louisiana; the object and purpose
of such election being for the pur-
pose of levying a tax to realize
the sum of $500 each year for a
period of ten years beginning with
the year 1912 and extending to and
Including the year 1921, in aid of
and for the benefit of the Iberia,
st. Mary 4 Eastern Railroad Co.,
the full, amount to be realized by
taxation being the full sum of $45,-
600 to be levied, collected and paid
in ten annual payments of $4,000
each year in the years as recited
above in this petition; said a
Of $500 per year for the
period of ten years, to be raised
by the levy and imposition of a
tax OF two mills per annum for said
period Of ten years, beginning with
the years 1912 and extending to and
the year 1921. or so much
Of such two mills as may be neces-
sary to raise during each year OF
said ten years the sum of $4,000 per
year for the years 1912, 1913,1914,
1915, 1916, 1917, 1913, 1919, 1920 and
1921, until the full sum of $4,000
1as been raised: Said tax of two
Mills to be thus levied and collect
ID for the benefit and in favor of
'aid Railroad Company, as con-
and irducement for the
Railroad Company to do and per-
orm all the following, to wit -
1st.-The main. line of said rail
Dad shall be built from some point
n the City, of New iberia to the
over corporate limit of the town
+ Jeanerette. to st. Mary Parish
me meeting and connecting in or
ear the City of New iberia with
he New iberia & Northern Rail
Dad.
2nd.-The said Railroad shall be
uilt and completed as a line in
ependcnt of the Southern Pacific
abroad or any other railroad
wned or operated by the South
IN Pacific. or New Iberia & North
rn, or Frisco system.
3rd.-Thc said Railroad shall be
)mpleted on or before the thirty
rst day of December 1911, between
le points hereinabove recited,
fovided- that in the event of quar-
ltines, epidcmics, strikes, lock-
Its, panics and litigations of any
I'd all character, and more es-
,cially litigation for the neces-
ry right of way and Railroad !
Ossings, retarding the compile
On and construction of said Rail-
ad, and other unforeseen circum-
ances, all OF the nature to retard
e construction of said railroad &
id beyond the control of the said c
eria, st. Mary & Eastern Railroad e
,mpany, then there shall be add a
to the period for the construc-
IN OF said railroad above set
It a further delay equal to the
ne during which the construction
said railroad was thus unavoid-
ly delayed.
lth.-The domicile of the said :
eria, st. Mary & Eastern Railroad q
mpany shall be maintained in the
ly of New iberia.
'th.--The said iberia, st. Mary &
stern Railroad shall operate and
lintain within two months from 4
, 31st day of December, 1911, one
lily passenger or motor car ser-
e, with such motive power as
, said Railroad Company may de-
e expedient.
th,-The tax to be levied and
be collected and the annual a
unit herein provided for shall
be paid to the Railroad Com
~ until the said Railroad shall
re been built and place in oper-
on by running q train from New
ria to the lower corporate lin
of Jeanerette and the Other
hereinabove set forth
II have been complied with.
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