The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1912-04-13

General fund. ...,. $40, sO6 6
Third Ward fund. ....... ... 2,642 i
Sixth Ward fund. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2,47 g.
Eighth Ward fund 8lS 5
Total. =. ........ s25,7A s
The following bills were ap.
proved and ordered paid:
D. N. Foster, expenditures 20 l,
A. j. Boudreaux, bus wheel I 81
The following resolution in.
troduced by Mr.. Downing was
adopted, and Mr.. Downing was
appointed a committee to super.
wise the purchasing of lot ano
erection of building:
Whereas. the special school tax imposed il
the Sth Ward has produced more than enough
to pay the obligations incurred in building thu
sth Ward School. and
Whereas, this School has been recently re-
paired and painted out of the excess of thi:
fund and is now in first class condition, leav.
ing still balance in this special fund of sew
eral hundred dollars, and
Whereas, the colored population Of the stl
Ward paid their proportion Of this special ia,
without deriving any benefit therefrom, and
are without school facilities, therefore,
Be it resolved, that amount paid Of this
special tax fund say Six Hundred and Thirty
Dollars, ($630.00) be, and the same is hereby
appropriated and set aside for the erection Of
colored public school In the sth Ward to be
available as soon as the colOred residents
thereof have decided to this school board the
lot upon which to build the school,
Mr.. McKerall having appointed
the following building committee
for the Patterson High School,
same was approved by the Board ;
VIM. Folse, w. H. Kramer, C. S.
Williams, A. H. Thompson, D. N.
Foster, B. j. Morey, w. D. Rous.
sci and w. N. Gooch. The fol-
lowing resolution introduced by
Mr.. Folse was unanimously
adopted:
A RESOLUTION.
Whereas, at special election duly and
regularly called and held in the Fifth
Ward school District of the Parish of St.
Mary, Louisiana, on the 14th day of Dec
ember, A. D., 1911, the following prop osi-
ton was submitted to the vote of the prop
erty tax payers OF the said School District,
qualified as electors under the Constitu.
ton and laws of this State, to- wit:
''Shall a debt be incurred in the sum Of
Tbirty.six Thousand 1896, oOO.O0) Dollars,
or SO much thereof as the School Board
may find necessary, and negotiable bonds
issued therefor, bearing interest at the
rate Of five (5) per cent per annum, inter.
est payable annually, to run for period
of twenty three (23) years, and issued in
such denominations and payable at such
times as is authorized by the Constitution
pecially Section % of the Act 256 of the
General Assembly of the State of LOUISE
ana for the year 1910.
1.-THE said funds realized from the in
curing of said debt and the sale of said
bonds to be used for the purpose Of build
ing High School in the Town of Patter.
son, Parish of st. Mary, situated in said
School District, and also to build two other
School Houses in said District at places to
be designated by the School Board, and to
and equip and maintain said
School Houses when so constructed; the
title to all of which shall vest in the School
Board Of the Parish Of st. Mary, State of
louisiana"
And, Whereas, the mourning Of said debt
md the issuing of said bonds was duIv
Ind regularly authorized by the vote Of
he majority In numbers aud amount of
he property tax payers of said School Dis.
riot voting at said election; as will appear
~ the resolution of the School Board of
Sth, 1911, promulgating said election;
And, whereas, under the Constitution
md laws of the State of Louisiana, it is
necessary that the School Board should
ncur said debt and issue SAID bonds: Now,
therefore,,
SECTION 1. Be it resolved by the School
Board of the Parish Of st. Mary, Louisi>
ma, in regular session assembled, that a
ebt of thirty-six thousand ($36, .OO)
Dollars be and the same is hereby incurr-
d for, in the name of and on behalf of the |
OF Ut ~ D.