The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1912-09-14
TOWN COUNCIL.

presiding and the following mem-
beers present: l.. j. Duchamp, L. j
Gary and DIR. j >. Martin. Alb
sent: j. Ii. Duchamp and K. j,
Guirard.
Mayor Bienvenu explained that
the object of the meeting was for
the purpose of adopting an ordi-
nance calling for an election for a
special five mill tax in favor of the
Southwestern Traction and Power
Company.
AN ORDINANCE.
An ordinance ordering special
election in the Town of st. Mar
tinville, State of Louisiana, upon
the petition of more than one third
of the property tax payers OF the
said Town of st. Martlnville, emit
tied to vote under the Constitu-
ton and laws of the State of Lou
isiana, requiring the same, for the
purpose of taking the sense of the
property tax payers of the Town of
ST. Martinville entitled to vote I'M
der the constitution and laws of the
State of Louisiana, OH the propos-
ition of granting to the Southwes-
tern Traction and Power Company,
a special tax of five (5) mills Oh
the dollar per annum, on the as
sessable property situated in said
town of st. Martinville, for max
imum period of ten years, begin
ming with the year 1913 and ex-
tending to and including the year
1922, provided that the amount
to be levied and realized from the
said tax by the Southwestern Trac-
ton and Power, Company shall not
exceed the sum of twenty Five
Thousand Dollars (S25, OOO.UO).
The said five mills tax shall cease
and terminate whenever the said
amount of Twenty Five Thousand
Dollars ($25,OUU.OO) shall have
been realized and turned over to
the Southwestern Traction and
Power Company, under the terms
and subject to the limitations pla-
ced in the petition for said election.
WHEREAS a petition has been re-
ceived from the property tax pay
ers, residing in the Town of ST.
Martinville, entitled to vote under
the constitution and laws of the
State of Louisiana, at a special
election called according to law, to
levy special tax in aid of railway
enterprises, as is provided for by
Article go of the Constitution of
the State of Louisiana, adopted in
1898, and Act No. 2O2 of the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Lou
isiana for the year 1898, and Acts
amendatory thereof, especially Act
No. 90 of the General Assembly of
the State of Louisiana for the year
1904 and Act No. 43 of the General
Assembly of the State of Louisi-
ana for the year 1910, and said pc
tition having been signed by a
number of property tax payers, re-
siding in the said Town of st. Mar
tinville, and under the laws of the
State of Louisiana and the Consti-
tuition of the State of Louisiana,
qualified to participate i'll said cleo
ton, in excess of one-third l-3
OF the number, as was ascertained
by an examination of said petition,
and the assessment rolls of said
Town of st. Martinville, for the
year 1912, and the registration
books showing the registered vo-
tiers in the Town of st. Martin
vile, and certified list, furnished
by the Sheriff and Tax Collector
giving the names of the persons in
said town who had paid their poll
taxes for the year 1910 and 1911,
the wolds and terms of this petit
ton, us well as the signatures
thereto annexed, being as follows,
to-wlt;
To the Honorable Manor and