The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1912-05-24
NOTICE OF ELECTION

Ulo trlct NO. / OF the El&0t0 0rU Vi
the Parish of Lafayette, La, was held
this day at its Office in the city
Il Lafayette, Louisisna, snd
there we're present: Auguste Arnauld.
president; Desire Brousssrd, Jack
Breaux and w. 81. Steiner. Absent,
Pierre Breaux. The rinntes. Of April
n, 1912, were read and approved.
The president stated tho object OF
the meeting TO be to consider . Pc.
tition from the property taxpayers OF
said district al per agreennent signed
by members, which petition having
been read, the following was offered,
read in full and adopted:
Be il ordained by tho Board OF
Commissioners of the First Drstnage
District No. l of the Eighth Ward OF
the Parish of Lafayette, La, (crested
BY ordinsnce of Police Jury June 2.
1910, that an election Of the property
taxpayers of said Drainage District be
called in accordance With, and in re-
Spouse TO, the following petition this
day presented to this Board, to-wit;
70 the Honorable Board OF Com
missioners of the First, Drainage
District No. of the Eighth Ward of
parish of Lafayette, Louisiana:
The undersigned property tax.psy..
srs Of the First Drainage district of
tho Eighth Ward of Lafayette Parish
(created by ordinance OF Police Jury
june 2, 19l0), constituting more than
one fourth of the same, do hereby Pc
tition your Honorable body to call an
election in said Drainage District OF
the property taxpayers therein quail
hed to vote under the Constitution
and laws of this State, to take the
sense of said property taxpayers on
the following propositions pow o1er-
ed by your petitioners, to-wit:
L. On the proposition to levy, as.
sess and collect an acreage tax OF
twenty-five cents per acre on every
acre OF land in said drainage district,
per annum, beginning with the year
1912, and extending to and including
the year 1917, being six years. for the
purpose of digging needful canal and
bitches to drain said District.
2. And on the further proposition
TO incur debts AND issue negotiable
bonds for the sum of two thousand
and five hundred dollars, based upon
said tax-and to be paid by the same.
Said bonds to be in amounts Is
follows:
/. One bond for four hundred dol
lars due March 2, 1913.
2. One bond for four hundred dol
lars due March /, 1914.
3. One bond for four hundred dol
lars due March 4, 1915.
4. One bond for four hundred dol
lars due March l, 1916.
s. One bond for four hundred dol
lars due March l, 1917.
8. One bond for five hundred dol
lars due March l, 1918.
Said bonds to bear I've per cent per
annum interest, and the interest on
entire amount TO be paid annually, on
March l, beginning March l, 1918,
and said acreage tax OF twenty-five
cents per acre shall be pledged for
the payment of said bonds in princi-
pal and interest and it shall be un-
lawful to use the same for any other
purpose.
Said election to be held in ell re-
spects according to Act No 266 OF the
Acts Of the Legislature Of the year
1910 and Art. 28l of the Constitution
OF this State, and amendments thereto.
OCTAVE BERTRAND,
FIRMIN LAGNEAUX,
LEOPOLD PIERRET,
LEON LAGNEAUX,
CAMILLE ARNAULD,
DESIRE BROUSSARD,
JACK BREAUX,
PIERRE BREAuX,
AUG. ARNAULO.
Be Il further ordained that said
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