The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-11-01
) thousand ls7o, oool dollars al

enty thousand 0,000l dollars and
authorize bond issue OF like
amount, said bonds to bear interest
att at the per eentum
per annum and payable within TWEEN
ty-five years, and to be secured by
a special forced contribution or acre
age tax Of twenty-five cents per acre
on all the lands situated within the
limits Of the Bayou Conway drainage
district Of the parish of Ascension,
and subject to said special forced
contribution and special acreage tax,
for the following purposes, to wit:
OF paying the expenses of organiza-
! ton and the running and operating
expenses Of the said Board of Com
missioners OF the said Bayou Con,
way Drainage District of the parish
of Ascension; Of operating drainage
canals, bitches or machinery owned
and operated or controlled by said
drainage district; to open, enlarge,
cut and extend such canals and
streams situated within the limits of
said drainage district and such other
work of drainage as in the judgment
Of said Board OF Commissioners may
be deemed necessary and proper,
economically, to drain the property
included within the limits thereof
To levy, assess and collect a spe-
cial forced contribution or special
acreage tax of twenty-five cents per
acre on all lands situated and lying
within the limits of said drainage dis.
trict for a period of twenty-five
years, beginning with the year 1913,
for the following purposes, to wit:
For the payment in principal and
interest of the series Of bonds to the
amount of seventy thousand $4,000.
0O) dollars, aforementioned; of pay
ing the expenses Of organization and
the running and operating expenses
Of the said Board Of Commissioners
Of the Bayou Conway Drainage Dis
trict of the parish of Ascension; of
operating drainage canals, bitches or
machinery owned and operated or con-
trolled by said drainage district; to
open, enlarge, cut and extend such
canals and streams situated within
the limits Of said drainage district
and such other works of drainage as
in the judgment OF said Board OF
Commissioners may be deemed neces-
sary and proper, economically, to
drain the property included within
the limits thereof; of specially pledg-
ing such forced contribution or
acreage tax to the redemption Of
said Indebtedness in principal and
interest, of said series of bonds
amounting to the sum of seventy
thousand (s70, 0O0.0O) dollars, the ag-
gregate amount to be raised by said
annual forced contribution during che
time which same Is levied.
The@total number of votes cast in
favor OF the proposition number one
Were the sum of forty-four.
The total amount in value Of
property cast in favor of said prop
osition number one was $39,48O.00.
The total number of votes cast
against said proposition number one
We're none.
The total amount in value of
property cast against said propo-
sition number one was none.
The majority in number of the
property taxpayers in favor of said
proposition number one was the SUM
of forty-four
The majority in amount of the
property taxpayers in favor of said
proposition number one was the sum
Of s39,4s0.00.
The total number of votes cast in
favor of the proposition number
two were the sum of forty-four.