St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-06-14
and the compiled statement of the
Board of Supervisors of the parish OF

Board of Supervisors of the parish O
result of said election, did ~proceella
perform the duties imposed upod t
in said ordinance, as follows, town u
We did proceed to inspect the It:
piled statement furnished by the Boart
of Supervisors Of the parish OF st. Ian
dry, and their proclamation, declaring
the result of the election, as well as tt
inspect the tally sheets, complied state
ment and list of voters as returned by
the commissioners and clerk presiding
at the special election held on the
thirtieth day of April, 1918, in the Vii.
lage of Sunset, to take the sense OF the
PROPERTY tax payers upon the following
proposition, namely:
To levy a special tax of three and
one half mills on the dollar per annum,
to be imposed, levied and collected in
aid of a railway enterprise, and in favor
of, for the benefit of and in aid OF the
Louisiana Traction and Power Com
pany, its successors or assigns, said tax
to be imposed, levied and collected for
a period of ten years beginning with
the year 1913 and extending to and in
Guiding the year 1922, SO as to realize
the sum of Twenty Eight Hundred
Dollars, provided that in case the sum
of Twenty Eight Hundred Dollars be
collected and turned over to the said
Company before the expiration of the
ten years, that the said tax shall cease
as soon as this sum is collected and
turned over to the Louisiana Traction
and Power Company, its successors or
assigns.
After making such inspection, we
found the number of votes cast for the
proposition submitted, as aforesaid, to
be Twenty-six f26); number of votes
cast against the proposition submitted,
as aforesaid, to be none g; the
amount of assessed valuation of prop
erty voted for the proposition submit
ted, as aforesaid, to be S16, 1890
sixteen Thousand One Hundred Nine
ty Three Dollars; and the amount of
assessed valuation of property voted
against the proposition submitted, as
aforesaid, to be non Dollars.
The said examination and compila-
ton shows the net result to be a ma
iority in number of votes voted at said
election in favor of the proposition sub
mitted of TW~enty-six, majority in
amount of the assessed valuation of
property voted at said election in favor
of the proposition submitted Sixteen
Thousand One Hundred Ninety Three
Dollars
We further examined the list of reg
istered divers OF the Village OF Sunset,
State of Louisiana, as well as the as
sessment roll for said Village, and the
list furnished by the sheriff of the par
ish of st. Landry, showing the payment
OF poll taxes for the years19l1 and 1912,
IN said village, and the result of this ex-
animation shows that, including the
women tax payers entitled to vote at
said election, there were T~hirty-two
qualified voters who might have parti-
in said election, and that the
total assessment of all the qualified
who might have participated in
said election aggregated the sum of
Nineteen Thousand Seven Hundred
Seventy-four dollars, and that the re-
suit of the canvass by this body of the
sheets, compiled statements and
iSt OF voters returned by the commits
and clerk of saidelection, shows
hat Twenty-six qualified voters, with
N aggregate assessment of SIG, 1913. 90
voted their entire assessment
n favor of said proposition, and that
he rs votes was a majority in number
II tbs property tax payers entitled to
'ote in said election under the pro-
,isions of the constitution and laws of
he State of Louisiana, and the assess
d property, amounting to Sixteen
thousand One Hundred Ninety-three
ollars voted in favor of said PROPOSE
ion at such election, was a majority in
alue Of the property entitled to vote
t said election.
And we now formally declare the re-
ult of said election to be in favor of
ne proposition submitted, and that the
.ouisiana Traction and Power Com
any, ifs successors or assigns, are en-
tied to collect the said special tax
oted in its favor.
In testimony whereof, the Mayor and
ach of the Aldermen have set our
ands to this process verbal, on this, the
tn day of May, A. D., Nineteen Hun
red and Thirteen.
FRANK CLAY, Mayor;
l.. E. LANDRY,
FRANCOIS MILLER,
G. HORAlST,
Alderman L.