The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-11-01
ELECTION PROCLAMATION.
Office of the Board of Commissioners
of the New River Drainage Dis
tricT of the Parish of Ascension.


Gonzales, La, Oct. II, 1918.
ID URSUANT to a resolution adopt
IL ed by the Board Of Commission
ers of the New River Drainage Dis
trict Of the parish Of Ascension, at a
special meeting held on Friday. Octo-
Der II, 1918, I, Leon Picard, presi-
dent of the Board of Commissioners
OF the New River Drainage District
of the parish of Ascension, Louisiana,
by virtue of the authority in me
vested and in obedience and COM
pliance with said resolution, do here
by proclaim that a special election
will be held of the property taxpay-
ers, qualified under the constitution
and laws Of the state of Louisiana to
vote at said election, in the New
River Drainage District OF the parish
of Ascension, La, on Tuesday, No
yember rs, 1913, between the hours
OF O'Clock a. m. and O'Clock p.
m, for the purpose OF obtaining the
sense of the property taxpayers enti-
tied to vote, on the following PROPOSE
ton, to-wit:
| To authorize the Board Of Commits
sioners of the New River Drainage
District of the parish Of Ascension,
state Of Louisiana, to create an in
debtedness of seventy thousand ($70.-
100000 dollars, and issue negotiable
bonds therefor, said bonds to bear
interest at the rate of five per cent
per annum payable semi-annually, and
to run for a period of not longer
than forty (40) years, for the follow
ing purposes, to-Wit: (a) of paying
the expenses of organization and the
running and operating expenses of
said Board of Commissioners; (b) of
operating drainage canals, bitches, or
machinery owned and operated or
controlled by said drainage district;
(cl to open, enlarge, cut and extend
such canals and streams situated
within the limits Of said drainage
district and such other works ct
drainage as IN the judgment OF saId
Board of Commissioners of said
drainage district may be deemed nee
essary and proper, economically, to
drain the property included within
the limits thereof.
For the purposes of said election,
and in accordance with said resolu-
ton. the polling places are hereby
designated at Gonzales, DutchtoWn,
ST. Anant and Geismar, the polling
place at Gonzales to be at II. C. La
noux's shop, in the seventh ward Of
said parish; the polling place at
Dutchtown to be at Picard & Gels
mars warehouse, in the eighth ward
of said parish, the polling place at
St. Amant to be at the Misses st.
Amant's carriage house, in the sew
enth ward of said parish; the polling
place at Geismar to be at Picard PC
Geismar's warehouse, in the sixth
ward Of said parish, and Messrs.
Adam Braud, Jr., T.. A. Ambeau and
Robert Jones have been appointed
commissioners, and Vincent A eau
treau clerk, to serve at the Gonzales
poll; Messrs. ia. Leblanc, we Lam
dry and JOS. Picard have been ap-
pointed commissioners, and J. N.
Delaune clerk, to serve at the
DutchtoWn poll; Messrs. William A.
Marchand have been appointed COM
missioners, and Hy. Woods clerk, to
serve at the st. Amant poll; Messrs.
Louis Geismar, John T. Many and ].
A. Leblanc have been appointed COM
missioners, and J. c. klos clerk, to
serve at the Geismar poll. All of
said commissioners and clerks shall
serve without compensation.
I do further proclaim and give no
tice that at II o'clock a. N. ON Fri
day, November %, 1918, the said
Board Of Commissioners of the New
River Drainage District of the parish
of Ascension, will meet at Gonzales,
in the parish of Ascension, Louisiana,
and in open session proceed to open
the ballot boxes, examine and count
the ballots in number and amount,
examine and canvass the returns and
declare the result of said election,
which result they shall thereafter
promulgate by publication in one is
sue Of the official journal of the par
ish.
Done and signed, at Gonzales, in
the parish of Ascension, state of
Louisiana, on this 18th day of Octo-
be1. in the year of Our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and thirteen.
Signed: LEON PICARD,
President New River Drainage Dis
trict of the Parish of Ascension.
Attest: C. c. WEBER,
Secretary-Treasurer