St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-04-05
Saturday, Apri! goth, 1918,

Marcn, "A. D., 1918, DO hereby give pub
! lie notice that on
Saturday, Apri! 26th, 1918.
a special election will be, and is hereb,
called to be held throughout the Fourth
Police Jury Ward of the Parish of St
Landry, State of Louisiana, to take tht
sense OF the property taxpayers OF sale
Ward entitled to vote at such an cleo
ton under the Constitution and laws O
this State, on the following proposition
to-Wlt:
A proposition to determine whether
or not a special tax of four az mills or
the dollar OF as much thereof as may be
necessary, should be levied annually
on the assessed valuation of all the tax.
able property in the Fourth Police jury
Ward of the Parish Of St. Landry, State
Of Louisiana, for a period of ten 10
years beginning with the year 1915 and
ending with the year 1924, both inclu.
sive, to raise the sum of Se~venty-five
Hundred Dollars ($7, 500 for each OF
said years, that is to say the sum OF
Se~venty-five Thousand Dollars 1915, O00)
for the whole of said period, or as much
of said yearly and total amount as said
four mill tax will yield, in aid of the
Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad
and Steamship Company, a corporation
chartered by the General Assembly OF
the State OF Louisiana and domiciled in
the City of New Orleans, said State, or
its assigns, to be paid as a bonus to said
Railroad Company to aid in and to en-
courage and procure the construction
OF an extension in said Ward of its Port
Barre Branch railroad from Port Barre
in a northerly direction SO as to pass
within one-half mile of the depot of the
Texas and Pacific Railway Company in
the Town of Palmetto, and to intersect
the line of division between the par
ishes of St. Landry and Avoyelles, in
said Ward, pursuant to and in accor-
dance with the petition attached to
said ordinance, signed and pre-
scented to this body by nor than one
third OF the property taxpayers of said
Ward qualified to vote at such an cleo
ton, and on the terms, conditions and
limitations set forth in said petition and
hereinafter fully incorporated, to-wit:
LIST. That said extension be COM
pleted from the. present terminus of
SAID branch of said railroad at Port
Barre, Louisiana, to the line of division
between the parishes of St. Landry and
Avoyelles, on or before January 1st,
1915, provided that in the event Of
overflows, guarantees, epidemics,
strikes, lock-outs, panics and litigation
OF any and all character, and more es-
pecially litigation for the necessary
right Of way, which may retard the
completion and construction of said
proposed extension beyond the control
of said Morgan's Louisiana and Texas
Railroads. nd Steamship Company, then
and in that event there will be added to
the period for the completion of said eX-
tension above set forth, a further delay
equal to the time during which the
construction of said extension was
thus unavoidably delayed.
End. That no part of said tax shall
be collected, 0 shall the proceeds
thereof be paid over to said
Railroad Company or its assigns, until
the said extension of said railroad shall
be completed between the points above
mentioned.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, That said
election shall be held at the polling
places in said Ward at which were cast
the votes at the last proceeding general
or Congressional election, and the fol-
lowing Commissioners and Clerks of
Election are hereby appointed to serve
thereat respectively, to-Wit:
1st Precinct of 4th Ward, Bayou Cur
rent, at N. M. Richards old store.
Commissioners: w. M. Rushing, R.
A. Gordon, r. J. Folse. Clerk: j. F.
Anderson.
End Precinct of 4th Ward, Melville,
at Mayors Office.
Commissioners: F. B. Cason, Lud
Darnell, Ira L. Westbrook. Clerk: DR..
Chas. A. Goudchaux.
3rd Precinct of 4th Ward, Waxia, at
Schoolhouse.
Commissioners: Lee G. D%uckWorth,
Chas. Kimball, Ben Wyble. Clerk: S.
C. Taylor.
4th Precinct of 4th Ward, Palmetto,
at Clark's old store:
Commissioners: Eugene Leger, b.
D. Duplechain, S. Isaacson. Clerk:
Chas. Meyer.
5th Precinct of 4th Ward, Big Cane,
at Goudchaux's store.
Commissioners: Abe Goudchaux, L.
A.. Hazard, James w. Keller. Clerk:
B. F. Vannoy.
9th Prencinct of 4th Ward, Morrow,
at Clopton's store.
Commissioners: G. E. Pickett, Ar
thur Fogleman, B. S. Haw. Clerk: G.
F. Foster.
18th Precinct of 4th Ward, Port Barre,
at Mayors office.
Commissioners: j. A. Mahon, Chas.
Robertson, Nicholas Lahaye. Clerk:
w. F. Brown.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, That said
election shall be held in accordance
with the general election laws of this
State in SO far as they may be applic-
able, and with the aforesaid ordinance
of the Police Jury; that the Commits
sioners are hereby instructed to open
the polls at six o'clock in the forenoon,
and to keep them open until seven
o'clock in the afternoon, of the said
day appointed for the election.
THUS DONE AND SIGNED officially
at 0pelousas, La, on this 18th day of
March, A. D., 1918.
HENRY LAsTRAPES, JR.,
L. "A. GOSSELIN,
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