St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-05-10
and the compiled statement Of the

anu the COI1picu SldtCliiCht
Board of Supervisors of the parish OF
ST. Landry, and to formally declare the
result of said election, did proceed to
perform the duties imposed upon US
in said ordinance, as follows, to-w1t:
We did proceed to inspect the COM
piled statement furnished by the Board
of Supervisors of the parish OF st. Lam
dry, and their proclamation, declaring
the result of the election, as well as to
inspect the tally sheets, compiled 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 Viii
iage of Sunset, to take the sense OF the
proberty tax payers upon the Following
proposition, namely:
To levy a special tax OF three ana
one half mills on the dollar per annu1r,
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 PowersRC0m-
pany, its successors or assigns, said tax
to be imposed, levied and collected for
a period of ten years beginning with
the year 1918 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 fwenty-six (26); number OF votes
cast against the proposition submitted,
as aforesaid, to be none (--); the
amount of assessed valuation of prop
erty voted for the proposition submit
ted, as aforesaid, to be SIG, 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 none Dollars.
The said examination and compila-
ton shows the net result to be a ma
jority in number of votes voted at said
election in favor of the proposition sub
mitted of Twenty-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.
=. 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 years 1911 and 1917,
in said village, and the result OF this eX-
animation Shows that, including the
women tax payer entitled to vote at
said election, there were T~hirty-two
qualified voters who might have parti-
cipated In said election, and that the
total assessment of all the qualified
voters who might have participated
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
tally sheets, compiled statements and
list OF voters returned by the commits
Sioners and clerk OF ~Said.election, shows
that Twenty-six qualified voters, with
an aggregate assessment of SIS, 1890
dollars voted their entire assessment
in favor of said proposition, and that
the 26 votes was q majority in number
of tbs property tax payers entitled to
vote in said election under the pro-
visions of the constitution and laws OF
the State of Louisiana, and the assess
ed property, amounting to Sixteen
Thousand One Hundred Ninety-three
dollars voted in favor of said PROPOSE
ton at such election, was a majority in
value of the property entitled to vote
at said election.
And we now formally declare the re-
suit of said election to be in favor of
the proposition submitted, and that the
Louisiana Traction and Power Com
pany, its successors or assigns, are en-
titled to collect the said special tax
voted in its favor.
In testimony whereof, the Mayor and
each of the Aldermen have set our
hands to this process verbal, on this, the
5th day of May, A. D., Nineteen Hun
dred and Thirteen.
FRANK CLAY, Mayor;
L. E. LANDRY,
FRANCOIS MILLER,
G. HORAIST,
Aldermen.
Thereupon the following ordinance
was presented by Mr.. g. Horaist and
read, and it was moved by L. E. Lam
dry, seconded by Frank Miller and ar
ried by the following yea and nay vote
that the same be adopted:
Yeas: L. E. Landry, Frank Miller, G..
Horaist.
Nays: None.
Said ordinance was entitled and read
follows:
An ordinance promulgating the returns
of the special election held. in the
Village of Sunset, Parish of st.
Landry, Louisiana, on the thirtieth
day of April, A. D., Nineteen Hum
dred and Thirteen, to take the
sense of the property tax payers of
the said Village of Sunset, entitled
to vote under the constitution and
laws of the State of Louisiana, ON a
proposition to levy a special tax of
three and one half mills on the dol
lar per annum, to be imposed,
levied and collected in aid of a rail-
way enterprise, and in favor of, for
the benefit of and in aid of the
Louisiana Traction and Power
Company, its successors or assigns,
said tax to be imposed, levied and
collected for a period of ten years,
beginning with the year 1918 and
extending to and including the year
1922, or until the sum of Twenty
Eight Hundred Dollars shall have
been collected and turned over to
the Louisiana Traction and Power
Company, its successors or assigns.
Whereas, there was held in the Vii