St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-03-22

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March, A. D., 1918, do hereby give pub
lie notice that on
Saturday, April goth, 1918,
a special election will be, and is hereby
called to be held throughout the Fourth
Police Jury Ward of the Parish of st.
Landry, State of Louisiana, to take the
sense of the property taxpayers of said
Ward entitled to vote at such an cleo
ton under the Constitution and laws of
this State, on the following proposition,
to-wit:
A proposition to determine whether
or not a special tax of four a. mills on
the dollar Or as much thereof as may be
necessary, should be levied annually
or 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 90
years beginning with the year 1915 and
ending with the year 1874, both Inciu-
sive, to raise the sum of Seventy-fiye
Hundred Dollars ($7, 500 for each of
said years, that is to say the sum OF
Seventy-tive Thousand Dollars t$75, OOOl
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 Cityso 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 III
the Town of Palmetto, and to interseet
the line of division between the par
ishes of st. Landry and Avoyelles, in
said Ward, pursuant to and in cco
dance with the petition attached to
said ordinance, signed and pre-
scented to this body by more than one
third of the property taxpayers of said
Ward qualified to vote at such an eiee-
ton, and on the terms, conditions and
limitations set forth in said petition and
hereinafter fully incorporated, to-wit:
1st. 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 tic parishes off ST. Landry and
Avoyelles, on or before January LIST,
1915, provided that in the event OF
overflows, guarantees, epidemics,
strikes, loek-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 sad tax shall
be collected, nor 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;
LIST Precinct of 4th Ward, Bayou Cur
rent, at N. NJ. 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 6. Duckworth,
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. lsaacson. Clerk:
Chas. Meyer.
9Th 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: C. e. Pickett, Ar
thur Fogleman, B. S. Haw. Clerk: C.
F. Foster.
7th 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 apple
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 Opelousas, La, on this 18th day of
March, A. D., 1918.
HENRY LASTRAPES, JR.,
T. A. GOSSEIIN,