St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-04-12
Proceedings Of the Police Jury.
State of Louisiana,
Parish of st. Landry.

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aid of the Morgan's La. & Tex.
R. r. & S. S. Co., to obtain an
Extension of the Port Barre
Branch of said railroad as more
fully stated therein, is signed by
more than one-third of the prop
erty taxpayers of said w a d
qualified to vote at such an cleo
ton under the constitution and
laws of this State.
In witness whereof I have
signed hereto at Opelousas, La,
on this 18th day of March, A.
D., 1918.
HENRY LASTRAPES, JR.,
Clerk of Court and Ex-officio
Registrar of voters for st.
Landry Parish, La.
To the Honorable the President
and Members of the Police
Jury of the Parish of st. Lam
dry, State Of Louisiana.
The petition of the under
signed tax payers, and as such
duly qualified voters of the
Fourth Police Jury Ward Of said
parish, with respect represents:
That petitioners are now as
sessed tax payers of the Fourth
Police Jury Ward Of the Parish
of st. Landry, and were such
during the year 1912; that they
constitute more than one-third
of the tax payers of said Fourth
Police Jury Ward duly qualified
to vote at an election to levy a
special tax; that in view of the
benefits that would accrue to the
citizens of said Police Jury Ward
by the extension of the Port
Branch of the Morgan's Louis
lana and Texas Railroad and
Steamship Company from Port
Barre in a northerly direction so
as to pass within one-half OF a
mile Of the Texas & Pacific depot
in the town of Palmetto in said
ward and to intersect the line OF
division between the parishes OF
st. Landry and Avoyelles in said
ward, a special election should
be ordered to take the sense of
the property tax payers OF said
Fourth Police Jury Ward OF the
Parish of St. Landry, Louisiana,
entitled to vote at such an cleo
ton, to determine whether or
not a special tax Of four a.
mills on the dollar or as much
thereof as may be necessary, be
levied on all Of the taxable prop
erty situated in said Fourth Po-
lice Jury Ward of the Parish OF
st. Landry, Louisiana, for a
period of ten (10) years begin
ming with the year 1915 and end
ing with the year 1924, both in
elusive, to raise the sum Of Sew
en- Thousand Five Hundred Dol
lars (S7, 500 for each of said
years, that is to say the sum OF
Seventy-five Thousand Dollars
(S75, 000) for the whole Of said
period, or as much Of said yearly
or total amount as said four mil!
tax will yield, in aid Of the said
Morgan's Louisiana and Texas
Railroad and Steamship Com.
pany, a corporation chartered
lby the General Assembly of the
State of louisiana and domiciled
in the City of New Orleans, said
State, or its assigns, to eneour-
age and procure the c%onstruc.
ton of said extension OF said
branch of said railroad; that said
tax shall be voted on the follow
ing conditions, to-Wit:
1st. That said extension be
completed from the present
terminus of said branch at Port
Barre, Louisiana, to said line OF
division between the parishes OF
st. Landry and Avoyelles, on OF
before January 1st. 1915, pro
yided that in the event OF over
f 0 WIS, quarantine s, cpl
demics, strikes, loc K.
outs, panics and litigation Of any
and all character, and more es.
pecially litigation for the neces'
sary right of way, which may
retard the completion and con
struction of said proposed ex.
tension, beyond the control Q !.
said Morgan's Louisiana ane
Texas Railroad and STEAMSHIP
Company, then and in tina
event there will be added to tht
period for the completion Of sa1C
extension above set forth,
further delay equal to the time
during which the construction
of said extension was thus I'm
avoidably delayed:
End. That no part of said ta1
shall be collected, nor shall thu
proceeds thereof be paid over t.
said railroad company or its as