The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-02-28
Proceedings of Special Meeting of the
Board Of School, Directors of
the Parish of Grant.
CALL FOR BOARD MEETING.
Pollock, La, Feb. II, 1914.

spsclal meeting OF the Parish Board OF
School Directors of the parish of Grant,
Louisiana, has been called by the Presi-
dent. Hon. j. H. McNeely, to be held
at Colfax at eleven O'Clock a. M, Feb.
a2l, 1914, Tor the purpose of considering
: q request made By the property tax
payers Of School District No. 81 of
this parish. asking that a special cleo
ton DE held in the said School District
No. 81, to raise revenues with which to
sbuild and equip modern high school
building at Verda, Louisiana, and you
are earnestly urged to be present.
By order of the President of said
Board, Hon. j. Fl. McNeely.
J. N. WARNER,
Secretary.
Pursuant to the above call, the Par
ish Board of School Directors of the
parish Of Grant, Louisiana, met with
J. H. McNeey, President. |. j. Rhine
hart, Gus st. Andre and NJ. E. jackson,
present, ana a quorum being present,
Mr.. Jackson offered the following or
dinance and moved It's adoption, which
motion was duly seconded by Messrs.
St Andre and Rhinehart and carried
unanimously.
ORDINANCE NO. ONE.
Whereas, it is necessary that a high
school building be erected and equippt d
at Verda, Louisiana, and
Whereas, it is necessary and desira-
bic that funds be raised for the said
purpose, and
y Whereas, it is the voluntary will of
this body TO call the election hereinafter
provided for, and
Whereas, Article PSI of the Consti-
tutions of 1898 and 1918, and Act 256 of
the Legislature of 1910, as amended by
Act 2ls of 1912, declares the School
Beard OF the parish of Grant to be the
governing authority through which the
said School District may incur debt and
issue negotiable bonds for such pur
poses, when so authorized at an cleo
tion 20 be held in the said District, and
Whereas, the assessed valuation #
the said Dist amounts to three hun
Sred fifty-two- thousand one hundred
fifty-nine (SS52, $4,000 dollars, and the
proposed indebtedness does not exceed
the constitutional limit of ten per cent
OF assessed valuation, and
Whereas, the special tax necessary
to be annually levied to extinguish the
proposed Indebtedness will approximate
ten mills, which will not exceed the
Constitutional limit of ten mills per an !
mum on the dollar of assessed valuation /
of the property of said District, now,
therefore,
Section L. Be it ordained by the
School Board of the parish of Grant,
in lawful session convened, That an
election shall be, and is hereby called
TO be held in the said School District of
Verda, Louisiana, No. thirty-one (3D, !
in the parish Of Grant, on Monday the
30sh day of March, 1914, at which cleo
ton the majority of the property tax
payers of the said District, in number
and amount, eligible to vote and voting
shalfdetermine the
Proposition to rescind, repeal, set
aside and invalidate the 5 mill tax au-
thorized by the vote of the property |
taxpayers of the .hool District No. 81
on the 18th day of June, 1913. and TO
relieve the Parish Board of School Di-
rectors of the parish of Grant from
levying the said tax for the years 1914
to 1922 inclusive. and in lieu therefor
to incur debt and issue bonds of the
School District No. 81 in the parish of !
Grant to the amount of twenty-five !
thousand tS22, 0O0) dollars. to run for the
period of eight years, bearing interest
at the rate OF FIVE per cent per annum,
payable annually. the funds thus de-
rived to be used for the
Purpose of erecting and equipping a
high school building in the town of
Verda, louisiana.
Section BE it further ordsined,
ETC., That the ballot boxes. necessary /
blanks, and other necessary parapher-
naiia shall be prepared by the Secretary
of the School Beard, and he shall cause
to be printed, ballots for use in said
election, in the following form, to-wit:
FOR THE REPEAL OF TAX AND ISSUANCE
OF BONDS.
Proposition to reseind, re- /
peal. set aside ard invalidate
the FIVE mills tax authorized Yes |
bv the vote of the property II
taxpayers of the School Dis
trict No. 81, on the l7th dry II
of June 1918, and to relieve II
the Parish Board of School II
nirectors of the parish Of