The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-07-04

the lst day of April, 1914, and shall
begin TO mature on the lst day OF
April. 1915 and shall become due and
payable each year thereafter until and
including the lst day OF April, 1877,
and shall be in numbers and amounts.
as follows:
Five bonds of the denomination of
Five Hundred Dollars each. total
twenty-five Hundred Dollars, due
April /, 1915.
Five bonds of the denomination OF
Five Hundred Dollars each, total
Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars, due
lst day OF April. 1916.
Five bonds of the denomination O
Five Hundred Dollars each, tota
Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars. due
lst day of April. 1917.
Five bonds of the denomination o.
Five Hundred Dollars each, tota
twenty-five Hundred Dollars, due
LIST day OF April, 1918.
Six bonds of the denomination OF
Five Hundred Dollars each. tota-
Three Thousand Dollars, due LIST
lay of April, 1919.
Six bonds of the denomination oil
Five Hundred Dollars each. total
Three Thousand Dollars, due Isl
lay of April, 1920.
Six bonds of the denomination OF
Five Hundred Dollars each. total
Three Thousand Dollars, due LIST
day of April, 1921.
Six bonds of the denomination of
i've hundred Dollars each, tota
hree Thousand Dollars, due lst day
April. 1922.
ORDINANCE No. 3.
creating Colfax School District No. ]
According to the original territorial
divis on as formed some years age
by the Parish Board OF School Di
rectors of Grant Parish. Louisiana
The following ordinance was of
tered by A. w. Stewart, who movec
is adoption, duly seconded by M. E
Jackson and carried unanimously.
Be it ordained by the Parish Board
IF School Directors of Grant Parish
Louisiana, in adjourned session con
sened.
Section /. That Colfax School Dis.
riot No. l. shall consist of the same
territory as heretofore. and created
by Our predecessors in Office, and de
cribed as follows: Bounded on tn,
north by Valentine Bayou. on the east
~ Bayou Darro and on the south and
vest by Red river, in the Parish OF
Grant. Louisiana.
All ordinances or parts OF ordi
1ances in conflict with the above be
and they are hereby repealed.
ORDINANCE No. e.
Mr.. Stewart offered Ordinance No.
I, who moved its adoption. duly sec
onded by Mr. Jackson. and being
placed before the board all members
IF the school board voting in favor
If adopting the ordinance, and the
president announced the ordinance
July adopted.
Whereas, it Is necessary that an an
mex or addition to the schoolhouse at
Colfax, La, be built and equipped, and
a schoolhouse at Walnut Grove in the
same school district be erected and
equipped, all improvements to be made
in the Colfax School District No. l,
and
Whereas, it is necessary and desira
Die for funds to be raised for sale
purpose, and
Whereas. it is the voluntary viii.
IF this body to call the election here
natter provided for. and
Whereas, Article No. 28l of the
Constitution of 1893 and 1913. and Aci
No. ESQ of the Legislature of 1910, as
amended by Act 2l8 Of 1912, declares
he school board of the parish to be
he governing authorities through
which the said School District No. !
nay incur debts and issue negotiable
'onds for such purposes. when so au
horned at an election to be held III
The said School District No. |, and
Whereas. the assessed valuation oil
he said school district amounts to
Six Hundred and Eighty-nine Thou
sand Nine Hundred and Two Dollars
($6S9, 90z O0) and the proposed indebt
.dness does not exceed the constitu
ional limit of 10 per cent of the as
;essed valuation, and
Whereas, the special tax necessary
TO be annually levied to extinguish
The proposed indebtedness will an.
,roximate three (3) mills. which will
not exceed the constitutional limit OF
zen 10) mills per annum on the dol
lar of the assessed valuation Of the
property of said district, now. Their.
lore,
Section |. Be it ordained by the
school Board of the Parish of Grant
Louisiana. in lawful session convened
That an election shall be, and is here
~ called to be held in the said Col
AK School District No. |. in the Par
sh of Grant. Louisiana. on Tuesday
July 2lst, 1914, at which election, the
majority of the property Taxpayers
of said district in number and amount
Eligible to vote and voting, shall de-
termine the
Proposition to incur debt and issue
bonds of the, said Colfax School Dis
.rict No. |, in the Parish of Grant.
Louisiana, to the amount of Twenty
Thousand Dollars (S20,OOO) to run for
4 period of ten O0) years, bearing
interest at the rate of five per cent