The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-06-13

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the lst day of April, 1914. and shall
begin to mature on the lst day oil
April. 1915 and shall become due and
PAYABLE each year thereafter until and
including the lst day of April. 1922
and shall be in numbers and amounts
as follows:
Five bonds of the denomination o!
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
LIST 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 o.
Five Hundred Dollars each. tota'
Three Thousand Dollars, due LIST
Law of April, 1919.
Six bonds of the denomination o.
Five Hundred Dollars each. tota'
Three Thousand Dollars. due 1st
lay of April, 1920.
Six bonds of the denomination Of
I've Hundred Dollars each. total
Three Thousand Dollars, due lst
'av of April 1921.
Six bonds of the denomination of
1--WE Hundred Dollars each. total
three Thousand Dollars, due lst day
# April, 1922
ORDINANCE No. 3.
Creating Colfax School District No. l.,
According to the original territorial
division as formed some years age
by the Parish Board of School u.
rectors of Grant Parish, Louisiana
The following ordinance was OF
erred by A. w. Stewart, who move,
is adoption. duly seconded by NJ. f
jackson and carried unanimously.
Be it ordained by the Parish Boar'
IF School Directors of Grant Parish
louisiana, in adjourned session con
yened
Section |. That Colfax School Dis
riot No. |, shall consist of the same
erritory as heretofore. and created
by our predecessors in office. and de
cribed as follows: Bounded on the
lorth by Valentine Bayou, on the east
,y Bayou Darro and on the south and
vest by Red River and including al
the territory known as Ward One, ir
he Parish of Grant, Louisiana.
All ordinances or parts OF ordi
.ances in conflict with the above be
md they are hereby repealed.
ORDINANCE No. 4.
Mr.. Stewart offered Ordinance No.
l. who moved its adoption. duly sec
,nded by Mr.. Jackson. and being
,laced before the board all members
IF the school board voting in favor
If adopting the ordinance, and the
president announced the ordinanc,
luly adopted.
Whereas, it is necessary that an an
lex or addition to the schoolhouse al
Colfax, La, be built and equipped, anG
schoolhouse at Walnut Grove in the
;ame school district be erected and
,quipped. all Improvements to be made
the Colfax School District No. |
md
Whereas. it is necessary and desira
Die for funds to be raised for said
purpose, and
Whereas. it is the voluntary will
Of this body to call the election here
natter provided for, and
Whereas, Article No. 28l of the
Constitution of 1893 and 1913, and Ac
No. ESQ of the Legislature of 1910, a.
.mended by Act 2l8 of 1912, declares
The 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-
Eorzed at an election to be held in
he said School District No. |. and
Whereas, the assessed valuation OF
he said school district amounts tc
Six Hundred and Eighty-nine Thou
and Nine Hundred and Two Dollars
{ $6S9, 902. OO) and the proposed indebt
edness does not exceed the constitu
onal limit of 10 per cent of the as
;essed valuation, and
Whereas, the special tax necessar,
o be annually levied to extinguisi
he proposed Indebtedness will ap
'roximate three 60 mills, which will
lot exceed the constitutional limit O.
en- tlO) mills per annum on the dol |
ar of the assessed valuation Of tn.
property of said district, now, Their
ore,
Section L. Be it ordained by tn,
'chool 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 l, in the Par
sh OF Grant. Louisiana, on Tuesday |
uly llst, 1914, at which election. TIL |
Majority of the property taxpayer. |
II said district in number and amount
hgiole to vote and voting, shall de-
ermine the
Proposition to incur debt and issue
'onds of the said Colfax~ School Dis
riot No. |. in the. Parish of Grant
louisiana. to the amount of Twenty
thousand Dollars ($2O.OO0) to run foy
period of ten (l0) years, bearing
interest at the rate of FIVE per cent
YER annum. payable scmi-annually
he funds thus derived To he need 70,