St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1915-01-16
AN ORDINANCES.


AN ORDINANCE.
Ordering a special election throughout
the limits OF the First Road District
OF the Fourth Police Jury Ward of
the parish OF st. Landry, to take the
sense OF the property Taxpayers OF
said Road District in said ward, en-
titled to vote under the Constitution
anc t1Ms OF the sta.e of Louisiana, as
10 Whether a special tax of three mills
on tie dulias, pe4. annum, IN addition
to lie vehicle and pei capita Ia.
levied under e isting ordinances,
SAIL be levied on all taxable proper
ty m said Road District, FOR a period
of fifteen years, beginning witt The
year 1915; and as to whether the row.
ernlng authority of said Road District
shall be authorized 70 incur debt and
District Of Ire ].oulih Police Jury
Ward of the palr.h of st. Landry, to
he amount Oh tiiitty-two thousand
W, {, bearing interest at the RITE of
B pes cent per annum, payable an
nually, 70" the purpose Of construct
ing, maintaining and repairing the
public roads and bi ridges in said Road
District;
Whereas. it is lie voluntary vii OF
this body to call the election hereinafter
provided for, and
Whereas, Article aS1 OF the Constitu-
tion OF 1918, and ActNo. 256 of the Acts
of the L.egislatl he adonted IN the year
1910, as amended by Act 21S OF 1912,
and Act f93 of The Acts of the Legisla-
ture adopted in 1914. declare the Police
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the governing authority through which
Police Jury Ward Of said parish may
levy a special Ia on all taxable proper
ty in sad Road District, and may incnr
debt and issue negotiable bonds for the
purpose OF constructing, maintaining
and repairing the public roads and
bridges iii said Road District, and
Whereas, the assessed valuation of
the said Road District amounts to one
million one hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars 1871, 125, 000l and exist
ing bonded indebtedness incurred I'M
der Article PSI or the Constitution of
1908 and 1918, amounts to no dollars,
which added TO the proposed indebted
ness, does not exceed the Constitutional
Limit which said road District is autho-
rized to incur, and
Whereas, in order to extinguish
the indebtedness herein provided for,
and to pay off in principal and interest,
the bonds, authority to issue which is
herein proposed, and to keep the roads
and bridges in said Road District in
good repair and to maintain the same,
after the payment of said bonds in
principal and Interest, it will be neces-
to annually levy a special tax of
three mills on the dollar, on all taxable /
property in said Road District, which
said tax when added to the existing
special taxes annually levied under Ar
ticle 281 of the Constitution of 1898 and
1918, will not exceed the Constitutional
limit OF ten mills per annum on the dol
lar OF the assessed valuation of the
property of said First Road District of
the Fourth Police Jury Ward of the
parish of st. Landry: now therefore,
Section 1. Be it ordained, by the s
Police Jury of the parish of St. Landry, {
n lawful session convened: that an /
shall be and is hereby called to
held in the First Road District of the {
fourth Police Jury Ward of the parish ]
VI st. Landry, on the 23rd day of Feb |
'uaTy, A. q. 1915, at which election the !
majority OF the property taxpayers of
he said First Road District of said
fourth Police Jury Ward of st. Landry
'arish, in number and amount eligible :
Q vote and voting at said election, shall !
the propositions. !
LIST. To authorize the First Road Dis !