The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-09-11

| at any Ddnh III LOulSIdIla, SuicdSo VI view
York or at the Parish Treasury at st.
trancisyille, Louisiana, as shown in the
face OF said bonds, which shall be payable
| both principal and interest without offset
| or discount at maturity and shall be free
from all legal defects and defenseS after
their delivery to the Contractor and said
bonds shall be made payable to bearer and
lrecitals as may be satisfactory to the Con-
tractor and it's Attorney.
Section 8. Said bonds shall be signed by
! the President of the Police Jury and
tcountersigned by the Clerk of the Police
Jury and the seal of said Police Jury shall
be placed upon the principal Of said bonds
but the coupons may be signed by the
facsimile OF said President and Clerk and
said bonds numbered from one to forty
eight inclusive, and amounting to $24,-
10000 are sold to Austin Brothers to pay
for said bridges and satisfy said contract
and said bonds shall be delivered to said
Austin Brothers and they are sold to them
at par, as any of said bridges may be
completed and accepted as per contract.
Be it further ordained that the Police
Jury of said Parish have found and de-
termined judicially both as a matter OF
fact and of law that there is residue OF
the tenmill paroohial tax authorized by
Article 232 of the Constitution, which
residue amounts tc two and one-half mills
lon the dollar of said ten-miI1 tax, and
that the aVailS OF said tax when levied
upon the assessed valuation of said parish
as last made and filed, to-Wit $l,S75,67l
or $4,o00.00 per annum is surplus which
has been found to exist in conformity to
1.-THE requirements of Act 80 of 1902 as
amended by Act 12S of 1910 and that said
Iresidue is in excess OF the Parish revenues
above statutory, necessary, and usual
charges and time contracts and other
debts as required by said Acts 81 and 12S.
Said Parish shall create a fund out OF
which said bonds shall be paid and the
avails of the said two and one-half mills
of the ten-mill parochiaI tax which is
hereby dedicated for that purpose and
exceeding ten consecutive years and pro-
ceeds of said tax shall create a special
fund for the purpose of paying the inter-
est and principal of said bonds, that is to
say that said special tax Of two and one
half mills on the dollar shall be levied an
nually on all the taxable property of said
Parish for and during each of the years
1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923,
1924, 1925, that is to say that said tax
shall be levied in the year 1916 to pay the
interest and principal falling due in the
year 1917, and said tax shall be levied in
the year 1917 to pay the interest and
principal in the year 1918, and said tax
shall be levied in the year 1918 to pay the
principal and interest falling due in the
year 1919, and so forth until the principal
and interest of said bonds have been paid
as they mature and as herein provided;
the principal and interest falling due in
any one year shall be previously budgeted
from year to year and said two and one
half mill tax shall be budgeted from year
to year by the Police Jury as provided by
law. If for any reason said bonds herein
provided shall be declared by any court
mot to be the valid bonds of said Parish
lthen and in that event said bonds shall
he declared to be the lawful certificates
of payment as provided by Acts 80 and
l2S of the General Assembly of the State
of Louisiana. This ordinance shall be
carefully recorded upon the minutes of the
Police Jury and published as required by
law and certified copy of the same fur
nished to Austin Brothers, and this ordi-
nance shall go into effect from and after
its adoption.
1t is further ordained and expressly de-
clared that said bonds numbers is and so
are the property of the Parish and shall
be issued and delivered at the option of
the Parish and be sold at par for money
in the event said money may be needed to
defray the expense which may be in
CURED by the employment of a supervis-
| ing engineer to superintend the consIruc-
ton of the said bridges, or to pay for the
cost of constructing proper approaches to
said bridges named in said contract, one
or both at the election and further orders
of the said Police Jury.
Said foregoing ordinance having been
duly read and understood, was duly adopt
ed and approved by the Police Jury Of
said Parish ON the first Wednesday and
|
Approved:
| S. L. LAVERGNE,
President Pro Tempore Police Jury.
Attest:
C. T. TOORAEN.
Clerk of Police Jury.
The foregoing form of ordinance ap-
pfoved by
| II. H KILROURNE,
District Attorney.
G. w. L. SMITH,
Contractors Attorney.
! It. is agreed that the cost Of printing the
bonds hereinbefore mentioned, shall be
borne by the parish at cost of not to
exceed Fifty ($50.0O) Dollars.
| The foregoing ordinance was duly adopt
ed upon motion made and vote taken by
yeas and nays on roll call, those voting
for and in favor of the adoption of said
ordinance were jurymen Sidney Brasseaux
Charles Weydert, w. H. Richardson,
Lovett Wright, j, S. Clack, T. H. Row,
N. H. Barrow Ike Cutrer, S. L. Lavergne.
Those voting no and against the adoption
lof said ordinance were jurymen Ruffin
Daniel. Absent and not voting, C. Howell
The foregoing ordinance having been
duly passed and approved by the Police
Jury, therefore in order to evidence the
due passage of said ordinance we the I'M
dersigned members of said Police Jury
have hereunto set our hands on this the
18th day of August, A. D. 1915: