St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1915-02-06
AN

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
and laws of the state of Louisiana, as
to whether a special tax of three mills
on the dollar, per annum, in addition
to the vehicle and per capita tax
levied under existing ordinances,
shall be levied on all taxable proper
ty in said Road District, for a period
of fifteen years, beginning with the
year 1915; and as to whether the gov
erning authority of said Road District
shall be authorized to incur debt and
issue bonds of the said First Road
District of the Fourth Police Jury
Ward of the parish of st. Landry, to
the amount of t%hirty-two thousand
dollars, to run for a period of fifteen
years, bearing interest at the rate of
5 per cent per annum, payable an
nually, for the purpose of construct
ing, maintaining and repairing the
public roads and bridges in said Road
District;
Whereas. it is the voluntary will Of
this body to call the election hereinafter
provided for, and
Whereas, Article 281 of the Constitu-
ton of 1918, and ActNo. 256 of the Acts
of the Legislature adopted in the year
1910, as amended by Act 218 of 1912,
and Act 1913 of the Acts of the Legisla-
ture adopted in 1914, declare the Police
Jury of the parish of ST. Landry to be
the governing authority through which
the said First road district of the Fourth
Police Jury Ward of said parish may
levy a special tax on all taxable proper
ty in said Road District, and may incnr
debt and issue negotiable bonds for the
purpose of constructing, maintaining
and repairing the public roads and
bridges in said Road District, and
Whereas, the assessed valuation of
the said Road District amounts to one
million one hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars Isl, 125, 000) and exist
ing bonded Indebtedness incurred I'M
der Article 281 of 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-
riZeQ { incur, ana
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
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-
sary 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
taxes annually levied under Ar
.fcle 281 of the Constitution of 1898 and
1919, will not exceed the Constitutional
INIT of ten mills per annum on the dol
ar of the assessed valuation of the
property of said First Road District of
he Fourth Police Jury Ward of the
parish of st. Landry; now therefore,
Section 1. Be it ordained, by the
Police Jury of the parish of st. Landry,
n lawful session convened: that an
election shall be and is hereby called to
,e held in the First Road District Of the
fourth Police Jury Ward of the parish
It st. Landry, on the 23rd day of Feb
uary, A. d. 1915, at which election the
majority of the property taxpayers of
he said First Road District of said
Police Jury Ward Of st. Landry
in number and amount eligible
0 vote and voting at said election, shall
etermine the propositions.
1st. To authorize the First Road Dis
rict of the Fourth Police Jury Ward of
ne parish of St. Landry, through its
oyerning authority to incur debt and
sue bonds to the amount of thirty-two
1ousand dollars 1892, 000) to run for a
eriod of fifteen years, bearing interest
t the rate of five per centum Is oIo}
er annum, payable annually; the
lnds thus derived to be used for the
urpose of constructing, maintaining
nd repairing the public roads and
in said First Road District of ]
lie said Fourth Police Jury Ward;
End. Whether a special tax of three
ills IN the dollar per annum, in addi-
on to the vehicle and per capita tax
We'd under existing ordinances, shall ]
: levied on all taxable property in the |
lrst Road District of the Fourth Police s
Try Ward of the parish of st. Landry,
extinguish such debt as the govern i
g body of said Road District may in t
If and to pay such bonds in principal t