The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1915-05-15

held in the Maxwell hall at Pollock,
Louisiana, by the officials here named,
each being a regular voter: E. C.
Gates, W. H. Singley and Frank Ham
ilton shall serve as commissioners and
w. D. johnson shall serve as clerk of
the said election.
Be it further ordained, etc., That
notice of this election containing the
proposition herein submitted to the
voters shall be prepared and signed by
the president and secretary of this
board, and shall be published by the
secretary in the official journal by four
weekly insertions, the date of the first
Insertion to be thirty 1907 days before
the date of the election.
The said notice shall further recite
that on Tuesday, the 18th day of May,
1915. the first Jay after or following
such election, at IL O'Clock m. the
school board shall meet at the court
house in Colfax, in said parish, and
there in public session open the ballot
box, examinine and count the ballots
both as to number and amount, and
examine and canvas the returns and
declare the results of said election, and
promulgate the same.
j. H. McNEELY,
]. N. WARNER, President.
Secretary.
CERTIFICATE OF BONDED INDEBr-
EDNESS.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, 1
Parish of Grant
This certifies that there is no indebt-
edness of the Pollock School District
No. 9, Parish of Grant, Louisiana. in
Cured under Art. 281, of the constitu-
ton of 1898 and 1918, for the extin-
guishment of which special taxes are
by law required annually to be assessed.
This done and signed on this the 9th
day of April, 1915.
]. N. WARNER.
Secretary of the Board of School Di-
rectors, Parish of Grant. Louisiana
Countersigned by
E. S. MURRELL,
Assessor Grant Parish, Louisiana
CERTIFICATE OF THE CLERK OF TIE
COURT AND Ex-oFFICIo RECORDER.
This certifes that /. S. Murreli is
the lawfully qualified and commissioned
Assessor of the Parish of Grant, and
that the undersigned is the lawfully
qualified and commissioned ex-officio
Registrar of voters of said parish.
This done and signed on this the 9th
day of April, 1915.
JAMES J. O'QUINN,
Clerk of Court and Ex-Officio Recorder
of the Parish of Grant, Louisiana.
The following petition was presented
to the board:
Grant parish, La, March, 1915.
To the Honorable President and Mem
bers of the Parish Board of School
Directors of the Parish Of Grant,
State Of Louisiana:
| The petition of the undersigned prop
erty taxpayers of school district No.
%, of the parish of Grant, State of
Louisiana, and being the required num-
Der of property Taxpayers eligible to
vote at special school tax elections, re-
specially pray that your Honorable
Body order special election held in
the manner required by law for the
purpose of determining whether or not
a special ten mills tax for five years,
beginning with the year 1915 and end
ing with the year 1919, both years in
elusive, be levied and collected in the
said school district No. q, on all prop
erty in the said school district subject
TO State taxation, for general educa-
, tional purposes.
Respectfully signed: WiD. Longino.
F. L. Longino. c. w. Payne, j. v. Car
ter. H. L. Weaver, C. C. Wilson, R.
M. Dunn.
Personally came and appeared before
me. the undersigned authority, J. N.
Warner, who being by me first duly
sworn, declared and acknowledged that
he was on the third day of April, 1915,
and is now secretary of the Parish
Board of School Directors of the parish
of Grant. Louisiana, and that the above
and foregoing is a true and correct
copy of the petition filed with the said
board at its meeting together with all
names signed thereto, and acted upon
by the said board at its meeting held
on April 8, 1915.
| j. N. WARNER.
This sworn to and subscribed before
me on this the 9Th day Of April. 1916.
i EARL ROBERTS,
| Notary public.
The following resolution was offered
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