The Natchitoches enterprise., 1916-05-25
School Board Proceedings.

O1 LLlS = NiChA va NHN
of April, 1916, with Edgar Levy, presi-
dent, presiding and the following mem
bers present: M. Barron, w. H.
Huckabay, H. W. Huffman, j. w.
Ingram, Edgar Levy, Benjamin Mar
tin, Ado Miller, G. J.. Pullin, I. b.
Sellers and F. w. E. Truly. Absent:
None.
Resolution by Mr.. T. B. Sellers,
seconded by Mr.. Ado Miller:
That DIR. W. H. HuckabaY and Supt.
L. E. Hudson be appointed a committee
to sell the Myrtle Grove School build
ing and site.
Yeas: Barron, Huckabay. Huffman,
Ingram, Levy, Martin, Miller, Pullin,
Sellers and Sellers. Nays: None.
Resolution by DIR. F. w. E. Truly,
seconded by DIR. w. H. Huckabay:
That Mr.. j. w. Ingram and Supt.
L. E. Hudson be appointed a COM
mittee to sell the Boleyn School build
Yeas: Barron, Huckabay, Huffman,
Ingram, Levy, Martin, Miller, Pullin,
Sellers and Truly. Nays: None.
Resolution by Mr.. j. w. Ingram,
seconded by Mr.. M. Barron:
Section /. That the President and
Superintendent having borrowed. in
accordance with resolution passed by
this board on August Ia, 1914, seven
thousand dollars (S7000.00 No. from the
four Fiscal Agency banks to pay for
the construction of the Ashland High
School Building and there being a bal
ance of six thousand dollars 5000. 00)
of the sum so borrowed still unpaid and
now due. Now be it further resolved:
That the President and Superintendent
are hereby authorized and instructed
to paw one thousand dollars Is. 0O0. 00)
on the principle of the balance still
unpaid and all interest on same to the
date of payment, and they are further
authorized and instructed to execute
the notes of the School Board for the
five thousand dollars $4,000. 00) balance
that will remain, and they are hereby
authorized and instructed to annually
paw one thousand dollars $4,000. 00) on
the principle of this debt and all in
terest on same and to. execute and
deliver renewal notes for the unpaid
balances due the Fiscal Agency banks.
Section 2. That to secure the pay
ment of said loan the special tax of ten
mills levied in pursuance of said special
election in the Ashland School District
is hereby pledged and dedicated, the
same to remain so specially pledged
and dedicated until the full and final
payment of said loan in principle and
interest; provided: That at least the
sum of one thousand dollars $4,000. 00) ,
with annual interest is paid annually
out of said special ten mill tax.
Section 8. In addition to the security
herein above provided, the School
Board does hereby pledge and dedicate
in favor of said Fiscal Agency banks to
secure said loan, all and singular the
surplus remaining in the general fund
of the School Board after the payment
of all necessary statutory and fixed
charges as now fixed and chargeable
against said fund. Said surplus to re-
main so specially pledged until the full
and final payment of principle and IN
terest of said loan.
Section 4. The good faith of the
School Board is hereby pledged to the
payment of said loan and security also.
Yeas: Barron, Huckabay, Huffman,
Ingram, Levy, Martin, Miller, Pullin,
Sellers and Truly. Nays: None.
Resolution by DR.. w. H. Huckabay,
seconded by Mr.. C. j. Pullin:
That the following be adopted as the
boundaries of the Alpha Fairview
School District in the Parish of Natchi-
toches, ouisiana; beginning at the
northeast corner of ward three which
is the northeast corner of township IL,
range 8 west; thence due south along
the ward line between wards three and
. four to where it intersects the northern
boundary of the Campti School Dis
trict; thence along the Crevasse and
Simms Bayou in a westerly direction to
the western boundary of section p,
township II, range 8 west; thence due
north to the southeast corner of Sec
ton 1C, township IL, range 8 west;
thence due west to the northwo
corner of the Campti School Distric
thence due south along the boundary
said Campti School District to t
south boundary of the L. R. & N. Rw
thence along the south boundary of t
L. R. & N. Rwy. to the Parish line /
tween Red River Parish and Natchitf
ches Parish TO the southern bounda
line of Red River Parish; thence d.
east to place of beginning. This di
trict as outlined will be the Natchit
ches Parish portion of the Alpha-Fai-
view School District.
Yeas: Barron, Huckabay, Huffman
Ingram, Levy, Martin, Miller, Pull
Sellers and Truly. Nays: None.
PROCESS VERBAL OF CANVASS OF Ri
TURNS OF THE PROVINCIAL
SPECIAL ELECTION.
Be it known and remembered: Tbs
on this the 18th day of May, 1916, 9
ten o'clock a. M, in accordance wit
resolution of the Parish Board
School Directors of the Parish of Ma
ehitoches, enacted on the Bird day {
April, 1916, notice of which was issue
and published according to law, til
undersigned members of the Paris.
Board of School Directors of Natchito
ches Parish, being a quorum thereof
met in public session at the Office G
said board in said parish, and accordin.
TO law opened the ballot box used III
and which was received from tn
Commissioners of, the election held Oh
Tuesday, the 9th day of May, 1916, il
accordance with said resolution an
there proceeded to count the ballot
18th in number and amount, for ant
against, to determine the proposition
! 90 levy a seven and one-haif mills
special tax on all the property subjeci
D taxation in the P%rovencal Schoo.
? district, Parish of Natchitoches, La.
Annually for the period of ten years
: FOR the purpose of giving additional aic
t O the public schools of the said schoo
! iistrict.
The result of said count was forty
,allots and twenty thousand nine hun
tred and seventy dollars in favor Of
aid proposition and twenty ballots anc
six thousand eight hundred and twenty
dollars against said proposition; and,
therefore,, the majority in both number
ind amount cast by the property tax
payers of the Provencal School District
4 the Parish of Natchitoches in said