St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-09-02


Board Appropriation for
Agricultural School -. $4,000
Contingent Fund. =. -. 226.25
Total ...... ...... 1890. S66456.25
Respectfully submitted,
J.. A. PERKINS,
J. G.. GARRIERE,
w. B. PRESCOTT,
Finance Committee.
ORDINANCE No. is
An Ordinance
Ordering a special election through
out the limits of 9th School Dis
trict of the 4th Police Jury Ward
Of the Parish Of st. Landry, to
take the sense Of the property
taxpayers OF the said school dis
trict Of the said ward, entitled to
vote under the Contitution and
Laws Of the State Of Louisiana, as to
whether a special tax of ten mills
on the dollar, or as much thereof
as may be necessary, shall be
levied annually, on all taxable
property in said school district,
for a period of is years, begin
ming with the year ofi9f6; and
as to whether the governing
authority of said school district
shall be authorized to incur debt
and issue bonds of the said 9th
School District of the 4th Police
Jury Ward of the Parish of st.
Landry, to the amount Of Two
Thousand Five Hundred (ss2,5tas
Dollars, to run for a period of
10 years, bearing interest at the
rate Of five per sent par annuIn.
payable annually for the con-
stuctlng, purchasing site, furnish
ing and painfliaiI.g the Bayou
Jacques School ii sail sella il lis
tiift
Whereas, it is the voluntary will
OF this body to call the election
hereinafter provided for, and
Whereas, Article 28i of the Con-
stitution Of 1913. and Act No. 256
OF the Acts of che Legislature adopt
ed in the year 1910, as amended by
Act 2f8of 1912, declared the School
Board of the Parish of st Landry
to be the governing authority
through which the 9th School Dis
trict of the Fourth Police Jury
Ward OF said parish may levy a
special tax on all taxable property
in said School District and incur
debt and issue negotiable bonds for
the purpose of constructing, pur-
chasing a site, furnishing, and
maintaining a school at Bayou
jacques in said School District,
and
Whereas, the assessed valuation
in said School District amounts to
not less than Eighty Thousand
Dollars and the existing bonded in
debtedness incurred under Article
28f of the Constitution 1898 and
and 1913, amounts to No Dollars
which added to the proposed in
debtness does not exceed the Con-
stitutional limit which said School
District is authorized to incur, and
Whereas, in orded to extinguish
the Indebtedness herein provided
for, and pay off in principal and
interest and bond authority to issue
which is herein proposed, and to
keep the public school house, in
said school district in good repair
and to maintain the school, after
the payment Of said bonds in prin-
cipal and interest, it will be neces-
sary to annually levy a special tax
Of not more than ten mills on the
on all taxable property in
said School District. which said tax
when added to the existing sepcial
taxes annually levied under Article
28i of the Constitution of 1898 and
1913, will not exceed the Gonstitu-
limit Of ten mills per annum
on the dollar of the assessed valua-
ton of the property of the 9th
School District of Gle( Fourth
Police Jury Ward of the Parish of
st. Landry;
Now therefore,
Section /. Be it ordained by the
school Board of the Parish Of
St. Landry in lawful session conven-
I'd: That an election shall be and
is hereby called to be held in the
stu School District OF the -Four
Police Jury Ward Of the Parish Of
St. Landry on the 18th day of Sep
Eembar, A. D. 1916, at which election
The majority Of the property tax
payers of the said 9th School Dis
trict Of the Fourth Police Jury
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