The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-05-27

| WneredS, IL Is Unnecessary thot hiSh
school building be built and equipped at
Colfax, Louisiana, in Colfax School
District No. 2, and
Whereas, it is necessary and deslra-
BILE for funds to be raised Tor said pur-
pose, and
Whereas, it is the voluntary will of
this body to call the election hereinaf-
ter provided for, and
Whereas, Article No. 281 of the Con-
stitution of 1898 and 1918, and Act No.
256 of the legislature of 1910, as amend
ed by Act 2l8 of 1912, declare the
school board of the parish to be the
governing authority through which the
the said Colfax school district No.
may incur debt and issue negotiable
bonds for such purposes, when SO au-
thorized at an election to be held in the
said Colfax school district No. 2, and
Whereas, the assessed valuation of
the said Colfax school district Number
amounts to ............... .....................
s.. ........) dollars, and the proposed
Indebtedness does not exceed the con-
stitutional limit of 10 per cent of the
assessed valuation, and
Whereas, the special tax necessary
to be annually levied to extinguish the
proposed indebtedness will approximate
three 90 mills, which will not exceed
the constitutional limit per annum on
the dollar of the assessed valuation of
the property of the said Colfax school
district No. 2. now, therefore:
Section l. Be it ordained by the
Board of School Directors of the parish
of Grant, Louisiana, in regular session
convened, That an election shall be
and is hereby called to be held in the
said Colfax school district Number
in the parish of Grant, Louisiana, on
Tuesday, June 81, 1916, at which cleo
ton the majority of the property tax
payers of the said Colfax school
district No. 2. in number and amount,
eligible to vote and voting, shall deter
mine the
PROPOSITION
PROPOSITION to incur debt and issue
bonds of the said Colfax school dis
trict No. 2 in the parish of Grant,
La, to the amount of Eight Thousand
Dollars (S8, 100000 to run for a period
of five (5) years. bearing interest at
the rate of five per cent per annum,
payable annually, the funds thus deriv-
ed 10 De used Tor the
PURPOSE of building and equipping a
high school building at Colfax, Louisi-
ana, in the said Colfax school district
No. 2.
Section 2. Be it further ordained,
etc., That the ballot box, necessary
blanks and other necessary parapher-
MALTA, shall be prepared by the secre-
tary of the board of school directors,
and he shall cause to be printed ballots
for use in said election in the following
form, to-wit:
FOR ISSUANCE OF BONDS.
PROPOSITION.
To incur debt and issue bonds
of the said Colfax School Voc
District No 2, in Grant par ioO
ish, Louisiana, to the amount
of Eight Thousand $4,000. 00)
Dollars, to run for a period
of five (5) years, bearing
interest at the rate of five per -
cent per annum, payable annu- ~
ally, the funds thus derived to NO
be used for the purpose of
building and equipping a high
school building at Colfax, La,
in the said school district
No. 2.
Taxable valuation, $...................
Signature of voter ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
NOTICE TO VOTERS.
To vote in favor of this proposition,
submitted on this ballot, place a cross
(X) mark in the sqnare after the word
YES" To vote against it, place q
similar mark after the word mo-"
Section 8. Be it further ordained,
etc.. That the compensation of the
election commissioners and the clerk of
the said election shall be three dollars
(S3. o0) per day for one days service,
and that the election shall be held in
the court house at Colfax, La, in the
said Colfax school district No. 2, by
the officials here named, each being a
Joe Carver and D. M. Mcknight shall
serve as commissioners and w. S. La
Croix 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 the 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 Wednesday the 18th day of
June, 1916, the first day after or fol-
lowing such election, at II o'clock a. M,
the Board of School Directors of the
Parish of Grant, Louisiana, shall meet
at the court house at Colfax in the Of
flee of the said board of school direc-
tors in said parish, and there in public
session open the ballot box, examine
and count the ballots both as to num-
Der and amount, and examine and can
vass the returns and declare the results
of said election, and promulgate the
same.
]. H. McNEELY,