The Natchitoches enterprise., 1916-08-03

1916, and the result of said electio
was declared to be:
That a majority in number an
amount of the taxpayers of the sal
! Readhimer School District in the Paris
of Natchitoches, Louisiana, voted i
favor of said proposition; now, there
fore,
/ Section |. Be it ordained by tn
Parish Board of School Directors c
the Parish of Natchitoches, in lawfl
! session convened, taat the
Proposition to levy d tie
mills special tax Oh all the prODert
subject to state taxation in the Read
himer School District. Parish Of Nat
chitoches, Louisiana, annually, for til
period of five years, for the purpose o
erecting a school building for the R "a
himer school in the said school district
Carried, and the said special schoo
tax, as proposed. is authorized an
required by law to be proceeded wit
and final y eXtinguished by an annua
levy, assessment anl collection Of take
on all the property of the said Read
himer School District in the Parish O
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Section 2 Be it ordained, etc. Tha
the result Of said election shall be pro
mulgated by the President and Secre
tary of the School Board by publication
in one issue of the official Journal o
Natchitoches Parish, signed by sai(
President and Secretary.
PROMULGATION OF ELECTION.
State of Louisiana,
Parish of Natchitoches
By the direction of the School Boart
notice is hereby given that on Monday
the oath day of July, 1916, an election
was held i n the Readhimer Schoo
District in the Parish of Natchitoches,
Louisiana, to determine the
Proposition to levy ten mills specia
tax onthe dollar ou all h c
property subject to taxation il
the Readhimer School District
Parish of Natchitoches, Louis.
lana, annually, for the period Of five
years, for the purpose of erecting &
building for the Readhimer school Of
said school district.
That the majority of the taxpayers
voting at said election in favor of said
proposition was twelve in number
and Seven Hundred and Twenty
Dollars in amount; and tn a
therefore said proposition was carried.
This done and signed on this the 26th
day of July, 1916, at Natchitoches, La.
in the Parish of Natchitoches.
EDGAR LEVY,
President of the Parish Board o. School
Directors.
L. E. HUDSON,
Secty. and Treas of Parish Board of
School Directors.
Yeas: Baron, Huffman, Ingram,
Martin, Miller, Pulin, Sellers and
Truly.
Nays: None.
Absent: Levy.
PROCESS VERBAL OF CANVASS OF RE-
TURNS OF THE CHESTNUT
SPECIAL ELECTION
Be.itt lrrae Kss and remembered. fsrar
on this the 18th day of July 1916, at
ten O'Clock a. m. in accordance with
resolution of the Parish Board of School
Directors of the Parish of Natchitoches,
enacted on the Goth day of June 1916,
notice of which was issued and pub
lished according to law, the undersign-
ed Members of the Parish Board of
School Directors Of Natchitoches, Par
ish, being quorum thereof, met in
public session at the office of said
Board in said parish, and according to
law opened the ballot box used in, and
which was received from the Commits
sioners of, the election held on Mon
day, the oath day Of July, 1916, in ac-
cordance with said resolution, and
there proceeded to count the ballots
both in number and amount, for and
against, to determine the proposition
to levy five mills special tax on all
the property subject to taxation in the
Chestnut School District, Parish of Nat
La, annually, for the period
of ten years, for the purpose of giving
additional aid to the Chestnut schools of
the said school district
The result of said count was 10
ballots and $25l0.00 Dollars in favor of
said pre- opposition, and - ballots and
against said PROPOSE
ton; and, therefore, the majority in
both number and amount cast by the
taxpayers of the chestnut
in the Parish of Natchi-
toches in said election being in favor
thereof; and,
At the same time and place we did
examine and canvass the returns as
evidenced by the duplicate tally sheets
and duplicate complied statements, the
correctness of both being sworn to by
the Commissioners, according to law,
and finding also that the returns indi-
Gated majority both in number and
amount of property, in favor of said
Therefore, we declare that the re-
suit of the said election is in favor Of
the
Proposition to levy five
mills special tax on the dollar
on all the property subject to tax
alton in the Chestnut School District,
Parish of Natchitoches, La, annually,
for the period of ten years, for the pur-
pose of giving additional aid to the
public Chestnut school of the said school
And, in accordance with law, pro-
mitigation of the aforesaid result was
and the Secretary of the
Parish Board of School Directors was
ordered to have a copy of the same
signed by the president, published in
one issue of the Official Journal.
And likewise we did order that one
copy of this process verbal be seat to
the Secretary of State to be recorded
in the archives of the State of Louis
lana; that one copy be sent to the Re-
corder Of Mortgages to be recorded in
the mortgage records; and that one
copy be kept in the records of the said
School Board.
This done and signed in the presence
Of E. E. Dees, l.. }. Sellers, l. T. Rut-
ledge competent witnesses and electors,
on this 26th day of July, 1915, at the
office OF the Parish Board of School
of Natchitoches Parish. by
the undersigned Members of the School
Board of said parish, present and
in the canvass of the