The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-05-13

BODY the desires of the committee with
reference to this matter, and
Whereas, it is necessary and deslra-
BILE for funds to be raised for said pur-
pose, and -, e
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 2lS of 1912, declare the
school board of the parish to be the
governing authority through which the
the said Colfax school district Mo- 2
NAV 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
2 amounts to four hundred thousand
| (S40O, 000 00) 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 81 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 /. Be it ordained by the
Board of School Directors of the parish
of Grant, Louisiana, in special session
convened, That an election shall be
| and is hereby called to be held in the
said Colfax school district Number 2
in the parish of Grant, Louisiana, on
| Tuesday, June 6, 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 Six Thousand
Five Hundred Dollars Csc, 500. 00) to run
for five (5) years, bearing interest at
the rate of five per cent per annum,
payable annually, the funds thus deriv-
ed to be used for the
PURPOSE of building and equipping a
high school building at Colfax. Louisi-
ana, in the said Colfax school district
No 2.
i. 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
8 form, to-wit:
! FOR ISSUANCE OF BONDS.
PROPOSITION
81 To incur debt and issue bonds
E of the said Colfax School Voc
District No 2, in Grant par ~.
ish, Louisiana, to the amount
of six thousand five hundred
Csc, 500. 00) dollars, to run for
/ a period of five years, bearing
@ interest at the rate of five per -
cent per annum, payable annu- NJ
= ally, the funds thus derived to mo
!. be used for the purpose of
; ; building and equipping high
school building at Colfax, La,
: in the said school district
No. 2.
i Taxable valuation, $........................,
Signature of voter ............................,
NOTICE TO VOTERS.
To vote in favor of this proposition
submitted on this ballot, place a eros
9 (X) mark in the sqnare after the wor
= YES" To vote against it, place
similar mark after the word mo"
!, Section 8. Be it further ordained
{ etc., That the compensation of tn
election commissioners and the clerk o
:, the said election shall be two dollar
y ($2. 0O) per day for one days service
and that the election shall be held i
the court house at Colfax, La, in tn
II said Colfax school district No. 2,
:, the officials here named, each being
! regular qualified voter: VIM. LaCroiS
- Joe Carver and D. NJ Mcknight sha
- serve as commissioners and A. M. Coco
- wyn shall serve as clerk of the sal
y election.
Be it further ordained, ETC.. Ths
notice of this election containing tn
. proposition herein submitted to tn
< voters shall be prepared and signed b
the president and the secretary of thi
3 board, and shall be published by tn
70 secretary in the official journal by fou
T. weekly insertions, the date of the frs
insertion to be thirty (30) days befor
~ the date of the election.
2 The said notice shall further recit
:. that on Wednesday the 7th day {
y June, 1916, the first day after or TO
Is lowing such election, at II o CLOCK a. m
y the Board of School Directors of tn
y Parish of Grant, Louisiana, shall NEE
u at the court house at Colfax in the Of
flee of the said board of school dire,
OF tors in said parish, and there in publ
u session open the ballot box, examinir
and count the ballots both as to nun
s. Der and amount, and examine and cal
i vass the returns and declare the result
u of said election, and promulgate tn
81 same.
al ]. H. MCNEELY,
~ j. N. WARNER, President.
III Secretary.