The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1916-06-29
NATCHTOCEEs LOUISIANA THURSDAY, JUNE 29 1916

Police Jury is hereby instructed tc
issue his proclamation giving notice OF
the special election herein ordered and
to announce that at 10 o'clock a. m. or
the 7th day of August, 1916 this Police
Jury will meet at its regular meeting
place in the city of Natchitoches, and
shall then and there open the ballot
boxes, examine and count the ballots
/ in number and amount and declare the
result of the election.
Yeas: Nessrs. Pierson, Williams
Adams, Knott, Page, Parker, Taylor,
Russell. Absent: Mr.. Cockerham and
mir. Cockfeld. Nays none. Carried
By Mr.. Knott, seconded by Mr. Page:
That in accordance with petition of
the citizens of Spanish Lake School
| District, an election is hereby ordered
to be held in said district at Spanish
Lake box number A, on Saturday the
22nd day of July, for the purpose of
electing three road and bridge commits
sioners of said district.
That the Secretary of the Police Jury
is hereby instructed to prepare ballots
for said election.
The Police Jury shall promulgate the
of August, 1916. Carried
AN ORDINANCE.
Calling for Special Election of all
persons entitled to vote at a special
election to be held in Road District
No. IS.
Sec. |. Be it ordained by the Police
Jury Of the Parish of Natchitoches,
Louisiana.
That special election be and the
same is hereby ordered to be held in
Road District No. 19, at the following
polling place in said District to wit:
In Ward One at the Court House,
precinct No. l and precinct No. ?, il
the City of Natchitoohes.
In Ward Six at the regular polling
place III the town of Robeline, Parish
of Natchitoches.
In Ward Five at the following polling
places and precincts viz:j
Precinct No. 2, Marthaville
Precinct No. J., Beulah
Precinct No. 8, Ajax.
In Ward Three at the regular polling
place, precinct No. 2, Powhatan, Par |
ish of Natchitoches.
In Ward Four, at the regular polling |
place, precinct No. 2, Clarence, Parish |
of Natchitoches.
That said special election shall be
held on the 9th, day of July 1916, at |
which shall be submitted the PROPOSE
tion towit:
To incur debt and issue bonds to the
amount of Two Hundred and Fifty |
Thousand Dollars (250, 900. 90. to run
for twenty years towit; 1916, 1917, |
1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, I
1925, 1926, 1927, 1923, 1929, 1880, 1881,
1892, 1888. 1884, and 1885 To bear in
terest at the rate of per cent per an
mum. All interest payable annually
for the purpose of constructing and
a gravel road from the
the Parish line between the Parishes of
and Sabine, running
thence to the town of Marthaville in
Ward Five, thence to the town of
Robeline, thence to the City of Nat
thence to Grand Ecore, and
thence through Ward A, in southerfy
direction via Clarence to the mouth of
Saline Bayou, which is the dividing
line between the Parish of Natchito-
ches and the Parish of Winn, and for
the construction and maintainance of a
gravel road from the City of Natchi-
Foches to the Village of Powhatan in
Ward Three, and thence to the Village
Of Allen in Ward Five.
Sec. 2. That the secretary of the
Police Jury, be and she is hereby in
structed to have prepared for use at
special election, sufficient number of
ballots on which shall be printed the
embraced in Section l of
his Ordinance, substantially in the
form:
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