The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-06-30
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
Board of Supervisors of Road District mo. @'
Parish OF Ascension.

Ge1Smaf, La, June o,
The board of supervisors OF Road Dlstflct
No. 2 parish of Ascension, met this 9th day
of June at 4 o'clock p. m, at Geismaf' La
pursuant to motion duly adopted at d
meeting of the board held May 80, l9l :
with the following members present: Presl-
dent Leon Newman, DR.. w. P. Miles, L. W
Armitage, w. B. Stuart. Absent-H. H.
Webb, j. N. Delaune.
The minutes of the meeting of May oO
1917. were read, and on motion of MI Ar1nl-
tage, seconded by DR.. Miles, We're adopted
and ordered approved and signed
Mr.. Stuart offered and read the following
ordinance:
sale of bonds of Road District No. 2,
parish of Ascension Louisiana, to the
amount of $4,000. and pledging the
tax to provide for the payment OF the
principal and interest thereof.
Whereas, by ordinance duly adopted by the
board of supervisors of Road District No. z,
parish of Ascension, Louisiana, acting as the
governing authority of Road District NO. Z,
parish of Ascension, Louisiana, ordering
special election for the purpose of submitting
to the property taxpayers of Road District
No. 2 situated within the fifth. sixth, seventh
and eighth wards of the parish of Assem-
sion, Louisiana, a proposition to incur an al
ditional Indebtedness and issue negotiable
bonds therefor to the amount of thirty thou
sand tS30,000) dollars, to run for period
of twenty GOD years, bearing interest at
the rate of five per cent per annum pay
able semi-annually, principal and interest
to be paid out of a special ad valorem tax
upon all property subject to taxation within
the limits of said Road District No. 2, parish
Of Ascension, Louisiana, of date March 2l,
1917 it was ordered-and directed that
special election be held in said Road District
no. the first day of May, 1877, be-
tween the hours of o'clock a. m. and
O'clock p. M, authorized by law, at which
election the property taxpayers of said road
district legally qualified to vote at such
election should have submitted to them the
proposition to incur an additional indebted
ness and issue bonds of said Road District
No. 2, parish Of Ascension, Louisiana, to
the amount of thirty thousand dollars, bear
ing interest at the rate of five per cent per
annum, payable semi-annually. for the pur-
pose of constructing, improving and main
tanning the public highways and roads stu
ated within said Road District No. 2, parish
of Ascension, Louisiana, together with
bridges, culverts, drains and other appur-
tenances and accessories thereto; and
Whereas. notice of said election was
printed and published in the form and man
ner prescribed by law, for thirty days, in
the official journal of the parish of As
cension. Louisiana; and
Whereas, in pursuance to said ordinance
and notice, the said special election duly
and regularly held in said Road District No.
2, parish of Ascension, Louisiana, on May l,
1917, between the aforesaid hours, and after
said election had been held the board of
supervisors of Road District No. 2, parish
of Ascension. in open session at Geismar,
Louisiana, on the 4th day of May, 1917,
proceeded to open the ballot boxes, examine
and canvass the returns, and declare the
results of said examination; and
Whereas, at the said meeting of the board
of supervisors of Road District No. 2, parish
of Ascension. Louisiana. held on the afore-
said 4th day of May, 1917. the said board did
declare, make and keep process verbal OF
the manner in which said ballot boxes had
been opened, returns canvassed and the re-
suits of the election ascertained, and did
forward copy of said process verbal to the
secretary of state, who filed the same in his
office on the 18th day of May, 1917, and
recorded same in Book of Special Elections
of the 9th judicial district court of the
parish of Ascension, Louisiana. in which
parish said Road District No. is situated,
which process verbal was recorded by the
said clerk of said district court in the
mortgage records of the parish of Assem-
sion; and did file q copy of the said
process verbal in the archives of said board
of supervisors of Road District No. 2, par
ish of Ascension, Louisiana, the authority
ordering said election; and
Whereas, the said process verbal of the
results of the said special election was
published. as required by law, in the Of
fetal journal of the parish of Ascension on
the 18th day of May. 1917; and
Whereas, in and by the said canvass and
count it was ascertained and found that the
to incur an additional indebted
ness and issue negotiable bonds of Road
District No. 2. parish of Ascension, Louisi-
ana, to the amount of thirty thousand $780,
VUUJ dollars, TOT the purpose construct
ing, improving and maintaining the public
and roads within the said Road
District No. 2, parish of Ascension, Louisi-
ana, was duly carried and the issuance of
said bonds of said Road District No. 2, to
evidence said additional debt, was at the said
special election authorized by the vote of
the majority in number and amount of the
property taxpayers of said Road District No
2 qualified to vote under the constitution and
laws of the state of Louisiana, who voted at
the said election held for the purpose here
inbefore stated; and,
Whereas, the assessor of the parish of
Ascension has certified that the assessed
valuation of the property within Road Dis
trict No. 2, parish of Ascension, as shown by
the assessment rolls for the year 1916,
amounts to S837,560 for state and parish
and therefore additional in
debtedness of thirty thousand (s3O,O0O) dol
lars IS within ten per cent of the assessed
valuation of the property in said Road Dis
trict No. 2, parish of Ascension; therefore
be it
Ordained by the board of supervisors of
Road District No. of the parish of Assem-
sion, as the governing authority of Road
District No. of the parish of Ascension,
that the president and secretary of this board
be and they are hereby directed and ordered
to have prepared, and to execute in the name
of the board Of supervisors of Road District
No 2, parish of Ascension, Louisiana, for
and in behalf of the board of supervisors of
Road District No. of said parish of AS
cension, Louisiana, negotiable coupon bonds
in the sum of thirty thousand ($30,00O)
dollars. Said issue shall consist of one hun
dred I00) bonds which shall all bear date
the first day of July, 1917, and shall be of
the denomination of three hundred $4,000
dollars each, and shall be numbered from b.
to BLOC, both numbers inclusive. All of
said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of
five 90 per cent per annum. payable on the
first day of January. 1918, and semi-annually
thereafter on the first day of July and JAN
uary in each year, said interest to be
evidenced by interest coupons attached to
said bonds. and said bonds shall become due
and payable as follows
B. l to B. s-..-......$ soO..,.....July l. 1918
T. q to B. g. 90o-..--.-.-July l, 1919
B. to b &c.. 900......---July l, 1920
BIO to bib. 9G0..-.-..July l, 1921 |
Biz to B-16...,,..-.. 120O......July /, 1922
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