The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-06-16
oEEIcIAL PROCEEDINGS
Board of Supervisors of Road District No. 2,
Parish o. Ascension.
Geismar, La. June 6, 1917

| Geisn1ar, La. June 6, 1917.
The board of supervisors of Road District
! No. 9, parish of Ascension, met this 9th day
of June at 4 o'clock p. M, at Geismar, La,
pursuant to q motion duly adopted at
meeting Of the board held May 80, l9lI,
with the following members present: Presi-
dent Leon Newman, DR.. W. P. Miles, l.. W.
| Armitage, W B. Stuart. Absent-H, E.
Webb, j. N. Delaune.
| The minutes of the meeting of May 80,
| 1917. were read and on motion OF Mr. Armi-
tage. seconded by DR.. Miles, were 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
hoard of supervisors of Road District No. 2,
parish of Ascension, Louisiana, acting as the
governing authority of Road District No. 2,
parish of Ascension, Louisiana, ordering a
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 adj
ditional indebtedness and issue negotiable
bonds therefor to the amount of thirty thou
sand tS30,000} dollars. to run for period
of twenty coy years. bearing interest at
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 81,
1917, it was ordered and directed that a
special election be held in said Road District
No. on the first day of May. 1917, be-
tween the hours Of Z o'clock a. m. and S
O clock D. M, as 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. Q. 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 was 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,
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 a process verbal of
the manner in which said ballot boxes had
been opened, returns canvassed and the re-
of Ia elaPtInn
forward copy of said process verbal to the
secretary of state. who fled the same in his
office on the 18th day of May, 1877, and
recorded same in Book Of Special Elections
Number 8; and copy thereof to the clerk
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 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 |
proposition to incur an additional indebted |
ness and issue negotiable bonds of Road
District No. 2, parish Of Ascension, LOUISE
ana to the amount of thirty Thousand s8o,-l
doo1 doilas.ss-Fer the purpose of constructs |
ing, improving and maintaining the public !
highways and roads within the said Road |
District No. 2, parish of Ascension, I4ousi- I
ana. 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. |
laws of the state Of Louisiana, who voted at |
The said election held for the purpose here |
tnbefore stated; and,
Whereas, the assessor of the parish Of |
Ascension has certified that the assessed |
valuation of the property within Road Dis |
triet NO. 2. parish of Ascension, as shown by |
the assessment rolls for the year 1916, |
amounts to s537.560 for state and parish
purposes, and therefore an additional in |
iebtedness of thirty thousand (s30,0O0) 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. 2 OF the parish of Ascen- |
sion, 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
ana IN benaiI or the board OF supervisors OF |
Road District No. 2 of said parish of AS
cension. Louisiana. negotiable coupon bonds
N the sum OF thirty thousand (s3o,0o0) |
dollars. Said issue shall consist of one hun
bred (100) 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 umbered from B. |
to BLOC, both numbers inclusive. All of |
said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of |
five 20 per cent per annun, payable on the
first day of January, 1918, and semi-annually
thereafter 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
ond payable as follows:
B. to B. 3....s 9O0July /, 1918
B. to B. 6...--.. 900..........July /, 1919
3 to B. 9-... 900........,July !. 1920
Bio to B-12-..... 9oo.....,...July /. 1921
Biz to B-16..-... 1200..........July l, 1922 |
By to B-20...... 1200..~-....July /. 1923
B-21 to B-24 l200.July l. 1924