The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-05-31
MINUTES OF THORNWELL
DRAINAGE DISTRICT No. 1.

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Inc Board Ct Commissioner, Of
ThornWell Drainage District No.
One held at its domiciIe at Lake
/ Arthur, Louisiana, on the 2Sth
day of May, 1919, there being
present E. A. Lyon, R. B. Johnson
| c. C. Potter, R. r. Monger and
Marcel Guidry, constituting a full
Board
The meeting was called to or.
der by +. A. Lyon, President, L.
f. Baker, Clerk, officiating as
such.
Aftel canvaSSing the returns OF
| the special tax and bond election
held in said district on the 9th
day of May, 1919, upon motion OF
r. B. Johnson seconded by E.. E.
Potter that the following ordil-
anceS be adopted
Ordinance No. s.
AN ORDINANCE, No. Eight
| (S), declaring the result OF the
election held in ThornwSII Drain
age District No. One on Tuesday,
May 9th, 1919, ordering the pro-
mitigation of the same by publ
cation in one issue OF the official
journal of the Parish of ,IefTer-
son Davis, authorizing a copy of
This ordinance and process verb
al 10 be filed with The Clerk of
Court Of the Fifteenth Judicial
District Court of Louisiana, sit
ting in and for The Parish of JEFF
ferson Davis, to be by him re-
corded in the mortgage records OF
Jefferson Davis Parish, and auth
orizing the filing Of a copy of the
ordinance with the process verbal
of the PRONUNCIATION of said cleo
ton with the Secretary of State
of the State 81 Louisiana.
Whereas, on Tuesday, May
9th, 1919, an election was duly
and legally held in said Thorn
well Drainage District No. One,
by authority of Ordinance No.
Six and Seven adopted by the
Board of Commissioners thereof
on April 18th, 1919; and
Whereas, On this the 2Sth day
OF May, 1919, at 1000 o'clock i.
H., on said date, the Board of
Commissioners met in accord
ance with said ordinances Nos.
Six Co and Seven Cd, and did
proceed in public session to open
the ballot boxes, examine and
count the ballots in number and
amount and canvass the returns,
and did find that same were in
legal form, and that Eight 60
votes we're cast at said election
by persons owning Eighteen
hundred eighty-three (1SS3J acres
of land in said Thornwell Drain
age District No. One, of an assess
ed valuation of Thirty-six thous,
and two hundred ninety 1885,
100000 Dollars, of which eight
GO votes in number were cast by
persons owning Eighteen humid
red eighty-three 1889 acres of
land in said Drainage District, of
an assessed valuation of Thirty
six thousand two hundred ninety
($36, 100000 Dollars, were cast in
favor of the proposition submitted
by the said election to authorize
the creation of a bonded indebt-
edness of Twelve thousand ($12,-
O0O.0O) Dollars, and the levying
of a special annual acreage tax of
nine cents per acre per year for a
period of twenty years, com
mencing with the year 1919, and
ending with the year 1898, both
inclusive, on ali acreage property
situated in Ihornwell Drainage
District No. One. subject to State
taxation, and No N1les by p, sors
ownin3 No acres of land assessed
at no Dollars were cast against
the creation of said indebtedness
and the levying of said special
tax,making a majority in favor of
said proposition of Eight 60
votes in number, Eighteen humid
red eighty-three 1883 in acres
and Thirty-six thousand two
hundred ninety ($36,29O.00) Dol
lars in assessed valuation.
We find that Twelve (12) votes
were cast at said election by per-
sons owning property assessed at
Fifty li;e thousand and twenty
(S59,O2GOO) DGlIass. situated in
said Thornwell Drainage District
No. One, upon the proposition
submitted al said election to
authorize the creation of a bond
ed Indebtedness of Twenty-four
thousand (24,00000) Dollars a |
the levy of special advalorem
tax sufficient to meet and retire
the same, not exceeding ten (10)
mills upon each dollar of valu-
alton for any one year, for a per-
iod of twenty-one years COM
mencing with the year 1918,
and ending with the year