The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-09-06
AN ORDINANCE OF PROMULGA-
TION

oShooi DonuS VI Dry TrOng ScnOO
, District of the Parish of Grant, Lou.
, isiana, to the amount of Thirty
Thousand Dollars and the levying OF
special tax on all the property sub
ject to taxation within the limits of
said school district sufficient to pay
the principal and interest of the said
, bonds as the same shall mature.
Whereas, by ordinance duly adopted
and passed by the Parish School Board
OF the Parish of Grant, Louisiana, en-
titled IAN ordinance ordering special
election for the purpose of submitting
to the property taxpayers of Dry Prong
School District, of the Parish of Grant,
Louisiana, a proposition to incur debt
and issue bonds of Dry Prong School
District, in the Parish of Grant, Lou
isiana, to the amount of Thirty Thou
sand Dollars, to run for q period of
twelve years, bearing interest at the
rate of five per cent per annum, pay
able semi annually, the funds thus de-
rived to be used for the purpose of
building and equipping school build
ing at Dry Prong in Dry Prong School
District, Parish of Grant, Louisiana, -
of date July LIST, 1919, it was ordered
and directed that special election be
held in said Dry Prong School District
on the 10Th day of August, 1919, be-
tween the hours of seven o'clock a. m.
and five O'Clock p. M, as authorized
by law, at which election the property.
taxpayers of the said school district
legally qualified to vote at such cleo
ton should have submitted to them the
proposition to incur debt and issue
bonds of said Dry Prong School Dis
trict of the Parish of Grant, Louisiana,
to the amount of Thirty Thousand Dol
lars, bearing interest at the rate of five
per cent per annum, payable semi 4
annually, for the purpose of erecting |
and equipping school building at Dry
Prong in said Dry Prong School Dis
trict, Parish of Grant. Louisiana: and.
Whereas, notice of said election was
printed, and published in the form and
manner prescribed by law, for thirty |
days, in the official journal of the Par
ish of Grant, Louisiana, of the Parish
School Board of the Parish of Grant.
Louisiana, and of said Dry Prong
School District, Parish of Grant, Lou
isiana; and,
whereas, in pursuance of said ordi-
nance and notice, the said special cleo
ton was duly and regularly held in said
Dry Prong School District of the Par
lsh of Grant, Louisiana, on August
18th, 1919, between the aforesaid
hours. and after said election had been
held the Grant Parish School Board, in
open session, in the City of Colfax,
Louisiana, on the 10th day of August,
1919, proceeded to open the ballot
boxes. examine and count the ballots
m number and amount, examine and
canvass the returns, and declare the
result of said examination; and,
Whereas, at the said meeting of the
Parish School Board of the Parish of
Grant, Louisiana, held on the afore-
said 10th day of August, 1919, the said
board did declare, make and keep a
process verbal of the manner in which
laid ballot boxes had been opened, re-
'urns canvassed, and the result of the
election ascertained, and forwarded
copy to the Secretary of State. who
lied same in his office on the 25th day
# August, 1919, and recorded the same
n Book Especial Elections" Number
SIX, Folio -, and another copy
hereof to the Clerk of the Thirteenth
Judicial District Court, Parish of
irant, Louisiana, in which parish the
aid Dry Prong School District is stu
tied. which said process verbal was
ecorded in the mortgage records of
aid parish, and did make and file q
opy of said process verbal in the
lrchives of the said Parish School
Board of the Parish of Grant, Louis
ana, the authority ordering the said
lection; and,
Whereas, the said process verbal of {
he result of the said special election ,
vas published, as required by law, in
he Colfax Chronicle, the official jour-
al of the said Board, on the 23rd day
f August, 1919; and,
Whereas, in and by the said canvass
nd count, it was ascertained and
ound that the proposition to incur
ebt and issue bonds of Dry Prong
school District, in the Parish of Grant,
louisiana, to the amount of Thirty :
thousand Dollars, bearing interest at
he rate of five per cent per annum,