The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-11-08
PRESIDENT PROCLAMATION
And Notice of Special Election.

ana Notlce OF Special ELECTION.
1, T. T. Atterbury, President of
the Board of Commissioners of
Sub-Drainage District No. / of the
Bayou Mallet and Plaquemine Drain
age District of the Parish of st. Lam
dry, State of Louisiana, by virtue of
authority vested in me, by an ordi-
nance adopted by the Board of Drain
age Commissioners of the said Sub
Drainage District on the 14th day of
August, A. D. 1919, and the Consti-
tuition and laws of the State of Lou
isiana, do hereby proclaim and give
notice that a special election will be
held in said Sub-Drainage District
No. / of said Bayou Mallet and
Plaquemine Drainage District of the
Parish of st. Landry, State of Louis
lana, for the purpose of submitting
to the qualified property taxpayers
of said Sub-Drainage District the
proposition to incur debt and issue
serial negotiable coupon bonds
in said Sub-Drainage District
to the amount of Eighty-five Thou
sand ($85, 000.00) Dollars for the
purpose of paying and retiring the
outstanding bonds in said Sub-Drain-
age District, aggregating in. all Eight
Thousand ($8,O00.00) Dollars, to re-
tire the acreage tax of 10 cents per
acre and construct a system of grav-
ity drainage in and for said Drainage
District.
The propositions to the electors at
said special election is substantially
as follows:
A proposition to incur debt and is
sue and sell serial negotiable coupon
bonds of Sub-Drainage Dis
trict No. of Bayou NAL
let and Plaquemine Drainage Dis
trict of ST. Landry Parish, Louisiana,
to the amount of Eighty-five Thou
sand (85, 000.00C Dolalrs, to run for
period of from one a. to not ex-
ceeding forty (40) years from their
date, bearing interest at the rate of
five per centum per annum from
their date, payable semi-annually, for
the purpose of retiring the outstand-
ing bonds and constructing system
of gravity drainage in and for said
sub-drainage district, by cleaning
with dredges or otherwise the bayous,
laterals and bitches outlined in red
on the map of said sub-drainage dis
trict, thereby improving the gravity
drainage in and for said sub-drainage
district, and the inhabitants thereof;
the title to which shall vest in said
drainage district. Said bonds to be
of such denomination and the inter-
est and principal thereof to be pay
able at such time and place as shall
be determined by the said Board of
Drainage Commissioners and both
principal and interest of said bonds
to be secured and paid by sufficient
ad valorem tax levied and collected
in each year that any of said bonds
are unpaid ard outstanding, to pay
the amount Of principal and interest |
falling due in such year in accordance
with the provisions in that respect |
in the constitution and |
laws of the State of Louisiana and |
any and all amendments that may
hereafter be made thereto.
The said special election will be
held on the 1st day of December, A. |
D. 1919, between the hours of Z a. m.
and p. m.
The polling places are hereby des-
gnated as follows:
v. v. Ledoux's store, st. Landry
Parish, State of Louisiana.
The commissioners and the clerk of
he said polling places are as follows:
V. V. Ledoux's tSore, Louisiana
August Bertrand, ]. S. Lafieur, J. p.
Pitre, commissioners; George Vidrine,
clerk.
The Board of Drainage Commits
iiOners of said Drainage District
No. / of the Bayou MaHet and
Drainage District of st.
Landry Parish, State of Louisiana,
will meet in open session to be held
it 10 O'Clock a. M, on the End day of
December, A. D. 1919, at the office
# said Board, in the City of Opelou-
as, in said parish, and then and there
proceed to open the ballot boxes, ex-
mine and count the ballots in num-
Ter and amount, examine and can
ASS the returns and declare the re-
ult of the election and make, file,
publish and record a process verbal of
heir proceedings.
Dated at Opelousas, Louisiana, this
4th day of August, A. D. 1919.
T. T. ATTEBERRY,
President of Board of Commission
ers of Sub-Drainage District No. /.
l of Bayou Mallet and Plaque
mine Drainage District.
ATTEST:
J.,D. BERTRAND, JR.,
Secretary