The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-12-27

Mr.. Bourque offered the ordinance
which is in words and figures as fol
lows:
AN ORDINANCE
Ordering and calling special cleo
ton in the Bellevue and Coulee
Croche Drainage District of the
Parish of st. Landry, State of
Louisiana, for the purpose of
submitting to the qualified prop
erty taxpayers of said Drainage
District a proposition to incur
debt and issue and sell serial
negotiable coupon bonds of said
Drainage District in the sum of
seventy thousand ($70,000.00)
dollars, as hereinafter stipulated
for the purpose of constructing
a system of gravity drainage in
and for said Drainage District,
by cleaning with dredges or
otherwise the bayous, laterals
and gulleys hereinafter named
and outlined in red on the map
of the said Drainage District.
SECTION |.
Be it ordained by the Board of
Drainage Commissioners of the Belle
vue and Coulee Croche Drainage Dis
trict of the Parish of St. Landry,
State of Louisiana, that it is advisa-
BILE and expedient to incur indebted
ness in said Drainage District to the
amount and for the purpose herein
after mentioned.
SECTION ii.
Be it further ordained, that spe-
cial election be and the same is here
by duly called and ordered to be held
in the Bellevue and Coulee Croche
Drainage District of the Parish of st.
Landry, State of Louisiana, on We'd
nesday, the 4th day of February, A.
! D. 1920, between the hours of Z a.
m. and p, III.
SECTION Ill.
| Be it further ordained, ETC., that at
/ said special election there will be
submitted to the taxpaying electors
qualified to vote under the constitu-
ton and laws of the State Of Louis
lana, a proposition to incur debt, is
/ sue and sell serial negotiable cOu-
pom bonds Of the Bellevue and CQg-
lee Croche Drainage District of the
Parish of st. Landry, State Of Lou
isiana, to the amount Of seventy
thousand (S70,000.00) dollars, to
run for a period of from one ID to
not exceeding thirty 800 years from
their date, bearing interest at the
rate of five per centum per annum
from their date, payable semi-an-
nually, for the purpose of construct
ing a system of gravity drainage in
and for said Drainage District by
cleaning with dredges or otherwise
the bayous, laterals and gulleys as
follows:
Coulee Croche lateral, Lavergne
lateral, Mills lateral, Bourque later
al, Wilson lateral, Cook lateral, Bur
leigh lateral and the Bayou Bour-
beux a sufficient distance to give
proper outlet to the water of said
laterals. Leger and Meche laterals,
Mcbride lateral and Bayou WykOff
to the connection with the Bayou
Plaquemine and Wykoff Drainage
District of the Parish of Acadia,
State of Louisiana; also to clean
with dredges or otherwise the Pine
Grove guiiey, the Joe Miller gulley
and the Rubbitt and Cormier gulley
/ sufficient distance to give proper
outlet for the waters of said gullews,
and thereby improving the gravity
drainage in and far said Drainage
District and the inhabitants thereof,
the title to which shall vest in said
Drainage District; all of which ba,
yous, laterals and gulleys are named
and outlined in red on the map OF
the district made by F. S. Roberts,
civil engineer, Opelousas, La, bear
ing date of December 10, 1919. The
amount of said bonds being less than
ten per cent 40 per cent? of the as