The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-11-15

President
Attest:
]. ]. HEALEY,
Clerk.
Mr.. w. NJ. Rushing offered the fol
owing ordinance, duly seconded, to
Wit:
AN ORDINANCE
Whereas, an election was helC
N the 18th, Road District of thu
Fourth Police Ward of St. Landr!
Parish, State of Louisiana, on tht
oath day of June 1919, in pur
suance to IAN ordinance adopted b!
The Police Jury, on the 9th day 0.
May, 1919, notice of which wa
published according to law and
Whereas the question submitted
at said election was to determine
the proposition:
"To authorize the Police
Jury the governing authority
of Road District No. Is in
the Fourth Police Jury Ward
of the Parish of st. Landry
La, to incur debt and issue
five ~ per cent annual in
terest bearing negotiable bonds
to the amount of Thirty Nine
Thousand Dollars, ($30,000.-
COY, to run for a period of
Forty Years in said District
the denomination, time and
place of payment of said bonds
to be determined and fixed
by the Police Jury of St. Lam
drv. Parish, La, the governing
authority of said Road District
the proceeds derived from the
sale of said bonds to be used
in grading and graveling a
public road from the North
side of said Road District in
Southerly direction along the
West side of Bayou Waxia, to
Bayou Sackett, thence along
the West side of Bayou Waxia,
to Bayou Courtableau, thence
along the Bayou Courtableau
on the East side to Road Dis
trict No. 8. Work on said road
to begin where said Road Dis
trict connects with Road Dis
trict No. 9 and to continue
along the above described route
in a Northely direction through
said Road District; the bal
ance of the funds if any derived
from the sale of said bonds to
be used in constructing roads
and bridges in said Road Dis
trict. A tax each year shall be
levied and collected sufficient
to pay the interest and prln--
cipal of said bonds in said
Road District as the same be-
come due and payable, as auth
orized under the Constitution
and Laws of this State.
Whereas, said proposition W
lawfully carried at said election
shown by the process verbal of t
Police Jury canvassing the retur
of said election on the 7th, day
July, 1919; and
Whereas, the result of said elt
ton was duly promulgated on t
! 9TH day Of July, 1919, as requir
hy law, and no contest has be
filed Notwithstanding more than
DAYS have elapsed since the ds
of said PRONUNCIATION and
Whereas. the Police Jury of t
Parish of st. Landry, is recognlz
by the Constitution and Laws
this state to be the governing au
ority of said Road District; nc
therefore,
/ Be it ordained by the Police il
of the Parish of st. Landry in r
Mar and lawful session convened
Section THAT the president q
Clerk of this Police Jury shall
and are hereby authorized for g
on behalf of the 18th Road Dist1
Fourth Police Jury Ward Of
Parish of st. Landry, State
Louisiana, to incur debt to
amount of Thirty-nine Thouss
Dollars ($39,OOO.O0), and to mi
and sign serial negotiable coul
, bonds of said Road District the
, for numbered consecutively II
, One to Forty both inclusive,
! first of which shall become due
the First day of January, 1870,
the last shall mature on the F
day of January, 1859; end WI
shall bear interest at the rate
: five 90 per cent, per annum,,
able annually from date, with
terest coupons attached to e
bond; and said bonds shall not
sold for less than par.
: Section 2. That the proceeds
: said bond issue, when negoti'
i shall be deposited in the Treas
! of said Parish, and there shall
$ and remain as a trust fund to
: used only for the purpose
f which the same were raised as
% forth in the preamble hereof.
+ Section 8. That said bonds
= be of date the First day of J
i 1919, and shall begin to mature
4 the First day of Jonuary, A d.
e and shall become due and pay
70 each year thereafter until and
Guiding the First day Of Janu
g A. d. 1859, and shall be in mum
a and amounts as follows:
4 Two bonds of the denomlns
! of $500 each and Thirty-E
e bonds of the denomination OF 3
II each, and dates of maturity as
lows, to-wit:
July 1st, 1920, one bond
as July 1st, 1921, one bond