The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-10-25
PRESIDENT PROCLAMATION

And Notice of Special Election.
the Board of Commissioners Of
Sub Drainage District No. l 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 Ordl-
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 De
| held in said Sub-Drainage District
| No. / of said Bayou Mallet and
Plaauemine 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 SUBJ Drainage District
to the amount of Eighty-five Thou
sand 1886, O00OO) Dollars for the
purpose of paying and retiring the
outstanding bonds in said Sub-Drain
age District, aggregating in all Eight
Thousand 8,000.00) Dollars, to re
tire the acreage tax of 10 cents pei
acre and construct system of gray
ity drainage in and for said Drainage
District.
The propositions to the electors al
said special election is substantial!
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, 000.0O) Dolalrs, to run TO
period of from one "a to not ex
ceeding forty (40) years from thei
date, bearing interest at the rate o
: five per centum per annum fror
their date, payable semi-annually, TO
the purpose of retiring the outstand
ing bonds and constructing a system
of gravity drainage in and for sal
sub-drainage district, by cleaning
with dredges or otherwise the bayous
laterals and bitches outlined in re
on the map of said sub-drainage dis
trict, thereby improving the gravit
drainage in and for said sub-drainag
district, and the inhabitants thereof
the title to which shall vest in sal
drainage district. Said bonds to
of such denomination and the intel
est and principal thereof to be pay
able at such time and place as sha
be determined by the said Board o
Drainage Commissioners and bot
principal and interest of said bond
to be secured and paid by sufficier
ad valorem tax levied and collecte
in each year that any of said bond
are unpaid and outstanding, to pa
the amount of principal and interes
falling due in such year in accordanc
: with the provisions in that respeC
I contained in the constitution an
laws of the State of Louisiana an
, any and all amendments that ma
hereafter be made thereto.
). The said special election will
held on the 1st day of December, A
D. 1919, between the hours of z a. n
and p. m.
The polling places are hereby de,
4 ignated as follows:
v. v. Ledoux's store, st. Landr
: Parish, State of Louisiana.
The commissioners and the clerk c
the said polling places are as follows
e v. v. Ledoux's tSore, Louisiana
S August Bertrand, J. S. Lafleur, ].
q Pitre, commissioners ;George Vidrin
clerk
The Board of Drainage Commi
i sioners of said Drainage Distri,
4 No. / of the Bayou Mallet an
PlaoGemine Drainage District of S
e Landry Parish, State of Louisian
will meet in open session to be hel
D at 10 o'clock a. M, on the End day {
December, A. D. 1919, at the offiC
of Sid Board, in the City of 0pelol
: sas, in said parish, and then and thel
proceed to open the ballot boxes, e.
anime and count the ballots in nun
/. Der and amount, examine and cal
vass the returns and declare the n
Y suit of the election and make, fill
I publish and record a process verbal {
their proceedings.
Dated at OpelOusas, Louisiana, tn
: 14th day of August, A. d. 1919.
!, 7. T. ATTEBERRY,
( President of Board of Commission
ers of Sub-Drainage District NJ
l of Bayou Mallet and Plaque
mine Drainage District.
ATTEST:
]. D. BERTRAND, JR.,