The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-07-19
Official Proceedings of the Police Jury
of Grant Parish.
Colfax, Louisiana, July 8, 1919.
Continued from last aUeek.

The hour of IL m. having arrived the
police jury, in accordance with previ-
Gus appointment, proceeded to open the
ballot box and canvass the returns of
the election held in Ward Six of Grant
parish on Tuesday, July 8, 1919, with
the following result:
Process Verbal of Election.
Be it known and remembered that on
this the 9th day of July, 1919, at IL
o'clock noon in accordance with an or
dinance of the Police Jury of the Par
| ishs of Grant enacted. on the 2pd at
June, 1919, notice of which was issued
and published according to law, the
undersigned members of the Police
Jury of the Parish of Grant, Louisiana.
being a quorum thereof, met in public
session at the Court House in Colfax,
Grant parish, Louisiana, opened all the
ballot boxes used in and which were re-
ceIved from the commissioner of cleo
ton held on the 9Th day of July, 1919,
| in accordance with said ordinance and
there proceeded to count the ballots,
both in number and amount, for and
against, to determine the proposition
to levy "a mills tax on all property in
Ward Six, Grant parish, Louisiana. for
five years. beginning with the year
1919 and ending with the year 1923, for
the purpose of completing the Calhoun
and O'Quin spurs in Ward Six and
maintaining them and other roads In
said ward.
| The result of said count was IA bal
] lots and Forty Thousand, two hundred
and thirty-two Dollars (S40, 232. OO) il
favor of said proposition and l ballot
and three hundred and thirty-eigh'
dollars ($338. OO against said PROPOSE
ton, and the majority in both numbers
and amount COST by the property tax
PAYERS of Ward Six, Grant Parish
Louisiana, being in favor thereof, ant
at the same time and place We did ex
anime and canvass the returns, as EVIL
denced by the duplicate tally sheets
and duplicate compiled statements, thu
correctness of the same being sworn t.
by the commissioners according to law
and finding also that said returns indi
Gated a majority in both numbers ant
amount in favor { said proposition.
Therefore we declare that the result
of the said election is in favor OF tn
proposition to levy "a mills tax on al
property in Ward Six, Grant parish
, Louisiana, for a period of five years
beginning with the year 1919 and end
ing with the year 1923, for the purpos'
of completing the Calhoun and O'Quir
spurs and maintaining them and othe
: roads in said ward.
And in accordance with law. pro
: mitigation of the aforesaid result wa
prepared and the secretary of the pc
lice Jury was ordered to have cop.
of the same signed by the president
, published in one issue of the officia
journal.
And likewise we did order that
: copy of this process verbal be sent t
, the Secretary of State of Louisiana t
be recorded in the archives of tn
State of Louisiana and copy sent t
: the recorder of mortgages of the Par
| ish of Grant and that a copy be KEEP
, in the records of the police jury.
, This done and signed in the presenc
! of H. L. Brian and R. S. Cameron
: competent witnesses and electors, q
the Court House in Grant Parish, Lou
isiana, by the undersigned members
: the police jury of said parish of Grant
present and participating in the canvas