The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-01-03
MEM AND LEVYING OF AN
ACR AGE TAX OR FORCED
HC0NTRIRITTION

8FCCNTRlBUILON
(b) t. levy and collect an acreage
tax or freed contribution of sixteen
TIC cents) cents per acre per afnum
upon each and every acre of land sub
ject to state taxation, situated within
the said Bayou Boeuf and Waxia
Drainage District, Parish Of st. Ian
dry, State of Louisiana, for period
of thirty-fiye $3.50 years, for the pur-
pose of providing and creating sys-
tenn of gravity drainage in and for
said drainage district and the mainte-
nance and improvement thereof.
FOR THE FUNDING OF THE
AVAILS OF SAID ACREAGE
TAX INTO BONDS
(c) To incur debt in the sum of one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
150,0O0.00), and to issue and sell
serial negotiable semi-annual interest
bearing coupon bonds of the said
Bayou Boeuf and Waxia Drainage
District to represent same. Said
debt to be secured and paid by the
avails of the aforesaid acreage tax or
forced contribution of sixteen ZIG
centsl cents per acre per annum.
Submitted in the proposition for
the assessment and levying of an
acreage tax or forced contribution as
hereinafter set forth and to be voted
upon by the taxpaying electors of
said Bayou Boeuf and Waxia Drain
age District of the Parish of St. Lam
dry, State of Louisiana, qualified to
vote under the constitution and laws
of the State of Louisiana and to rep
resent the funding of the avails of the
said taxes into bonds, to run for pc
riod of from one to not exceeding
thirty-five $3.50 years from their date
and bearing five per cent 6 per
cent? per .annum interest from their
date, payable semi-annually, said
bonds to be of such denomination
and both the principal and the inter
est thereof to be payabM at such time
and place as shall be Ssermined by
the said board of drainage commits
sioners, the proceeds of said bonds to
be used for the purpose Of providing
and creating a system OF gravity
drainage in and for the said drainage
district by cleaning with dredges or
otherwise the Bayou Waxia, Cow ba-
you, Little Bayou Waxia and the lat
erals and bitches connected with said
bayous, as outlined in red on the map
of said district, and the maintenance
and improvement thereof, as herein
before stated, and the inhabitants
thereof, the title to which shall vest
in said drainage district.
Section BE it further ordained,
etc., that notice of said special cleo
ton be duly published for thirty 500
days prior to the date of said election,
according to law, in the Progress,
the official journal of the Parish of
st. Landry, State of Louisiana, a
newspaper of general circulation
therein; the notice of the election to
embrace substantially all things set
forth herein, and to further state
that the said board of drainage COM
missioners will meet in open session
at the office Of the said board in the
City of Opelousas, Parish of st. Lam
dry, State of Louisiana, at 10 o'clock
a. m, on the 18th day of January,
1920, and then and there proceed to
open the ballot box, examine and
count the ballots in numbers and
amount, examine and canvass the re-
turns and declare the result of such
election and make, file, publish and
record a process verbal of their pro-
ceedings
Section Be it further ordained,
ETC., that the proposition to be sub
mitted at said special election shall
be as follows and the ballots to be
used shall be in the following form;
BALLOT
For the Issuance of Bonds
Proposition to incur debt -
and issue and sell serial eou-
pom bonds of the Bayou
Boeuf and Waxia Drainage
District. Parish of st. Lam
dry, State Of Louisiana, to
the amount of two hundred
thousand dollars $500, 000.-
000), to run for period Of YES
from one to not exceeding
thirty-five 1857 years
from their date and bearing
interest st the rate Of five
per cent 6 per cent? per
annum payable semi-annual-
~, for the purpose of provid- -
ing and creating a system of
gravity drainage in and for
said drainage district, by
cleaning with dredges or
otherwise the Bayou Waxia,
Cow bayou, Little Waxia,
and the laterals and bitches
connected with said bayous, NO
as outlined in red on the map
of said district and the main
tenanee and improvements
thereof and the inhabitants
thereof, the title to which
shall vest in said drainage
district. --l
Taxable valuation