The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-05-08
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Landry parish, Louisiana, with full
authority to act with the state high
way department of louisiana, in let
ting of contracts and construction OF
said road:
Messrs. ]. E. Hicks, R. C. Andrews,
E. V. Hudspeth, Ben Baker and K. 1.
Catlett.
Motion carried.
Mr.. w. NJ. Rushing offered the fol-
lowing ordinance, duly seconded, to-
wit:
AN ORDINANCE
To amend Section and Paragraph
2 of Section s of an ordinance
of the Police Jury of the Parish
of St. Landry, adopted Decem-
Der 8, 1908, entitled Gan Ordi-
nance relative to Constructing,
maintaining and repairing roads
and highways, and providing a
revenue therefor and the man
ner of enforcing payment of the
same"
Be it ordained by the Police Jury of
the Parish of st. Landry in regular
session convened, That Section 5 of
| the ordinance of the Police Jury,
adopted on December 8, 1908, and
being an ordinance relative to con-
struction and repairing of pEblic
roads and providing a revenue there
for, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:
Section 5-Be it further ordained,
etc., that to make the purposes of
this ordinance effective and in pur-
suance to Article pol of the consti-
tuition of the State, there is hereby
levied an annual per capita tax of one
dollar ($1.OO) on all able-bodied
male inhabitants of the parish be-
tween I8 and SO years of age not
residing within the territorial limits
of its incorporated municipalities
Nhich maintain their own streets, and
an annual license tax of five dollars
on all log wagons or wagons used or
that may be used in the hauling OF
lumber in logs, from one point in the
parish to another; five dollars on all
motor trucks used for commercial
or business purposes; $3.50 dollars
on all automobiles; one dollar on all
wagons, cane carts and other
similar vehicles; seventy-five cents
on all hacks, surries, buggies
and other similar vehicles; fiji
ty cents on all gigs, one-horse
carts, bicycles and other similar We
hicles, kept and used for locomotion
on the public roads. of the parish.
Provided, that the vehicle tax shall
apply to the inhabitants of the incor-
porated municipalities as we'll asto
those of rural districts when their We
hicles are used for locomotion on the
public roads of the parish. In addi-
dition to said per capita and license
tax, not less than One-half mill of the
regular annual parish ad valorem tax
shall be set aside for road purposes
under this ordinance.
That Paragraph 2 of Section of
said ordinance be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:
A penalty of ten dollars is hereby
imposed for the use of any vehicle
subject to the payment of avehiele
tax as heerin provided, on any of
the public roads of the parish, after
said tax shall have become delin-
.quent without having the proper tin
tag thereto attached as. herein pro-
vided; one-haf of said penalty to be
credited when collected to the road
fund of the parish, and one-hah there
of to be paid over to the officer
making said seizure.
Yeas-Messrs. Larcade, Pitre,
Mills, Cummings, Pavy, Greig, Cat
lett, Rushing, Martin, Sylvestre, De-
jean, and Mccoy.
Nays-None.
Motion carried.
Adopted May 8, 1920.
F. OCTAVE PAVY,
President.
J. J. HEALEY, Clerk.
Mr.. F. P. Martin offered the fol-
lowing ordinance, duly seconded, to-
wit:
AN ORDINANCE
Levying a special tax for the payment
of bonds and interest authorized
and issued by virtue of the au-
thority vested in the Police Jury,
in the various road districts of
the parish, wherein special road |
elections were held and bonds au-
thorized issued.
Be it ordained by the Police Jury
of the Parish of st. Landry in lawful
session convened, that the following
tax on all the taxable property is
hereby levied in the various road dis
tricts of the parish of st. Landry, as
hereinafter mentioned, for the year
1920, to-wit:
In Road District No. IL of the
Parish of st. Landry, a tax Cf three
49, mills on the dollar is hereby lev
led for the purpose of paying the |
bonds and interest of said road dis
brict as same natures.
In the First Sub-Road District of |
The Second Police Jury Ward of the
Parish of st. Landry, a tax of one
% mill on the dollar is hereby levied /
for the purpose of paying the bonds |
and interest of said road district as
same natures.
In the Twelfth Road District of the
Second Police Jury Ward of the Par
sh of st. Landry, a tax of five i5l
mills on the dollar is hereby levied for
The purpose of paying the bonds and
of said road district as same
natures.
In the Ninth Road District of the
Fourth Police Jury Ward of the Par
sh of st. Landry, a tax of five (5)
Mills on the dollar is hereby levied
Tor the purpose of paying the bonds
md interest of said road district, as
'ame natures.
In the Tenth Road District of the
Fourth Police Jury Ward of the Par
sh of st. Landry, tax of four (4)
Mills on the dollar is hereby levied
,or the purpose of paying the bonds
md interest of said road district, as