New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-10-23

ton will be held in the Belle Place Drain
age District, Parish of Iberia, State of
Louisiana, on Wednesday, the 18th day
of November, 1920, for the purpose Of
taking the sense of property taxpayers
resident citizens of said District, qualified
under the Constitution and Laws of the
| State of Louisiana to vote at said cleo
ton, on the following propositions, 20
wit:
! Proposition No. l. To authorize the
| Board of Commissioners of the Belle
| Place Drainage District, Parish of Iberia,
| State of Louisiana, acting as the gov
erning authority of the Belle Place Drain
age District, to impose and collect for a
period of Twenty Four ga years a
forced contribution or acreage tax of
Fifty (50) Cents per acre per year on
each and every acre of land within the
Belle Place Drainage District for the pur-
pose of establishing and maintaining
gravity drainage in said Drainage Dis
trict, in accordance with the provisions
of Article 281 of the Constitution of the
State and laws of Louisiana.
Proposition No. 2. To authorize the
Board of Commissioners of the Bells
Place Drainage District, Parish of iberia,
State Of Louisiana, acting as the gov
erning authority of the Belle Place Drain
age District, to incur debt on behalf of
and in the name of the Belle Place Drain
age District, Parish of Iberia, State of
Louisiana, in the amount of Fifty Five
Thousand ($55,00o.0o) Dollars, and to
issue and sell serial negotiable semi-an-
nual interest bearing coupon bonds evil
dencing the said Indebtedness, said bonds
to bear interest at the rate of five per
centum IS p. CD per annum, payable
semi-annually; said bonds to run Tween
ty Four ga years from date thereof,
and both the principal and interest OF
said bonds to be secured by forced con-
tribution or acreage tax hereinabove pro-
vided for, the proceeds from the sale of
said bonds, at not less than ninety pa
cent go p. CO. of par, to be used for the
purpose of establishing and maintaining
gravity drainage within and for the
Belle Place Drainage District, Parish of
iberia, State of Louisiana.
For the purpose of holding the said
election, the polling places will be as
follows:
At the Dairy Barn, on Dallas Planta-
ton (Edgewood) within the Belle Place
Drainage District, Parish of Iberia, State
of Louisiana.
At the said election, the polling places
will be open at Seven GOO o'clock A.
M and will close at Five 5000 o'clock
p NJ.
Notice is also hereby given that at Ten
10000 o'clock A. M. on Friday, the
18th day of November, 1920, the Board
of Commissioners of the Belle Place
Drainage District will meet at the DOM
icile of said Board in New Iberia, Louis |
lana, and in open session, proceed to
open the ballot boxes used at the said |
special election, examine and count the |
ballots in number and amount, examine
and canvass the returns and declare the |
result thereof of said election.
(Signed) JOHN E. SCHWING,
President. |
State of Louisiana, Parish of iberia
I, the undersigned Secretary of the
Board of Commissioners of the Belle |
Place Drainage District of the Parish OF
Iberia, State of Louisiana, do hereby GER
tify that the above and foregoing is a
true and correct copy of the notice of
election of special election to be held
in the Belle Place Drainage District,
Parish of Iberia, State of Louisiana, as
issued by the President of said Board,
on "Wednesday, the 18th day of Novem
Der, 1920. That said notice was issued
as of date October z, 1920, pursuant TO
an ordinance adopted by the Board Of
of the Belle Place Drain
age District at special meeting of the
said Board held at New Iberia, Louisi-
ana, on October 7th, 1920. ius
In faith whereof, I have hereunto set
my official signature authenticated with
the impress of the official seal of said
Board at New iberia, Louisiana, on this
the 7th day of October, 1920.
(Signe0 PAUL BASSIN,
r 4 a19 Secretary.
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