Year: 1869

MAYORS OFFIcE-CITY OF SHREVEPORT, La,


May II, 1869.


IN ACCORDANCE with an Ordinance passed by the
IL Mayor and Trustees of this city, May IA, 1869, to.
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Be 1T Ordained By tile layorand Trustees oftAe city Of
Shreupo, in legal assembly conpened, That the city OF
Shreveport in pursuance of statute of the State OF
louisiana passed in the year eighteen hundred and
fty-ive providing for and empowering municipal cor
poraton to subscribe to the stock of corporations
dertaking works of internal improvement hereby sub
scrbes for eight hundred shares of the stock of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company and that, in or
der to pay the amount of said subscription, viz: The
of eighty thousand dollars there shall be, and is
hereby levied, tax of four aud onehalf per cent upon
all the real property and landed estate situated within
the corpora tie limits of the city of Shreveport said tax
to be based upon the last assessment OF said property
and estate and to be payable and coecable onelalt
within thirty and the other half within sixty days after


the ratification of this ordinance By the voters to whom
the shall be submitted hereinafter provided.


Belt fu,ther Ordained, De- That the Mayor of this
city is hereby directed to issue his proclamation sub
mitting this Ordinance to all the voters on whose
property the tax provided for in said Ordinance is
proposed to be Levied for the approval and ratification
the rejection of the by majority OF said vot-
The said proclamation, together with this ordl
nance shall be published for the period of thirty days,
in newspapers of this city, and shall state
the day and place. when and where said election shall
be held and the of holding the same. And fur
ther, the Mayor shall appoint three real property own
to hold said election and shall furnish to said Com
missoners certified list of the persons authorised to
vote. The election shall be by ballot, and the ballots
shall be written printed - For the Ordinance, or
Against the Ordinance" And further, the said Com
mssoners before they enter upon the discharge Of this
duty, shall be sworn by competent officer to conduct
said election fairly and mpartiay and at the close of
said election shall count the ballots and certify the
suit to the Mayor.


BE it fu1tlter Ordained, dc That stock thus sub
scrbed for shall not belong to be administered by
the city of Shreveport but shall belong to the
who shall have paid said tax and the tax receipt of
each taxpayer shall entitle him to certificate, trans
ferabe by delivery from the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company for amount equal to the amount Of his tax
paid.


Be it further Ordained, de- That Immediately after
the said election shall be held it shall be the duty of
the Mayor call meeting of the Board of Trustees
of this city, and to them the result of said
election, and if the shall be in favor Of the rati-
cation of said Ordinance the said Board of Trustees
shall at proceed to make the necessary provisions
proceeds thereof to the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
nor paid 10 said Company until the President of
scripton in accordance with the terms and conditions
of this ordinance and tho the stocks he subscribed
for shall be obtained or purchased by the city OF hreve
port directly from said Railroad Company.


Now therefore, l. j. 3. Gilmore Mayor of the city of
Shreveport, do Issue this, my proclamation to all
voters on whose property the tax provided for III the
foregoing ordinance is proposed to be levied, to meet
at the Court House. in this city, Friday, June Is.
1869, between the hours of 8 o'clock A. NJ, and 4
o'clock =. NJ to cast their votes oror against said tax
in accordance with the foregoing ordinance


j. B. GILMORE


my1S 1td&wtd Mayor of City of Shreveport.