Hide Article Text (OCR)
..■ ri i•! SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX VOTED ! WITH 3 DISSENTING VOTESi __ _« f■ At Spec’s! Election Yesterday Voters | Approved Proposition to Augment j ; School Fund *4,000 Annually, j_UI, i, ...........Ii The progressive properly taxpayers j ! in Laredo, represented by those who ' disphsvx! sufficient. interest. 5n t.ho I public f.fhieatio’u?) institutions of the i city to go to the polls and express ! their willingness to vote a special tax j of four cnids on the SlOO valuation of } property te r.o mto a fund for the • maintenance and upkeep of the public: schools of l,ar«.do, yesterday by aj; [vote of ib irt.y three rotes for andji luiree votes against, voted the special : I school tax.1 The InTtnltlsimally small number ■ j casting dissenting votes caused noj !alarm, fcr the progressive voter cast, his vote for the school tax, and not-' wUbsirmding a small total number oti votes were east, the great majority of j them were in favor of the tax. By ap-1 proving the proposition for a special j [tax of four ccr.is on the 5J00 vaJua-; lion all taxable property in Ibis city to create a special fund to be used by t.Ir? board of school trustees for the maintenance and upkeep of the public schools of Laredo, there will be approximately $-1,000 annually ' paid to the ehy tax collector each;1 year to go to augment the school fund, j and which will he used to supplement, the prorata allowed by the state ’ school fund.I —-—we- ' —— “
Newspaper Details
Laredo Times
Laredo, Texas, US
Sun, Sep 16, 1917
Page 2
Full Page
Clipped by
Aureo V.
