The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-10-22
No. s5.] JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing to amend the Constitution OF tn
State.

Proposing to amend the Constitution OF TIT
State. a
SECTION /. Be 1t resotred By che .Senat.
| and House of Representatives of the State o.
Louisiana, in General assembly con0ened
/ That at the General election next ensuing the
passage OF this resolution, the following arti
Gle shall be proposed to the qualified electors
of the State as an amendment to the eonstitu
ton Of the State, which, when approved and
ratified by a majority of the voters at said
election, shall become a part Of the c~onstitu'
ton, in the place of the article numbered
ninety-nine. .a.. ..-
SEC. 3. BE 1t further resoteed, etc That
said article shall be in words and terms as
follows, to-wit:
No person shall hold any Office, OF shall be
permitted to vote at any election, or to act as
Juror, who, in due course of law, shall have
been convicted Of treason. perjury, forgery,
bribery, or other crime punishable by impris-
onnent in the pen~itentiary, Or who shall be
under Introduction.
SEC. 3. Be it further resolved. etc., That
the tickets of all persons voting upon this
proposed amendment shall nave written or
printed thereon the words, "For the amend
ment of the ninety-ninth article of the consti-
tuition - or, Against the amendment of the
ninety-ninth article Of the constitutional and
the returning officers shall make retnrns of
votes thereon in the same manner as is pres
cribed by law for returns of election, and the
Secretary Of State shall promulgate the result
by publication three several times in the Off
cial journal. 81 .~ -l p,
And if a majority of the votes cast at sail
election shall be, g For the amendment of the
ninety-ninth article of the constitution then
the article numbered ninety. nine, and reading
as follows: II
"sARTrCI.E 90. The following persons shall
be prohibited from voting or holding any of
fee: All persons who shall have been convic-
ted of treason. perjury, forgery, bribery. Or
other crime punishable in the penitentiary,
and persons under Introduction. All persons
who are estopped from claiming the right of
suffrage, by abjuring their allegiance to the
United States Government, or by VIGOROUSLY
war against it, or adhering to its enc
mics, giving them aid or comfort, but who
have not expatriated themselves, nor have
been CONVICTED Of any of the crimes mention
ed in the first paragraph of this article, are
hereby restored to the said right, except the
following: Those who held Office, civil or
military, for one year or more, under the
organization styled the Confederate States of:
: these who registered themselves as
of the United States. those who act
ed as leaders of guerrilla bands during the
late rebellion , those who, in the advocacy of
treason, wrote or Published newspaper arti-
Giles OF preached sermons during the late re-
and those who voted for and signed
an ordinance Of secession In any State. No
person included in these exceptions shall
vote or hold Office until he shall have
relieved himself by voluntarily writing and
a certificate setting forth that he ac-
the late rebellion TO have been
and politically wrong and that he
Is any aid and comfort he may have giv-.
en- it; and be shall lille the certificate in the
be published in the official journal; ProUtded,
That no person who, prior to the first day Of;
January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
favored the execution of.the laws of the Uni
led States, popularity known as the Recon-
s~tJnction Acts of Congress, and openly and
assisted the loyal men of the State ia
heir efforts to restore Louisiana to her posi-
lion in the Union, shall be held to be included
among those herein excepted. Registrars Of
voters shall take the oath Of any such person
Is pr5naG facis evidence of the fact that he is
to the benefit. of this proYiso.' shall
De stricken from the Constitution, and be null
and void, and the article herein above. set
forth and proposed as an amendment, shall be
/ part of the constitution. and shall be pub
ished in all official copies of the same, in
place of the article n~inety-Dine, so stricken
,ut and declared null and void.
(Signed1 ~ MORTIMER CARR,
Sneaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) OSCAR j.. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor and President of
he Senate.
Approved February 10. 1870.
4 {Signed) H.. G. WARMOTH,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy: "
4 GEO. z. BovEE,
Secretary of State.