The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-07-30
10. e5.1 JOINT RESOLUTION

4No. Cc.t CoAAS SdoOA 4Ao4f
Proposing to amend the Constitution of the
State.
SECTION l. Be 1t resoLred by the Senate
and House of Representatives. of the State OF
Louisiana, IN General assembly concerned,
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 ~constitu.
ton of the State, which, when approved and
ratified by a majority of the voters at said
election, shall become a part of the ~constitu.
ton, in the place of the article numbered
~ninety-nine.
Sec. 9. Be 1t further resolued, etc., That
said article shall be in words and terms as
follows, to-wit:
No person shall hold any Office, or 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-
onment in the penitentiary, or who shall be
under Introduction.
SEC. 3. Be 1t further resolved, etc., That
the tickets of all persons voting Ilpon this
proposed amendment shall have written or
printed thereon the words, "For the amend
ment of the ninety-ninth article of the consti-
tuition - OF, Against the amendment of the
~ninety-ninth article of the constitution" and
the returning officers shall make returns 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.
And if a majority of the votes cast at sail
election shall be, "For the amendment of the
nlnety.ninth article of the constitution then
the article numbered ninety-nine, and reading
as follows:
"ARTTcLE SO. The following persons shall
be prohibited from voting or holding any Of
fee: All persons who shall have been cenvic-
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
levying war against it, or adhering to its ene-
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
America : those who registered themselves as
enemies of the United States. those who act
ed as leaders Of guerrilla bands during the
late rebellion those who, in the advocacy of
wrote or published newspaper arti-
cles OIL preached sermons during the late re-
bellion, and those who voted for and signed
an ordinance of secession in any State. No
person included in these exceptions shall
either vote or hold Office until he shall have
signing a certificate setting forth that he &C.
knowledges the late rebellion to have been
and politically wrong, and that he
any aid and comfort he may have Civ
it; and he shall file the certificate in the
office of the Secretary of State, and it shall
be published in the official journal; Provided,
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 |
ed States, popularity known as the Recon-
s~trnctien Acts of Congress, and openly and
assisted the loyal men Of the State in
heir efforts to restore Louisiana to her posi-
Jon in the Union, shall be held to- be included
among those herein excepted. Registrars of
IS prinG ffacie evidence of the fact that he is
to the benefit Of this proviso,'' shall
stricken from the Constitution, and be null
md void and the article herein above set
'orfh and proposed as an amendment, shall be
! part of the constitutions. and shall be pub
ished in all official copies Of the same, in
,lace of the article ninetY-nine, so stricken
,ut and declared null and void.
(Signed) MORTIMER CARR,
Speaker of the House of REPRESENTATIVES.
(Signed) OSCAR J. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor and President of
Senate.
Approved February NO, 1870.
(Signed) FL. G. WARMOTH,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
GEO. E. BovEE,
Secretary Of State.