New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-04
mo. IS.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to amend
the Constitution of the State.

JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to amend
the Constitution of the State.
SECTION I. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
That at the general election next ensuing
the passage OF this resolution, the following
article shall be proposed to the qualified
electors Of the State as an amendment to
the constitution of the State, which, when
approved and ratified by majority Of the
voters at said election, shall become part
of the constitution, in the place Of the arti-
Gle numbered ninety -nine.
SEC g. Be it further resolved. etc, That
said article shall be III 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, per-
Jury, forgery bribery or other crime punish
able by Imprisonment in the Penitentiary,
or who shall he under Introduction.
SEC. 3. Be it further resolved, ETC., That
the tickets of all persons voting upon this
proposed amendment shall have written or
printed thereon the words, "FOr the
amendment of the ninety ninth article OF
the constitutions" or, Against the amend
ment of the ninety ninth article of the con
stitution;" and the returning officers shall
make returns of the votes thereon in the
sc ne manner as is prescribed by law for re-
turns of election, and the Secretary of State
shall promulgate the result by publication
three several times in the official journal.
And if majority of the votes cast at said
election shall be, "FOr the amendment OF
the ninety ninth article of the constitution"
then the article numbered ninety-nine, and
reading as follows:
article 90 The following persons shall be
prohibited from voting or holding any office:
All persons who shall have been convicted
of treason. perjury, forgery, bribery or
other crime punishable in TIE 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
enemies, giving them aid or comfort. but
who have not expatriated themselves nor
have been convicted of any Of the crimes
mentioned 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 acted as leaders of guerrilla
bands during the late rebellion; those who, in
the advocacy of treason, wrote or published
newspaper articles or preached sermons dur
ing the late rebellion 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 relieved himself by vol
unfairly writing and signing certificate
setting forth that he acknowledges the late
rebellion to have been morally and pOliti-
cally wrong and that he regrets any aid
and comfort he may have given it: and he
shall file the certificate in the office of the
Secretary of State, aud it shall be published
in the official journal; provided, that no per-
son who, prior to the first of January, eighteen
hundred and sixty-eight, favored the exc
cution of the laws of the United States,
popularity known as the reconstruction acts
OfCongress, and openly and actively assisted
the loyal men of the State III their efforts to
restore Louisiana to her position in the
Union, shall be held to be included among
those herein excepted. Registrars OF
voters shall take the oath of any such per-
son as prima tacie evidence of the fact that
he is entitled to the benefit of this
proviso." shall be stricken from the
constitution, and be null and void, and the
article herein above set forth and proposed
as an amendment, shall be a part of the
constitution, and shall be published in all
official copies of the same, in place OF the
article ninety-nine. SO stricken out and de-
c4ared null and void.
(Signed) MORTIMER CARR,
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.
(Signed) OSCAR J. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor and President Of the
Senate.
Approved February 10, 1870.
(Signed) H. Z. WARMOIh,
Governor of the State Of Louisiana.
A true copy:
GEO. K. BOvEE,
Secretary Of State.