The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-09-10
Ntn s5.I JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing to amend the Constitution OF the
State,

Nos s5.I JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing to amend the Constitution OF the
State.
SECTION +. BE It yesojcsd By che Senate
and House Of Representatives. Of the state Of
louisiana, in General assembly conUsned,
Ehas at the General election next ensuing the
massage 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 majority of the voters at said
election, shall become a part of the eonstitu-
ton, in the place of the article Numbered
ninety-nine.
See. Q. be it further resoloed, etc That
said article shall be in words and terms as
follows, te-wit:
No person shall hold any Office or shall be
permitted to vote at any election, or to act as
Juror, whe, 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. 8. Be It further sesolued. etc., That
the tickets Of all persons voting upon this
proposed amendment shah have written or
printed thereon the words, "For the amend
ment of the ~ninety-ninth article of the eonsti-
tuition y or, Against the amendment of the
nfnety-ninth article OF the constitution !" and
the returning officers shall make returns of
votes thereon in the same mamie as is pres
eribed 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, q For the amendment of the
n,nety-ninth article ofthe constitution then
the article numbered ninety-nin and reading
as follows:
ARTICLE SO. 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 10 the
United States Government, or BY VIGOROUSLY
Ievying 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
hlUC1sGd y bHuoC Wub lGEtStClCN tAiS1lSClvCS DIS
enemies 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 OF. published newspaper arti-
cles o. preached sermons during the late re-
bellion and those who voted for and signed
an ordinance of secession in any State. No
person included ia these exceptions shall
either vote or hold office until he shall have
relieved himself by voluntarily writing and
signing a certificate setting forth that he ac-
knowledges the late rebellion to have been
morally and politically wrong and that he
is any aid and comfort he May have Civ
en- 1t; 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
ted States, popularity known as the Recon
struction Acts of Congress, and openly and
actively assisted the loyal men of the State in
their efforts to restore Louisiana to. her posi-
ton in she Union, shall be held to be included
among those herein excepted. Registrars Of
voters shall take the oath Of any such person
as grsnaa facie evpdence of the fact that he is
entitled to the benefit of this provisc," 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 pub
lished in all official copies Of tie same, in
place of the article ~ninety-nine, so stricken
out and declared mil and void.
lSienedJ MORTIMER CARR,
Sneaker Of the House Of Representatives.
N (SignedJ OSCAR j.. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor and President of
the Senate.