The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-08-24
NUMBER THREE.

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um taxation, nor shall any collec
tion of more than one per centun
taxation be made in any one year
on the actual cash value of all rea
and personal property liable tt
taxation, except in case of a for
eign invasion or a domestic insur
rection, and in that event any ad
ditional taxation shall only be fo
the immediate purpose of repellins
invasion or suppressing insurrec
ton. The city Of New Orlean
shall not levy or collect in any ont
year more than one and onehal
per centum taxation on the actua
cash value Of all The real and per
sonal property liable to taxation
within its limits. No parish OF
municipal corporation, except the
city of New Orleans, shall levy OF
collect in any one year more thar
one per centum taxation upon the
actual cash value of all the rea
and personal property liable tc
taxation within its limits. The
General Assembly shall not have
power to issue any bond or pledge
the faith of the state for any pur
pose, nor shall it authorize any
parish Or municipal corporation to
issue any bond Or create any debt
proUided that this shall not pro
hibit the issue of new bonds
in exchange for old bonds, where
the debt or rate of interest is not
increased.
NUMBER THREE.
The members of the General As.
sembly shall be paid salary Of
FIVE hundred dollars $500 per
session, and actual travelling ex-
peuses by the nearest practicable
ronte, not to exceed fifty dollars
$50 for any one member prori.
ded. that If two sessions are held
in the same year they shall receive
for the second session in that year
a salary of only two hundred 4 fifty
dollars $3.50 and actual travel
ing expenses by the nearest practi-
cable route, not to exceed fifty dol
lars $3.50 for any one member
The regular biennial session shall
not exceed ninety days in duration,
unless by vote Of two, thirds of the
members elected to each house of
the General Assembly.
(Strike out article thirty-nine.)
NUMBER FIVE.
The General Assembly shall not
pass any local or special law
changing the venue in criminal
cases. changing the manner of per-
sons legitimating children, vaca.
ting roads, streets, or alleys, re-
fines, penalties, and for
FIXTURES, or rel'unding moneys lie.
gally paid into the treasury !;
the estates Of minors, or
persons under disability, exempt
ing property from taxation, crea-
ting any monopoly, legalizing the
or invalid acts of any
officer Or agent Of the Sta te, or of
any parish or municipality grant
ing any extra compensation to any
public officer, agent, or contractor,
after the service has been render
ed or contracted for; changing
any parish seat, or creating new
parishes, except by the assent Of
the majority Of the qualified cleo
tors of the parish, or parishes, to
be affected in all other cases,
where a general law can be made
no local OR special law
shall be passed.
NUMBER SIX.
The Governor shall receive a
salary of seven thousand dollars
per annum, payable quarterly, on
his own warrant.
Strike out article fifty-six.)
NUMBER SEVEN.
The Lieutenant Governor shall
receive salary which shall be
double that Of a member Of the
General Assembly.
(Strike out article fifty-seven.
NUMBER EIGHT.
Every bill which shall have
passed both houses shall be pre-
sented to the Governor if he ap-
prove it, he shall sign it; il he
does not. he shall return it, with
his objections, to the house in
which it originated, which shall
enter the objections at large upon
its journal, and proceed to recon.
slider it. If, after such reconsider.
ton, two.thirds Of all the members