New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-05
CONSTITUTIONAL AnBNDnENTs.
ACT NO. 70, B. s. OF 1873.
NUMBER ONE.


NUMBER ONE.
That the seat of governm emit shall be es-
tablished at the city Of Baton Rouge or at
the city of New Orleans, as the majority of
the voters of the State may determine at the
next ensuing election those voting to locate
the State capital at Baton Rouge shall in
dorse on their tickets, ''For State Capital,
Baton Rouge" those voting to locate the
capital at New Orleans shall indorse on
their tickets, "For State Capital, New Or
leans"
(Strike out article one hundred and
thirty-one.)
ACT NO. IA, R. s. OF 1873.
NUMBER TWO.
Representatives shall be chosen on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November, every two years, and the cleo
ton shall be completed in one day. The
General Assembly shall meet on the first
Monday in January, 1879, and bienually
thereafter, on the first Monday in Janu-
airy, unless a different day be appointed
the seat of government.
(Strike out article seventeen.)
NUMBER THREE.
After the year 1878 the General Assem-
bly, shall not have power to levy in any
one year for all State purposes more than
one per centum taxation, nor shall any col
lection of more than one per centum taxa
ton be made in any one year, on the actual
cash value of all real and personal proper
ty liable to taxation, except in case of a
foreign invasion or a domestic insurrec-
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alton shall only be for the Immediate pur-
pose of repelling invasion or supervising
instruction. The city of New Orleans
shall not levy or collect in any one year
more than one and one-half per centum
taxation on the actual cash value of all the
real and personal property liable to taxa
ton within its limits. No parish or mu-
nicipal corporation, except the city of New
Orleans, shall levy or collect in any one
year more than one per centum taxation
upon the actual cash value of all the real
and personal property liable to 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; provided, that this
shall not prohibit the issue of new bonds
in exchange for old bonds, where the debt
or rate of interest is not increased.
NUMBER FOUR.
The members of the General Assembly
shall be paid salary of five hundred dol
lars (S500) per session, and actual travel
ing expenses by the nearest practicable
route, not to exceed fifty dollars (S50) for
any one member; provided, thatif two ses-
sions are held in the same year they shall
receive for the second session in that year
a salary of only two hundred and fifty dol
lars (S250) and actual travelling expenses
by the nearest practicable route, not to ex-
coed fifty dollars (S50) for any one mem
Der. 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 AS
sembly.
(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 persons legitimating children,
vacating roads, streets, or alleys, remitting
fines, penalties, and forfeitures, or refund
ing moneys legally paid into the treasury;
affecting the estates of minors, or persons
under disability, exempting property from
taxation, creating any monopoly, legaliz-
ing the unauthorized or invalid acts of
any officer or agent of the State, or OF any
parish or municipality; granting any extra
compensation to any public officer, agent,
or contractor, after the service has been
rendered or contracted for; changing any
parish seat or creating new parishes, ex-
cept by assent of the majority of the quail
fed electors of the parish or parishes, to
be affected; in all other cases, where
general law can be made applicable, no
local or special law shall be passed.
NUMBER SIX.
The Governor shall receive q salary of
seven thousand dollars per aDnum, pay
able quarterly on his own warrant
(Strike out article tifty-six.)
NUMBER SEVEN.
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive
q salary which shall be double that of o
member of the General Assembly.
(Strike out article fifty-seven.)
NUMBER EIGHT
Every bill which shall have PASSED both
house shall be presented to the Governor;
if he approves it, he shall sign it; if he
does not, he shall return it with his OBJ
jections, to the house in which it origin
ated, which shall enter the objections at
large upon its journal, and proceed to re-
consider it. II, after such reconsideration,
two-thirds Of all the members present in
that house shall agree to pass the bill, il
shall be sent with the objections, to the
other house, by which it shall likewise be
reconsidered, and if approved by two
thirds Of the members present in that
house, it shall be a law. But in such
cases the vote of both houses shall be de-
termined by yeas and nays, and the
names of the members voting for or
against the bill shall be entered upon the
journal Of each house respectively. If
any bill shall not be returned by the Gov
ernor within Eve days after it shall have
been presented 10 him, it shall be law,
in like manner as if he had signed it, un-
less the General Assembly, by adjourn
ment, prevent its return; in which case,
within thirty days, the Governor shall file
the same, with his objections thereto, in
the Office Of the Secretary Of State, and
give public notice thereof; otherwise II shall
become law, as IL he had signed It. The
Secretary Of State shall communicate said
objections and bill so deposited TO the
house in which it originated on the Arst
day Of the meeting OF the nsxt General
Assembly, who shall act upon the same
Is aboge provided. The Governor shall
have power 10 veto one or more items in
any bill appropriating money, embracing
distinct items, while approving other poF-