St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-07
ACT NO. IA, r. s. OF 1878.
NUMBER TWO.

Representatives shall he chosen on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in S0-enbef,
every two years, and the elections shall be cotu
pleted in one day The General Assembly snail
meet on the first Monday in January. 1879, ana
h,ennaily thereafter. on the first Monday III
January, unless q different day be appointed
by law and their sessions shall he held at the
seat OF government
fS:rlkC out article SeVenteen.)
NUMBER THREE,
After the year 1878 the General Assembly
shall not have power to levy in any one year
for all State purposes more than one per ceutrln
taxation, nor shall any collection of Nor" than
one Der centum taxation he made i'll any one
wear on the actual cash value OF oil real and
personal property liable to taxation, except IN
case OF foreign invasion or don este lnsuF-
rection, and in that event any aatl elonai TAXA.
ton shall only be for the Immediate purpose nf
repeijng invasion or supprcss!nE lZls'irrert!on
The city of New Orleans shall not levy orcolect
III any one year more than one ana 9ne-haii
ner centllm taxation on the actual cash value
Of all the real aIld personal property liable 10
taxation within its limits. No parish Or mum
cipal corporation, except the city ~ New or
leans, shall levy or collect i'll any one year
more than one per cenIu,n taxation upon the
actual cash value of all the real and personal
property liable to taxation within It's llIntta
The General Assembly shall not nave power 10
issue any bond or pledge the faith OF the state
Tor any purpose. nor shall it authoriZe any
parish or municipal corporation to issue any
bond or create. any debt; Pror'ac7, that TINS
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change for old bonds, where the debt or rate OF
interest is not increased
NUMBER FOGR.
The members Of the General Assembly shall
be paid salary of five hundred dollars $500
ner SESSION. and actual travelling expenses by
fifty dollars $50 for any one melnoer; pr0cidef
that il two sessions are held in the same year
they shall receive for the second session III tnat
year a salary of only two hundred and fifty
dollars $3.50 and actual travelling expenses by
the nearest practicable route, not to exceed
fifty dollars $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.
fstrike 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 legltl-
mating children, vacating roads, streets, or
alleys, RENTING fines, penalties and forfeitures
or refunding moneys legally paid into the treas
nry affecting the estates of minors, or persons
UNDER disability, exempting property from
taxation, creating any monopoly, legallz!nS the
unauthorized or invalid acts of any officer or
agent of the State, or of any parish or munich
patty; 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 par
ishes except by the assent of the majority of
the qualified electors of the parish, or parishes
to be affected; in all other cases., where a gen.
eral law can be made applicable, no local or
special law shall be passed.
NUMBER FIVE.
The General Assembly shall not pass any
local or special law changing the venue in crini-
nal cases, changing the manner of persons leglt-
imating children, vaeatiRg roads, streets, or
alleys, remitting fines penalties, and forfeitures
or refunding moneys legally paid into the
treasury; affecting the estates of minors, or
persons under disability, exempting property
from taxation, creating any monopoly, legal
ling the unauthorized or invalid acts of any
officer or agent of the State or of any parish
or municipality granting any extra compensa-
ton to any public officer, agent or contractor,
after the service has been rendered or con-
tracted for changing any parish seat, or Great
ing new parishes, except by the assent of the
majority of the qualified 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 salary of seven
thousand dollars per annllm payable quar-
terly, ON his own warrant.
Strike out article ifty-six.1
NUMBER SEVEN.
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive salary
which shall be double that of a member of the
Strike out article fifty-seven.)
NUMBER EIGHT.
Every bill which shall have passed both
houses shall be presented to the Governor; If
he approve it, he shall sign it if he does not,
ne shall return it, with his objections to the
house in which 1t originated. which shall enter
the objections at large upon Its journal, and
Dr. .eced TO reconsider it. If, after such recon
two-tbirds of all the members pres
emit in that house shall agree to pass the bill. it
shall he sent. with the objections. to the other
house by which shall likewise be Reconstructed.
and if approved by two-thirds of the members
present Ia that house, it shall be law. But in
such cases the vote of both houses shall be de.
termined by yeas and nays, and the names of
members voting for Of against the bill shall be
entered upon the journal of each house res
pectively. III any bill shall not be returned by
the Governor within five days after it shall
have been presented TO him, it shall he a law,
in like manner as If he had signed it, unless
the Genera. Assembly, by adjournment, prevent
its return in which case, within thirty days,
the Governor shall file the same, with his OBJ
jections thereto, in the office of the Secretary
of State, and give public notice thereof; other.
wise il shal. become law, as if he had signed
it. The Secretary of state shall communicates