St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1878-11-02

uctual CASH NdluG VI HI EStkl anu
property liable to taxation, except in case
of u foreign invasion or a domestic insur-
rection, and in that event any additional
taxation shall only be for the immediate
purpose of repelling invasion or sup
pressing insurrection. The city of New
Orleans shall not levy or collect in any
one year more than one and one-half per
centum ON the actual cash value of all
the real AMI personal property liable to
taxation within its limits. No parish or
municipal corporation except the city OF
New Orleans, shall levy or collect in an
one year more than one per centum tax
! alton 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 purpose, nor shall 1t authorize
any parish or municipal corporation to
| issue any bond or create any debt; no
| cidod, 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 a salary Of five hundred
/ dollars per session, and actual travelling
| expenses by the nearest practicable route,
not to exceed fifty dollars for any one
member; prorided, that if two sessions
are held in the same year they shall re-
ceive for the second session Of that year
IL salary of only two hundred ami fifty
| dollars and actual travelling expenses by
the nearest practicable route, not to ex-
, coed fifty dollars for any one member.
The regular biennial session shall not ex-
coed 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-ninc.)
NUMBER FIVE.
The General Assembly shall not pass
any local or special law changing the
venue in criminal cases, changing the
manner of persons lesitimatins children.
vacating roads, streets or alleys remit
ting fines penalties and forfeitures, or
refnnding moneys legally paid into the
treasury; affecting the estates of minors
or persons under disability, eXempting
property from taxation, creating any
monopoly, legalizing 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 con-
| tracted for; changing fny parish seat, or
creating new parishes, except by the as
sent OF the majority of the qualified cleo
! tors of the parish, or parishes, to DE
affected; IN all other cases, where gen.
eral law can be applicable, 10 local or
sps ;ial law shall be passed.
NUMBER SIX.
The Governor shall receive O. salary of
seven thousand dollars per annum, pay
able quarterly. on his own warrant.
| (Strike out article fifty-six.)
NUMBER SEVEN.
The. Lieutenant, Governor shall receive
! n salary which shall be double that OF
member of the General Assembly.
(Strike out article fity-seyen.)
NUMBER EIGHT.
Every bill which shall have passed both
houses shall De presented to the Cover
nor; if he approve it he shall sign it: If
he does no: he shall return 1t, with his
objections, to the house il which it orig
! mated, which shall enter the objections
Mt large upon its journal, and proceed to
reconsider it. Ii, after such reconsider
alton. two-thir Is of all the members pre-
sent in that house shall agree to pass the
hill. it shall be sent, with the objections,
| to the other house, by which it shall like
wise be reconsidered, and if approved by
two-thirds of the members present III
that house, it shall be n law. But in such
cases the vote of both houses shall be de-
termined by yeas md nays, and the
names of 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 Governor
within five days after it shall have been
presented to him, it shall be law, IN
fiFe mar. er as if he had signed 1t, unless
the General Assembly, by adjournment,
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 1t shall
become a law, as if he had signed 1t.
The Secretary of State shall communi-
cate said objections and bill so deposited
to the house in which 1t originated on the
first day of the meeting of the next Cen
eral Assembly, who shall act upon the
the same as above provided. The Gov
ernor shall have power to veto one or
items in any bill appropriating money,
embracing distinct items, wniie approx
ing other portions of the bill, and the
part o. parts of the bill approved shall
become a law, and the item or items OF
appropriations disapproved shall be void,
unless repassed according to the rules
AMI limitations prescribed for the passage
of other bills over the Governors veto.
(Strike out article eighty-slx.)