New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-19

Baton Rouge;" those voting 70 ;,ocate IN
capital at New Orleans shsgl. indorsa on
their tickets, "FOr stats cSpital, New Or
leans" = 7.0'~.' :.
(strike out article one hundred and
thirty7one.) .... M
! ACT NO. "A, R. s. OF 1873.
NUMBER TWO.
Representatives shall be chosen on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in
| Novenber, 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 biennAlly
| thereafter, on the first Monday in jane
airy, unless different day bs appointed
| by Law, and their sessions shall be held al
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 coll
lection of more than one per eentum 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 q
| foreign invasion or a domestic insurrec-
ton, and in that event any additional tax
alton shall only be for the immediate pur-
pose of repellinR invasion or suppressing
instruction. The city Of New Orleans
shall not levy or collect in any one year
more than one and one-hsh 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-
niefpal 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 put-
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 ($500) per session, and actual travel
ing expenses by the nearest practicable
route, not to exceed fifty dollars ($50) for
any one member; provided, that if two ses-
sionG are held in the same year they shall
receive for the second session in that year
salary of only two hundrea and fifty dol
lars ($250) and actual travelling expenses
by the nearest practicable route, not to ex-
coed fifty dollars ($50) for any one men,
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.
NUMBER 1--WE
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, renting
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
eaxation, 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
or contractor, after the service has been
AOA0OASA Va SOAsAhObO0 AOk CAhHkluk 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 q
general law can be made applicable, no
local or special law shall be passed.
NUMBER SIX.
The Governor shall recsive q salary of
seven thousand dollars per annum, pay
able quarterly on his own warrant.
(Strike out article ifty-six.)
NUNmER SEVEN.
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive
q salary which shall be double that of o
member Of the General Assembly.
(Strike out article hfty-seven.)
HUMBER H16Hr.
Every bill which shall have PASSED both
house shall be presented to the Governor;
il he approves it, hsashsll sign it; If he
does not, he shall return it with his OBJ
jeetso0s, to the house in which II origin
ated, which shall enter the objections at
large upon its journal and proceed TO re-
consider it. II, after sach reconsid Iteration,
two4hirds Of all the members present IN
that house shall agree 10 pass the bill, IT.
shah be sent with the objections, TO the
other house, by which it,shAl likewise be
leeoAsidered, and il approved by two
thirds Of the members present 10 that
house, it shall bega law Bat in such
easss the vote Of both houses shall be de-
teEnined by yees and nays, and the
nAmes Of the members voting for or
egainst the bill shall be entered upon the
jouTnRi Of each house reepactiVely.y II
any bill shall not be rseurned By the Gov
eFnor within eve days aftSF, Il shall have
besn pwss1tsd TO him, il shAli be Law,
IA Like manneg as If he had GgHed II, IN
less the General Assembly, by adjourn
msnt, prevent its return; in which case,
within thirty days, the GoyEnOF shall hle
NE same, with Ms objections ihssete, in,
Che enice Of the Secretary Of Saate.s aAd,
give pubiic notice tAeEeof; otb@wiss II sapll
bsonme q law, ~ II he hAd Ggned Il. The
Sacretaly OF State shall eemmuuieate said
objeetions sad bill 60 deposia&d 70 the
hoase in which n origiaated On che first
aay Of the meeting Of Vie, next GsneBAl
Aesnbly, who shall cot upon he same
@5 esoye provided. The Governor shall
havs powsE 20 yeto one OF more items in
cay bill apUo ting money, embracing
disisaat itez1sl while aPpEoying cthsF poE,
tiens q tie bill, and the part Or paris Of
~ bill approved shall become law and
ne shaEa q items of appropEiaticns dis
aRpreyud shall be void, uRlsas repassed
assgrd ma 10 She rulns aAd hmitA ITEMS p9e-
euribeds for tAe paeaAgp 81 Oeh@ bus over
- 9uysEAeEs veto sd baasTiseiar
OstEike est @tiOlo sixty-six.)
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