The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-07-26

ACT No. 70, R. s. OF 1878.

NUMBER ONE.
That the seat of government shall be estab-
Of New Orleans, as the majority Of the Voters teri
Of the State may determine at the next ensuing
election those voting to locate the State cap
ital at Baton Rouge shall indorse on their
tickets, "For State Capital, Baton Rouge -
those voting to locate the capital at New Or.
Leans shall indorse on their tickets, "For State
Capital, New Orleans"
ACT NO. "a, r. 8. OF 1878.
NUMBER TWO.
Representatives shall be chosen on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in November,
completed in one day. The General Assembly
shall meet on the first Monday in January,
1879, aud biennally thereafter, ON the first
Monday in january, unless a different day be
appointed by law, and their sessions shalt be
held at the seat OF government.
[Strikc out article seventeen.l
NUMBER THREE.
After the year 1873 the General Assembly
shall not have power to levy in any one year
for oil State purposes more than one per cent
um taxation, nor shall any collection of more
one year, on the actual cash value of all real
and personal property liable to taxation, ex-
cept in case of a foreign invasion or domes.
tic insurrection, and in that event any addi-
tional taxation shall only be for the immedi-
ate purpose Of repelling invasion or suppress
ing 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 per-
sonal property liable to taxation within its
limits. No parish or municipal corporation,
collect in any one year more than one per
cent1n taxation upon the actual cash value
Of all the real S and persona! property liable to
t a.sa3 within it's limits. The General
bond or pledge the faith OF the State for any
purpose, 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 inter
est is not increased.
NUMBER FOUR
The members Of the General Assembly shall
/ be paid salary of five hundred dollars tS5OO)
per session, and actual travelling expenses by
| the nearest practicable route, not to exceed
vided, that if two sessions are held in the same
year they shall receive for the second session
] In that year salary Of only two hundred aud
dfty dollars (s250) and actual travelling ex-
penses by the nearest practicable route, not to
exceed fifty dollars {s50) 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 OF special law changing the venue in
criminal cases, changing the manner of per
| sons legitimating children, vacating roads
| streets, or alleys, RENTING 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 monop-
oily, legalZing 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 rem.
dered OF contracted for changing any parish
seat, or creating new parishes except by the
assent of majority of the qualified electors OF
other cases, where a general law can be made
| applicable, no local or special law shall be
passed.
The Governor shall receive salary OF seven
! thousand dollars per annum, payable quarter
| ly, on his own warrant.
| lStrike out article fifty-s
| NUMBER SEVEN.
| The Lieutenant Governor shall receive 9
salary which shall be double that of a member
| OF the General Assembly.
LStrike out article fifty seven.l
| NUMBER EIGHT.
Every bill which shall have passed boil
houses shall be presented to the Governor
he approve it, he shall sign it if he does not
he shall return it, with his objections, to thu
house in which it originated. which shall ente
the objections at large upon its journal, AMI
proceed 70 reconsider it. IT, after such recon-
sderation, two-thrds of all the mcmbe1
present in that house shall agree TO pass th,
bill, it shall be sent, with the objections,
the other house, by which il shall likewise d
re considered, and il approved by two third