The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-08-03

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Assembly shall not have power to
levy in any one year for all State
purposes more than one per cent
um taxation, nor shall any coliec-
tion of more then one per centum
taxation be made in any one year:
on the actual cash value Of all real
and personal property liable TO
taxa ton, except in case Of a for
eign invasion or domestic insur-
rection, and in that event any ad-
ditional taxation shall only be for
the immediate purpose ofrepeiling
invasion Or suppressing insnrrec-
tioa. 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, except the
tcity 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;
fprogided that this shall not pro
hibit the Issue of new bonds,
in exchange for old bonds, where
the debt or rate of interest is not
increased.
/ NUMBER THREE.
The members OF the General As
sembly shall be paid a salary Of
five hundred dollars $500 per
session, and actual travelling ex-
penses by the nearest practicable
f route, not to exceed fifty dollars
, $500 for any one member prori-
, ded. that il two sessions are held
: in the same year they shall receive
for the second session in that year
, salary of only two hundred & fifty
dollars $3.50 and actual travel
i, ing expenses by the nearest practi-
cable route, not to exceed fifty dol
, lars $50 for any one member
The regular biennial session shall
, not exceed ninety days in duration,
unless !y vote Of two-thlrds of the
: members elected to each house Of
the Geaeral Assembly.
;. 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 per-
sons legitimaling children, vaca-
ting roads, streets, or alleys, re-
hitting fines, penalties, and for
FIXTURES, or relunding moneys le-
! gally paid into the treasury !;
affecting the estates of minors, Or
persons under disability, exempt
, ing property from taxation, crea-
ting any monopoly, Iegalizing the
unauthorized Or invalid acts of any
officer Or agent of the State, or of
any parish or municipality grant
ing any extra compensation to any
public officer, agent, or contractor,
after the service has been render
ed or contracted for; changing
any parish seat, Or creating new
parishes, except by the assent of
f the majority Of the qualified cleo
f tors of the parish, Or parishes, to
f be affected ; in all other cases,
where a general law can be made
/: applicable, no local or special law
!, shall be passed.
NUMBER SIX.
; The Governor shall receive a
: salary Of seven thousand dollars
i, per annum, payable quarterly, on
p his own warrant.
/, Strike out article fifty-six.)
NUMBER SEVEN.
! The Lieutenant Governor shall
receive salary which shall be
double that Of a member of the
General Assembly.
(Strike out article ffty-scven.
+ NUMBER EIGHT.
, Every bill which shall have
. passed both houses shall be pre-
!. sented to the Governor if he APP
, prove it, he shall sign t; if he
does not. he shall return it, with
: his objections, to the house in
, which it originated. which shall
enter the objections at large upon
+ its journal, and proceed to recon
slider it. If, after such reconsider
tion two thirds Of all the members