Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-20
Communicated.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
NO.4.

Perhaps the best Argument in favor of
the amendm ents will be tho amendments
themselves and ask of your readers
their earnest consideration of each one,
with the vote by which each was passed
by the House. The vote in tho senate
was unanimous in their favor.
Amendment one is as follows: Repre-
sentatives shall be chosen on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem-
Der every two years, and the cleo zion
shall he completed in one day. The gen.
eral assembly shall meet on the first Mon
day in January 1879 and bi-ennially
thereafter, on the first Monday in Janu-
airy unless a different day he appointed
by law and their session shall DO held at
the seat of government.
Tie vote on this amendment stood 90
yeas to 10 nays.
Is there a man in West Feliciana who
is not in favor of this amendment which
saves to the tax payers the cost of one
legislature every other years And WIZ
should we vote for constitutional con-
vention i'll order to effect this saving
which can be done at once by the passage
Ct this amendment.
Amendment t,co. After the year 1878
the general assembly shall not have pow
or to levy in any year for all state pur-
poses more than one per centnm taxation,
nor shall any collection of more than one
per centnm be made in any one gear on
the actual cash value of all real and per-
sonal property liable to taxation, except
in case of a foreign invasion or in domes-
tic instruction, and in that event any
| additional taxation shall only be for the
immediate purpose of repe1ling inva ion
or suppressing resurrection. The city of
New Orleans shall not levy or collect in
um taxation Oh actual cash value of all
real and personal property liable to tax
alton within its limits, no parish or mu-
nicipal corporation except the city of
New Orleans shall levy or collect in any
ono year more than one per centum tax
alton upon the actual cash value of all
the real and personal property liable 20
taxation within it's limits. The general
assembly shall not have the power to is
sue any bond, or pledge the faith of the
State for any purpose. nor shall it author
ize 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, when tho debt or rate of interest
is not increased. This amendment pass
ed the House by vote of lO2 yeas to
nays.
1t received almost the unanimous vote
of those present, four Republicans alone
voting against q measure which at once
controls the Legislature and prevents ex-
travigances, relieves the people from the
burden of high taxation, and prevents in
the future "a repetition of those evils
which have so long oppressed orr people.
This amendment if adopted will be the
supreme law controlling the next legisla-
turc. Then why wait for Il convention
which may not see fit TO place this amoug
the articles of the new constitution. You
do not kno,o what 4 convention will do.
You may hope and believe that they will
act wisely, but no human being can pos
sibly kHOC beforehand what sort of a
constitution will be made. Do not trust
them to a convention or wait for con-
vention. The. matter is in your own hands.
You have but to vote for this amend
mont, and the law is made which Il con.
vention would not darc repeal.
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