The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1878-10-19
ACT NO. "A, r. 5. OF 1873.
NVYNnEp TWO

(Strike out article one hundred and thir-
ty-one.)
ACT NO. "A, R. 5. OF 1873.
NUMBER TWO.
Representatives shall be chosen on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in No
vember, every two years, and the election
shall be completed in one day. The Gene
raj Assembly shall meet on the first Mon
day in January, 1879, and biennally there
after, on the first Monday in January, un-
less different day be appointed by law,
and their sessions shall be held at 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 col
lection of more than one per centum taxa
ton he made in any one year, on the actual
cash value of all real and personal proper
ty liable to taxation, except in case OF a
foreign invasion or a domestic insurrectiOn,
and in that event any additional taxation
shall only be for the immediate purpose of
repelling invasion or supprcssing insurrec.
ton. 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
personal property liable to taxation within
its limits. No parish or municipal corpo-
ration, except the city of New Orleans,
shall levy or collect in any one year more
than one per centam taxation upon the ac-
tual cash value OF all the real and personal
property liable to taxation within its lin
it's, The General Assembly shall not have
power to issue any bond or pledge the faith
of the State for any purpose, nor shall it
authorize any parish or municipal corpora
ton to issue any bond or create any debt !;
proriaed, that this shall not prohibit the is
sue 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 dol
lars $500 per session, and actual travelling
expenses by the nearest practicable route,
not to exceed fifty dollars (S5n) for any
one member; pr0eided. that if tw o sessions
are hel,, i'll the same year they shall ro-
ceive for the second session IN that year a
salary of only two hundred and fifty dol
lars (s250) AID actual travelling expenses
by the nearest practicable route, not to ex-
ceed fifty dollars t$50) fer any one member.
The regular biennial session shall not OK
ceed ninety days in duration. unless by
vote of two thirds OF the members to each
house of the General Assembly.
(Strike out article thirty nine.)
NUMBER FIVE
The General Assembly shall not pass
any local or special law changing the ven
ue in crimiuai cases, changing the manner
of persons legitimating children. vacatins
roads, streets, or alleys. remitting fines
penalties. and fnrfeitnres. or refundlns
moneys legally paid into the treasury; at
lrctinr the estates of minors, or persons IN
der disability, exeupting property from
taxation, creating any monopoly. legalizins
th4 unauthorized or invalid acts of any of
ficer or agent of the State, OF of any parish
or Municipality; granting any extra com
pensation to any public officer, agent o'