The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-07
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
ACT NO. 70, r.. s. OF 1878.
NUMBER ONE.
That the seat of government shall be estab-
sished at the city of Baton Rouge or at the
city OF New Orleans, as the majority. OF the
voters of the State may determine at the next
ensuing election; those voting to locate the
State Gspi ct Ba9n s KoHge sha Rsan
Rouge;" those voting to locate the capl-
Col at New Orleans shall indorse on their
tickets, "For State Capital, New Orleans"
lstrike out article one hundred and thirty
~ ACT NO. IA, r. s. OF 1878.
NUMBER TWO.
REPRESENTATIVES, shall be chosen on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday In November,
every two years, and the election shall pc
completed Ia one day. The General Assembly
1879, and biennally thereafter, on the first
Monday in January, unless different day be
appointed by law, and their sessions shall be
held at the seat Of government.
lStrike out article seventeen1
NUMBER THREE.
After the year 1878 the General Assembly
shall not have power to levy in any one year
for all State purposes more than one per cent
am taxation, nor shall any collection Of more
than one per centum taxation be made In any
one year, on the actual cash value of all real
and personal property liable to taxation, ex-
eept In case Of q foreign invasion or domes-
tic insurrection, and In that event any add-
tlonal 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 centrum taxation on
The actual cash value of all the real and per-
sonalF property liable to taxation within its
limits. No parish or municipal corporation,
except the city of New Orleans, shall levy or
collect In any one year more than one per
oentum 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
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
Tor 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 ($500)
per session, and actual travelling expenses by
Che nearest practicable route, not to exceed
fifty dollars $500 for any one member; pro-
vaded that ii two sessions are held In the
same year they shall receive for the second
session In that year q salary of only two hun
tred and fifty dollars ($250) and actual travel
ing expenses by the nearest practicable route,
not to exceed fifty dollars $3.50 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.l
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 legtimating children, vacatng roads,
streets, or alleys, remitting fines, penalties,
and forfeitures, or refunding IN oneys legally
paid into the treasury; affecting the estates Of
minors, or persons under disability, exempt
ing property from taxation, creating any mo-
nopoly, legalizing the unauthorized or invalid
acts Of any officer or agent OF the State, or of
extra compensation to any public officer,
agent, or contractor, after the service has
been rendered or contracted for; changing
any parish seat, or creating new parishes,
qualified electors of the parish, or parishes,
to be affected; in all other cases, where gen
eral 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 per annum. payable quar-
terly, on his own warrant.
lStrlke out article fifty-six)
NUMBER SEVEN.
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salary which shall be double that of mem
Der Of the General Assembly.
tStrike out article fifty -seven.)
NUMBER EIGHT.
Every bill which shall have passed both
houses shall be presented to the Governor; If
he approve It, he shall sign it; IL he does not,
he shall return it, with his objections, to the
ter the objections at large upon its journal,
and proceed to reconsider it, Il, after such
reconsideration, two-thifds of all the members
present In that house shall agree to pass the
bill, 1t shall be SENT with the objections, to the
other house, by which it shall likewise be re-
considered, and If approved by two-thirds of
the members present In that house, 1t shallbe
8 law. But in such cases the vote Of both
houses shall be determlnedby yeas and nays,
and the names of members voting for or
against the bill shall be entered upon the
Journal Of each house respectively. If any bill
shall not be returned by the Governor within
FIVE days after it shall have been presented to
him, it shall be a Law, In like manner as if he
had signed it, unless the General Assembly,
by adjournment, prevent Its retlrn; in which
case, within thirty days. the Governor shall
the office Of the Secretary Of State, and give
public notice thereof otherwise 1t shall be-
come q law, as 1.-The had signed it. The Secre-
tary of State shall communicate said obJec
tons and bill SO deposited to the house in
which it originated on the first day OF the
meeting of the next General Assembly, who
shall act upon the same as above provided.
The Governor shall have power to veto one or
&nore items In any bill appropriating money,
egYortions of the bill, and the part or parts OF
the bill approved shall become law, and the
Item or items of appropriations disapproved
shall be void, unless repassed according to the
rules and limitations prescribed for the pas
sage Of ether bills over the Governors veto.
(strike out article sixty-sixJ
NUMBER NINE
No officer, whose salary Is fixed by the