The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-09-26

a manner and form that the people may vote
for or against each amendment, separately,
and if majority of the votes at said election
shall approve and ratify all or either of said
WILL. A. STRONG,
- Secretary of State.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
ACT NO. rs, r.. 5. OF 1878.
NUMBER ONE.
That the seat of government shall be estab-
lished 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 ensu-
ing elections those voting to locate the State
capital 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"
(Strike out article one hundred and thirty
one.)
ACT NO. "A, 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 be COM
peted in one day. The General Assembly shall
| meet on the first Monday in January, 1873, and
| biennally thereafter, on the first Monday in
January, unless a 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 Assembly
| shall not have power to levy in any one year
| for all State purposes more than one per centum
| 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, except in
case of foreign invasion or a domestic insur-
rection, and in that event any additional taxa
| ton shall only be for the immediate purpose of
| repelling invasion or suppressing instruction.
| The city of New Orleans shall not levy or col
lect 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 liza
BILE to taxation within its limlis. No parish or
| municipal corporation, except the city 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 purp Ose. nor shall it authorize any par
ish or municipal corporation to issue any bond
prohibit the issue of new bonds in exchange fol-
old bonds, where the debt or rate of INTEREST," 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
the nearest practical route, not to exceed fifty
dollars $500 for any one member; provided
| that if two sessions are held in the same veal
that they shall receive for the second session in
that year salary of only two hundred and
fifty dollars $3.50 and actual travelling ex
penses by the nearest practicable route, not tt
exceed fifty dollars $500 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 o.
the General Assembly.
Strike out article thirty-nine)
| NUMBER FIVE.
The General Assembly shall not pass any
local or special law changing the venue il
criminal cases, changing the manner of persons
legitimating Children vacating roads, streets
or alleys, remitting fines, penalties, and for
FIXTURES, or refunding moneys legally paid int
the treasury; affecting the estates Of minors, o.
persons under disability, exempting propert,
from taxation, creating any monopoly, legaliz
ing the unauthorized or invalid acts Of any off
Ger or agent of the State, or of any parish o.
municipality; granting any extra compensation
to any public officer, agent, or contractor, afte
for; changing any parish seat, or creating new
parishes, except by the assent of the majorit,
of the qualified electors of the parish. or par
ishes, to be affected; in all other cases, wher
general law can be made applicable, no loca
or special law shall be passed.
NUMBER SIX.
i The Governor shall receive salary of sevel
| Thousand dollars per annum, payable quarter
ly, on his own warrant.
Strike out article fifty-six.)
NUMBER SEVEN.
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive sal
airy which shall be double that of a member o
the General Assembly.
J Strike out article fiftyseven.)
NUMBER EIGHT.
Every bill which shall have passed bot
Houses shall be presented to the Governor
he approve it, he shall sign it if he does hot
he shall return it, with his objections, to tn
House in which it originated, which shall ente
the objections at large upon its Journal AM
proceed to reconsider it. If, after such recon
sideration, two-thirds of all the memb rs pres
emit in that House shall agree to pass the bill,
shall b. sent, with the objections, to the othe
house, by which 1t shall likewise be reconsid
cred, and if approved by two-thirds of tn
. members present in that house, it shall be
law. But in such cases the vote of both house
shall be determined by yeas and nays, and tn
names of members voting for or against tn
bill shall be entered upon the journal of eac
house respectively. If any bill shall not b
returned by the Governor within five days a,
ter it shall have been presented to him, it sha
be law, in like manner as if he had signed il