The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-09-24
ACT NO. "a, r. s. OF 1873.


REPRESENTATIVES shall be chosen on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday In November,
every two years, and the election shall be
completed in one day. The General Assembly
shall meet on the first Monday In January,
1879, and biennally thereafter, on the first
appointed by law, and their sessions shall be
held at the seat Of government.
(Strike out article seventeenJ
NUMBER THREE.
After the year 1873 the General 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 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-
cept In case of a foreign invasion or domes-
tic insurrection, and in that event any addi-
tional taxation shall only be for the immedi-
ate purpose Of repelling invasion or suppress
Ing insurrection. The city Of New Orleans
than than one one and one-half per oentum taxation on
the actual cash value OF all the real and per-
sonal property liable to taxation within It's
limits. 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
purpose, nor shall 1t authorize any parish or
municipal corporation to issue any bond or
create any debt; proyided, that this shall not
prohibit the issue Of new bonds IN exchange
FOR 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 $4,000
per session. and actual travelling expenses by.
the nearest practicable route, not to exceed
fifty dollars $500 for any one member; pro
vSded, that If two sessions are held In the
same year they shall receive for the second
session In that year salary OF only two hun
dred and fifty dollars (S250) and actual travel
Ing expenses by the nearest praetcaole route
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-ninel
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 legitimating children, vacating roads,
streets, or alleys, remitting fines, penalties,
and forfeitures, or refunding moneys 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
any parish or municipality; granting any
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
| except by the assent of the majority of the
qualified electors Of the parish, or parishes,
to be affected; in all other cases, where a gen
eral law can be made applicable, no local OF
special law shall be passed.