Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14

shall it anthoize any parish or municipal
corporation to issue any bond or create
any debt; prOrided, that this shall not
prohibit the issue of any new bonds in cX-
change fer old bonds, where tho debt OF
rate OF interests not increasedt.
NUMBER FOUR.
The members of tho General Assembly
shall be paid Il salary of five hundred
dollars (SoOO) per session, and actual
travelling expenses by the nearest prac IT,
cable route, not to exceed fifty dollars
(S5O) for any one member prOridcd. that
ii two sessions are held in the same year
they shall receive for the second session
III that year salary of only two hun
dred and fifty dollars ($2IO) and actual
travelling expenses by the nearest practi-
cable route, not to exceed fifty dollars
(S5O) for any one member. The regular
biennial sess ion shall not exceed ninety
days in duration, unless hy vote of two
thirds of the members elected 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
venue i'll criminal cases, changing the
manner of persons legitimating children,
vacating roads, streets. or alleys, remit
ting fi3es, penalties, and fOrfeitures, or
retllEding moneys legally paid into the
treasury; effecting the esta .es of minors,
or persons under disability, cxelnpting
property from taxation, creating any mo-
nopolics, leSalizing 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 contract
ed for; changing any parish seat, or ere.
atlnS new parishes. except by the assent
OF the majority of the qualified electors
OF the parish, or parishes, to be affected :;
III all other cases, where 4 general law
can be made applicable, no local OF spc-
cial law shall be passed.
NUMBER SIX.
Tie Governor shall receive a salary
of seven Thousand dollars per annum;
payable quarterly, Oh his own warrant.
(Strikc out article tifty-siX.)
NUMBER SEVEN.
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive
Il salary which shall be double that of
Il member or the General Assembly.
(Strikc out article titty-seven.)
NUMBER FIGHT.
Every bill which shall have passed
both houses shall be presented to the Gov
ernor; it he approve it he shall sign it ;
ifhe does not he shall return it, with
his objections to the house in which it
originated, which shall enter tho object
ions at large upon its journal, and pro-
coed to reconsider it. IT after such re-
considerations, two. thirds of all the men,
bcrs present i'll that house shall agree to
pass the bill, it shall DO sent, with the
objections to the other house, by which
it shall likewise be recOnsiuered, and if
approved by two thirds of the members
present i'll that house, 1T shall be j. law.
But in such cases the vote of both houses
shall be determined by yeas and nays
and the names of members voting for or
against the bill shall he 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
law, in like manner us If he had signed it
unless the General Assembly, by adjourn
ment prevent its return ; i'll which case,
within thirty days, the Governor shall
in the Office of the secretary of State,
and give public notice thereof; otherwise
it shall become law, as if he had signed
it. The Secretary of State shall commu-
nicate said objections and bill as deposit
ed to the house in which it originated on
the first da of the meeting of the next
General Assembly, who shall act upon
the same as above !provided. The Gov
crnOr shall have power to veto one or
more items in any bill appropriating mon
ey embracing distinct items, while ap-
proveing other portions OF the bill, and
the part or parts Of the bill approved
shall become law, and tho items of ap-
preparation disapproved shall be void,
unless repassed according to the rules
and limitations prescribed for tho pas
sage Of other bills over the Governors
veto.
(Strike ont article siXty-siX.)
NUMBER N1NE.
No officer. whose salary is fixed by the
constitution, shall be allowed any fees or
peruuisites of office.
NUMBER TEN.
The judicial power shall be vested in Il
supreme court, district courts and in JUS
tices Of the peace. The district courts
shall have original jurisdiction in all civ
il cases where the amount i'll dispute cN-
coed one hundred dollars, exclusive of
interest. In criminal cases, and i'll all
probate matters, there jurisdiction shall
be unlimited. They shall have appellate
jurisdiction in civil suits from justices of
the peace, when the amout in dispute
exceed ten dollars, exclusive of interest.
The justices of the peace shall bo elected
by the electors of each parish in the man
ncr and with the qualifications to be de-
termincd by the General Assembly. They
shall hold office for the term OF tive years
and their compensation shall be fixed by
law. Their jurisdiction in civil cases
shall not exceed one hundred dollars, eX-
elusive of interest, subject to an appeal
to tho district court in all cases when the
amount in dispute shall exceed ten dol
lars, exclusive of interest. They shall
have such criminal jurisdiction as shall
be conferred by law. Tho General Assem-
bly, shall have power to vest in the clerks
of the district courts the right to grant
such orders and do such acts as may be
icr1nct necessary for the fI1rt hera nee of