The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-28
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
ACT NO. 70, r. s. OF 1878.
NUMBER ONE.


NUMBER ONE.
That the seat of government shall be estab
Iished 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
N their tickets, "For State Capital, Baton
Rouge" those, voting, to locate the capt. |
cal st New Orleans shall indorse on their |
tickets, "For State Capital, New Orleans"
(Strike 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 il one day. The General Assembly
shall meet on the first Monday in January,
1873, and bienna1ly thereafter, on the first
Monday in January, unless different day pc
appointed by law, and their sessions shall be
held at the seat Of government.
(Strike out article seventeenJ
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
um taxation, nor snail any coilecJlon Oh niole
than one per centum taxation be made IL any
one year, ON the actual cash value OF all real
and personal property liable to taxation, ex-
cept In case OF q foreign invasion or domes-
tic nsurreeton ana n th h f eyeh ~ any aadi
ate purpose of repelIing 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 centum taxation on
| The actual cash value Of all the real and per-
sonal 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
centum taxation upon the actual cash value
|
taxation within it's 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
create any debt; proUided, 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 $500
per session, and actual travelling expenses by
the nearest practicable route, not to exceed
fifty dollars $500 for any one member; pro-
yided that if two sessions are held in the
same year they shall receive. for the second
session in that year q salary OF only two nun
bred and fifty dollars $3.50 and actual travel
ing expenses by the nearest practicable route,
not to exceed fifty dollars $500 for any one
member. The regular biennial session shall
not exceed ninety days il duration, unless by
vote OF LWO-LnlTuS OIL tUe lleluDtlS SlcCLcu w
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 III
criminal cases, changing the manner OF per-
sons legitimating children, vacating roads,
streets, or alleys, remitting fines, penalties,
and forfetures, or refunding moneys legally.
paid into the treasury; affecting the estates Of
n ica
Ing property from taxation, creating any mo- 4: :,
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 gen
eral law can be made applicable, no local OF
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.
(Strke out article fifty-slxD
NUMBER SEVEN.
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive a
salary which shall be double that of a mem
Der OF the General Assembly.
Strike out article tifty-seven.)
NUMBER EIGHT.
y Every bill which shall have passed both
a houses shall be presented to the Governor; II
he approve it, he shall sign it; If he does not
he shall return 1t, with his Objections to the
house In which 1t originated, which shall en-
o ter the objections at large upon its journal
and proceed to reconsider it. II, after such
g reconsideration, two-thirds Of all the members
!. present in that house shall agree to pass the
; bill, it shall be sent with the objections, to the
= other house, by which it shall Likewise be re-
considered and if approved by two-thirds, o
the members present in that house, 1t shall o.
a law But in such cases the vote OF Dotf
houses shall be determined by yeas and nays
and the names of members voting fol-, o.
:, against the bill shall be entered upon tht
journal OF each house respectively. Ii any bIl
shall not be returned by the Governor within
five days after it shall have been presented t.
him, it shall be q law, in like manner as II n
had signed it, unless the General Assembly
by adjournment, prevent its return; in which
case, within thirty days, the Governor shall
file the same, with his objections thereto, Il
Il the office of the Secretary Of State, and Civ
public notice thereof; otherwise it shall be
come law, as the had signedit The Secre
tary Of State shall communicate said oOJe(
tons and bill so deposited to the house Il
which it originated On the flrst daY OF II, th
shall act upon the same as above provided
The Governor shall have power to veto one @
more items in any bill appropriating money
embracing distinct items, while approving 9th
er portions of the bill, and the part Or parts c
The bill approved shall become law, and tn
item or items of appropriations disapprove
shall be void, unless repassed according 10th
le rules and limitations prescribed for the pas
E sage Of other bills over the Governors veto.
(Strike out article sixty-six.)
u NUMBER NINE.
no officer. whose salary b fixed by th
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