Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-18
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
ACT NO. -, X. 5. OF les.
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ACT NJ. a., X. >. Of les.
NUMBER ONE.
/ That the seat of government shall be cs-
| tablshcd at the city of Baton Rouge or mt
| 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 capital at Baton Rouge
/ shall indor~e on their tickets, For state
/ Capital, Baton Rougc;" tho-e voting to To-
cate the capital at New Orleans shall in
dnrsc on their tickets. For State Capital,
New Orleans
| (Strike ont article one hundred and tbir-
ty:one.)
ACT No. -, X. 8. or l.75.
| NtMnrR TWO.
Representatives shall be chosen on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in No
| vcmhcr, every two years, and the election
shall bc completed in one day. The Gene
raj Assembly shall meet Oh the first Mon
day III January. l-79, and biennially there
after. on the first Monday in January, I'M
less n different day be appointed 10y law,
aud their sessions shall be held at the seat
of government
(Strikc out article scventccn.)
NUMBER THREE.
After the wear ls7r. the General Assem-
bly, shall not have power 10 levy in any
one year for all state purposes more than
one per Ccntum taxation, nor shall any col
lection Of more than one per centum taxa
tion be made in any one year on the actual
cash value of all real and personal property
liable to taxation, except in case of for
cign invasion, or domestic instruction,
and in that event any additional taxation
shall only be for the immediate purpose of
/ r,sn, in All ~
tion. The city of New Orleans shall not
! levy or collect in any one year moro than
| one aud onc-half per ccutum taxation on
| the actual cash value of all the real and
personal property liable to taxation within
its limits. No parish or municipal cprpor-
alton, except the city of New Orleans, shall
! levy or collect in any one wear more than
one per ccntum taxation upon the actual
cash value of all the real and personal pro-
prrty Liable tn taxation within its limits
The General Assembly shall not have power
10 issue any bond or pledge the faith of th'
State for any purpose, nor shall il authorize
any parish or municipal corporation to issu,
any bond or create any debt: pIorided, thai
this shall not prohibit the issue of new
bonds in exchange for old bonds where IN,
debit or rate of interest is not increased.
NUMRER TorR.
The members of the General AsSrmhl,
shall Ia paid "A salary OF live hundred dol
lars $500 per session and actual traNrlin.
expenses 10y the nearest practicable route
not TO exceed iittN dollars 500 for any on,
,ncmbt'r; prorided that if two tssions ar,
held IN the same wear they shall receive fu
the second session III that year salary ~
, only two Hundred and nifty dollapS s!ju
aud actual travelling expenses b, the near
r>t practicable route. not Ia exceed iii,
) dollars $50 for any one member. III,
regular biennial session shall not cNcec,
ninety day, IN duration, unless by Nut,
Of tvo-tb,r,ls of the Inriuber- elected {,
each house OF thu General Assembly.
(S;rikr ont article thirty-ninc.)
NUMBER 1--WE.
The General Assembly shall not pass an,
local or special law changing tlr Venue ii
criminal ca-rs, changing the manner of per
Sous lcgitmating children, yacating roads
streets, or alleys. RENTING fines, penalties
and tOriciturcS, or rciunding money legal
paid into the treasury; affecting the estate
oi minors, at persons under disability, ex
rmptiug property from taxation. crcatin
any monopoly, legaliIing the unauthoriLc
or Invalid acts OF any officer ur agent oi til
State, or Of any parish ar municipality
granting any extra compensation to an
plbi' biutNl, agent, UT aftt
the service has been rendered or coutracte
toI; changing any parish seat, or crcaiiu
new parishes, except 10y the assent of Ill
majority of the qualified electors of tn
parish, or parishes, 10 be- affected; III a
other cases where a general law can |,
made applicable, no local OF special Ia,
shall be passed.
NUMBER SIX.
The Governor shall receive 4 salary
t seven thousand dollars pr aunum, pay alb
, quarterly, on his own warrant.
= (Strikc out article iifty-six.)
NUMBER sEVEN.
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive
salary which shall be double that of a men
Der OF the General Assembly.
lStrlke ont article fifty -seven.)
NUMBER EIGHT.
Every hill which shall have passed bot
holtses shall be presented to the Governo
If he approve il, he shall sign it,; if be do,
not, he shall return it, with his objection
to the house in which it originated. whic
shall rater the objections at large upon il
journal, aud proceed to reconsider il.
after such recon alteration, two-t hrls of a
the members present in that house sha
agree TO pass the bill, il shall DC sent. wit
the objections, To the other housc. bywhic
!, it shall likewis. be recon ~idered, and if a,
p proved by two-thirds of the members pre-,
cnt in that house, il shall be a law Bu
III such cases the vote of both houses sh q
he determined by yeas and nays, and tn
8 names OF members voting for or against III
q bili shhh be entered upon the Journal {