Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-21

shall it authorize any parish or municipal
corporation to isue amy bond or create
any debt; prOrided. that this shall not
prohibit the issue of new bonds in OK
change for old bonds, where the debt or
rate Of interest is not increased.
NUMBER FOUR.
The members of the General Assembly
shall be paid u salary of five hundred
dollars (SoOO) per session, and actual
travelling expenses by the nearest practi-
cable route, not to exceed fifty dollars
($5O) for any one member prOrided, that
if two sessions are held in the same year
they shall receive for the second session
in that year IL salary of only two hun,
dred and fifty dollars ($25O) and actual
travelling expenses by the nearest practl-
cable route, not to exceed fifty dollars
($5O) for any one member. The regular
biennial sessions shall not axceed 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-nine.)
NUMBER FIVE.
The General Assembly shall not pass
any local OF special law changing tte
venue in criminal cases, changing the
manner Of person legitimating children,
vacating roads, streets, or alleys, remit
ting fines, penalties, and forfeiturcs, or
refunding moneys legally paid into the
treasury etfecting the estates of minors,
or persons under disability, eNemrting
property from taxation, creating any mo
nopolieS, legallZng 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 Gre
ating new parishes, except by the assent
of the ma jOlty Of the qualified electors
of the parish, or parishes, to be affected
can be made applicable, no local or spe-
cial law shall be passed.
EUMDR SIX.
of seven Thousand dollars per annum.
payable quarterly, on his own warrant.
(Strihe out article fifty-six.)
NUMBER SEVEN.
TIE Lieutenant Governor shall receive
q salary which shall be double that of Il
member of the General Assembly.
(Strike out article tifty-seven0
NUMBER EIGHT.
Every bill which shall have passed
| both houses shallbe presented to the Gov
ernor if he approve it he shall sign 1T ;
| if he does not he shall return it, with
| his objections. to the house in which it
! originated, which shall enter the object
! ions at large upon its journal, and pro,
| cced to reconsider it. If after such re-
| considerations, two thirds of all the mem
bers present in thai house shall agree to
pass the bill, it shall be sent, with the
objections to the other house, by which
it shall likewise be reconsidered, and ii
approved by two-thrds of the members
| present in that house, it shall be a law
| But in such cases the vote of both houses
| shall be determined by yeas and nays
| and the names of members voting tor OF
against the bill shall be entered rpon the
journal of each house respectively. i
any bill shall not be returned by 1ht
| Governor within five days after it sfa
| have been presented to him, it shall De ;
| law, in like manner as it he had signed 1T
unless the General Assembly, by adjourn
| ment prevent its return in W1;ch case
within thirty days, the Governor shal
in the office of the Secretary of State
and give public notice thereof; otherwls
it shall become a law, as if he had signe'
it. The Secretary Of State shall commu
nicate said objections and bill so deposi
cd to the house in which it originated OF
the first day Of the meeting OF the mex
General Assembly, who shall act upo'
| Tno same us H"oNc plo'i AAS Wv
ernor shall have power to veto one
more items in any bill appropriatinG mon
cy, embracing distinct TENS while aq
proving other portions of the bill, an
the part or parts Of the bill approves
shall become law, and tho items OF ar
proprlutiun disarproved shall be volt
unless rcpuSseu according to the rule
and linn tations prescribed for the pas
sage of other bills over the Governor
veto.
(Stvi!lc out article siNty-siND
NUMBER NINE.
No officer, whose salary is fixed by til
constitution, shall be allowed any fees {
pcru uisitcs of Office.
HUMBEIs TEN.
The judicial power shall be vested in
supreme cDnrt district courts, and III JI
tices of the peace. The district con
shall have original jurisdiction in all cl'
il cases where the amount in dispute e!
cccdS one hundred dollars, exclusive
interest. In criminal cases, Il Il in a
probate matters, their jurisdiction sha
be unlimited They shall have appella
jurisdiction, in civil suits from justices
the peace, when the amount in dlSpu
0 exceeds ten dollars, exclusive OF intcres
i The justices of the peace shall be elect.
: bv the electors of each parish i'll the ma
e uer and with the qualifications to be q
L termned by the General Assembly. Ih'
shall hold Office for the term of two ye;tl
> aud there compensation shall be fixed
law. There jurisdiction in civil cas-
L shall not exceed one hundred dollars. c
elusive of interest, subject to an appe
to the district court in all cases when t
amont in dispute shall exceed ten d'
lars exclusive of interest. They sh'
j.. have such criminal jurisdiction as sh
y be conferred by law. The General ASse
!. bly, shall have power to vest III the cler
) of the district courts the right to Gra
=, such orders and d" such acts as may
70 deemed necessary for tho turlherance
u Af III II irn In all ca!