The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-24
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
ACT NO. rs, r. S. OF 1878.

ACl NV 10 W. ~ vi 1910
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
ON their tickets, "For State Capital, Baton
Rouge;" those voting to locate the CAPT
cal at New Orleans shall indorse on their
tickets, "For State Capital, New Orleans"
Strike out article one hundred and thirty
onel
ACT NO. IA, r. S. OF 1873.
NUMBER TWO.
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
Monday in January, unless q different day be
appointed by law, and their sessions shall be
held at the seat OF government.
(Strike out article seventeen)
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.
UNI taxation, nor shall aDyollection 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 add
tional taxation shall only be for the immedi-
ate purpose of repelling 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
of all the real and personal property liable to
taxation within IFS limits The General
Assembly shall not have power to issue any
purpose, nor shall il authorize any parish OF
municipal corporation to issue any bond OF
create any debt; provided, that this shall not
prohibit the issue of new bonds in exchange
for cid bonds, where the debt or rate OF inter
est lis not increased
NUMBER FOUR.
The members of the General Assembly shall
be paid q salary of five hundred dollars $500
Ter session and actual travelling expenses by
the nearest practicable route, not to exceed
fifty dollars $500 for any one member; pro
aided that II two sessions are held in the
same year they shall receive for the second
session in that year a salary of only two hun
dred and fifty dollars (S250l and actual travel
ing expenses by the nearest practicable route
not to exceed fifty dollars $500 for any ont
member The regular biennial session shall
not exceed ninety days In duration, unless bJ
vote of two-thirds of the members elected tx
each house OF the Conoral Assembly,
(Strike out article thirty-nine0
NUMBER FIVE.
The General Assembly shall not pass any
local or, special law changing tne venue 81 eo Il
SONS legitimating children, yacatlng roads
streets, or alleys, remitting fines, penalties
and forfetures, or refunding moneys legal!
paid into the treasury; affecting the estates o
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
any parish or municipality; granting an!
extra compensation to any public officer
agent, or contractor, after the service ha
been rendered or contracted for; changing
any parish seat, or creating new parishes
qualified electors of the parish, or parishes
to be affected; in all other cases, where gen
eral law can be made applicable, no local 0
special law shall be passed.
NUMBER SIX.
The Governor shall receive salary of seve
thousand dollars per annum, payable quar-
terly, on his own warrant.
(Strike out article 6fty-six.)
NUMBER SEVEN.
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive
salary which shall be double that OF a men
Der of the General Assembly.
Strike out article tifty-seven)
NUMBER EIGHT.
Every bill which shall have passed bot
houses shall be presented to the Governor;
he approveit he shall sign it; II he does mo-
be shall return it, with his objections, to, tn
house In which 1t originated, which shall eI
ter the objections at large upon its Journa
and proceed to reconsider 1t. IT. after sue
reconsideration, two-thirds ofall the member
present In that house shall agree to pass tn
bin, 1t shall be sent, with the objections, to tn
other house, by which it shall likewise be II
considered, and If approved by two-thirds {
the members present in that house, 1t shall 2
law, But in such cases the vote OF Dot
houses shall be determined by yeas and nays
and the names of members voting for Q
against the bill shall be entered upon tn
journal OF each house respectively. Ii any bi
shall not be returned by the Governor With
five days after it shall have been presented
him, it shall be law, in Like manner as II b
had signed it, unless the General Assembl!
by adjournment prevent its return; in Whlc
case within thirty days, the Governor sha
file the same, with his objections thereto,
the Office OF the Secretary of State, and CIV
public notice thereof; otherwise it shall bt
come law, as ifhe had signed it. The Secr'
tary of State shall communicate said obJet
tons and bill so deposited to the house !
which it originated on the first day OF tt
meeting of the next General Assembly, VIII
shall act upon the same as above provided
THE Governor shall have power to veto one {
more items in any bill appropriating none,
embracing distinct items, while approving OIL
er portions of the bill, and the part or parts
The bill approved shall become law, and til
item or items of appropriations disapprove
shall be void, unless repaSSed according OIL
rules and limitations prescribed Tor the pa!
sage Of other bills over the Governors veto.
Strike out article sixty-sixJ
NUMBER NINE.
No officer, whose salary is fixed by tt