Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-17

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| to Issue and bond or create any debt;
WDrided, that this shall not prohibit the
! issue OF new bonds i'll exchange for old
bonds, where the debt or rate of interest
! is not increased.
NUMBER -FOUR.
The members of the Genearl Assembly
| shall be paid a salary of five hundred
| dollars ($5O0) per session, and actual trav-
| cling expenses by the nearest practicable
| route, not to exceed fifty dollars $500 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 hundred
| and fifty dollars ($25O) and actual travel
| ing expenses by the nearest practicable
| route, not to exceed fifty dollars ($S50) for
| ANY one member. Tho regular bien-
| in duration, unless by vote of two thirds
OF the members elected to each house of
the General Assembly.
(Strikc out article thirty-one.)
NUMBER FIVE.
The General Assembly shall not pass
| any local or special law changing the
venue in criminal cases, changing the
| manner of persons legitimating children,
Vacating roads, streets, OF alleys, remit
| ting t:es, penalties and forfeitures, or
! refunding moneys legally paid into the
| nors, or persons under disability, exempt
ing property from taxation, creating any
| monopoly, legalizing tho unauthorized or
invalid acts of any officer or agent oft he
State, or of any parish OF municipality;
| granting any extra compensation to any
| public officer, agent, or contractor, after
the service has been rendered or contract
cd for; changing any parish seat, OF crea-
ting new parishes, except by the assent
OF tho maj jOrity of the qualified electors
| Of the parish, or parishes, to be effected;
in all other cases, where 4 general law
can be made applicable, no local or special
law shall bc passed.
NUMBER SIX.
The Governor shall receive IL salary of
seven thousand dollars per annum, paya-
bic quarterly, on his own warrant.
(Strikc out article iifty-six.)
NUMBER SEVEN.
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive
a salary which shall be double that of
| Il member of the General Assembly.
(Strikc out article tittyseven.)
NUMBER EIGHT.
Every bill which shall have passed
both houses shall be presented to tho
Governor; it he approve it, he shall sign
it; if lie 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-
ceed to reconsider it, after such reconsid-
! alton, two-thirds of all tho members pre-
sent i'll that house shall agree to pass tho
| bill, it shall be sent, with the objections,
| to the other house, which it shall like
wise be reconsilerod, and if approved
by two-thirds OF the members present in
that house, it shall be law. But in such
| cases the vote of both houses shall bo de-
termlncd by yeas and nays, and tho
names of members voting for or against
the bill shall DO entered upon the journ-
al 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 Il law, in
! like manner as if he had signed it, unless
prevent its return: i'll which case, with
| in thirty days, the Governor shall file the
| same With his objections thereto, i'll the
| office Of the Secretary of State, and give
public notice thereof; otherwise it shall
| become a law, as it he had signed it. The
Secretary OF State shall communicates
said objections and bill SO deposited to
the house in which it originated on the
| first day of the meeting of the next Gem
! eral Assembly, who shall act upon the
same as above provided. The Governor
| shall have power to veto ono or more
items i'll any bill approprlating money,
embracing distinct items, while approx
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part or parts of the bill approved shall be-
come law, and the item or items fappro-
| priations dis;lpprovcd shall be void, ull-
| less repasSeu according to tho rules and
limitations prescribed for the passage of
other bills over the Governors Veto
(Strlkc out article sixty -SiX.)
! NUMBER NINE.
No officer, whose salary is fixed by the
| constitution, shall be allowed any tcoS or
pcrauisitcs OF office.
NUMBER TEN.
The judicial power shall be vested in u
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 in dispute OK
ceeds one hundred dollars, exclusive OF
interest. In criminal cases, and in all
probate matters, their jurisdiction shall
be unlimited. They shall have appellate
jurisdiction, in civil suits from justices
of the peace, when the amount in dispute
exceeds ten dollars, exclusive of interest.
The justices of the peace shall be elected
by the electors OF each parish i'll the man
her and with the quail itcations to be de-
|, tcrmincd by the General Assembly. They
shall hold office for the term Of two years
and their compensation shall he fixed by
law. Their jurisdiction in civil Gases
| shall not exceed one hundred dollars, cN
| SluSiNo Va iinSASoV, StbJCSV W uil hplS'l
to the district court III al cases when th,
amount in dispute Shall exceed ten dol
lars, exclusive OF interest. They shal
have such criminal jurisdiction as shall
be cOnioIrcd by law. Tho General AS.
sembly shall have power to vest iii the
clerks of tho district courts the right tt
grant orders and dc such acts as may b,
deemed necessary for tho turthcrancc o
, the administration of justice. III all cas-
es the power thus granted shall be sNcci
, fed and determined.
: (Striko out articles scvcnty-thrcc
eighty-iive, cightysiN, eightyseveu
} cighty-cight, cighty-ninc, ninety ant