New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-12
CONsTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTy.
ACT NO. 70, R. S. OF 1878,

the city of New Orleans, IS the majority Of
the voters OF the State may determine ct the
next ensuing election those voting 10 locate
the State capital at Baton Rouge shall in
dorse on their tickets, ''FoF State Capital,
Baton Rouge" those voting to locate the
capital at New Orleans shall indorse on
their tickets, ''For State Capital, New Or
leans"
(Striks out article one hundred and
thirty-one.)
ACT NO. "a, R. s. OF 1873
NUMBER TWO.
Representatives shall be chosen ON the
first Tuesday after the FIRST Monday in
November, every two yeurs, and the cleo
ton 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 Janu-
airy, unless 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 Assem-
bly, shall not have power to levy in any
one year for all State purposes more than
one per centum taxation, nor shall any col
lection of more than one per centum taxa
ton be made in any one year, on the actual
cash value of all real and personal proper
ty liable to taxation, except in case of q
foreign invasion or domestic insurrec-
ton, and in that event any additional tax
alton shall only be for the Immediate pur-
pose Of repelling invasion or suppressing
instruction. The city of New Orleans
shall not levy or collect in any one year
more than one and one-haH per centum
taxation on the actual cash value Of all the
real and personal property liable to taxa
ton within its limits. No parish or mu-
nicipsl corporation, except the city Of New
Orleans, shall levy or collect in any one
year more than one per centnm taxation
upon the actual cash value of all the real
and personal property liable to taxation
within its limits. The General Assembly
shall not have power to issue any bond or
pledge the faith of the State for any pur-
pose, nor shall it authorize any parish or
municipal corporation to issue any bond
or create any debt; provided, that this
shall not prohibit the issue of new bonds
in exchange for old bonds, where the debt
or rate of interest is not increased.
NUhBEh FOUh.
The members of the General Assembly
shall be paid salary of five hundred dol
lars ($500) per session, and actual travel
ing expenses by the nearest practicable
route, not to exceed fifty dollars ($50) for
any one member; provided, that if two ses-
sions are held in the same year they shall
receive for the second session in that year
q salary of only two hundred and fifty dol
lars ($250) and actual travelling expenses
by the nearest practicable route, not to ex-
coed fifty dollars (S50) for any one mem
Der. The regular biennial session shall
not exceed ninety days in duration, unless
by vote of two-thirds of the members
elected to each house of the General AS
sembly.
Strike out article thirty .nine.)
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, or alleys, RENTING
fines, penalties and forfeitures, or refund
ing moneys legally paid into the treasury;
affecting the estates of minors, or persons
under disability, exempting property from
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ing the unauthorized or invalid acts of
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, ex-
cept by assent of the majority of the quail
fed electors of the parish or parishes to
be affected; in all other cases, where Q
general law can be made applicable, no
local or special law shall be passed.
NUMBER SIX.
The Governor shall receive salary of
seven thousand dollars per annum, pay
able quarterly on his own warrant.
Strike out article ffty-six.)
NUMBER SEVEN
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive
q salary which shall be double that of q
member of the General Assembly.
(Strike out article ffty-seven.)
NUMBER EIaHr.
Every bill which shall have PASSED both
house shall be presented to the Governor;
if he approves it, he shall sign it; if he
does not, he shall return it with his OBJ
jections, to the house in which it origin
ated, which shall enter the objections ct
large upon its journal, and proceed. to re-
consider it. II, after such 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
reconsidered, and il 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 be de-
termined by yeas and nays, and the
names OF the members voting for or
against the bill shall be entered upon the
journal of each house respectively. II
any bill shall not be returned by the Gov
ernor within five days after 1t shall have
been presented to him, it shall be q law,
in like manner as il he had signed il, I'M
less the General Assembly, by adjourn
ment, prevent its return; In which case,
within thirty days, the Governor shall fle
the same, with bis objections thereto, in
the office Of the Secretary Of State, and
give public notice thereof; Otherwise 1t shall
become law, as If he had signedit. The
Secretary Of State shall communists said
objections and bill 80 deposited TO the
house in which it originated on the hIsl
day of the meeting OF the next General
Assembly, who shall act upon the same
as above provided. The Governor ahalI
have power 10 veto one or more items IL
any bill Appropriating money, embracing
distinct items, while approving other Dor.
tions Of the bill, and the part Or parts d
the bill approved shall become law, and
the item OF isens Of appropriations dis
approved shall be void, unless repasaed
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