The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1878-08-17
CONSTLTUFHD AMEND.
MENIS.
ACT NO. 73, Il. S. OF 1878.
NIJMRER ONE,

ACT NO. 73, r. S: OF 1878.
NUMBER ONE.
That the seat of government shall be es-
tablished 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 State capital at Baton Rouge
shall indorse on their tickets, "For State
Capital, Baton Rouge those voting to To-
cate the capital at New Orleans shall in
| dorse on their tickets, For State Capital,
New Orleans
(Strike out article one hundred and thir-
ty-one.)
ACT NO. "a, R. s. OF 1873.
NUMBER TWO
Representatives shall be chosen on the
| first Tuesday after the first Monday in No
yember, every two years, and the election
shall be completed in one day. The Gene
raj Assembly shall meet on the first Mon
day in January 1879, and biennally there
after, on the first Monday in January, un-
less a different day be appointed by law,
and their sessions shall be held at the seat
of goHernment.
(Strike out article Seyenteen.)
NUMBER THREE.
| After the year 1873 the General Assem-
| bly, shall not have power to levy in any
| one year for all State purposes more than
one per ceGtum taxation, nor shall any col
| lection of more than one per ceutum taxa
| ton be made Ill any one year, on the actual
| cash value of all real aud personal proper
| ty liable TO taxation, except in case of q
foreign invasion or u domestic insurrectiou
| and iii that event any additional taxation
shall euly be for the immediate purpose of
| repelling invasion or suppressing insurrcc-
| tion. 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
personal property liable to taxation within
! its limits. No parish or municipal corpo-
| ration, except the city of New Orleans,
shall levy or colleet in any one year more
| than one per centum taxation upon the ac
| tual cash value of all the real and personal
property liable to taxation within its linz
| it's. The General Assembly shall not have
power to issue any bond or pledge the faith
of the State for any purpose, nor shall it
| authorize any parish or municipal corpora
| tion to issue any bond or create any debt {:
prOuided, that this shall not prohibit the is
sue Of new bonds in exchange for old
bonds, where the debt or rate Of interest is
not increased.
NUMBER -FOUR.
The members of the General Assembly
shall be paid salary of five hundred dol
| lars tS5oO) per session, and actual travelling
expenses by the nearest practicable route,
not to exceed fifty dollars ($50) for any
one member prooided, that if tw o sessions
are held in the same year they shall re-
ceive for the second session in that year a
salary of only two hundred and fifty dol
lars ($250) and actual travelling expenses
by the nearest practicable route, not to ey-
ceed fifty dollars $500 for any one member
The regular biennial session shall not OK
ceed ninety days III duration, unless by
vote of two thirds of the members to each
house of the General Assembly.
(Strike out article thirty nine.)
NUMRER FIVE.
The General Assembly shall not pass
any local or special law changing the ven
| lie III criminal eases, changing the manner
of persons legitimating children, vacating
roads. streets, or alleys. remittipg fines,
penalties. and forteitnres, or refunding
| moneys legally paid into the treasury; af
fecting the estates OF minors, or persons un
der disability, exempting property from
taxation, creating any monopoly, legaIizing
the unauthorized or invalid acts of any of
ticer agent of the State, or of any parish
| or municipality; granting any extra COM
pensation to any public officer, agent. or
contractor, after the service has been rem
dered or contracted for; changing any par
ish seat, or creating new parishes, except
by the assent ofthe majority of the quail
fled electors of the parish, or parishes, to
be affected in all other cases, where %
general law can be made applicable, no To-
cal or special law shall be passed.
NUMBER SIX.
The Governor shall receive a salary of
seven thousand dollars per annum, payable
quarterly. on his own warrant.
Strike out article tittysix.)
NUMBER SEVEN
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive a
salary which shall be double that of men,
Der of the General Assembly.
(Strike out article titty-seven.
NUMBER EIGHT.
Every bill which shall have passed both
| houses shall be presented to the Governor
| if he approve it, he shall sign it !; if he does
| not. he shall return it. with his objections
| to the house i'll which it originated which
| shall enter the objections at large upon its
| journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If.
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 re-considered, and if ap
proved by two two thirds of the members
! present in that house, it shall be Il law. Bu,
| in such cases the vote of both houses shall
be determined by yeas and nays, and The
names Of members voting for or against the
bill shall be entered upon the journal o.
each house respectively. If any bill shall
| rot be returned sby the Governor within
five days after it shall have been presented
! to him. it shall be law in like tnanner as
! if he had signed it. unless the General AS
scmbly, by adjournment, prevent its re