The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-08-31

4 lStr1ke out arllcle one hundred and
thirty-one.)
ACT NO. "a, R. S. OF 1873.
Number IicO.
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 bien-
nially thereafter, on the first Monday in
january, unless a different day be sp-
pointed by law, and their sessions shall
be held at the seat of government.
(Strike out article seventeen.)
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 centum taxation, nor shall
any collection of more than one per
centum taxation be made in any one
year, on the actual cash value of all real
al personal property liable to taxa
ton except in case Of a foreign invasion
or domestic msurrection, and in that
event any additional taxation shall only
be for the immediate purpose of repell-
ing invasion or suppressing 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
personal property liable to taxation
within its limits. No parish or NUM-
clpal corporation, except the city of
New Orleans. shall levy or collect i'm
any one year more than one per centum
taxation upon the actual cash value of
all the real and personal property LA
BILE 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 purpose, nor shall
1t authorize any parish or municipal
corporation to issue any bond or create
any debt; prOrided, that this shall not
prohibit the issae of new bonds in ex-
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 salary of five hundred
dollars ($500) per session, and actual
expenses by the nearest prac-
ticable route, not to exceed fifty dollars |
if two sessions are held IN the same |
year they receive for the second session |
in that year a salary of only two hun |
dred and fifty dollars (S250) and actual
travelling expenses by the nearest prac- |
ticable route, not to exceed fifty dollars |
S50) for any one member. The regular
biennial session shall not exceed ninety |
lays in duration, unless by vote of two
thirds of the members elected to each /
house of the general assembly.
(Strike out article thirty-nine.)
Namber Fire. |
The general assembly shall not pass
my local or special law changing the
venue in criminal cases, changing the
manner of persons legitimating children,
'acating roads, streets, or alleys, re-
hitting fi"es, penalties, and forfeitures,
" refunding moneys legally paid into
he treasury; affecting the estates of
minors; or persons under disability,
property from taxation, Gre
ting any monopoly, legalizing the au-
horned or invalid acts of any officer or
gent of the State, or of any parish or
granting any compensa-
ion to any public officer, agent, or con-
ractor. after the service has been rem
cred or contracted for; changing any
arish seat, ors creating new parishes,
kept by the assent of the majority OF
he qualified electors of the parish, or
arishes, to be affected; in all other
asses, where a general law can be made
pplicable, no local or special law shall
q passed.
Number Sir.
The governor shall receive a salary of ,
even thousand dollars per annum, pay .
BILE quarterly, ON his own warrant.
lStrike out article fitty-six.) II
Number Screen.
The Lieutenant Governor shall re-
live a salary which shall be double,
nat of member of the general assem-
~. (Strike out article Gtty-seven.)