The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-13

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
oil real and personal property liable to taxa
ton, except In case Of foreign invasion, or q
domestic insurrentlon, and in that event any
additional taxation shall only be for the i'm
mediate purpose of repeling invasion or sup
pressing insurrection. The city of New Or
leans shall not levy or collect in any one
taxation on the actual cash value of all the
real and personal 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 persona, property
liable to taxation within it's limits. The Cen
eral Assembly shall not have power to issue
any bond or pledge the faith OF the State for
any purpose nor shall it authorize any par
isHssgr municipal corporation to issue any
bond or create any debt; pr0rided, 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.
AMENDMENT NUMBER THREE
The members of the General Assembly
shall be paid salary of five hundred dollars
($5OO) per session, and actual travelling ex-
penses by the nearest practicable route, not
to exceed fifty dollars $500 for any one, mem
Der; provided that II two sessions are held in
the same year they shall receive for the
second session in that year salary OF only
two hundred and fifty dollars $3.50 and actual
travelling expenses by the nearest practicable
route, not to exceed fifty dollars $500 for any
one member. The regular biennial session
shall not exceed ninety days in duration, I'M
less by vote of two-thirds Of the members
elected to each house of the General Assem-
bly,.
Strike out article thirty-nine)
AMENDMENT NUMBER FOUR.
The General Assembly shall not pass any
local or special law changing the venue in
criminal cases, changing the manner of per-
sons legitimating children, vacating roads,
streets or alleys, remitting fnes, penalties
and forfeitures, or rcfunding moneys legally
paid into tho treasury, affecting the estates
of minors, or persons under disability, exempt
ing property from taxation, creating any
monopoly legalizing the unauthorized or in
valid acts of any officer or agent OF the State,
or of any 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 par
ish seat, orcreating new parishes, except by
the assent of the majority of the qualified
electors of the parish or parishes, to be affect
ed; in all other cases, where general law can
be made applicable, no local or special law
shall be passed.
AMENDMENT NUMBER FIVE.
The Governor shall receive a salary Of $1,000
per anaum, payable quarterly, on his own
Strike out article tiftysixl
AMENDMENT NUMBER SIX.
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive a
salary which shall be- double that of q mem
Der of the General Assembly.
Strike out article fifty -seven)
AMENDMENT NUMBER SEVEN.
Every bill which shall have passed both
hp1Gnc uhnlI M r,raEpntpI tp fbn (. mp.
ii he approve it, he shall sign it; it he does
not he shall return it, with his objections, IT,
the house in which it originated, which shall
enter the objections at large upon it's journal,
and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such
reconsideration, two-thirds of all the mem
bers present in that house shall agree to pass
the bill, it shall be sent, With the objections,
to the other house, by which 1t shall likewise
be reconsidered, and If approved by two
thirds OF the members present in that house
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 of each house respectively.
If any bill shall not be returned by the Gov
ernor within five days after it shall have been
presented to him, it shall be law, in like
manner as If he had signed it, unless the
General Assembly, by adjournment, prevent
its return in which case, within thirty days,
the Governor shall file the same. with his OBJ
OF State, and give public notice thereof; other
wise 1t shall become a law, rs ii he had signed
it.. The Secretary OF State shall communicate
said objections and bill SO deposited to the
house In which it originated on the first day
| of the meeting of the next General Assem-
bly,, who shall act upon the same as above
provided. The Governor shall have power tC
| veto one or more items in any bill appropri-
| ating money, embracing distinct items. while
approving other portions of the bill, and the
nart nnrfG IF thn hill nnni.nynI ebn11 hn.
come law, and the item or items of appropria-
tions disapproved shall be void unless re.
passed according to the rules and limitations
prescribed for the passage of other bills over
the Governors veto.
Strike out article sixty-six)
AMENDMENT NUMBER EIGHT.
The Auditor and Treasurer shall receive d
salary of four thousand dollars per annunl
each, payable quarterly on their own war
rants. The Secretary OF State shall receive a
salary of three thousand dollars per annum
likewise payable.
Strike out article seventy-one) O
AMENDMENT NUMBER NINE.
No officer, whose salary is fixed by the con-
stitution, shall beoallowed any fees or per.
quistes of office.
AMENDMENT NUMBER TEN.
The judicial power shall be vested in Su.
preme Court In District Courts and in JUS
tices of the Peace. The District Courts shall
have original jurisdiction in all civil cases
where the amount in dispute exceeds 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 in the
manner and with the qualifications to be de-
termined by the General Assembly. They
and their compensation shall be fixed by law
Their jurisdiction in civil cases shall not ex-
coed one hundred dollars, exclusive of inter
est, subject to an appeal to the District Court
in all cases when the amount in dispute shall
They shall have such criminal jurisdiction as
shall be conferred by law. The General AS
sembly shall have power to vest in the clerks
of the DiStrict Courts the rimht to GRANT slIch