The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-09-13
coNsr,ruT,osALe AMENDMENTS:

eXcept tine city OIL new Orieans snail leVyor
collect in any one year more than one per |
centum taxation upon the actual cash value
OF all the real aud personal property liable to
taxation within its limits. The General
bond or pledge the faith of the State for any
purpose, nor shall it authorize any parish or
municipal corporation to issue any bond or
prohibit the issue of new bonds in exchange
for old bonds, where the debt or rate of inter-
est is not increased.
~ .-- NUMBER FOUR. - q
The members of the General Assembly shall
be paid salary of five hundred dollars {S5OO)
per session, and actual travelling expenses by
the nearest practicable route, not to exceed
Uided, that if two sessions are held in the same
year they shall receive for the second session
In that year salary of only two hundred and
penses by the nearest practicable route, not to
exceed fifty dollars (S50) for any one member
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 Assembly.
CStrike out article thirty-nine1
NUMBER FIVE.
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 zines, Penalties,
paid into the treasury affecting the estates or
minors, or persons under disability, exempting
property from taxation, creating any monop-
oily, legalizing the unauthorized or invalid
acts of any officer or agent of the State, or of
any parish or municipality; granting any
extra compensation to any public officer, agent,
dered or contracted for; changing any parish
seat, or creating new parishes, except by the
assent of majority of the qualified electors of
the parish, or parishes, to be affected in all
other cases, where general law can be made
applicable, no local or special law shall be
passed.
The Governor shall receive q salary of seven
thousand dollars per annnm, payable quarter
ly, on his own warrant. ~
IStrike out article ffty-six ] -
NUMBER SEVEN. -
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive a
salary which shall be double that of a member
of the General Assembly. - ~
LStrike out article fty-seven.l
NuxBER RIaaT
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 in which it originated. which shall enter
the objections at large upon it's journal, and
proceed to reconsider it. If, after such recon
sideration, wo-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
e-considered, and if approved by two-thirds
of the members present in that house, it shall
be law. But in such cases theivot 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
bill shall not be returned by the Governor
within five days after it shall have been pres
ented to him, 1t shall be Law, In like manner
as if he had signed it, unless the General
Assembly, by adjournment, prevent It's return;
in which case, within thirty days, the Cover
nor shall file the same, with his objections
thereto, in the Office OF the Secretary of State,
and give public notice thereof; otherwise it
shall become law, as if he had signed it..
The secretary of State shall communicate
said objections and bill so deposited to the
the meeting of the next General Assembly,
| who shall act upon the same as above pro-
vided. The Governor shall have power to
| veto one or more Items in any bill appropria-
| ting money, embracing distinct items, while
approving other portions of the bill, and the
| part or parts of the bill approved shall become
law, and the item or items of appropriations
disapproved shall be void, unless repassed ac-
cording to tho rules and limitations! prescribed
for the passage of other bills over the Cover
nor's veto. .+ ..isE -r'. ..E.
| [Strike out article sixty-six.] 80 ...
NUMpER NINE. 80, Pea.
No officer, whose salary is fixed by the con-
stitution, shall be allowed any fees or per-
| quisites of Office. .-,. .-...rf..... 81.
The judicial power shall be vested in a
supreme court, district courts, ond in Justices
of the peace. The district courts shall have
| original jurisdiction in all civil cases where
dollars, exclusive of interest. In criminal
| cases, and in all probate matters, their juris-
| diction shall be Unlimited They shall have
appellate jurisdiction. in civil suits from justi-
| ces 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 determined by
the General Assembly. They shall hold office
for the term of two years. and their compensa-
ton shall be fixed by law. Their jurisdiction
| in civil cases shall not exceed one hundred
dollars, exclusive of interest, subject to an
| appeal to the district court in all cases when
| the amount in dispute shall exceed ten dollars
| exclusive of interest. They shall have such
| criminal Jurisdiction as shall be conferred by
law. The General Assembly shall have
power to vest in the clerks Of the district
| courts the right to grant such orders and do
| such acts as may be deemed necessary for the
| furtherence of the administration of Justice
In all cases the power thus granted shall be
specified and determined.
[Strike out. articles severty-three, eighty
five, eightysix. eighty-seven, eighty eight,
eighty nine, ninety-one and one hundred and
| thirty threc.1
NUMBER ELEVEN.
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