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! ratify all or either OF said amendments the
same shall become part OF the constitution
| WILL A. STRONG,
Secretary of State
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
ACT NO. 7s. R. s. OF 1878
NUMBER ONE.
| That the scat of government shall be stab
| ished 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 locate the capital at New Or
leans shall indorse on their tickets For State
! Capital. New Orleans
! Strike out article one hundred and thirty
ACT NO "A, R. s. OF 1878.
NUMBER TWO.
Representatives shall be chosen on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in November,
every. two years. and the elections shall be com
pleted in one day. The General Assembly shall
meet on the first Monday i'll January, 1879, and
biennally thereafter, on the first Monday i'll
| January, unless different day he appointed
by law, and their sessions shall be held at the
seat OF government.
Strike out article seycnteen)
NUMBER THREE.
After the year 1873 the General Assembly
shall not have power to levy in any one year
for all State purposes more than one per centlm
taxation. nor shall any collection OF more than
one per centum taxation be made III any one
year, on the actual cash value of all real and
personal property liable to taxation, except i'll
case OF a foreign invasion or a domestic inSur-
rection, and in that event any additional taxa
ton shall only be for the immediate purpose of
repelling invasion or suppressng insurrecton
The city OF New Orleans shall not levy or collect
in any one year more than one and onc-half
per centum taxation on the actual cash value
Of all the real and personal property liable to
cipal corporation, except the city Of New Or
leans, shall levy or collect i'll any year
more than one per centum 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
parish or municipal corporation to issue any
bond or create any debit proridcd, that this
shall not prohibit the issue of new bonds in cx-
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 travelling expenses by
the nearest practicable route. not to exceed
fifty dollars $3.50 for any member; B1'Orided,
that it 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 $50 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.
t5trike out article thirty-nine)
EBMBER FIVE.
The General Assembly shall not pase any local
OF special law changing the venue in criminal
cases, changing the manner OF persons legiti-
mating children. vacating roads, streets, or
alleys, remitting fines penalties, and fOrfeitures
or refnnding moneys legally paid into the treas
nry affecting the estates OF minors, or persons
under disability, exe4Etil?g property from
taxation, creating any monopoly, leaalizinS the
unauthorized or invalid acts Of any officer or
agent Of the State. or of any parish or munich
paty; 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 par
ishes except by the assent Of the majority of
the qualified electors Of the parish, Or parishes,
to be affected in all other cases, where a gen
erai law can be made applicable, no local or
special law shall be passed.
NUMBER FIVE.
The General Assembly shall not pass any
local or special law changing the venue in crimi-
nal cases, changing the manner OF persons lcglt-
ilnating children, vacating roads, streets, or
alleys, remttipg fines, penalties, and forfetures
treasury affecting the estates If MINORS, or
persons under disability, exempting property
from taxation, creating any monopoly, legal
1Zing the unauthorized Or lllSdlU dCtS OF any
officer or agent OF the State or of any parish
IL ton % to any public ofcer, agept or contractor,
after the service has been rendered or con-
Ing new parishes, except by the assent of the |
of the qualified electors of the parish,
or parishes, to be affected; i'll all other cases,
where 2 general law can be made applicable, no
local or special lay shall be passed.
NUMBER SIX.
Ill.,, .h,n noo,;,-o , ,,,o,,, .o,-,.,
thousand dollars per annum, payable quar-
-erly, on his own warrant.
Strike out article fffty-six)
NUMBER SEVEN.
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive a salary !
which shall be double that of 2 member OF the !
General Assembly.
Strike out article ftfty-sevenJ-
NUMBER EIGHT.
Every bill which shall have passed both
houses shall be presented to the Governor: il !
ne approve it, he shall sign it, if he does not,
ne shall return it. with his objections. to the .
house IN which II originated. which shall enter
The objections at large upon lis journal. and
proceed to reconsider it. If, after such recon
twO-thirds Of all the members pres
ent ~ that house shall agree to pass the bill, 1t
house, by which il shall likewise be reconsidered
and II approved by tW0-thirds of the members
present pres In that house. 1t shall be law. But in
such cases the vote of both houses shall he de- /
tersGined by yeas and nays. and the names or
members voting for or against the bill Shall he
entered upon the Journal of each house res
pectiycly. II any bill shall not be returned hy
he Governor within FIVE days arIer it shalt
s4Fe been presented to him. it shall be a law. +
II like manner rs ii he had signed it, unless |
he General Assembly, by adjournment prevent
is return in which case. within thirty days. /
he Governor shall file the same, with his OBJ,
ections thereto in the office OF the Secretary
II State and give public notice thereof other
wise it shall become law, rs If he had signed
/. The Secretary Of State shall communicate