The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-08-31
NUMBER THREE.

Assembly shall not have power to
levy in any one year for all State
purposes more than one per cent
um taxation, nor shall any collec'
ton of more than one per centum
taxation be made in any one year
on the actual cash value of all real
and personal property liable to
taxa ton, except in case of a for
eign invasion or a domestic insur'
rection, and in that event any ad
ditional taxation shall only he for
the Immediate purpose of repelIing
invasion or suppressing insurrec'
ton. The city Of New Orleans
shall not levy or collect in any one
year more than one and one-hali
per centum taxation On the actual
cash value of all the real and per-
sonal 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 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 for any pur,
pose, nor shall it authorize any
parish or municipal corporation to
issue any bond or create any debt;
provided that this shall not pro.
hibit the issue of new bonds,
in exchange for old bonds, where
the debt or rate Of interest is not
increased.
NUMBER THREE.
The members of the General AS
sembly. shall be paid salary of
five hundred dollars $500 per
session. and actual travelling ex-
penses by the nearest practicable
route, not to exceed fifty dollars
$50 for any one member provi.
ded. that If two sessions are held
in the same year they shall receive
for the second session in that year
a salary Of only two hundred & City
dollars $3.50 and actual travel
ing expenses 10y the nearest practi-
cable route, not to exceed fifty dol
lars $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.
Strike out article thirty-nine.)
NUMBER FIVE.
The General Assembly shall not
pass any local or special law
changing the venue in criminal
cases. changing the manner 0; per
sons legitimaIing children. vaca-
ting roads, streets, or alleys, re.
mitting fines, penalties, and for
FIXTURES, or refunding moneys le-
gally paid into the treasury ;
affecting the estates of minors, or
persons under disability, exempt
ing property from taxation, crea-
ting any monopoly, legalizing the
Unauthorized or invalid acts of any
officer or agent of the State, or OF
any parish or municipality grant
ing any extra compensation to any
public officer, agent, or contractor
after the service has been render
ed or contracted for; changing
any parish seat, or creating new
parishes, except by the assent Of
the majority Of the qualified elec
tors of the parish, Or parishes, tc
be affected ; in all other cases
where a general law can be made
applicable, no local or special law
shall be passed.
NUMBER SIX.
The Governor shall receive 9
salary Of seven thousand dollar:
per annum, payable quarterly, OF
| his own warrant.
Strike ont article fifty-six.)
NUMBER SEVEN.
The Lieutenant Governor shall
receive a salary which shall be
double that of a member of thu
General Assembly.
(Strike out article fifty-scven.
NUMBER EIGHT.
Every bill which shall have
passed both houses shall be pre-
scnted to the Governor if he ap
prove it, he shall sign it; if h,
does not. he shall return it, will
!, his objections, to the house il
which it originated, which shal
enter the objections at large upo1
its journal, and proceed to, recon
slider it. If, after such reconsider