The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-09-20
CONSTITUTIONAL. AMENDMENTS.

tickets, ssFor State Capital, Baton Rouge -
those voting to locate the capital at New Or
leans shall indorse on their tickets, "For State
Capital, New Orleans" .r
[Strike out article one hundred and thirty
ACT NO. "a, Il. S. OF 1878.
Ea NuMBER TWO. .4r -.
Representatives shall be chosen on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in November,
every two years, and the election shall be
shall meet on the first Monday in january,
1879, and biennally thereafter, on the first
Monday in january, unless different day be
appointed by law, and their sessions shall be
held ut the scat of government.
[Strike out article seventecn1 r'
.t....- NUMBER ruREE.
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 cent
nm taxation, nor shall any collection of more
than one per cCntum taxation be made in any
one year. the actual cash value of all real
and personal property liable to taxation, ex-
cept in case of foreign invasion or domes-
tic instruction. and in that event any addi-
tional taxation shall only be for the immedi-
ate purpose of repclling invasion or suppress
ing Instruction. The city of New Orleans
shall not levy or collect in any one year more
than one aud one. half per centum taxation on
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 moro than ono per
centum taxation upon the ac,aal cash value
of all the real aud personal property liable TO
taxation within It's 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
| create any debit provided, that this shall not
prohibit the issue OF new bonds in exchange
| fer old bonds, where the debt or rate of inter-
est is not increased. .Hr Hssr..s..i
| NUMBER FOUR. .a.s.-
The members of the General Assembly shall
rfNfN.
per session, and actual travelling expenses by
| the nearest practicable route, not to exceed
fifty dollars (S50) for any ono member; pro.
oided, that if two sessions are held in the same
year they shall receive for the second session
| in that year u salary of only two hundred and
fifty dollars (S25O) and actual travelling ex,
penses by the nearest practicable route, not to
exceed fifty dollars (S50) for any one membef.
The regular biennial session shall not exceed
ninety days in duration, unless by vote of two
thirds of tho members elected to each house OF
! the General Assembly. s5. -
| [Srikc out article thirty nine. So
NUMBER FIVE.
The General Assembly shall not pass any
local or special law changing the venue In
sons legitimating children, vacating roadS
| streets, or alleys, RENTING fines, pennltieS
and forteitures, or retunding moneys legally
paid into the treasury; affecting the estates OF
| minors, or persons under disability, excmptinp
property from taxation, creating any mouop
oily, legalizing the unauthorized or invalid
acts of any officer or agent of the State, or oil
extra Compensation to any public eficsr, sgsS,
or contractor, after tho service has been rC "
dered or contracted for changing any pnrkss
seat, or creating new parishes, except by9t
assent OF n majority of the qualified eleotorsn
the parish, or parishes, to be affected In d,
other cases. where general law can be mad
applicable, no local or special law shall b
passed .f-
NUMBER SIX.
The Governor shall receive salary of seve
thousand dollars per nnnum, payable quarter
ly, on his own warrant.
| (Strike out article fifty six.
NUMBER SEVEN.
. The Lieutenant Governor shall receive
salary which shall be double that of u mcmbt
OF the General Assembly.
[Strike out article fifty .sovcn.] ss.. .fH
al NUMBER EIGHT.
pI Every bill which shall have passed bot
houses shall be presented to the Governor
he approve it, he shall sign 1t if he does no
he shall return 1t, with his objections, to Il
house in which 1t originated which shall ent,
= the objections at large upon its journal, III
proceed to reconsider it. If, after such recor
present in that house shall agree to pass Il
, bill, it shall be sent, with the objections,
T the other house, by which it shall likewise |
v rc-consdcrod, and if approved by two thirt
,, of the members present in that house, II sha
Y be II law. But in such cases the vote of bot
houses shall be determined by yeas and nay
l and the names of members voting for c
journal of each house respectively. IT an
bill shall not be returned by tho Govcrno
within five days after 1t shall have been pre-,
entcd to him. it shall be law, in like manne
as if he had signed ii, unless the Genera
I Assembly, by adjournment, prevent its return
. in which case, within thirty days, the Cover
! nor shall file the same, with his objection
thereto, in the office of the Secretary of State
and give public notice thereof; otherwise
1 shall become law, as if he had signed /
l The Secretary of State shall communicat
said objections and bill SO deposited to til
house in which it originated on the first day
the meeting of the next General Assembly
who shall act upon the same rs above pro
= vided. The Governor shall have power I
j veto one more items in any bill approprit
:, ting money, embracing distinct items, Will
y approving other portions of the bill, and Ii
part or parts of the bill approved shall becom
law, and the item or items of appropriation
disopprovcd shall be void, unless repasscd &C
- cording to the rules and limitations prescribe
for the passage of other bills over the Cover
nor's veto. ...... ....
[Strilsc out article siXty.slxl
NUMBER NINE.
-. No officer whose salary is fixed by the co
stitution, shall be allowed any fees or pc
! qusites of Office.
NUMBER TEN.
, The iudcial power shall be vested In