The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-22

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| AMENDMENT 1.
Representatives shall be chosen on
the first Tuesday after the first Monday
in November, every two years, and
the election shall be completed in one
day. The general assembly shall meet
on the first Monday in January, 1879,
and biennially thereafter on the first
Monday in January, unless different
day be appointed by law, and their
sessions shall be held at the seat of
government.
(Strike out article 17.)
AMENDMNT 2.
After the year 1873, the general as
sembly shall not have power to levy in
any year 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
all real and personal property liable to
taxation, except in case of a foreign
invasion, or domestic insurrection,
and in that event, any additional taxa
tion shall only be for the immediate
purpose of repelling invasion or sup
pressing insurrection.
The city of New Orleans shall not
levy or collect in any one year more
than one and one-half (13) per centum
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
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 purpose, nor
shall it authorize any parish or muni-
cipal corporation to issue any bond, or
create any debt; provided that this
shall not prohibit the issue of new
bonds in exchange for old bonds, when
the debt or rate of interest is not in
creased.
AMENDMENT 3.
The members of the general assemb-
ly shall be paid a salary of five hun
dred dollars ($5OO per session and act
ual travelling expenses by the nearest
practicable route, not to exceed fifty
dollars for any one member, provided
year they shall receive for the second
session in that year a salary of only
two hundred and fifty dollars ($25O)
and actual travelling expenses by the
nearest practicable route, not to exceed
fifty dollars for any one member. The
regular biennial session shall not eX-
ceed ninety days in duration, unless by
vote of twO-thirds of the members
elected to each House of the general
assembly.
(Strike out article 39.)
AMENDMENT i.
The general assembly shall not pass
any local or special law changing the
venire in criminal cases, changing the
manner of persons legitimating chill
dren, vacating roads, streets or alleys,
remitting fines, penalties and forfeitures
or refunding moneys legally paid into
the treasury; affecting the estates of
minors or persons under disability; ex-
empting property from taxation; Great
ing any monopoly; 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 or contractor after the
service has been rendered and con-
LruClSu AOT5 any pdAAoA oCul,
or creating new parishes except by the
assent of the majority OF the qualified
electors of the parish or parishes to be
affected; in all other cases, when gen.
eral law can be made applicable, no
local or special law shall be passed.
AMENDMENT 5.
The governor shall receive a salary
of $1,000 per annum, payable quarterly
on his own warrant.
(Strike out art. 56.)
AMENDMENT 6.
The lieutenant governor shall receive
| a salary which shall be double that OF
member of the general assembly.
| (Strike out art. 57.)
AMENDMENT 7.
Every bill which shall have passed
both Houses shall be presented to the
governor; if he approve it, he shall
sign it; if he do not, he shall return it
with his objections to the House in
which it originated, which shall enter
the objections at large upon its journal, ,
and proceed to reconsider it. If after
such reconsideration two-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