The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1878-08-31
CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND.
MENTS.
ACT NO. 70, II. S. OF 1878.

NUMBER ONE.
That the seat of government shall be es-
tablished 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 To-
cate the capital at New Orleans shall in
dorse on their tickets, For State Capital,
New Orleans
(Strike out article one.hundred and thir-
ty-One.)
ACT NO. "A, R. 5. OF 1873.
NUMBER TWO.
Representatives shall be chosen on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in No
vember, every two years, and the election
shall be completed in one day. The Gene
raj Assembly shall meet on the first Mon
day in January, 1879, and biennaly there
after, on the first Monday in January, un-
less "a different day be appointed by law.
and their sessions shall be held at tue seat
OF government.
lStrike out article Seventcen.j
NUMBER THREE.
After the year 1878 the General Assem-
bly, shall not have power to levy in any
one year for all State purposes more than
one per centum taxation, nor shall any col
lection of more than one per ccntum taxa
ton be made Ill any one year, on the actual
cash value of all real and personal proper
ty liable to taxation, except i'll case of II
forei gn invasion or a domestic insurrection,
and in that event any additional taxation
shall only be for the immediate purpose of
repelling invasion or supprcssing insurrec-
tion. The city of New Orleans shall not
levy or collect in any one year more than
one and One-half per centum taxation on
the actual cash value Ofall the real and
personal property liable to taxation within
its limits. No parish or municipal corpo-
ration, except the city of New Orleans,
shall levy or collect in any one year more
than one per centum taxation upon the ac-
tual cash value of all the real and personal
property liable to taxation within its linn
its. 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 municipal corpora
tion to issue any bond or create any debt /;
proridcd, that this shall not prohibit the is.
sue Of new bonds in exchange for old
bonds, where the debt or rate OF interest is
not increased.
NUMBER FOUR.
The members of the General Assembly
shall be paid Il salary of five hundred dol
lars $500 per session, and actual travelling
expenses by the nearest practicable route,
not to exceed fifty dollars $500 for any
one member; pr0rided. that if tW sessions
are held in the same year they shall re-
ceive for the second session in that year q
salary of only two hundred and fifty dol
lars (S250) aud actual travelling expenses
hx,f1 hi TO. tn oy.
ceed fifty dollars $500 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 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 ven-
ue in criminal cases, changing the manner
of persons legitimating children. vacating
roads, streets, or alleys, remitting fines,
penalties. and forfeitures, or refunding
moneys legally paid into the treasury: at
fecting the estates of minors, or persons I'm
der disability, eXempting property from
taxation, creating any monopoly, legalizing
the unauthorized or invalid acts of any of
ticer or agent of the State, or OF any parish
or municipality; granting any extra com
pensation to any public officer, agent OF
contract tor, after the servics has been ren
dered or contracted for; changing any par
ish seat, or creating new parishes, except
by the assent of the majority of the quail
fed electors of the parish, or parishes, tc
be affected in all other cases, where 6
general law can be made applicable, no 10
cal or special law shall be passed.
NUMBER SIX.
The Governor shall receive salary o
seven Thousand dollars per annum, payable
quarterly, on his own warrant.
Strike ont article titty-siX.)
, NUMBER SEVEN.
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive ;
salary which shall be double that OF a mem
Der of the General Assembly.
tStrike out article tiftyseven.
NUMBER EIGHT.
Every bill which shall have passed bot
houses shall be presented to the Governor
if he approve it, he shall sign it if he doe
not. he shall return it. with his objections
to the house in which it originated, whicI
shall enter the objections at large. upon it
journal, and proceed TO reconsider it. L
after such reconsideration. two thirds of al
the members present in that house sha
agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, wit
| the objections, to the other house, by whic
it shall likewise be re-considered and if al
proved by two two thirds Of the member
| present in the house. it shall be law. Bu
| in such cases the vote of both houses sha
be determined by yeas and nays, and til
names Of members voting for or against th
bill shall be entered upon the journal {
each house respectively. III. any bill sha
not be returned tby the Governor with
five days after it shall have been presente
| to him, it shall be a law in like .manner {
if he had signed it, unless the General A
sembly, by adjournment, prevent its I
| turn in which case. within thirty day