The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1878-11-09


shall indOrse Oh 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.
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 biennally there
after, on the first Monday in January, un-
less different day be appointed by law,
and their sessions shall be held at the seat
of gov ernment.
(Strike out article seventeen.)
NUMBER THREE.
After the wear 1873 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 centum taxa
ton be made Ill any one year, on the actual
cash value of all real and personal proper
ty liable to taxation, except in case of a
foreign invasion or a domestic insurrecti0n,
and in that event any additional taxation
shall only be for the immediate purpose of
repelling invasion or supprcsSing insurrec-
ton. 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
r I'm ta RAT ha
tual cash value of all the real aud personal
property liable to taxation within it's lin
It's 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 !;
prorided, 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 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; propided. that if tw o sessions
are held in the same year they shall re-
ceive for the second session in that year a
salary of only two hundred and fifty dol
lars ($250) aud actual travelling expenses
by the nearest practicable route, not to ex-
| ceed fifty dollars t$50) 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.
tStrike 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 psrsoas legitimating children, vacating
roads, streets, or alleys. renting fines
penalties. and forfeitures. or refundins
moneys legally paid into the treasury: at
fecting the estates OF minors, or persons un
der disability. exempting property from
| taxation, creating any monopoly, legalizine
| the unauthorized or invalid acts of any of
ficer or agent of the State, or of any parish
or municipality; granting any extra com
pcnsation to any public officer, agent, o.