The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-08-23
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
ACT No. IS, r.. S. OF 1878


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 cap
| tickets, "For State Capital Baton Rouge .
those voting to locate the capital at New Or.
leans shall indorse on their tickets, "For State
| Capital New Orleans"
[Strike out article one hundred and thirty.
one.]
ACT NO. "a, r. S. OF 1878.
| NUMBER TWO.
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,
Monday in january, unless n different day be
appointed by law, and their sessions shall be
held at The seat of government.
tStrike out article seventeen.1
NUMBER THREE.
After the year 1873 the General Assembly
shall not have power to levy in any one yenr
for all State purposes more than one per cent.
um 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, ex.
cept in case of a foreign invasion or domes.
tic Instruction, and in that event any addi-
tional taxation shall only be for the immcdi-
ate purpose of repelling invasion suppress.
ing instruction. The city of New Orleans
shall not levy or collect in any one year more
than one and onehalf 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
Assembly shall not have power to issue any
bond or pledge the faith OF the State for any
purpose, nor shall il authorize any parish or
municipal corporation to issue any bond or
create any debt; proutdcd, that this shall not
prohibit the issue of new bonds In exchange
for old bonds, where the debt or rate of inter.
est is not increased.
NUMBER FOUR
The members OF the General Assembly shall
be paid salary of five hundred dollars f$5OO)
per session, and actual travelling expenses by
the nearest practicable route, not to exceed
uded, that If two sessions arc held in the same
year they shall receive for the second session
in that year q salary of only two hundred and
fifty dollars ($250) and actual travelling ex-
penses by the nearest practicable route, not TO
exceed fifty dollars $500 for any member.
The regular biennial session shall not exceed
ninety days in duration, unless b., vote OF two
thirds of the members elected to each house of
the General Assembly.
IStrike out article thirty-niue.l
NUMBER FIVE.
The General Assembly shall not pass any
local or special law changing the venue in
criminal cases, changing the manner of per-
sons legitimating children, vacating roads,
streets, alleys, RENTING fines, penalties,
and 1orfeitures, or refundiug moneys legally
paid into the treasury affecting the estates OF
minors, or persons under disability, exempting
property from taxation, creating any monop-
oily, legalizing the unauthorized or invalid
acts of any officer or agent of the State, or of
any parish municipality; granting any
extra compensation TO any public officer, agent,
or contractor, after the service has been rem
dered contracted for changing any parish
seat or creating new parishes, except by the
assent of a majority of the qualified electors of
the parish, or parishes, TO be affected III all
other cases where general law can be made