The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-08-02

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[Strikc out article seventeenth
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After tho year 1873 the General Assembly
um taxation, nor shall any collection of moro
than one per centum taxation be made In any
one year, on the actual cash value Of oil real
ccpt in case OF q foreign invasion or o dput6e.
tic Instruction, and in that event Qn1 Aa1iib
tional taxation shall only be for t6ey % orr
ing insurrection. The city Of New
shall not levy or collect in any one - NJ 'mt,re
than one and one-half per ccntGm taxetioplon
sonaf property liable to taxation withfntits
limits. No parish municipal corporatio.iy
except the city of New Orleans, shall leyXo
collect in any one year more than ...seSs,r
centum taxation upon the actual cash, yaiIe
OF all the real and personal property liable to
taxation within its limits. The General
Assembly shall not have power to issue any
purpose, nor shall it authorize any parish or
municipal corporation to issue any bond or
create any debt; provided, that this shall not
for old bonds. where tho debt or rate Of inter
est is not increased.
NUMBER FOUR.
The members of the General Assembly shall
DC pulU u SUlHTy Oh i've NunOcOu dollars $oUOl
per session land actual travelling expenses by
| the nearest practicable route, not to exceed
fifty dollars (s5O) for any one member; pro.
| uidci, that if two sessions are held in the same
year they shall rec.,.. for the second session
in that year n salary of only two hundred and
| fifty dollars (S25O) and actual travelling ex-
penses by the nearest practicable route, not to
exceed fifty dollars (ShO) for any one member.
The regular biennial session shall not exceed
| ninety days in Duration unless by vote of two
thirds of the members elected to each house of
the General Assembly.
[Strikc out article thirty-nine.l
NUMBER FIVE.
The General Assembly shall not pass any
local or special law changing the venue in
sons lcgitimating children, vacating roads,
Streets or alleys, rcmitting fines, penalties
and for1citures, or refunding 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
extra Compensation to any public eiicer, agent,
or contractor, after the service has been rem
dered contracted for changing any parish
assent Of a majority of the qualified electors Of
the parish, or parishes, to be affected in all
other cases, where a general law can DO made
applicable, no local or special law shall be
passed.
Tho Governor shall receive salary OF seven
thousand dollars per Annum, payable quarter
!! ly, on his own warrant
IStrike out article iifty-six.l
NuMBER SEVEN.
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive u
salary which shall be double that Of member
OF the General Assembly.
[Strike out article City seven.]
NUMBER EIGHT.
Every bill which shall have passed both
houses shall be presented to the Governor !; II
he approve it, he shall sign it :; If he does not,
he shall return it, with his objections TO the
house in which 1t originated. which shall enter
the objections ut large upon its Journal and
proceed to reconsider it. II, after snch recon
| sdcration, twothirds OF all the members
present in that house shall agree to pass the
the other house, by which it shall likewise be
| re- considered, and if approved by two-thirds
| of the members present in that house, 1t shall
| be "a law. But in such cases the vote of both
houses shall be determined by yeas and nays,
! and the names OF members voting for or
| against the bill shall be entered upon the
| journal of each house respectively. II any
bill shall not.bc returned by the Governor
within five days after il shall have been pres
cnted to him, ii shall be u law, in like manner
Assembly, by adjournment, prevent its returni
in which case, within thirty days, the Cover
! nor shall file the same, with his objections
thereto, in the Office of the Secretary Of State,
and give public notice thereof; otherwise 1t
shall become law, AS if he had signed it.
The Secretary Of State shall communicate
said objections and bill so deposited to the
house in which IL originated on the first day OF
the meeting of the next General Assembly
who shall act upon the same as above pro
veto one more items in any bill appropria
ting money, embracing distinct items, whiit
approving other portions OF he~bfll, and th'
part or parts Of the bill approved shall become