The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-04-12
AMENDMENTS.
ACT NO. T6.
All nv. 10.
OF the Regular Session of 1SS2-Amendment
to Articles of the State Debt Ordinance OF
the Constitution Of 1879.
Amendment Ne, 4.
cTATNE nEDT
STATE DEBT.


Amendment Ne, 4.
STATE DEBT.
ARTICLE /. "Be IL ordained by the
people Of the State Of Louisiana, as
provided by IaW, That the State Debt
Ordinance be amended SO as to read
as follows: That the interest to be
paid on the Consolidated Bonds of
the State of Louisiana, be, and Is
i hereby fixed at two per centum per
annum for FIVE years, from the first
day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty (lss0) aad toHr
per centum per annum thereafter,
payable semi annually; and there shall
be levied an annual tax sufficient for
the full payment of said interest, not
exceeding three mills, the limit Of
State Tax for all purposes being hereby
fixed at six mills, and said bonds and
coupons shall be duly stamped : I'm
terest reduced to two per centum per
annum for five years, from January
LIST, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty, and four per eentum per an-
nuns thereafter"
| ART. 9. "Thst the holders of the
Consolidated Bonds may at any time,
in order that the coupons may be
paid, present thor bonds to the Treas
urer of the State, or to agents to be
appointed by the Governor, one in the
city of New York, and the other in
the city of London, England, and the
said Treasurer or agents, as the case
may be, shall indorse or stamp thereon
the words: "Tnterest reduced TO two
} per centum per snnum for five years
from January LIST, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty (lss0) and foul
per centnm per annnm thereafter
and said Treasurer or agent shall in
dorse or stamp on said coupons the
following words: "Interest reduced
to two per centum per anHHn," or
Interest reduced to four per centun
/. per annum," as the case may be.
ACT NO. ll3.
! OF the Regular Session of 1SS2-Amendmen
TO Article 146 of the Constitution of thu
State Relative to Fees and Charges, TO b,
3 PAID. by Stamps in the Parish OF Orleans.
Amendment No. =.
j.. ART. l46. "All fees and charge
) fixed by law for the various CIyi
, Courts Of the parish of Orleans, and tn
Z Register of Conveyances and RecOrde
of Mortgages of said parish, shal
., enure to the State, and all suns real
I lied thersfrom shall be set aside an'
c held as a special fund, out OF whicI
? shall be paid, by preference, the ex
!, penses of the Clerk of the Civil Dis
y trict Court, the Clerks of the cit,
: Courts, the Register Of Conveyance
J, and the Recorder of Mortgages of tn
. parish of Orleans; provided, that tn
! State shall never make any paymen
4 to any Sheriff, Clerk, Register of Con
}, veyances or Recorder Of Mortgages 0
{ the parish of Orleans, or any of thei
deputies, for salary or other expense
= of their respective offices, except fron
: the special fund provided for by thi
! article, aRd any appropriation mad
u contrary to this provision shall be nuI
and void"
ACT NO. 1876.
Il OF the Regular Session Of 1SS2-AmendmeI
s to Article 81 of the Constitution Of th
n State, Relative TO the Jurisdiction OF tn
- Supreme Court
~ Amendment Nc. ..
= ART. 81. 1.-THE Supreme Court, e1
~ ~ cept in cases hereinafter provided
), shall have appellate jurisdiction only
: which jurisdiction shall extend TO a
- cases when the matter in dispute, G
= the fund to be distributed, whatevC
:, may be the amount therein claimed
y shall exceed two thousand dollars, el
= elusive of interest; to suits for d
y. y vorce and separation from bed an
Z board; to suits for nullity of ma
i rage; to suits involving the rights
- homestead TO suits for Introduction
and to all cases in which the constitI
,r tionality or legality of any tax, toll
- impost whatever, or of any fine, TO
fixture or penalty imposed by MI
- nicipal corporation shall be in col
- testation, whatever may be the amour
: thereof, and in such cases the aPpej
~ o01 tho f.c,s sball he 4
oh I''0 10" ""I M t:oL Al
rectly from the Court IN "hich u
l" case originated to the Supreme Cour
and to criminal cases on questions
law alone, whenever the punishmeI
of death or Imprisonment at hard
Dor may DO inflicted, or ine sxcee'
=, inp Three Hundred Dollars (S3OO)