The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1888-01-28
NO. Is.
81 PRONUNCIATION
Proposed Amendments to the Constitution
of the State of Louisiana, adopted
by the General Assembly
in 1884 and 1885.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Office of the Secretary of State.

I
Office of the Secretary of State.
IN pursuance of the provisions of the Con.
l. stitution, publication is hereby made and
given to the qualified electors Of the State of
Louisiana of the proposed amendments to the
Constitution of this State, which have been
concurred in by two-thirds of all the members
elected to each house of the General Assembly
of this State, at the regular sessions thereof,
held in the city of Baton Rouge, in the years
1884 and 1886, and which are required to be
published for the information of the qualified
electors of this State for three months next
preceding the General election for Represen-
tatives, and which proposed amendments more
fully appear in Act No. 43 and Joint Resolu-
ton No. 112 of the Regular Session OF 1884,
aud in Joint Resolutions Nos %, IS, So and
90 of the Regular Session Of 1886, which are
hereinafter officially published for the informa-
ton of the qualified electors of this State, and
which will be submitted to them for their ap.
proval or their rejection, at the next general
election which will be held on Tuesday, the
18th day of April A. D. 1883 (it being the
Tuesday next following the Sd Monday of
said monthly in such manner and form that the
qualified electors may vote for or against each
amendment separately and if g majority of
the qualified electors voting, at said election,
shall approve and ratify all or either Of said
proposed amendments, then such proposed
amendment OF amendments or either of them,
so approved and ratified, shall become part
of the Constitution of this State.
Act No. 43 of the Regular Session of 1884.
Amendment hD. 1.
n TULANE UNIVERSITY AMENDMENT
The terms of Act No. 43, of the Regular ses-
sion of 1884, adopted at the session Of the Leg.
islature in the year 1884, are hereby ratified
and approved and all provisions of the Con.
stitution of 1879 lepug nant thereto, or in any
way imparing the passage thereof, are hereby
repealed so far as the operations of said act are
concerned
Joint Resolution No. l12 of the Regular Ses.
of 1854.
Amendment No 2.
THE General Assembly may divide the
State into levee districts and provide for the
appointment OF election of Levee Commission
ers in said districts, who shall in the method or
manner to be provided by law, have supervi.
sion of the erection, repair and maintenance of
the levees in said districts; to that effect the
Levee Commissioners may levee a tax not to
exceed ten mills on the taxable property, stu
ated within the alluval portions of said district
subject to overflow; provided that, in case of
necessity, to raise additional funds for the pur-
pose of constructing. preserving and repairing
any levees protecting the lands of the district,
the rate of taxation, herein limited, may be in
creased when the rate ofsuch increase and the
necessity and purpose for which it is intended
shall have been submitted to vote of proper
ty taxpayers in such district, paying taxes for
himself, or in any representative capacity,
whether resident or non resident, ON property
situated in the alluvial portion of said district
subject to overflow, and majority of those in
number and value, voting at such election,
shall have voted therefor
Joint Resolution No % of the Regular Session
of 1886.
Amendment No. 8.
aIn those districts composed of one parish,
there shall be not less than six terms of the
District Court each year.
ain all other districts, there shall be in each
parish not less than four terms of the District
Court each year, except in the parishes Of Cam
eron, Franklb and Vernon, in which there
shall not be les than two terms Of the District
Court each year.as
Until provided by law, the terms of the
District Court in each parish shall be fixed by
a rule of said court, which shall not be chang
ed without notice by publication at least thirty
days prior to sdch change"
"There shall be in each parish not less than
two jury term1 each year, at which grand
jury shall be ppannelled, except in the par
ishes of CamelSn, franklin and Vernon, in
which there shall not be less than one jury
term each year, at which grand jury shall be
empannelled.."
''At other jury terms the General Assembly
shall provide for special juries, wher necessa-
ry for the trial of criminal cases..
Joint Resolution No. rs, of the Regular Ses
sion of 1886.
Amendment No. a.
Article I60-"The New Basin Canal and
Shell Road and their appurtenances shall not
| be leased nor alenated."
Joint Resolution No. 80, of the Regular Ses-
sion of 1886.
| Amendment No 5
| Article 62-@Thyt in the event of the death,
| or from whatever cause the Office of
Lieutenant Governor shall become vacant,
| then, and in that event the President pro tenn
pore of the Senate shall gil the Office Of Lieu
tenant Governor, performing all the duties in.
cident to the Office and receiving its emolu-
ments.
Joint Resolution No. 80, of the Regular ses.
sion of 1886
/ Amendment No. 6.
Article 207-"The folSwing property shall
be exempt from taxation, and no other, viz j:
,,u1iio ypnrarfv n1aaao Of