The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1892-01-23

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and after payment of all the annual inter
est on said Constitutional Bonds and
bonds not retired and the payment of the
said annual allotments of Premium BoHds
and premiums extant in the hands of
holders, and after making provisions for
sinking fund, at such time and of such
an amount as the Legislature presCribes,
the surplus Of said one per cent. shall be
disposed of as prescribed by the Legisla-
ture. & 4# b
The act passed at the present session
No. Sc entitled AN act to carry into effect
the Constitutional amendment passed at
the present session relative to the bond
nebt of the City of New Orleans, etc, be
and is hereby approved and confirmed in
all its parts as contract between the
CIT of New Orleans and the holders of
said Constitutional Bonds and of the bonds
outstanding not retired as aforesaid.
SECTION 2 Be it further TesotUed, etc,
That the city of New Orleans be and is
hereby authorized and empowered to ex-
anime into and assume the payment of the
claims or obligations of the Board of
SchoolDirectors for the city and parish of
Orleans due for the years 1880, 1881, 1882,
1888, and 1884, now in the hands OF original
owners, who have in nowise parted with
their right of ownership or pledged the
same as may be found to be eqaitably due
by said board for services rendered, labor
performed or materials furnished by au-
thority of said board.
SECTION 8. Be ii further reselred ETC.,
That all electors voting at said election
for said amendment shall place uDon their
ballots the words, For the city of New
Orleans debt amendment and the cleo
tors voting at said election against said
amendment shall place on theirballots the
words, Against the City of New Orleans
debt amendment"
JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 154--ANIEND-
MENT NO, 2.
Proposing to submit to the electors OF
this State an amendment to article
two hundred twenty-nine 229) of the
Constitution OF 1879, relative OF Pub
lie Education"
SECTION /. BE ii res0lred By the General
assembly of the Stale of Louisiana, ttgc-thirds
of the members elected to each house concur
ring therein. That articletwo hunded and
twenty of the Constitution OF elgh-
teen hundred and seventy-nine, be amend
ed and re-enacted SO as to read as fol-
fows, viz:
Article 22a-The school funds of the
State shall consist of: /. The proceeds OF
taxation fer school purposes as provided
in this Constitution; 2. The interest on
and support of the public schools; 8, OF
lands and other property which may here
after be bequeathed, granted or donated
the State or generally for school purposes;
1, MI funds or property -iothef than ffll~
proved landSl, bequeathed or granted to
the State, of Louisiana. The Legislature
may appropriate to the same funds the
in whole or in part, of public
lands not DESIGNATED for other purpose, !
ind shall provide that every parish, or
every school ward in each parish, may |
levy tax for the public schools therein,
which shall rot exceed five t5) mills on |
the dollar, the vote on such tax to be
decided by uraiolity of the property tax
payers of each parish; or eachSchOol ward |
)r municipality in each parish. in value !
md in number voting at said election
md all moneys 50 collected to be exPend- |
ID in the school ward where levied. ''All |
elections under this act shall be ordered |
Dy the Police Jury in the parish i'll which |
he tax is proposed to be levied.n
SECTION 2. BE 1t further resolced, That I
;he above amendment to article two hun I
ired and twenty-nine l229) be submitted |
70. the citizens of this State at the next |
general election for their approval or
,eiection, aud that upon all ballots east at |
hat election for State or parish officers
here shall be printed these words: For
amendment to article 229 of the Constltu-
iion,p Against amendment to article 229
# the Constitution
Witness my signature and the seal of
he State of Louisiana at the City OF
3aton Rouge, this Goth day OF Nov. 1891.
L. F. MASON, Secretary of State.