The Bossier banner., 1892-01-21
PRONUNCIATION.
Proposed Amendments to the Con-
stitutiOn of the State of Louisiana,
Adopted by the General Assembly
in 1890.
STATE OF LOUISIANA. J

jill OOOs
STATE OF LOUISIANA |
Office of the Secretary of State.
Tn pursuance of the provisions OF the COnsti- |
L tuition, 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, winch have been
concurred i'll by twO-thirds of all the members
elected to each house of the General Assembly
of this State, at the regular session thereof, !
held at the City of Baton Rouge in the year
1890, and which are required to be published
for the information of the qualified electors of
this State for three months preceding the next
election for Representatives,, and which pro-
posed amendments more fully appear in Joint
Resolutions Nos. 40 and ia, which are here
matter officially published for the information
of the qualified electors of this State, and
which will be submitted to them for their ap
prOval or rejection, at the next general election
which will be held on Tuesday the 18th day of
April, 1899, lit being the Tuesday next follow
ing the third Monday of said monthly in such
manner and form that the qualified electors
may vote for or against each amendment
separately; and if majority of the qualified
electors, voting at said election, shall approve
and ratify all or either of said proposed amend
ments, then such proposed amendments. or
either of them, so approved and ratified, shall
become part ofthe Constitution OF this State.
JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 1lO-AMEND-
MENT NO. /.
"Proposing an amendment to the Constitution
providing for the funding of the bonded debt
of the city OF New Orleans, other than
Premium Bonds, into four per cent bonds;
providing a special tax of one per cent to
pay the bonded debt of the city, and exempt
ing the said four per cent bonds from taxa
tiUn, and further authorizing the said city to
assume and pay such unpaid claims of the
Board os School Directors of said city and
parish which 1t may find to be cquitably due
by said Eoard."
SECTION l. BE it resoivcd by Tie Senate and
House of Representatives. of The State of Loui-
siGna, tWo-thiFdS Of all the members elected to
each house concurring, That the following
amendments to the Constitution of the State
be submitted to the electors of the State at
the mex election for Representatives for the
General Assembly in the year 1892. for the
purpose of retiring the now existing valid
outstanding bonds of the city OF New Orleans,
including the bond certificates or bonds issued
under the act of the Legislature No. So of 1881
and to retire judgments now or hereafter rem
dered against the city on floating debt claims
prior to 1879, entitled to be funded under act
No. 67 of 1884, the said city OF New Orleans is
hereby authorized and directed, on and after
| the adoption of this amendment to issue
through the Board of Liquidation of the City
| Debt, bonds to he known as the Constitutional
| Bonds of the City of New Orleans, not ex-
ceeding ten millions of dollars, at fifty years,
bearing four per cent. per annum interest, to
bear date and be in the form prescribed by the
Legislature. The SAID bonds shall be applied
| by the said board to the retirement of said
outstanding bonds and judgments, by the sale
of said Constitutional Bonds, and application
OF the proceeds of sale by the Board of Liqui-
datiOn, to pay or purchase said outstanding
| bonds and judgments, or by exchanging the
said Constitutional Bonds for bonds, on the
terms and in the mode prescribed by the
! Legislature. For the payment OF the interest
and principal at maturity, of said Consttu-
tional Bonds, and other outstanding bonds not
retired under this amendment, and for the
| payment of the annual allotments and prem
iums of the Premium Bonds of said city, the
| said city is hereby authorized and directed to
levy annually, and until the full payment of
said bonds, a special tax of one per cent. on all
the real and personal property of the city, said
tax to be part of, and not in addition to the tax
| OF twenty mil and two-tenths of a mill on the
dollar of valuation now levied tor all purposes
! by the city of New Orleans, and the said tax
shall be paid over as collected to, and be ap-
piled by the Board of Liquidation. to the pay
ment OF the interest aud principal at maturity
OF said Constitutional Bonds and outstand-
| ing bonds not retired, and to the payment of
the allotments of Premium Bonds and prem
inns extent in the hands of holders
Said tax is hereby declared to be the contract
right of the holders of all said bonds; and the
exemption of said Constitutional Bonds from
State of Louisiana is hereby recognized and
declared, and after payment of all the annual
| interest on said Constitutional Bonds and
bonds not retired and the payment of the said
annual allotments of Premium Bonds and
premiums eXtant in the hands of holders and
after making provisions for sinking fund, al
such time and of such an amount as the Legis-
lature prescribes, the snrplus of said one Der
cent shall be disposed of as prescribed by the
| Legislature
The act passed at the present session No. 36
| entitled AN act to carry into effect the Con-
stitutional amendment passed at the present
session relative to the bond debt of the City of
New Orleans etc, be and is hereby approved
and confirmed in all its parts as contract
between the City of New Orleans and the
holders OF said Constitutional Bonds Premium
Bonds and of the bonds outstanding not re.
tired as aforesaid,
SECTIoN2 BE IL further resolred, etc., That
the city OF New Orleans be and is hereby au.
thorized and empowered to examine into and
assume the payment of the claims or ob,iga
tons OF the Board of School Directors for the
city and parish of Orleans due for the wears
1851, 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 equitably due BY
sald board TOR services rendered, labor per
formed or materials furnished by authority OF
said board.
SECTION B. Belt further resolued, etc.. That
all electors voting at said election for said
amendme Mt shall place upon their ballots the
words, "FOr the city of New Orleans debt
amendment" and all electors voting at saiG
election against said amendment shall place
on their ballots the words, Against the Cit,
OF New Orleans debt amendment"
JOINT RESOLUTION NO. I54-AMEND
MENT NO.2
Proposing to submit to the electors of thi,
state an amendment to article two hundred
: and twenty-nine C229l of the Constitution O
ls79, relative to Public Education"
SECTION l. Be IL resoEred by The Genera
assembly of The State of Louisiana t,vo- third
q the members elected to each hOase cOncury-int
Merett, That article two hundred and twenty