The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1892-02-13

lana is hereby recognized and declared,
and after payment OF all the annual inter-
est on said Constitutional Bonds and
bonds not retired and the payment of the
said annual aflotments Of Premium Bonds
and premiums eXtallt in the hands of
holders, and after making provisions for
q sinking fund, ut such time and of such
an am0AtlU as the Legislature prescTihes,
the SUI kus of said enc per cent. shall be
disposeW of as prescribed by the Legisla-
ture.
The act passed at the present session
No. 81 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 It's parts as contract between the
City of New Orleans 9nd the holders of
said Constitutional Bonds and of the bonds
outstanding not retired as aforesaid.
SECTION 2. Be 1T fertItcT Fes0Ic9d 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
SchoolDireetors for the city aud parish of
Orleans due for the years 1880, 1881. 1882.
1883, and 1854. now in the hands of original
owners. who havein nowise parted with
their right of ownership or pledged the
same as may be found to be equitably due
by said board for services rendered, labor
thority of said board.
SECTION 3. BE it further res0Ieed etc.,
That all electors voting at said election
for said amendment shall place nnon their
ballots the words. For the city of New
Orleans debt amendment and the elec-
tors voting at said election against said
amendment shall place on their ballots the
words, Against the City of New Orleans
debit amendment
JOINT RESO TUITION NO. 154-AsfEND-
MENT NO, :.
Proposing to submit to tho electors of
this State an amendment to article
two hundred twenty-nine l229I af the
Constitution Of 1879, relative of Pub
lie Education"
SECTIoN 4. BE II fes0lUGd BY the General
assembly of The Stale Of louisiana, tsOo-thirds
OF the members elected to each hoRss concur
ring therein. That article two handed and
twenty-nine of the Constitution of eigh-
teen hundred and seventy nine, be ameml-
ed ard re-enacted so as to read as fol-
fows. viz:
Article 259-The school funds of the
State shall consist of: i. The proceeds of
taxation for school purposes as provided
in this Constitution; 2. The interest on
the proceeds of all public lands heretofore
and support of the public schools; :. Of
Lands aud other property which may here
after be begneathed, granted or donated
the State orsgencrallp for school purposes:
4. All IHnuS 0f property t0blfeF IilaH lffi-
proved ltlltlsf. beqlieathei or granted to
the State, OF Louisiana. The Legislature
may appropriate to the same funds the 1
proceeds, iii whole or in part. of public
lands not designated for other purpose,
and shall provide that every parish, or
every school ward in each parish, may
levy Il tax for the public schools therein.
which shall not exceed five t5l mills OH
the dollar. the vote OH sucll tax to be
decided by a majority of the property tax
payers OF each parish: or each school warll
or municipality in each parish, in valae
aud in number voting Mt said election
and nj moneys s, collected TO bc expend-
ed III the school ward where levied. "All
elections under this act shall be ordered
by the Police Jury in the parish in which
the tax is proposed to be levied
..SEcTIoN 2. Be il further res0lred, That
the above amentsment to article two hrlil-
tlred and twenty mine t239} be submitted
to the citizens of this State at the next
eieetinn for their approval or
rejection, aud that upon I'LL ballots east at
that election for State or parish officers
there shall be printed these words: For
to article 229 of the Constitn
tionn Against amendment to article 22s3
of the Constitution
Witness my signature and the seal OF
the State of Louis ana ut the City of
Baton Rouge, this Goth day of Nov. 1891.
L. +. MASON, Secretary of State.
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