The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1892-03-19


and after payment of all the annual inter-
est OH said Constitutional Bonds and
bonds not retired and the payment of the
said annual ailotments of Premium Bonds
and premiums eXtant in the hands of
| holders, and after making provisions for
a sinking fund, at such time and of such
an amount as the Legislature prescrl beS,
the surplus of saidso per cent. shall be
disposed of as prescribed by the Legisla-
tuTe.
The act passed at the present session
No. IS entitled IAN 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 a contract between the
City of New Orleans and the holders of
said Constitional Bonds and of the bonds
outstanding not retired as aforesaid.
; SECTION 2. BE it further resolUed, 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,
1885, and 1884, now in the hands of original
owners, who have in nOwise parted with
their right of ownership or pledged the
same us may be found to be equitably due
by said board for services rendered, labor
performed or materials furnished by att
thority of said board.
SECTION 3. Be il further resoJred 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 ut said election against said
amendment shall place on their ballots the
words, Against the City of New Orleans
debt amendment"
JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 154-AMEND-
MENT NO, 2.
Proposing to submit to the electors of
this State an amendment to article
two hundred twenty-nine l229l of the
Constitution of 1879, relative of Pub
lie Education"
SECTION l. Be it resoEred by the General
assembly Of the Stale Of Louisiana, t,eo-thirds
OF the members elected to each house concur
ring therein. That article two hunded and
twenty-Dine of the Constitution OF eigh-
teen hundred and seventy mine, be amend
ed and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
fows viz:
Article a29-The school funds OF the
State shall consist of: |. 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; 8. Of
lands and other property which may here
after be bequeathed, granted or donated
the State or generally for school purposes;
4, All funds or property tother than i'm
proved lantls), bequeathed or granted to
the State, of Louisiana. The Legislature
may appropriate to the same funds the
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 a tax for the public schools therein,
which shall not exceed five ~ mills on
the dollar, the vote Oh such tax to be
decided by a majority of the property tax
payers of each parish; Or each school ward
or municipality in each parish, in value
and in number voting at said election
and all moneys So collected to be expend-
ed in the school ward where levied. "Alt
elections under this act shall be ordered
by the Police Jury i'll the parish in which
the tax is proposed to be levied
SECTION q Be it further resolred, That
the above amendment to article two hum
dred and twenty-nine [229) be submitted
to the citizens of this State at the next
general election for their approval or
rejection. aud that upon all ballots east at
that election for State or parish officers
there shall be printed these words: For
amendment to article 229 of the Constitu-
ton" Against amendment to article 229
of the Constitution
Witness my signature and the seal OF
the State Of Louisiana at the City OF
Baton Rouge, this Goth day of Nov. 1891.
L. Fs MASON, Secretary of State.