The Bossier banner., 1892-03-31
PRONUNCIATION.
Proposed Amendments to the Con-
stitution of the State of Louisiana,
Adopted by the General Assembly
in 1890.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, /

in 1881.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Office of the Secretary of State. }
Fn pursuance of the provisions OF the Constl-
L tuition, publication is hereby. made and
giyen 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 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. ll0 and 154, 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. 1892, lit being the Tuesday next follow
ing the third Monday of said month"; in such
manner and form that the qualified electors
may vote for or against each amendment
separately; andif majority of the qualified
electors, voting at said election, shall approve
and ratify all or either of said proposed amend
ment,, then snch proposed amendments, or
either of them, go approved and ratihed; snali
become part of the Constitution OF this State.
JOlNI RESOLU1lON NJ. 1lu-AMCND-
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 q 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
ton, 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 it may find to be equitably due
by said board"
Section l. BE it resolged by The Senate aud
House of Representatives of the State of Loui-
sia1aa tCo-hirds 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 next election for Representatives for the
General Assembly in the year 1892, tor 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 50 of 1882
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. 81 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 be known as the Constitutional
ceeding ten millions OF dollars, at fifty years,
bearing four per cent. per annnm 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 COnstitu-
| 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, 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 mills and two-tenths of a mill on the
| dollar of valuation DOW levied for all purposes
| by the city of New Orleans, and the said tax
shall be paid over as collected to, aud be ap-
piled by the Board of Liquidation. to the pay
| ment of the interest and 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
ims extent, in the hands of holders.
Said tax is hereby declared to be the contract
/
exemption of said Constitutional Bonds from
all taxation by the City of New Orleans and
| 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
| sueh time and of such an amount as the Legis
lature prescribes, the surplus of said one pei
cent shall be disposed of as prescribed by the
i Legislature.
| The act passed at the present session No. 81
entitled IAN act to carry into effect the Con
| stitutional amendment passed at the present
| session relative to the bond debt of the City o1
| 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 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 anG
assume the payment of the claims or ob!iga
| tiOns of the B ,ard of School Directors for the
city and parish of Orleans due for the years
1880, 1881, 1882 1888 and 1884 now in the hand.
| of original owners, who have in nOwise parted
| with their right of ownership or pledged thu
same, as may be found to be equitably due b.,
said board for services rendered, labor per
| lUruuou Or MdI0TIals IuFul5neu ny auUnOrlty o
said board.
SECTION 3. Bell further resolved, etc.. Tha
all electors voting at said election for sait
amendme MT shall place upon their ballots tn,
words, "For the city of New Orleans deb
amendment" and all electors voting at sait
| election against said amendment shall plac,
on their ballots the words, Against the Cit,
of New Orleans debt amendment"
JOINT RESOLUTION NO. I54-AMEND
MENT NO. 9.
Proposing to submit to the electors of thf
State an amendment to article two hundre.
and twenty-nine (229) of the Constitution O
1879, relative to Public Education"
SECTION 1. Be 1t resolUcd by the Genera
assembly of The State of Louisiana, t,co-ttiTG
Of the members elected to each house concaY7in
| therein, That article two hundred and twenty
nine of the Constitution of eighteen hundret
and seventy-nine, be amended and re-enacte,
so as to read as follows, viz:
Article 229-The school funds of this Stat
shall consist of |. The proceeds of to xation fO
school purposes as provided in this Constitu
tioD 2, The interest on the proceeds of all publ
lands heretofore granted by the United State
for the use and support of the public schools