The Bossier banner., 1892-03-24
PRONUNCIATION.
Proposed Amendments to the Con-
stitutiOn of the State of Louisiana,
Adopted by the General Assembly
in 1890.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, ]

\ pursuance OF the provisions OF the COnStl-
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, 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. ITO 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; 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 of the Constitution OF this State.
JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 1l0-AMEND-
MENT NO. 1.
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 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
tion, 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 resofged By the Senate and
House of Representatives. of the State of Loui-
siana, t,c0-t,irds of all the members elected to
each house concuTing, 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. SO of I88-
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
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
u6 SAlu DOnuS snail De applied
by the said board to the retirement of said
outstanding bonds and judgments, by the sale
OF said Constitutional Bonds, and applications
OF the proceeds of sale by the Board of Liqui-
dation, to pay or purchase said outstanding
bonds aud judgments, or by exchanging tho
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 ali
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 mill on the
dollar OF valuation DOW 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 and principal at maturity
of said Constitutional Bonds, and outstapd.
ing bonds not retired, and to the payment OF
the allotments of Premium Bonds and prem
inns extent, i'll 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
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
such time and of such an amount as the Legis-
lature prescribes, the surplus of said one Der
cent shall be disposed of as prescribed by the
Legislature.
The act passed at the present session No. sc
entitled IAN act TO carry into effect the Con-
Stltutlonal 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 a contract
between the City of New Orleans aud the
holders of said Constitutional Bonds Premium
Bonds and of the bonds outstanding not re.
5ired as aforesaid.
SECTION2. Be it further resoLred, ETC., That
'he city OF New Orleans be and is hereby an
'horized and empowered to examine into and
assume the payment of the claims or obliga-
ions of the Board of School Directors for the |
'lty and parish of Orleans due for the wears
$50, 1881, 1882, 1883 and 1884, now in the hands
II original owners, who have in nowise parted
With their right of ownership or pledged the |
anne, as may be found to be equitably due by |
ald board tor services rendered, labor per |
ormed or materials furnished by authority of !
aid board
SECTION 3. Belt further resolved, etc., That |
vi electors voting at said election for said |
MT shall place upon their ballots the |
words, For the city of New Orleans debt
and all electors voting at said |
lection against said amendment shall place |
n their ballots the words, Against the CITY |
# New Orleans debt amendment"
OINT RESOLUTION NO. I54-AMEND- |
MENT NO.2
Proposing to submit to the electors of this |
State an amendment to article tvo hund raJ
and twenty-nine (229) of the Constitntion nf /
1879, relative to Public Education.
SECTION l. Be IL rcsolred by The General /
issembty Of the State of Louisiana, t,oo-thi,ds
the members elected 10 each house concuyrin0
herein, That article two hundred and twenty
inc OF the Constitution of eighteen hundred |
nd seventy-nine, be amended and re-enacted
0 as to read as follows, viz:
Article 2%9-The school funds of this State
hall consist of. / The nrnnaoda oE 70 49, - |