The Bossier banner., 1892-02-11
PRONUNCIATION.
Proposed Amendments to the Con-
stitutiOn of the State of Louisiana,
Adopted by the General Assembly
in 1890.
STATE OF LOUISIANA. J

Office of the Secretary of State. :
Tn pursuance of The provisions OF the Constr
Il tution, publication is hereby made and
given to the Qualifed electors of the State OF
Louisiana OF the proposed amendments to the
of this State, which have been
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
$780, 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 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 10Th 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 a 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. 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
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 1. Be 1t resoEged By Ue Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of LOsti-
sia,,a, tlcO-tltirds of all the members elected to
each house cOneurring, 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 1899, 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 oflS82
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 be known as the Constitutional
Bonds of the City of New Orleans not ex-
eeeding 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
q I'd principal at maturity, of said Constitu-
tiOnal Bonds, and other outstanding bonds not
tired 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 mills 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 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
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
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, at
such time and of such an amount as the Legis-
lature prescribes, the surplus of said one per
cent shall be disposed of as prescribed by the
Legislature.
The act passed at the present session No Sc
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 aud the
holders of said Constitutional Bonds, Premium
Bonds and of the bonds outstanding not re-
tired as aforesaid.
SECTIoN2. Be it further rcsolEed, 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.
tions of the Board of School Directors for the
city and parish of Orleans due for the years
1880, 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
said board tor services rendered, labor per
formed or materials furnished by authority OF
said board.
SECTION 3. Belt further resolved, etc., That
all electors voting at said election for said
ainendmt mt shall place upon their ballots the
words, 'FOr the city of New Orleans debt
| amendment" and all electors voting at said
election against said amendment shall place
on their ballots the words, Against the CITY
of New Orleans debt amendment"
JOINT RESOLUTION NO. IA-AMEND
MENT NO. g
Proposing to submit to the electors of thi,
State an amendment to article two hundred
and twenty-nine (229) of the Constitution O
1879, relative to Public Education"
| SECTION l. Be IL resolued by the Genera
assembly of the State of Louisiana, t,co-thirol.
of the members elected to each house cOncurrin,
therein, That article two hundred and twenty
nine of the Constitution of eighteen hundred
and seventy mine, be amended and reenacted
| so as to read as follows, viz:
| Article 229-The school funds of this Stat.
shall consist of l. The proceeds of tn xation 20,