The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1892-02-20
ABBEYILLE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 90 1892

! 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 aIlotmentS of Premium Bonds
/ and premiums eXtant in the hands OF
| holders, and after making provisions for
1 q sinking fund, at such time and Of such
an amount as the Legislature preseribes,
| the surplus OF said one per CENT shall be
/ disposed OF as prescribed by the Legisla-
| ture.
The act passed at the present session
| No. SO 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 its parts as q 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 1t further ges0lcGd, 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
SehoolDirectors for the city and parish Of
Orleans due for theyears 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 for services rendered, labor
performed or materials furnished by au-
thOrity of said board.
SECTION 3. Be ii further Fesolc8d etc.,
That all electors voting at said election
for said amendment shall place upon their
ballots the words, "For the city of New
Orleans debt amendment and the cleo
tors 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. 154-ABIEND-
MENT NO, 2.
Proposing to submit to the electors of
this State an amendment to article
two hundred twenty-nine t229) of the
Consti tuition OF 1873, relative of Pub
lie Education.n
assembly of the Stale Of Louisiana, tiUo-th9ds
of the members elected to each house c0Rea'-
ring theFeiR. That article two hunded and
tWenty-nine of the Constitution of eigh-
teen hundred and seyenty-nine, be amend
ed and re-enacted SO ais to read as fol-
fows, viz:
Article 229-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 allpublie lands heretofore |
and support of the public schools; 5, OF |
lands and other property which may here
after be beqneathed, granted or donated |
the State or generally for school purposes;
T. All funds or property (other than i'm
proved landsl, bequeathed or granted to |
the State, of Louisiana. The Legislature
may appropriate to the same funds the
proceeds in whole on in part, OF. public /
lands not designated for other purpose, |
and shall provide that every parish. or
every school ward i'll each parish, may |
levy a tax for the public schools therein,
which shall not exceed tive % mills on
the dollar, the vote ON such tax to be |
decided by 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 lie expend- |!
"a in the school ward where levied '.All
elections under this act shall be ordered
by the Police Jury in the paEiSh in which /
the tax is proposed to be levied"
SECTION 2. BE IL further resDtred, That
the above amendment to article two hum
lred 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 cast at
that election for State or parish officers
here shall be printed these words: For
to article 229 of the Constitu-
iiop,o Against amendment to article 800
IF the Constitution"
Witness my signature and the seal of
Jhe State of Louisiana at the City OF
Baton Rouge, this Goth day of Nov. 1891.
L. Z. MASON, Secretary of State.
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