The Lafayette gazette., 1900-09-22
House Bill No. 73-By Mr.. B. T. Young:
| Joint RESOLUTION

Proposing an Amendment to Article 3o3 Of
the Constitution of the State of louisiana.
Section One. Be it enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly of the State of louisiana,
House coucurring, That Article Three Hum
dred and Three of the Constitution of the
State of Louisiana be SO amended to read
as follows:
Eight ($Sj Dollars per month shall be al
lowed to each Confederate soldier or sailor
veteran, who possesses all of the following
qualifications:
Ist. He shall have served hoEorably
from the date of his enlistment to the close
of the late Civil War. until he was dis
charged or paroled, in some military organi
cation regularly mustered into the Army or
Navv of the Confederate States, and shall
have remained true to the Confederae States
until the surrender.
and. He shall be in INDECENT circum-
stances, and unable to earn livelihood by
his own labor and skill.
3rd. He shall not be salaried other
wise provided for by the State of Louisiana,
or by any other State or Government.
In case he enlisted in any organization
mustered into said service as Louisiana Or
ganization, OF in case at the date of his en-
listment he resided in the State of Louisiana,
he shall have resided in this State for at
least hve years prior to his application for
pension. In case he resided elsewhere than
in this State, and enlisted in an organization
not mustered in from Louisiana, or in the
Navy of the Confederate States, he shall
have resided in this State for at least fifteen
years prior to his application for such pen
sion. A like pension shall be granted to
the widow who shall not have married
again, in lndigent circumstances, of such
soldier or sailor whose marriage to her was
contracted prior to January Ist 1870, pro-
vided, that if her deceased husband served
in an organization mustered in from Louis
lana, or if he resided in Louisiana at the
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for one year prior thereto, then in order
that such widow shall be entitled to the
pension as herein provided, she shall have
resided in this State for at least five years
prior to her application therefor; and if her
deceased husband enlisted elsewhere than
in louisiana, and served in an organization
not mustered in from Louisiana such widow
shall, in order to entitle her to pension as
herein provided, have resided in this State
for not less than fifteen years prior to her
further, that pensions whether to veterans
or to widows, shall be allowed only from
the date of application under this article,
and the total appropriations for all pensions
shall not be less than fifty thousand dollars
nor more than seventy-five thousand dollars
in any one year, provided that nothing in
this Article shall be construed to pro-
hibit the General Assembly from providing
artificial limbs to disabled Confederate
soldiers sailors.
Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That this proposed amendment be submit
ted to the qualified voters OF the State of
Louisiana for adoption or rejection at the
Congressional election to be holden in No
vember, 1900.
J.Y. SANDERS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ALBERT ESTOPINAL,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate. Approved July 6, 1900.
w. w. aEARD,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
JOHN +. MICHEL,
Secretary of State.