The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-10-25
senate Bill N o. 81.
Act No. IS5.)
Joint RESOLUTION
Amending Article $50 sof. !theI constitution o: til
state of louisiana

JOINT RESOLUTION
Amending Article $50 sf. !theI constitution o; the
state OF louisiana
Be 1t enacted by the General Assembly Of the
state of Louisiana, a majority OF both houses con
curing, That at the next general election for
congressman to be held in this state on the first
Tuesday in the month of November, 1902, that
there shall be submitted to the qualified electors
OF this state, an amendment to Article 1856 eff the
constitution OF this state, SO that the same shall
read as follows, to-wit:
salaries and authorized expenses of the offices of
the clerks of the Civil District Court, Register of
Conveyances and Recorder of Mortgages for the
parish OF Orleans, of the Clerks of the City Courts
of the City of New Orleans, and for salaries of
the Clerks of the Court OF ppeal, which are
payable out of the special judicial expense fund
provided for by Article I46 of the Constitution of
1879, as amended, and which shall be outstanding
and unpaid at the date of adoption of this Con
~stitution or which shall be issued for the current
month in which this Constitution is adopted,
are hereby declared to BE valid and subsisting
claims against the revenues of the respective
Offices upon which said fund was made depend
ent.
The holders of said warrants may present them
! within six months after the adoption of this Con
| stitution to the Board of Liquidation of the city
Debt, and receive therefor the bonds hereinafter
authorized to be issued; and the City of New
Orleans is required, within three months from
the adoption of this Constitution, to provide for
said warrants or claims by the issuance of
bends in the sum of Two hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
may he necessary; said bonds shall be for the
face value of said warrants. in such denomina-
tons as the said Board of Liquidation shall rec
ommend, and shall be dated July Ist, 1898, and
made payable twenty five years after date, or
earlier, at the option of said Board, and shah
bear four per cent per anaufa interest, payable
seri-annuaiiy, and represented by interest coG.
pons attached thereto, the first of said coupons
payable January ,st, 1899; said bond to be known
as Judicial Expense Fund Bonds and to be
signed by the Mayor and Comptroller OF the City
Of New Orleans, and delivered to the Board of
Liquidation of the it'll Debt and shall be couR.
terstgned by the President and Secretary of said
Board and issued by said Board to the holders of
said warrants upon surrender of same Neither
the s ate of Louisiana nor the City OF New Or.
leans shall ever be liable Tor the payment of said
bonds nor the interest thereon, except from the
special fund herein provided for, and any appro.
priation or other provision therefor made by the
State or city shall be null and void. There shall
be sta ped across the face of said bonds the
words: 'Issued in accordance with Article I56 of
the Constitution of louisiana OF 1895" The
Clerk of the Civil District Court, Register Of
Conveyances and Recorder of Mortgages for the
Parish of Orleans. and the Clerks of the City
Courts of New orleans, shall keep accurate and
detailed accounts in books to be used exclusively
for that purpose of all fees and charges collected
in their Offices respectively, and they shall fur
nish, daily, to the City comptroller, transcripts OF
said accounts duly certified by them or by their
authority, and said officers shall also daily pay I
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whole amount of fees and charges SO collected.
From the amounts thus paid into the City Treas
ury the Treasurer shall set apart and reserve
twenty per cent out IF which shall first be paid
the expenses necessary for the preparation and
execution of the aforesaid bonds, and thereafter
the same shall be used solely and exclusively to
retire the bonds issued in payment of said Judi
cial Expense Fund warrants and interest thereon,
and the certificates of the Comptroller hereinafter
authorized; and upon the second Tuesday in
December and June of every year the said Treas
urer shall pay said amounts SO reserved, and also
the amounts received from the Civil Sheriff, to
the~Board of Liquidation of the City Debt, until
all the bonds herein authorized have been retired
or paid and on the second. Tuesday in February !
and August of every year, said BOARD of Liquida:
ton, in accordance with rules to be adopted and
made public byit, shall, after paying the semi
annual interest on said bonds purchase or re-
deem with such money thus set apart as may
have accumulated, and with the surplus Of the
remaining eighty per cent as hereinafter provided,
as many of said bonds as said money will buy or
redeem, preference being given to holders offering
at the lowest rate and all such bonds so purchas-
ed or redeemed shall be by said Board of Liqui-
dation Immediately cancelled, and a record made
thereof. From the remaining eighty per cent of
said fund there shall be paid monthly the current
salaries and expenses of the offices from which
the same is derived, including the salary of sthe
docket and minute clerks of the Court of Appeal,
as now constituted and until the election of the
clerk OF the said court, as above provided to-
gether with such authorized expenses of said
Offices as are not required to be paid by the City
of New Orleans; and the surplus of said eighty
pei ACIlly IL any Shall uG pau " LHC dSu
to the said Board of Liquidation, and shall be
used to redeem or pay said bonds and certificates
as hereinbefore and hereafter provided. But if
said eighty per cent during the six months end
ing July 3Ist or January 3Ist of any year, should
prove inadequate to pay said salaries and expen-
ses, the Comptroller shall prorate the deficit
among those entitled to payment and shall issue
certificates therefor in sums not less than ten dol
lars, which shall bear interest at the rate of four
per cent per annum from date, and said interest
shall be paid annually, but the principal OF
said certificates shall he maid ff0m fbA finds t
herein Set apart and reserved only after all the
bonds issued in payment of outstanding war
rants shall have first been redeemed or paid.
All disbursements from said fund for station
shall be made upon the requisition of the
officers requiring same; said requisition to be
approved by the mayor of the City of New Or
leans; and in all cases such disbursements and
salaries shall be paid by the Treasurer of
the City of New Orleans upon warrants drawn
against said fund by the Comptroller of said city, !
approved, so far as the Civil District Court is con.
Office of Register of Conveyances, by the Mayor
of the { ity OF New Orleans ard for the Offices
the respective city courts by the Judge or
of Appeal by one of the judges thereof. Until
the full and final payment of alf said bonds and
hereinbefore provided for the salaries
of the employees of the various offices hereinafter
namep shall remain as now fixed BY law. and
there Shall be no increase in the number Of en-
p!oyees now authorized by law for the offices of
r ecorder OF mortgages or register of conveyances,
otherwise ordered by the Civil District
Court sitting en- Ia c; and the number of EN-.
Of the Civil District curt shall be as
determined by 4 majority OF the Judges thereof,
The Clerks Of the first and second city courts.
until the organization OF the city courts hereinbe.
pIov!nsd tor, may each appoint with the
approval Of the Judges thereof. an additional dep.
uty clerk At fifty dollars per month but no other
employers, nor larger salaries than those now
hzca by law, shall be allowed TO the city courts
The said BOARD q Liquidation hereinbetore
named shall have the right to reject any and
all bids made fer the REDEMPTION of bonds
issued rs hereina5ove provided, and should
thcre be no bids, OF none accepted. then said
Board OF Liquidation OF the second Tuesday