The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-09-06
Proposed Amendments
TO the Constitution, To Be
Voted for at Election
To Be Held Tuesday, No.
vember 4.

|
vember 4.
Senate Bill No. ,I
| Act No. 56.)
JOINT RESOLUTION.
| Proposing amendment to Article Al OF
| the Constitution of the State of Louis.
| lana, relative to reCtifying and approx
| ing agreements Or contracts for works
of public Improvements made .,r entered
into by the City of New Orleans prior
to the I2th day OF May 1909. and to
authorize the City of New Orleans 10
make all payments hereunder in &C,
cordance with the terms and under the
conditions thereof.
Section 1. BE it resolved Ey the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana. two.
thirds of all the mcmters elected to each
House corcurrinG, That the following
amendment to Article Al of the Constitution
of the State Of Louisiana be submitted to
the electors of the State at the next Con
gressional election to be holden on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem-
Der, 1909, tG-wit:
That Article Al of the Constitution of the
State of Louisiana be amended SO as to read
as follows to witt
.sArtice Al: The General Assembly shall
have no power to grant or authorize any
parish or municipal authority TO grant any
extra conn en>ation, fee or allowance to Il
public officer, agent, servant, or contractor,
nor pay, nor authorize the payment of any
claim agairst the state or any parish or
municipality thereof, under any agreement
Is I. and Ill srch ,n,r.horita1 ,,raa,y
or con,,,r,s shaII h, mil and vo;J Inn, ali
agreements contracts for work of public
Improvements made or entered into by the
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proved and the CITY OF New ,,...o,- is
hereby authorized to make all payments
provided for in said contracts in accordance
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SENATE i''i' NO. ia
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JOINT RESO!-C HON
Proposing at amendment t., the Constitution
of the State of Louisiana bv repeating
and abronatinp Article One Hundred
and \inety-eisht (oS) thereof
Section l. BE it resolved by the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana two
thirds of all the. members elected to each
house concurrinu, that an amendment to the
Constitution Of the State of Louisiana be
submitted TO the uualihed electors of the
State for their approval or rejection a, the
next Congressional election to be holden
therein on the first Tuesday next following
The first Monday in November 1902, as fol
lows: That Article 1913 of the Constitution
of the State of Louisiana, which reads as
follows: No person less than sixty wears of
a.,,. Shall be permitted, TO vote at any cleo
non in tn State who shall not, in addition
90 tie ,uai;:runl:un, above prescribed, have
,,a,d on or before the sIs, day of December
Of each year, Tor The two years preceding
the YEAR in wh- i he offers to vote a poll
tax Of one tto:ar per annum, TO be used ex
vlu~ivcIv IN aih OF the public schools of the
parish, IN VIII CHI such shall have been
,rli,cr, Il: viii, h tax is hereby imposed on
very male resilient Of this State between
Ia age 1T tIrcnly-uue and sixty years.
T. II take. shall he Il len only upon assessed
Or, i,vrty. an no pro cSs snail issue TO en-
force the collection Of the same excep,
against ASSESSED property.
Every person liahlt for such tax shall,
efore being allowed to vote exhibit to tbs.
Commissioners of Election his poll tax re-
ceipts for two years. issued on the official
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