The Bossier banner., 1902-09-11

(Signed) ALBERT ESTOPINAL,
Lieutenant Governor and President OF
the Senate.
Approved: July 9th, A. D. 1902.
w. w. HEARD,
Governor of the State OF Louisiana.
A true copy:
JOHN r. MICHEL,
Secretary of State.
Act No. 1927 Senate Bill No. "a.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Amending Article 156 of the Constitution
of the State of Louisiana.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly
OF the State of Louisiana, a major
ity of both Houses concurring, That at
the next general election for Congress
men to be held IN this State on the first
Tuesday in the month of November,
1902, there shall be submitted to the
qualified electors of this State an
| amendment to Article 1856 of the Consti-
tuition of this State, so that the same
shall read as follows, to-w1t:
Article 156. All valid warrants issued
| for salaries and authorized expenses OF
the Offices of the clerks of the Civil Dis
trict Court, Register OF Conveyances and
| Recorder of Mortgages for the parish OF
! Orleans, of the Clerks of the City Courts
of City of New Orleans, and for salaries
of the Clerks of the Court of Appeal,
which are payable out of the special
| judicial expense fund provided for by
amended, and which shall be outstanding
and unpaid at the date of adoption OF
this Constitution, or which shall be
| cd fHysf y, nh
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
dependent.
The holders of said warrants may
/ present them within six months after the
adoption of this Constitution to the
Board OF Liquidation of the City Debt,
and receive therefor the bonds hereinar-
ter authorized to be issued; and the City
of New Orleans is required, within three
months from the adoption of this Con-
stitution, to provide for said warrants or
claims, by the issuance of bonds in the
sum of two hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary; said bonds shall be
for the face value of said warrants, in
such denominations as the said Board of
Liquidation shall recommend and shall
be dated July list, 1893, and made payable
twenty five years after date, or earlier,
at the option of said Board, and shall
bear 4 per cent. per annum interest,
payable semi annually, and represented
by interest coupons attached thereto,
the first of said coupons payable January
1st, 1899; said bonds 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 City
Debt and shall be countersigned 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 State of Louisiana nor the
City of New Orleans shall ever be liable
J for the payment of said bonds nor the
interest thereon, except ftom the special
fund herein provided for, and any ap-
preparation or other provision therefor
made by the State or city shall be null
and void. There shall be stamped across
the face of said bonds the words: sIssu-
ed in accorcance with Articles 1866 of the
Constitution of Louisiana of 1885," The
Clerk of the Civil District Court, Reg
lister of Conveyances and Recorder o1
Mortgages for the Parish of Orleans and
, the Clerks of the City Courts of New Or
leans, 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 furnish, daily, to the CITY
Comptroller, transcripts of said acco unit
! duly certified by them or by their au'
| thority, and said officers shall alsy dali,
/ pay into the Treasury of the City Of New
. Orleans the whole amount of fees ant
+ charges so collected. From the amount
r thus paid into the City Treasury thu
T Treasurer shall set apart and reserv
: twenty per cent out of which shall frs
D be paid the expences necessary for tn
preparation and execution of the afore
, said bonds, and thereafter the same shal
8 be used solely and exclusively to retir
u the bonds issued in payment OF said Ju
r dicial Expense Fund wsrrants and in
terest thereon, and the certificate of tn
:, Comptroller hereinafter authorized; an
+ upon the second Tuesday in Decembe
J, and June of every year the said Treas
: urer shall pay said Treasurer shall pa
?, said amonsts 30 reserved, and also tn
d amounts received from the Civil Sherif
l. to the Board of Liquidation of the Cit
Debt, until all the bonds herein author
:, lied have been retired or paid; and O
'e the second Tuesday in FEBRUARY and Au
le gust OF every year, said Board OF Liqu
dation, in accordance with rules to
adopted and made public by it, shal
8. after paying the semi annual interest {
said bonds, purchase or redeem with sue
OF money thus set apart as may have accl
mulated, and with the surplus OF Il
remaining eighty per cent as hereinaft
provided. as many of said bonds as sa
q. money will buy or redeem, preferen