The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-10-18

Senate Bill NO. 81.
Act No. 1927
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Amending Article 1856 of the Constitution of
the State of Louisiana.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
the State of Louisiana, a majority of both
Houses concurring, 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 sub
| mitted to the qualified electors of this State,
an amendment to Article 1856 of the Cons,i
tuition of this State, that the same shall
read follows, to-wit:
Article 1856. All valid warrants issued
for salaries and authorized expenses of the
Offices of the clerks of the Civil District
Court, Register of Conveyances and Re-
corder of Mortgages for the parish of Or
leans, of the Clerks of the City Courts of
the City of New Orleans, and for salaries
of the Clerks of the Court of Appeal, which
are payable out Of the special judicial ex
pense fund provided for by Article 146 of
the Constitution OF 1879, amended, and
which shall be outstanding and unpaid at
the date of the adoption of this constitution.
or which shall e issued for the current
month in which this Constitution is adopted,
are hereby declared to be valid and subsist-
ing claims against the revenues of the re-
spective Offices upon which said fund was
made dependent.
them within six months after the adoption
of this Constitution to the Board IF Liquida
ton of the City Debt, and receive therefor
the bonds hereinafter authorized to be is
sued; and the City of New Orleans is
quired, within three months from the adop-
ton of this Constitution, to provide for said
warrants Or claims, by the issuance of bonds
in the sum of Two hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars, SO much thereof may
be necessary; said bonds shall be for the
face value OF said warrants, in such denomi-
nations as the said Board of Liquidation
shall recommend, and shall be dated July /,
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after date. or earlier, at the option of said
Board, and shall bear four per cent per
mum interest, payable semi annually, and
represented by interest coupons attached
thereto, the first of said coupons payable
January I, 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 tor the payment of said
bonds nor the interest thereon, except from
the special fund herein provided for, and
any appropriation or other provision there
for made by the State city shall be null
and void. There shall be stamped across
the face of said bonds the words: ''Issued
in accordance with Article 1856 of the Con
stitution of Louisiana of 1885, The Clerk
of the Civil District Court, Register of Con
veyances and Recorder of Mortgages for the
Parish of Orleans, and the Clerks of the
City Courts of New Orleans, shall keep ac-
curate and detailed accounts in books to be
used exclusively for that purpose of all fees
and charges collected in their offices, re-
spectively, and they shall furnish. daily, to
the City Comptroller, transcripts of said &C
counts duly certified by them or by their
authority, and said officers shall also daily
pay into the Treasury of the City of New
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charges SO collected. From the amounts
thus paid into the City Treasury the Treas
urer shall set apart and reserve twenty per
cent out of which shall first be paid the ex-
penses necessary for the preparation and ex-
ecution of the aforesaid bonds. and there
after the same shall be used solely and ex-
clusively TO retire the bonds issued in pay
| ment of said Judicial Expense Fund war
nd thereon f.