Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1902-10-24
Senate Bill No. 81
JOINT RESOLUTION

Amending Article 158 Of the Corstt
tuition of the State of LOUISIANA.
Be it enacted by the General Assem-.
bly, of the State of Louisians, a ma.
ierity of both Houses concurring,
That at the next general election foi
Congressmsn to be held in this State
on the first Tuesday in the month oi
November, 1902, that there shall be
subm itted to the qualified electors oi
this State, an amendment to Article
l56 of the Constitution of this State,
20 that the same shall read as follows.
to-wit:
Article loo. All valid warrants II
sued for salaries and authorized ex
penses of the Offices of the clerks Of
the Civil District Court, Register OF
Conyeyances and Recorder of Mort
cages for the parish of Orleans, of ths
Clerks of the City Courts OF the city
Of New Orleans, and for salaries oi
.he Clerks of ihe Court of Appeal.
hich are payable out OF the special
judicial expense fund provided for by
Article 146 of the Constitution Of 1879,
as amended, and which shall be out.
standing and unpaid at the date Of ths
adoption of this constitution, or which
shall be issued for the current month
in which this Constitution is adopted,
are hereby declared to be valid and
subsisting clsims against the revenues
Of the respective Offices upon whict
said fund was made dependent.
The holders OF said warrants may
present them within six months aftel
the adoption of this Constitution tc
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 re
quired, within three months from thu
adoption Of this Constitution, to pro
vide for said warrants or claims, b!
the issuance of bonds. in the sum o
Two hundred and twenty-five thous
and dollars, or SO much thereof a
may be necessary; said bonds shall b
for the face value Of said warrants, il
such denominations as the said Boar
Of Liquidation shall recommend, an
shall be dated July 1st, 1893, AIT
made payable twenty-five years afte
date, or earlier, at the option OF sal
Board, and shall bear four per cen
per annum interest. payable semi-an
nually, and represented by interel
coupons attached thereto, tho first G
said coupons payable January 1si
1899; said bonds to be known as Ju
dicial Expense Fund Bonds, and to b
signed by the Mayor and Comptrolle
of the City of New Orleans. and do
livered to the Board of Liquidation {
the City Debt aud shall be countel
signed by the President and Secretar
of said Board and issued by sal
Board to the holders of said warrant
upon surrender OF same. Neither Ii
State OF Louisiana nor the City (
! New Orleans shall ever be liable f
the payment of said bonds nor the Il
terest thereon, except from the spe
isl fund herein provided for, ard an
appropriation or her provision there
for made by the State or oil
shall be null and void. There shs
be stamped across the face Of sai
bonds the words: . Issued in accor
ance with Article l56 of the Constit
: ton Of Louisiana oi l89S." III
Clerk Of the Civil Disirics Co srt, Re
, ister of Conveyances and Recorder
Mortgages for the Parish of Orleau
and the Clerks OF the City Courts
: New Orleans, shall keep accurate an
detailed accounts in books 10 be us
: exclusively for that purpose Of all fe
snd charges collected in their Office
: respectively, and they shall furnis
daily to the City Comptroller, ira
scripts OF said accounts duly certiti
. by them or by their authority, a
said officers shall also daily pay in
I the Treasury Of the City of New {
! leans the whole amount OF fees a
4 charges SO collected. From I
4 amounts thus paid into the O
: Treasury the Treasurer shall set sp
: and reserve twenty per cent out
. which shall first be paid the expenl
u necessary for the preparation and |
b eculiop of the. aforesaid bonds, a
) thereafter the same shall be US
y solsly and exclusively to retire
i bonds issued in payment Of said
n dicial Expense Fund warrants and
}, forest thereon, and the certificates
II the Comptroller hereinafter auth
i ICED; and upon the second Tuesday
% December and June o; every y
= the said Treasurer shall pay s
n amounts so reserved, and also
Is amounts received from the Civil Sh
Il If, 10 the Board Of Liquidation of