The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-09-13
No. IS7 }
senate Bill No. 81,


JoA-fA hIocLe ~
amending Article Ts6 of the Constitution of 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
CongreSsmen 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 IS6 Ell the
constitution OF this state, so that the same shall
read a. follows, to Nwr:
Article Is6. All valid warrants issued for
salaries and authorized expenses OF the Offices of
tie 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 e rticie I46 of the Constitution of
1870, as amended and which shall be outstanding
and unpaid at the date of adoption of this ton
%stltution 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 be necessary; said bonds shall be for the
face value OF said warrants, in such denofnina-
tons as the said Board of Liquidation shall rec.
ommend, and shall be dated July 1st, 1893, and
made payable twenty-five years after date, or
earlier, at the option of said Board, and shall
bear four per cent per annur interest, payable
semi-annually, and represented by interest cou-
pons attached thereto, the first of said coupons
payable January Ist, 1869; said bond to be known
as Judicial Expense fund Bonds and to be
signedzby the Mayor and Comptroller of the CITY
of New Orleans, and delivered to the Board of
Liquidation OF the 18th Debt and shall be coun.
tersigned 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 ) ate OF Louisiana nor the City Of New Or
leans shall ever be liable for the payment of said
bonds nor the interest thereon, except from the
special fund herein provided fer, 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 1885," 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
: ourts 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
and said officers shall also daily paw
into the Treasury of the City of New Orleans the
whole amount of fees and charges so collected.
From the amounts thus paid into the City Treas
"Iy N"~ uSol shall SCJ dDltI aIIu CSS1NG
twenty per cent out of which shall first be paid
the expenses necessary for the preparation and
of the aforesaid bonds, and thereafter
same shall be used solely and exclusively TO
retire the bonds issued in payment of said fudi.
cial Expense Fund warrants and interest thereon,
and the certificates of the Comptroller hereinafter
and upon the second Tuesday in
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
he-Board OF Liquidation of the City Debt, until
all the bonds herein authorized baIra bea, ra+;~aJ
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 by 1t, shall, after paving the semi
annual interest on said bonds purchase or re-
deem with such money thus set apart as NAV
have accumulated, and with the surplus of the
eighty per cent as hereinafter provided, |
as many of said bonds as said money will buy or
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 Liuui.
dalton Immediately Cancelled, and a record made
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 the
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
ottIces as are not required to be paid by the CITY
OF New Orleans; and the surplus of said eighty
per cent, if any. shall be paid by the Treasurer
to the said Board of Liquidation, and shall be
used to redeem or pay saidbonds and certificates
as hereinbefore and hereafter provided. But if
said eighty per cent during the six months end
ing Juiy 3,st or January 3ist OF any year, should
prove inadequate to pay said salaries and exper-
the Comptroller shall prorate the deficit
among those entitled to payment and shall Issue
certlhcates therefor in sums not less than ten dol
lars, winch shall bear interest at the ratio Of f5ar
per cent per annum from date, and said interest
shall be paid annually, but the principal OF
certificates shall be paid from the funds t
herein set apart and reserved only after all the