The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-10-09
joint JOIN RESOLUTION

IL JOkNI nE0OAOIIONs 5EE
Amending Article 156 Of the Constitution
Of tho State Of Louisiana. #
Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of the State of Louisiana, . 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 tho month of November,
1902, there shall be submitted to the
qualified electors of this State an
amendment to Article 166 of the Consti-
tuition Of this State, 80 that the same
shall read as follows, to-w1t:
Article i56. 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 paovided for by
Article 146 OF the Constitution of 1879, as
amended, and which shall be outstanding
and unpaid at the date Of 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 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 30 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, 1888, and made payable
twenty-five years after date. or earlier,
at the option of said Board, and shall
bear per cent. per annum interest,
payable semi-annually, and represented
by interest coupons attached thereto.
the first Of said coupons payable January
list, 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 ftom the special
fund herein provided for, and any app
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: ''Issu-
ed in accorcance with Articles 1856 OF the
Constitution of Louisiana of 1885," The
Clerk OF the Civil District Court, Reg
lister OF Conveyances and Recorder Of
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 accounts
duly certified by them or by their au-
thority. and said officers shall alsy daily
pay into the Treasury Of the City Of New
Orleans the whole amount Of fees and
charges 30 collected. From the amounts
thus paid into the City Treasury the
Treasurer shall set apart and reserve
twenty per cent out Of which shall first
be paid the expenees necessary for the
preparation and execution of the afore-
said bonds, and thereafter the same shall
be used solely and exclusively to retire
the bonds issued in payment Of said Ju-
dicial Expense Fund warrants and in
terest thereon, and the certificate OF the
Comptroller hereinafter authorized; and
upon the second Tuesday in December
and june OF every year the said Treas
urer shall pay said Treasurer shall nav
said amonsts 90 reserved, and also the
amounts received from the Civil Sheriff.
to the Board Of Liquidation of the City
Debt, until all the bonds herein author
lied have been retired or paid; and on
the second Tuesday in FEBRUARY and Au-
gust OF every year, said Board Of Liqui-
dation, in accordance with rules to be
adopted and made public by it. shall.
after paying the semi-annual interest ON
said bonds, purchase or redeem with such
money thus set apart as may have accu-
mulated, and with the surplus of the
remaining eighty per cent as hereinafter
provided, as many of said bonds az said
money viii buy or redeem, preference
being given to holders offering at the
lowest rate; and all such bonds 90 pur-
chased or redeemed shall be by said Board
OF Liquidation immediately Cancelled.
and q record made thereof. 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
tuted and until the election Of the clerk
OF the said court, as above provided,
together with such authorized expenses
OF said Offices 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
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