The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-09-20
Senate Bill No. "a.

Senate Bill No. "a.
Act No. 1927
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Amending Article 156 of the Consti.
tuition of the State of Louisiana.
BE it enacted by the General As
sembly 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
submitted to the qualified electors of
this State, an amendment to Article
156 of the Constitution of this State.
so that the same shall read as fol-
lows, to-wit:
Article 1856. All valid warrants Is
sued for salaries and authorized ex-
penses of the offices of the clerks of
the Civil District Court, Register of
Conveyances and Recorder of Mort
cages 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 Appeal
which are payable out of the special
Judicial expense fund provided for by
Article JAG of the Constitution of 1879.
as amended, and which shall be ont
standing and unpaid at the date of
the 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 de-
pendent.
The holders of said warrants NAV
present them within six months after
he adoption of this Constitution to
he Board of Liquidation of the CITY
1ebt, and receive therefor the bonds
authorized to be issued:
md the City of New Orleans is re-
nired. within three months from the
dQpfion of this Constitution. to pro-
ide for said warrants or claims. by
he issuance of bonds in the sum OF
wo hundred and twenty-five dollars.
r SO much thereof as may be neces-
ary; said bonds shall be for the face
alue of said warrants, in such de-
as the said Board of
liquidation shall recommend, and
hall be dated July LIST. 1898. and
'ade payable twenty-five years after
ate, or earlier, at the option of said
GARD, and shall bear four per cent.
sr annum interest, payable semi-an-
ally, and represented by interest
'upons attached thereto, the first Of
nd coupons payable, January list,
80; said bonds to be known as Ju- |
cia1 Expense Fund Bonds, and to be
gned by the Mayor and ComptrolIerl ?
The City of New Orleans, and de- I
erred to the Board of Liquidation of u
e City Debt and shall be counter. 9
yned by the President and Secre-
ry OF said Board and issued by said q
'ard to the holders of said warranta >
on surrender of same. Neither the u
ate OF Louisiana nor the CITY If 5
w Orleans shall ever be liable for.I II
z payment of said bonds nor The in N
est thereon, except from the specisI a.
nd herein provided for, .nd ary APP u
opriation or liner provision there =
made by the State or City shall be =
Il and void. There shall he stamped %
TOSS the face of said bonds the On
rds: ISSUED in accordance with %
ticle 156 Of the Constitution of az
aislana OF 1885, The Clerk of tie
II District Court, Register of Com
ances and Recorder Of Mortgages ii,
the Parish of Orleans, and the
rks Of the City Courts Of New Or
as, shall keen accurate AMI detailed Of
cunts in books tc be used txclu-
~ zor that purpose of all fees and
rges collected IN their .,fliees..
rtiveiy, ami they shall furnish. a
y. to tn. City Comptroller, tran.
pts Of said accounts duly verified