The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-09-20
Senate Bill No. 81.
Act No. 1922
JOINT RESOLU rIO\.

JOINT RESOLJ ZION.
Amending Article SO of the Constitution of
the State of Louisiana.
BE it enacted by the General Assembly of
the State of Louisiana, ma Jority of both
Houses concurrng, That at the next general
election for Congressman to be held in this
State on the first Tuesday in the month of
November, 1909, that there shall be sub
ntted to the qualified electors of this State,
an amendment, to Article 1856 of the Const-
tuition of this State, so 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 ont of the special judicial eN-
pense fund provided for by Article I46 of
the Constitution of 1870, as amended, and
which shall be outstanding 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 subsst-
ing claims against the revenues of the re-
spective offices upon which said fund was
made dependent.
The holders of said warrants may present
them within sin months after the adoption
of this CONSTITUTIONS to the Board of liquida-
| ton of the City Debt, and receive therefor
| the bonds hereinafter authorized to be is
sued; and the City of New Orleans is re-
| quired, within three months from the adop-
ton of this Constitution, TO provide for said
warrants claims, by the issuance of bonds
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 denoni-
nations the said Board of Liquidation
| shall recommend, and shall be dated July l,
1905, and made payable twenty five years
after date. earlier, At the option OF said
Board, and shall bear four per cent per an
mum interest, payable semi annually, ano,
represented by interest coupons attached
thereto the first of said coupons payable
January I, 1900: 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 countcrsigned by the President and
Secretary of said Board and issued by said
Board to the holders of said warrants upor
surrender of Neither the State OF
Louisiana nor the City of New Orleans shall
ever be liable tor the payment Of sale
bonds nor the interest thereon, except from
the special fund herein provided for, ano
any appropriation or other provision there
, fo- made by the State city shall be null
l and void. There shall be stamped across
the face of said bonds the words: ''lssuee
: in accordance with Article $50 of the Con
S s,i,ution OF Louisiana of 1905 The Clerl
of the Civil District Court. Register of Con
veyances and Reco, der of Mortgages for thu
, Parish of Orleans, and the Clerks OF thu
: City Courts of New Orleans, shall keep ac
5 Curate and detailed accounts in books to b.
e used exclusively for that purpose of all fee
f and charges collected in their offices, re
spec,ively, and they shall furnish, daily, t
, the City Comptroller, transcripts of said &C
: counts duly certified by them Or by thei
e authority, and SAID officers shall also dali
d, pay into the Treasury Of the City of Ne>
Y Orleans the whole amount of fees an
r charges collected. From the amount
h thus paid into the City Treasury the Treas
= urer Shall set apart and reserve twenty pc
S cent out of which shall first be paid the e>
); penses necessary for the preparation and e>
t. ccuton of the aforesaid bonds, and there
h after the same shall be used solely and e'
: clusivelv 20 retire the bonds issued in pa,
u ment of said Judicial Expense Fund wa
N rants and interest thereon, and the certii