The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-10-02

Lieutenant Governor and President OF
the Senate. +
Approved: July 9th, A. D. 1902.
w. w. HEARD,
Governor of the State of Louisiana. |
"A 'r JoH spPy I. MICHEL, i
Secretary of State.
Act No, 1921 Senate Bill No. 81.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Amending Article 1856 of the Constitution
of the 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 the month of November,
1902, there shall be submitted to the
qualified electors of this State an
amendment to Article 1856 of the Consti-
tuition Of this State, SO that the same
shall read as follows, to-w1t:
Article 1855. 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 fo1 by
Article t46 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 hereinaT-
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 so much thereof as
| may be necessary; said bonds shall be
| for the face value of said warrants, in
l
| Liquidation shall recommend and shall
be dated July list, 1898, 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
| tst, 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 u pom surrender of same
Neither the State OF Louisiana nor the
City of New Orleans shall ever be liable
for the payment of said bonds nor the
interest thereon, except ftonl the special
fund herein provided for, and any APP
preparation CT 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: s'Issu-
ed in accorcance.with Articles 1855 of the
Constitution of Louisiana of 1885," The
Clerk Of the Civil District Court, Reg.
lister of Conveyances and Recorder o,
Mortgages for the Parish of Orleans anc
the Clerks of the City Courts of New Or.
leans, shall keep accurate and detailed
accounts in books to be used exclusivel,
for that purpose of all fees and charge!
collected in their Offices, respectively
and they shall furnish, daily to the Cit!
Comptroller transcripts Of said accounts
duly certified by them or by their au
thority, and said officers shall alsy dali.
pay into the Treasury of the City of New
Orleans the whole amount Of fees AM
charges so collected. From the amount
thus paid into the City Treasury thu
; Treasurer shall set apart and reserv
twenty per cent out Of which shall frs
be paid the expences necessary for tn
preparation and execution of the afore
said bonds, and thereafter the same shal
be used solely and exclusively to retir
the bonds issued in payment of said Ju
: dicial Expense Fund wsrrants and In
terest thereon, and the certificate of tn
Comptroller hereinafter authorized; an
: upon the second Tuesday in Decembe
and June Of every year the said Treas
urer shall pay said Treasurer shall pa
said amonsts so reserved, and also tn
amounts received from the Civil Sheriff
to the Board of Liquidation of the Cit
Debt, until all the bonds herein author
lied have been retired or paid; and o
J the second Tuesday in FEBRUARY and Au
, gust Of every year, said Board Of Liqui
dalton, in accordance with rules to b
adopted and made public by it, shall
after paying the semi annual interest o
said bonds, purchase or redeem with sue
money thus set apart as may have accu
mulated, and with the surplus Of tn
remaining eighty per cent as hereinaft.
provided, as many of said bonds as sal
!. money will buy or redeem, preferene