The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-11-01
Proposed Amendments
To the Constitution, To Be
Voted for at Election
To Be Held Tuesday, No
vember 4.

10 Be Held tuesday, No
vember 4.
| Senate Bill No. 81.
Act No. SOY
| JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article AZ OF
| the Constitution of the State of Louis
| lana, relative to rectifying and approx.
| ing agreements or contracts for works
| of public improvements made ar entered
into by the City of New Orleans prior
to the Izth day of May 1904. and to
authorize the City of New Orleans 10
make all payments hereunder in ac-
cordance with the terms and under the
conditions thereof.
Section I. Be it resolved by the General
| Assembly of the State of Louisiana, two
thirds of all the members elected to each
House concurring, That the following
amend ept to Article AZ of the Constitution
of the State of louisiana be submitted to
the electors of the State at the next Con-
gressional election to be holden on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem-
That Article Al of the Constitution of the
State of Louisiana be amended SO as to read
as follows, to-wit:
.sArticle Al: The General Assembly shall
have no power to grant authorize any
extra compensation, fee or allowance to a
public officer, agent, servant, or contractor,
nor pay, nor authorize the payment of any
CLAIM, against the State or any parish or
municipality thereof, under any agreement
of contract made without express authority
of law; and all such una u, horized agreements
contracts shall he null and void, but all
agreements or contracts for work of public
Improvements made or entered into by the
City of New Orleans prior to the twelfth
of May 1902 hereby ratified and ap-
proved and the City of New Orleans is
hereby authorized to make all payments
l-J g.. To-
with the terms and under the conditions set
forth in said contracts.
Sec. 2. Be it further resolved, ETC.,
That on the official ballots to be used at said
election shall be placed the words ''Fo: the
proposed amendment to Article ~ of the
Constitution of the State of louisiana" and
the words "Against the amendment to Arti-
Gle Al of the Constitution of the State of
as provided in the general election laws of
the State, which of the propositions, ''for'
or ''agains,' he votes for.
tsignsdS Of -, w. sA ~ Rsp!s:e,,.,,vsx
ALBERT ESFOPINAL,
Lieutenant Governor.
Approved: June 26, a. d. 1902.
w. w. HEARD,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
JOHN +. MICHEL,
Secretary of State.
Senate Bill No. ia.
Act No. s3.)
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution
of the State of louisiana by repeating
and abrogating Article One Hundred
and Ninety eight (I93) thereof.
Section 1. BE it resolved by the General |
Assembly of the State of Louisiana, two
thirds of all the members elected to each |
Constitution of the State of Louisiana be
submitted TO the qualihed electors of the |
State for their approval or rejection at the |
next Congressional election to be holden |
therein on the first Tuesday next following |
The first Monday in November, 1902, as fol |
lows: That Article 1913 of the Constitution |
Of the State of Louisiana, which reads as
follows: No person less than sixty years of |
age shall be permitted TO vote at any cleo |
ton in the State who shall not, in addition |
Il, the qualifications above prescribed, have |
paid on before the 3lst day of December |
of each year, tor the two years preceding |
he year in which he offers to vote, a poll |
tax of one dollar per annuln, to be used ex |
clusively aid OF the public schools of the |
parish in which such tax shall have been |
collected: which tax is hereby imposed on
every male resident of this State between |
the ages OF twenty-one and sixty years.
Poll taxes shall be lieu only upon assessed |
property, and no pro css STALL issue to en-
force the collection of the same except |
against assessed properly
Every person liable for such tax shall, |
before being allowed TO vote, exhibit to the |
Commissioners of Election his poll tax re-
ceipts for Two years, issued on the official
form, duplicates thereof, in the event of
loss, or proof of payment of such poll taxes
may he made by a certificate of the tax col
lector, which shall be sent to the Commits
sioners of the several voting precincts, |
showing list of those who have paid said
two years poll taxes as above provided, and
the dates of payment. 1t is hereby declared
to be forgery, and punishable such, for
any tax collector or other person, to ante
date, or alter, poll tax receipt. Amy per- |
son who shall pay the poll tax of another or
advance him money for that purpose, IN
order to influence his vote, shall be guilty
of bribery and punished accordingly. The
provisions of this section to the payment
of poll taxes shall not apply to persons who
are deaf and dumb, or blind, nor to persons
under twenty three years of age, who have
paid all poll taxes assessed against them.
This section shall not 60 into operation until
after the general State election to be held
in the year 1900. and the Legislature elected
in the year 1908 shall have authority to re-
peal or modify the same;'' be and the sawe
is hereby repealed, abrogated and stricken
Sec. 2. Be it further resolved, ETC.,
That the official ballots to- be used at said
Congressional election shall have printed
thereon the words ''For the proposed
amendment to the Constitution of the State
of Louisiana repeating and abrogating
Article 1913 of the Constitution" and the
words ''against the proposed amendment to
the Constitution of the State of Louisiana
lOS Of the