The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1902-08-30
Senate Bill No. "a.
Act No. 1927
JOINT RESOLUTION

| JOINT RESOLUTlO
Amending Article 1856 of the Consti-
tuition of the State Of Louisiana.
Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly, Of the State of Louisiana, q ma
iority 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
subm tilted to the qualified electors OF
this State, an amendment to Article
1855 of the Constitution of this State,
70 that the same shall read as follows,
to-wit:
Article 100. All valid warrants ia
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,
, hich are payable out Of the special
judicial expense fund provided for by
Article 146 of the Constitution of 1879,
as amended, and which shall be out
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 cleims 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
hereinafter authorized to be issued;
and the city of New Orleans is re-
CURED, within three months from the
adoption of this Constitution, to pro.
vide for said warrants or claims, by
the issuance of bonds in the sum of
Two hundred and twenty-five thous-
and dollars, or so 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, 1893, and
made payable twenty-five years after
date, or earlier, at the option of said
Board, and shall bear four per cent
per annum interest payable semi-an-
nually, and represented by interest
coupons at ached thereto, tie first of
said coupons payable January LIST,
1899; said bonds tn be known as Ju-
dicisl Expense Fund Bonds, and to be
signed by the Mayor and Comptroller
of the City of New Orleans, and de.
livered to the Board Of Liquidation of
the City Debt and shall be counter
signed by the President and Secretary
of said Board and issued by said
Board to the holders of said warrants
upon surrender of same. Nel,her the
Of Louisiana nor the City of
New Orleans shall ever be liable for
the payment of said bonds nor the in
terest thereon, except from the spec
ial fund herein provided for, and any
appropriation or 0 her provision there
for made by the State or city
shall be null and void. there shall
be stamped across the face of said
bonds the words: Issued in accord
ance with Article 156 Of the Constitu-
ton of Louisiana OF 1898" The
Clerk of the Civil District Court, Reg
lister of Conveyances aud Recorder of
Mortgages for the Parish of Orleans,
and the Clerks of the City Courts of
New Orleans, 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, tran
scripts of said accounts duly certified
by them or by their authority, and
said officers shall also daily pay into
the Treasury Of The City Of New Or
leans the whole amount of fees and
charges so 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 expenses
necessary for the preparation and e1-
ecution of the aforesaid 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 certificates of