New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1902-08-30

shall be paid annually, but the principal
of said certificates shall be paid from the
funds herein set apart and reserved only
after all the bonds issued in payment Of
outstanding warrants shall have first been
redeemed or paid.
All disbursements from said fund for
stationery shall be made upon the rsqui-
sltion of the officers requiring same said
reqmsltlon to be approved by the mayor
of the City Of New Orleans; and in all
cases such disbursements and all salaries
shall be paid by the Treasurer of the City
OF New Orleans upon warrants drawn
against said fund by the Comptroller of
said city, approved, go far as the Civil
District Court is concerned, by the pre-
siding judge thereof, for the office Of Re-
corder of Mortgages and the office of Reg
lister of Conveyances, by the Mayor of the
| City of New Orleans, and for the offices of
the respective city courts by the Judge or
judges thereof, and for the offices of the
| Court of Appeal by one of the judges
thereof. Until the full and Anal payment
of all said bonds and certificates herein
| before provided for the salaries of the en-
ployes of the various offices hereinafter
named shall remain as now fixed by law,
! and there shall be no increase in the num-
Der of employees now authorized by law
for the offices Of recorder of mortgages or
register of convsysnces, unless otherwise
ordered by the Civil District Court sitting
en- banc; and the number of employees Of
the Civil District Court shall be 40 deter
mined by a majority of the judges thereof.
The clerks of the first and second city
courts, until the organization of the city
courts hereinbefore provided for, may
each appoint, with the approval of the
judges thereof, an additional deputy clerk
at fifty dollars per month, but no other
employees, nor larger salaries than those
now fixed by law, shall be allowed to the
city courts. The said Board Of Lquida-
ton hereinbefore named shall have the
right to reject any and all bids made for
the redemption of bonds issued as herein
above provided, and should there be no
bids, or none accepted, then said Board Of
Liquidation, on the second Tuesday in
February and August of each year, with
whatever amount has been paid to said
board by the treasurer, as herein provided,
shall, j.. after paying the interest pay
said bonds in numerical order.
After the payment OF all Of said bonds,
the 90 per cent. reserve herein provided,
and any surplus of the remaining eighty
per cent. shall be used by the City Treas
urer in paying the certificates herein pro-
vided for, if any, in the order of their
issue. When said judicial expense fund
bonds and comptroller certificates, II any
of the latter shall be issued, shall have
been retired and cancelled, the salaries
and expenses of the various officers ef-
fected by this article and the revenue of
said officers shall be regulated and dis
posed of as may be determined by the
General Assembly. This article shall
take effect from the last day of the cur
rent month in which this constitution 10
adopted, and all amounts arising from
the judicial expense fund which shall re-
main in the hands Of the State Treasurer
on that date, shall be paid by him to the
Board of Liquidation Of the City Debt,
and be used by said board as part Of the
funds herein above referred to.
(SignedD
J. Y. SANDERS,
Speaker OF the House of Representa-.
tives.
ALBERT EsTOPINAL,
Lieutenant Governor and President Of the
Senate.
Approved July 10th, A. D.. 1902.
w. w. HEARD,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
JOHN 7. MICHEL,
Secretary Of State.