The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-09-06
Senate Elm No. ia.

Act. No. s3.)
Proposing an amendment to the Ccnstitu-
tion OF the STATE OF LOUISIANA BY re-
peaIing and aDrogating Article One
hundred aid Nineiy-eight tl9S) there
Section ]. BE It resolved By the Gen.
craI Assembly Of the state OF Louisiana,
tMo-lhirus OF al the members elected 70
e:ch house concurring' that an smena ,i,,ss,l
ana be submitted to the qualified electors
Of the State Tor their approval or rcJecuvn
at the next tongrt sscaai election 70 pe
holden therein ON the hrst Tuesday next
following the first Monday In November.
! 49, as follows: That Article 196 Of tue
Constitution OF the state Of Louisisns.
six.y Years OF ase shall be permitted 70
vote at any election In the state VINO snaIi
Lei. in al1ition TO the qualifications above
prescribed. have paio on or before tne Sls ..
,iay OF Dcct Inter OF excn year, TOR the tHo
years preceding the year In which ne onefs
10 vote, a poll TAX VI ole Dollar per anuunA.
10 lie useo exclusively IN aid OF the Puoic
schools of Tie PARISH IN which such TAX
saaiI have been Collected: winch TAX -
iau9euy liapc sed on every MAZE rcNoent ~
TINS state between the ages Oh twenty oue
and sixty years ION taxes sn al " ~ nsss.
rss.e sAsii issue - ehiorce tae cvaioclon ~
Tue same except aeaihsl asseSseo PfoPSIta'
Every person Liable Tor suen ss IN =, oA a.:
commissioners OF Election mig poll TAX re
,..,rs lur two years, issued ON the of1lciai
ivrua, or duplicates thereof. In the eseht "
loss, or pAUvf VI payment OF sucn Pou
taxes inay be made " certircate OF tns
lax colicctor, which shall be sent 70 the
L "a. ralssionels OF the several voting pre-
c.nels, snO~ihg list OF thUse VINO lave
iaid SAID Two years poll taxes ~ ancse
provided AID the dates VI payment AZ -
saerepy declared TO be forgery, anu punish
able Ms such, for any tax eVlsector or other
person, 10 antedate, Or alter poll TAX re,
ccipt- ANY person who shxii lay the pon
tax Of another or advance MIN money lor
that purpose, In orUer 20 influence has yote.
sEsll Le guilty VI bribery and punished nc-
corulneiy. Inc provisions OF this section
rs 10 Inc payment Of poll taxes s.a.i nor
or Lilnu. nor ~ persons under twenty-thrsc
years VI age, who nave paid all poll taxes
assessed against them. Thts section shall
eiai state election 10 be held in the year
13vU, AND the Legislature elected IN the
year 1vvo shall have authority to repeal or
nudity the same; :" bs ana the sane - here
~ repealed, abrogated and stricken frcn
he Constitution OF this State.
Sec 2. lie II further resolved, etc, That
the oiiicisl ballots to be useu ~ saiu coii-
OCCASIONAL election shall have printed there
GA the worus For tie proposed amend
nient 10 the Constitution OF the State of
LOUISIANA repeating and nbrogsting article
l3o OF tine CONSTITUTION sno thc worcs
against the proposed amendment to the
Constitution oil Tue state OF Louisiana re
peaiIng ana abrogatfEg Article 1876 Of the
CONSTITUTION All each elector shall In
aicate, as provided in the general election
laws OF The State, whether he votes for or
against the PROPOSED amendment.
tsisnedt !. \. SANDi.iiS,
Speaker OF the Eouse OF Aeprxsertatfyes
tS'snedl Ai-bihT ESrUriAAL.,
Liet1easat Governor and PRESIDENT OF the
w. W. HEARD.
. .-. Governor OF the State Of Louisiana.
sOliS A. MICHEL.
Secretary of Sfafe