The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-10-11

Senate Bill No. 81.
Act No. 1922
JOINT KESOLU rION.
Amending Article 1856 of the Constitution of
the State of louisiana.
BE it enacted by the General Assembly of
the State of Louisiana. ma jority of boil
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 sub
mitted to the qualified electors of this State,
amendment, to Article 1856 of the Consti-
tuition Of this State, SO that the shall
read follows, to-wit:
Article 1856. All valid warrants issued
for salaries and authorized expenses of the
offices of the clerks of the Civil District
Court, Register of Conveyances and Re
corder of Mortgages for thu: parish of Or
leans of the Clerks of the City Courts of
the City Of New Orleans, and for salaries
Of the Clerks of the Cour, of Appeal, which
are payable out of the special judicial eN-
pense fund provided for by Article I46 of
the Constitution of 1879, amended, and
which shall be outstanding and unpaid at
the date of the adoption of this constitution
which shall be issued for the current
month in which this Constitution is adopted
hereby declared to be valid and subsist-
ing claims against the revenues of the
spective offices upon which said fund was
made dependent.
The holders of said warrants may present
them within sin months after the adoption
Of this Constitutions: to the Board of Lquida-
ton of the City Debt, and receive therefor
the bonds hereinafter authorized to be is
sued; and the City of New Orleans is re-
quired. within three months from the adOp-
ton of this Constitution, 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 nece>sary: said bonds shall be for the
face value OF said warrants. in such denomi-
nations the said Board of Liquidation
shall recommend, and shall be dated uly l.,
1905, and made payable twenty five years
after date. earlier, at the option of said
Board, and shall bear four per cent per an
mum interest, payable semi. annually, anG
represented by interest coupons attached
thereto, the first of said coupons payable.
January 1, 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
Boar of Liquidation of the City Debt and
shall be countersigned by the President and
Secretary of said Board and issued 10y said
Board to the holders of said warrants upon
surrender of Neither the State of
Louisiana nor the City Of New Orleans shall
ever be liable tor the payment of said
bonds nor the interest thereon, except from
the special fluid herein provided for, and
any appropriation or other 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 accordance with Article 1870 of the Con
s,i,u,ion of Louisiana of 1885, The Clerk
of The Civil District Court, Register of Con
We, ances and Heco, der of Mortgages for the
| Parish Of Orleans, and the Clerks of the
| CITY Courts of New Orleans, shall keep &C
| Curale and detailed accounts in books to be
used exclusively for that purpose of all fees
| and charges collected in their Offices, re
| spec,ively, and they shall furnish. daily, &c
| the City Comptroller, transcripts of said &C
counts duly certified by them Or by thei'
| authority, and SAID officers shall also daily
| pay into the Treasury of the City of New
Orleans the whole amount of fees anc
| charges collected. From the amounts
thus paid into the City Treasury the Treas
urer shall set apart and reserve twenty pei
| cent out of which shall FIRST be paid the eN
pcuses necessary for the preparation and eN
| ecution of the aforesaid bonds. and there
after the same shall be used solely and ex
| clusvey 20 retire the bonds issued in pay
ment of said Judicial Expense Fund war
rants and interest thereon, and the ceruh