The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-10-15

ACT NO. 112.
By Mr.. Madden
Senate Resolution No ID
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article
900 of the Constitution Of the State
OF Louisiana, relative to pensions
for Confederate Veterans
Section L Be it resolved by the
General Assembly OF the State OF
Louisiana, two-thirds of all members
elected to each House concurring,
That article three hundred and three
of the Constitution Of the State of
Louisiana, as amended by Act No. sew
enty-three Of the General Assembly
of 1900, be so amended as to read as
follows.
Article 3o3 A pension not to ex-
coed eight dollars (s8) per month
shall be allowed to each Confederate
soldier or sailor veteran, who pos
sesses all Of the following quaIiica-
tons:
i. He shall have served honorably
from the date Of his enlistment until
the close of the late Civil War, or IN
til he was discharged or paroled, in
some military organization regularly
mustered into the army or navy of
the Confederate States, aud shall have
remained true to the Confederate
States until the surrender
2. He shall be in INDECENT eiFcum
stances, and unable to earn a 1iyeli-
hood by his own labor or skill
8. He shall not be salaried or other
wise provided for by the State OF Lou
isiana, or by any other State Gov
eminent In case he enlisted In any
organization mustered into said serv.
ice as a Louisiana organization, or IN
case at the date of his enlistment he
resided i'm the State Of Louisiana, he
shall have resided in this State for at
least fve years prior to his application
for pension. In case he resided else
where than In this State, and enlisted
in an organization not mustered in
from Louisiana, or In the Navy of
the Confederate States, he shall have
resided in this State for at least If
teen years prior to his application for
such pension. A like pension shall
DO granted to the widow who shall
not, have married again, in INDECENT cir
cumstances, OF such soldier or sailor
whose marriage to her was contracted
pMor to January 1st, 1875; provided.
that IL her deceased husband served
in an organization mustered in from
Louisiana, or if he resided in Louisi-
ana at the date of his enlistment, and
has SO resided for one year prior
thereto, then in order that such widow
shall be entitled to the pension as
herein provided, she shall have re-
sided in this State for at least ave
years prior to her application there
for; and if her deceased husband en-
listed elsewhere than in Louisiana,
and served in an organization not
mustered in from Louisiana, such
widow shall, in order to entitle her
to pension rs herein provided, have
resided in this State for not less than
fifteen years prior to her application
for such pension; provided further,
that pensions whether to veterans or to
widows, shall be allowed only from
the date Of application under this
article. and the total appropriations
for all pensions shall not be less than
seventy-hye thousand (s15, oo0) dol
lars nor more than one hundred and
fifty thousand (s15o. 0001 dollars in
any one year; provided, that nothing
In this article shall be construed 20
as to prohibit the General Assembly
from providing artificial limbs to dis.
abled Confederate soldiers or sailors.
Sec. 2. Be it further resolved. That
this proposed amendment be sub
Raiktaa 20 the qualified voters q The