St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-03
ACT NO. ees.

House Bill No. $780, By Mr.. Richardson
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing amendment to Article 303 of the
Constitution of the State of Louisiana, rela-
tive to pensions for Confederate Veterans
az amended by Act No. 10 of the General
Assembly of 1900, and Act No. liz of the
General Assembly of 1904.
Section i. Be it resolved by the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana, two-thirds
of all members elected to each House concur
ring That Article three hundred of the Con-
stitution of the State of Louisiana, as amended
by Act number seventy three of the General
Assembly of 1900, and Act number one hun
dred and twelve of the General Assembly of
1904 be SO amended as to read as follows:
Article 303. A pension not to exceed eight
dollars ($S) per month shall be allowed to
each Confederate soldier or sailor veteran who
possesses all the following qualifications
/. He shall have served honoraply from the
date of his enlistment until the close Of the
late Civil War, or until he discharged
or paroled. In some military organization reg
ularly mustered into the Army or Navy of the
Confederate States, and shall have ramined true
to the Confederate States until the surrender.
2. He shall not own property of more than
five hundred dollars valuation and he shall not
be physically able to earn livelihood by his
own labor or skill.
8. He shall not be salaried or otherwise pro-
vided for by the State Of Louisiana or by any
other State OF Government In case he en-
listed In any organization mustered into said
service q Louisiana organization, or in
at the date Of his enlistment he resided in the
state of Louisiana, he shall have resided In this
State for at least FIVE years prior to his APP
plication for a pension. In case he resided
elsewhere than In this State, and enlisted
in organization not mustered in from LouiSi-
ana, in the Navy of the Confederate States,
he shall have resided In this State for at least
fifteen years prior to his application for such
pension. A like pension shall be granted to
the widow who shall not have married again,
in INDECENT circumstances, or such soldier or
S,tPaaaf nl
prior to January /, 1875; provided that IL her
deceased husband served in organization
mustered in from Louisiana, If he resided in
Louisiana, at the date Of his enlistment and
had SO resided for year prior thereto
then in order that such widow shall be en-
titled to the pension as herein provided, she
shall have resided In this State for at least
five years prior to her application therefor; and
If her deceased husband enlisted elsewhere than
in Louisiana, and served in an organization not
mustered in from Louisiana, such widow shall
in order to entitle her to pension as herein
provided, have resided in this State for not less
than fifteen years pri"r to her application for
such pension provided further. that pensions
whether to veterans or to widows. shall be al
lowed only from the date of application I'M
der this Article, and the total appropriations
for all pensions shall not exceed two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars $3.50, 00O.00) in any
one year; provided that nothing in this Article
shall be construed SO as to prohibit the General
Assembly from providing artificial limbs to dis
abIed Confederate soldiers sailors.
Section q BIT it further resolved, etc, That
this proposed amendment be submitted to the
qualified voters of the State of Louisiana for
adoption rejection at the congressional cleo
ton to be held the first Tuesday next fol-
lowing the first Monday in November. 1908.
That the official ballots to be used at said
election shall have printed thereon the words:
''For the proposed amendment to Article 800
of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana.
relative to pensions for Confederate Veter-
ans and the words: Against the proposed
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of the State of Louisiana, relative to pensions
for Confederate Veterans ana each elector
shall indicate, provided in the general cleo
ton laws of the State. whether he votes for
against the amendment.
IL. G. DUPRE
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives
P. NJ. LAMBREMONT
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate. Approved July 9th, 1908.
J. Y. SANDERS,
Governor of the State OF Louisiana
true copy.
JOHN T. MICHEL.
| Secretary Of State.