The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-03-14
ACT No. 10.

JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the State of Louisiana, pro-
hibiting the doing of business in this
State BY any foreign, Federal or nom
resident corporation which shall sue
the State of Louisiana or any OF its
political subdivisions or public offi-
GERS, or any citizen of this State IN
the Federal court, or which, when
sued, shall remove or petition for the
removal of a cause into the Federal
Court.
Section /. Be it resolved by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Louisiana,
two-thirds of all the members elected to
each House concurring, That the fol-
lowing amendment to the constitution
of the State of Louisiana be submitted
to the electors of the State at the next
general State election, to be held IN
April, 1908, to-wit:
ANY foreign, federal or nonresident
corporation, operating, conducting or
doing business in this State, which shall
institute any suit or action at law or
in equity against the State of Louisiana,
or any of its political subdivisions, or
any of its public officers, or against any
corporation or citizen of this State, in
any other court or courts than such as
may be created and organized under the
Constitution and laws of this State, or
which when used by the State or any of
its political subdivisions, or any of its
public officers, or any corporation or
citizen of this State, shall remove, or
petition, or move to remove said suit
to any other court than a court created
and organized under the laws of this
State, shall by this fact alone be de-
barred, prohibited and denied the right
to operate, conduct, or do any business
within this State and thereafter any
contract, or agreement, engagement or
undertaking with, or by, or to said cor
poration shall be utterly null and void.
Any foreign, federal or nonresident
corporation, or any person acting as
agent, servant or officer of such corpo-
ration who shall make or attempt to
make any contract. agreement, under
taking or engagement for, with, by or
in the name of, for the use and benefit
of, such corporation, after the said cor
poration shall have violated any of the
provisions of the foregoing paragraph,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction shall be fined not less than
One Hundred Dollars, nor more than
One Thousand Dollars, and may also
be imprisoned with or without hard Ia
Dor for not more than twelve months, or
both, at the discretion of the court; pro-
vided, that it is not intended hereby to
interfere with or prohibit the transac.
ton of interstate business authorized
under the laws and Constitution of the
United States.
Sec. 2. Be it further resolved, ETC.,
That the foregoing amendment to the
Constitution of the State of Louisiana
be submitted to the electors of the State
at the general election to be held on
the 2lst day of April, 1908, and on the
official ballots to be used at such cleo
tion shall be placed the words, "for the
joint resolution proposing an amendment
to the Constitution of the State of Lou
isiana, prohibiting the doing of business
in this State by any foreign, federal Of
nonresident corporation which shall sue
the State of Louisiana or any of it:
political subdivisions or public officers
or any citizen of this State in the Fed
eral Court, or which, when sued, shall
remove or petition for the removal Of
a cause into the Federal Court" anC
the words, against the joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the Consti
tuition of the State of Louisiana, pro
hibiting the doing of business in this
State by any foreign, federal or non
resident corporation which shall sue the
State of Louisiana or any of its politi
cal subdivisions or public officers, OF
any citizen of this State in the Fedora
Court, or which, when sued, shall remove
| or petition for the removal of caus.
| into the Federal Court" and each cleo
tor shall indicate, as provided in thu
general election laws of the State, whicl
of the provisions, 'for" or against,
| he votes for.
j. W. HYAMS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
j. Y. SANDERS,
| Lieutenant Governor and President o
the Senate.
Approved November 25th, 1907. .
NEWTON c. BLANCHARD,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
| JOHN +. MICHEL,
| Secretary of State.
| ACT No. IL.
By Mr.. Voegtle. Senate Bill No.
JOINT RESOLUTION
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