The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1912-11-02
SCHEDULE.

SCHEDULE.
1. No part of this amendment to
the Constitution shall go into effect
until January 1st, 1914, except that
the provisions of sections one, two,
five, six and seven of Article III, as
to special taxes shall go into effect
as soon as the General Assembly
shall pass laws carrying them into
effect, and the provisions of sections
three and four of said article shall
go into effect on January 1st, 1918,
provided laws carrying them into eff
feet shall be passed on or before
March /, 1918; provided further, that
laws carrying them into effect may
be enacted at any later date.
2. On and after January LIST, 1914,
the office of the State Board of APP
praisers and the office of State Board
Of Equalization shall be abolished,
but the present incumbents shall
hold their offices at the present rate
OF compensation until their terms
Shall expire and they shall aid the
Tax Commission in putting the sys-
TEN provided for in this amendment
into operation, and in that connec-
ton they shall perform such duties
as the Tax Commission and the Gen.
eral Assembly may prescribe.
3. The license tax authorized by
the present Constitution to be levied
on the severance of natural re-
sources from the soil, shall be super
seeded by this amendment as to the
severance of minerals, oil AID gas,
and shall be levied only on the sew
erance of forest products.
4. When this amendment goes into
effect on January /, 1914, the spec
ial state taxes levied for good roads
and for Confederate Veterans as now
established or as may be establish.
ed, by the amendment to be sub
mltted to the people at the same
time this amendment is submitted,
shall cease, and the General Assem-
bly, shall make provision out of the
General Fund for the benefit of
each of these special funds as here
matter provided.
5. All State taxes and licenses I'm
collected on January /, 1914, for 1913
and previous years, shall be collect
I'd and accounted for, under existing
avs, by the sheriffs in the parishes,
and the State Tax Collector in New
Orleans, but all such collections must
De completed by June 80, 1916, up to
which date the State Tax Collector
If New Orleans shall remain in of,
ice. He shall also collect all State
licenses levied in the Parish of Or
cans until said date and the Gener-
shall provide for a reduc-
ion of his clerical force to take
place on June 80, 1914. After June
20, 1916, any State licenses and tax
IS then remaining unpaid, shall be
collected by the State Treasurer. The
General Assembly shall by appropri-
tie legislation provide compensation
N an equitable basis to the tax COL
ectors and assessors of the several
parishes for the sums they may lose
fter January first, 1914, to the date
# the expiration Of their terms Of
axes that would have accrued on the
ources of revenue segregated to the
tate, provided that the State shall
e under no obligation to reimburse
hem in any greater amount than
Iill guarantee to them a sum equal
o the total of the commissions of
heir office for the years 1911 or 1912,
aklng the year which shows the
ighest amount, and the General AS
emily shall at it's regular session in
GA and 1916 make an estimate Of
ne probable amount needed for such
urpose, and make appropriation to
over the same; and at the biennial
essions of 1916 and 1918 it shall
lake further appropriation to COW
r any deficiency.
6. The amendments to the Con.
,itution submitted to the people at
le same time that this amendment
submitted, proposing to exempt
ON taxation the objects therein
pecially set forth, if adopted, shall
OF be affected by the provisions of
lis amendment; nor shall this
mendment be construed as affect
lg any property now exempt from
lxation under the Constitution of
1913 and its amendments.
Z. The Public Debt Amendment,
admitted to the people at the same
me this amendment is submitted, if
lopted, shall be superseded by this
nendment in respect to the mode
providing the public debt fund
laranteed by such amendment.
Prior to January 1, 1914, the Gener-
Assembly shall pass proper sta
ties to carry this amendment into
'eration; and the Governor shall
III an extra session of that body
+ that purpose as soon as conven-
Mt after this amendment is adopt
Section 2. Be it further resolved,
c., That there shall be printed on