The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-09-28

,ment submitted to the people at me SANE
time this amendment Is submitted Il
adopted.
| l. All State taxes and licenses except
as hereinafter provided shall be collected
by the State Treasurer. The General AS
sembly shall provide such additional cleri-
cal force in the Treasurer's Office as may
be necessary TO enable him to perform
the duties herein prescribed
2. The General Assembly shall have
the power to provide for special Revenue
Agents, not to exceed three in number,
to assist the Treasurer in collecting ali
licenses, and taxes, and to assist the Tax
Commission I'm gathering information for
levying assessments. and shall fix the
compensation and duties of such agents.
Article xI.
l. All articles and parts Of articles of
the Constitution of 1898 on the subject OF
assessment and taxation, and all amend
| ments thereto on said subjects contrary
to or in conflict with the provisions of this
amendment be and the same are hereby
repealed.
SCHEDULE.
! ]. No part of this amendment to the
Constitution shall go into effect until
January 1st 1914. except that the pro-
visions of sections one, two, five, six and
seven of Article III, as to special taxes.
shall go into effect as soon as the Gem
eral Assembly shall pass laws carrying
| them into effect and the provisions Of
| shall go into effect on January LIST, 1913,
provided laws carrying them into effect
shall be passed on or before March 1,
1918; provided further, that laws carrying
them into erect may be enacted at any
later date.
2. On and after January 1st, 1914 the
Office of the State Board of Appraisers
and the office of State Board of Equalf-
- I'm hal I.A A<If al.
incumbents shall hold their Offices at the
present rate of compensation until their
present terms shall expire, and they shall
aid the Tax Commission in putting the
system provided for in this amendment
into operation, and In that connection
they shall perform such duties as the Tax
Commission and the General Assembly
may prescribe
8. The license tax authorized by the
present Constitution to be levied on the
severance Of natural resources from the
SOIL. shall be superseded by this amend
ment as to the severance of minerals oil
and gas. and shall be levied only on the
severance of forest products.
4. When this amendment goes into eff
feet on January !, 1914. the special State
taxes levied for good roads and for Con-
federate Veterans as now established or
as may be established by the amendmenr
to be submitted TO the people at the same
time this amendment is submitted. shall
cease and the General Assembly shall
make provision out of the General Fund
for the benefit of each of these special
funds as hereinabove provided
3 All State taxes and licenses uncoi-
lected on January 1. 1914. for 1913 and
previous years, shall be collected and ac-
counted for, under existing laws, by the
Sheriffs in the parishes, and the State
such collections must be completed by
June 30 1916 up to which date the State
Tax Collector of New Orleans shall re-
main in office. He shall also collect all
tot Ia rfrAr
New Orleans until said date and the Gen.
eral Assembly shall provide for a reduc-
ton of his clerical force to take place on
June 80. 1914. After June 80 1915, any
unpaid. shall be collected by the State
Treasurer. The General Assembly shall
by appropriate legislation provide conn
pensation on an equitable basis to the
eral parishes for the sums they may lose
after January first. 1914. to the date Of
the expiration of their terms of office in
commissions on the State taxes that
revenue segregated to the State pro-
vided that the State shall be under no
obligation to reimburse them In any
greater amount than will guarantee to
them sum equal to the total of the COM
missions OF their Office for the years 1911
or 1872, taking the year which shows the
highest amount. and the General Assem-
bly, shall at its regular session in 1914 and
1918 make an estimate of the probabi6
amount needed for such purpose and
make appropriation to cover the same:
and at the biennial sessions Of 1915 and
1918 II shall make a further appropriation
to cover any deficiency.
8. The amendments to the Constftu-
ton submitted to the people at the same |
PROPOSING to EXEMPT from taxation the |
objects therein specially set forth II
adopted, shall not be affected by the pro-
visions of this amendment: nor shall this |
n rrnC -ar@<
nronerty now exempt from taxation un- |
der the Constitution of 1898 and its |
7. The Public Debt Amendment. sub
nitted to the people at the same time |
this amendment is submitted. II adopted, |
shall be superseded by this amendment in |
respect to the mode of providing the pub |
lie debt fund guaranteed by such amend
mert
Prior to January 1, 1914. the General |
Assembly shall pass proper statutes to /
carry this amendment into operation; and !
the Governor shall call an extra session |
Of that body for that purpose as soon as !
convenient after this amendment is |
adopted.
Section 2. Be 1t further resolved, etc. |
lots to be used at said election tho
words
For the amendment to the constitu-
ton reorganizing and rcmodeling the |
States system of assessment and taxa
And the words
Against the amendment to the Con- /
5titntion reorganizing and remodeling the |
States system of assessment and taxa
ton"
And each voter shall Indicate on his
ballot, as provided by the general cleo
ton laws of the State, whether he votes |
for or against said amendment
l.. L. THOMAS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS G. RARRET,
4 ant ,~.1 - Al
Senate.
Approved: August gath, 1912.
I. E. HALL,
Governor of the State Of louisiana
A true copy:
ALVIN e. HEBERT,
Secretary Of State
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