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If said bonds. arG hereby recognivei AID
declared TO be valid and existing bonds
and Obligations of the district or subdi-
vision issuing the same, and no court
shall have jurisdiction to entertain any
contest wherein their validity or consti-
nationality is questioned.
/ Section :. Be it further resolved, etc,
That this proposed amendment shall be
submitted to the qualified voters of this
State for adoption or rejection ut the con-
gressonal election to be held in Noyem-
Der, 1911, and ii adopted. the same shall
take effect Immediately thereafter.
! Section 3. BE it further resolved etc,
| That on the official ballots to be issued
! at said election there shall be placed the
words: For the proposed amendment to
Paragraphs Two CD and Three go Of
Article Two Hundred and Eighty-one OF
the Constitution of Louisiana" and the
words: Against the proposed amend
ment to Paragraphs Two 90 and Three
| CD of Article Two Hundred and Eighty
one of the Constitution of louisiana" and
| each elector shall Indicate, as provided
In the general election laws OF the State.
which of the propositions, For or
Against" he votes.
I11oMaS 4. ltAkREI.
Lieut.. Governor and President of Senate.
L. E. THOMAS,
Speaker of the House of Representative
Approved July Q. 1911.
l.. f. HALL
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
n true copy.
ALVIN T. HEBERT, Secretary of State.
ACT NO. 1873.
House {.iU No 1St--I,v Nv ,,,,it;altl
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to Article 303
of the Constitution of the state of
Louisiana. relative to pensions for
Confederate veterans, and for the pur-
pose of providing a sufficient revenue
for the carrying out of this article of
the Constitution.
Section /. Be it resolved by the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana, two
thirds of all members elected to each
House concurring, That Article 1903 of the
Constitution of the State of Louisiana, be
so amended as to read as follows:
Article 303. a pension not TO exceed
eight dollars (sS,0O) per month shall be
allowed to each Confederate soldier or
sailor veterans who passes all the follow
ing qualifications:
l. He shall have served honorably from
the date of his enlistment until the close
OF the Civil War or until he was dis
charged or paroled, in some military or |
ganization regularly mustered into the
Army or Navy of the Confederate States /
and shall have remained true to the Con- I
federate States until the surrender.
2 He shall not own property of more (
than two thousand dollars t$2, 100000.
8. He shall not be salared or otherwise /
provided for by the State of Louisiana or ,
by any other State or government. In !
case he enlisted in any organization mus
tered into said service as a Louisiana or |
ganiZation, or in case 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 20 his !
application for pension. In case he re
sided elsewhere than in this State, and |
enlisted in an organization not mustered [
in from Louisiana, or in the Navy of the
States. he shall have resided
in this State for at least five years prior
to his application for such pension. a
like pension shall be granted to the widow
who shall not have married again, in II
INDECENT circumstances, of such soldier Il
or sailor whose marriage to her was con-
tracted prior to January I. 1890; provided
that if her deceased husband served in
an organization, mustered in from Louis
ANA, or if he resided in louisiana at the
date of his enlistment, then in order that
such widow shall be entitled to the PEN
sion as herein provided, she shall have re-
sided in this State for at least five xeane
prior to her application therefor: and if
her deceased husband enlisted elsewhere
han in Louisiana, and served in an or
,anization not mustered in from Louis
ana, such widow shall, in order to en- ,
title her to a pension as herein provided, /
nave resided in this State for not less
han five years prior to her application I
or such pension; provided further. that :
Ill widows who married Confederate sol
liers or sailors q second time shall not
De debarred from benefits of this Act but {
De entitled to pension on same terms rs
,ther widows of deceased Confederate sol !
liers or sailors; provided further, that
pensions whether to veterans or to widows,
shall be allowed only from the date of
application under this Article, and the y
ota1 appropriations for all pensions, in ,
my one year shall be the proceeds of the {
annual one mill tax, provided said appro-
)riations shall never be more than five {
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for !
my one year which is hereby levied on all
axable property in the State. Any ac-
,ruing surplus from said tax fund shall
20 turned over to the common school
und and prohibiting the collection of any
,ther tax or making any appropriation in ,
excess of the amount of the one mill tax {
evied and collected and to be known as {
Veteran Pension Fund and
% be used for no other purpose, and
Ipon the adoption of this amendment
same shall at once become self-operative
md the funds derived therefrcm imne- d,
lately used for said purpose, ard pro-
'ided further that the taE ronectoi$ Aau
assessor shall receive no commissions
or assessing and collect said one mill
IA Nerein p,'Uy3de@, irovided that moth