The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26
ACT NO. o7s.
House Bill No. 537-By Mr.. Jahncke.
JOINT RESOLUTION

lliS OL d Specldl lax 10 prOVlue tNeFe-
for by the City of New Orleans, to
create a lake shore park, to provide
for the administration Of the park,
and for the sale of certain property
acquired in connection Herewith.
Section l. Be it resolved by the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana, two
thirds of all the members elected to each
House concurring, That the following
amendment to the Constitution of this
| State be submitted to the electors of the
State at the next general election for
| representatives in Congress to be holden
on the Tuesday next following the first
Monday in November, 1914, to-wit:
Article /. That for the purpose of ac-
quiring the front of Lake Pontchartrain
from what is known as West End to
Milneberg, or such part thereof as may be
deemed necessary and advisable, as here
matter set forth, the city of New Orleans
be, and it it hereby, authorized to issue
bonds to an amount not exceeding $1,000
100000, in denominations of $4,000, $4,000,
| 81, 100000 payable fifty years after date,
with interest at the rate of IL per cent
lper annum thereon, payable semi annual
| ly, and represented by coupons to be at
tached to said bonds and to provide for
the payment of the principal and interest
| of said bonds, there is hereby levied an
nually special tax on all the property,
real and personal in the city of New
Orleans, to the amount of six tenths of
one mill on the dollar, which shall be col
lected the same as the other taxes due
to the city of New Orleans and be imme-
diately paid to the Board of Liquidation
of the city of New Orleans where same
[ shall be held separate, in what shall be
known as the Lake Shore Park Bond
| Fund.-" and to establish and administer
said park there is hereby created a COM
mission of seven citizens and taxpayers,
male or female, one from each of the
municipal districts of the city of New
Orleans, who shall be appointed by the
Mayor of the city and confirmed by the
Commission Council as soon as this
amendment is adopted: such first APP
pointees shall hold Office respectively for
one, two three, four five, six and seven
years, and at the expiration of each term,
the full term of seven years, and the
Mayor, in making the first appointments.
shall designate the term of office of the
Irrespective appointees. The members of
said Board shall name and elect their own
officers and shall serve without compen-
sation, but shall be allowed a secretary
and such clerical assistance as may be
necessary, this to be determined, and the
salaries fixed and paid by the Board of
Liquidation, which shall also fix and pay
the necessary amounts for the other ex-
lpenses of said Board out of said tax.
The avails of said tax, in excess of the
lamount necessary to pay the semi annual
interest on said bonds and the expenses
of the Board as above set forth, shall be
Invested by said Board of Liquidation for
account of said fund, or they may pur-
chase, at not more than par, with said
surplus at any time, and retire said bonds
and it, at any time, the surplus reaches
such an amount that the Board deems il
not advisable to hold same longer, and il
is not able to purchase said bonds at the
rate above stated, it shall then have the
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ming with the highest number, but at moi
exceeding their market value.
| Said bonds shall be sold at par and ac-
crued interest all at one time or partially
as said Board of Liquidation may deter
mine. The Board herein created shall be
known as the New Orleans Lake Shore
Park Board, and shall have the right te
purchase such property as may be neces-
sary within the limits above specified, tC
establish thereon lake front park, ant
to build a sea wall and to reclaim lane
from the lake by extending the sea wal
into the lake and filing the space between
same and the present short line, and t
do all other work necessary to accomplish
the purposes herein provided for, and sale
Board shall have the right to sell OF
lease any portion of the property acquired
hereunder or reclaimed as may not bt
necessary for park purposes, and, in sell
ing same, to prescribe the conditions un.
der which same shall be held by private
owners, with reference to the character
of buildings, sidewalks and other improve
ments to be erected thereon. The sale
Board shall have the right to lay out an(
pave, within the property herein to be ac.
quired, streets, avenues and boulevards
land to arrange for the proper lighting
thereof No purchase, sale or lease shall
be made under the terms hereof withou
the consent of the Board of Liquidation
and the Commission Council of the city
of New Orleans, or any other body tina
may hereafter be in charge of the affair.
of the city of New Orleans. The City
Attorney shall be the legal advisor of tn,
Board The Mayor and Commissioner o
! Public Property, or any officers hereafte
created by other names exercising tn,
same functions, shall be ex-offico mem
bers of the Board, but without the RICH
to vote therein, but may be appointed OIL
committees and shall have the right t.
speak and present resolutions at an!
, meeting of the Board.
The engineering work necessary to carr.
out the provisions of this amendmen
shall be under the supervision of tn,
City Engineer, who however, shall ap
: point one or more special deputies to hav,
charge of the work. same to be selected
by the Board herein created and confirm
ed by the Board of Liquidation.
, Should at any time, the Board of Liqui
> dation be Of the opinion that, by reason
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