Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-09-01

ments shall be insufficient for such pay
ment, and reimbursement shall be made
to the general funds of the City OF New
Orleans when the assessments are col
lected to the extent of the amount that
the said general funds shall have con-
tributed to the payment aforesaid. So
much of Act No. % of the General AS
sembly of the State of Louisiana Tor the
year 1914 as may be inconsistent here
with is hereby repealed. and hereafter
no paving certificates shall be issued
upon the pledge of the reserve fund or
the City of New Orleans. but such GER
tificates shall be secured as herein and
otherwise provided for by said act or
subsequent Legislative authority not IN
CONNECT herewith: provided, however.
that paving certificates, for which the
faith and credit of the City of New Or
leans shall be pledged. whether issued
under the aforesaid Act No. % of 1914,
or under subsequent legislation. shall
not at any one time be outstanding in
an amount in excess of Five Million
Dollars C$5.O00.000) in face value.
Section 49, The total issue of bonds
by the City of New Orleans for all pur-
poses shall never exceed ten per centum
of the assessed valuation of the proper
ty in said city provided, however, that
neither the bonds issued for water,
sewerage and drainage purposes tname-
ly. the s12,000.O0O Public Improvement
Bonds issued under said Act No s of
1899 and the SS,000.000 New Pub
lie Improvement Bonds issued UNI n
Assembly of the State of Louisiana
for the year 1906. and acts
amendatory thereof and supplemental
thereto. as well as such bonds, HEREBY
or hereafter authorized. into which the
aforesaid bonoS or any par theron may
be refunded). nor the s2.00O.0OO Public
Belt Railroad Bonds authorized by Act
No. 119 of the General Assembly of the
State of Louisiana for the year 1908.
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Public Belt Railroad purposes, nor any
bonds which may hereafter be issued
for water supply or for the acquisition
or construction of any revenue produc-
ing public utility, nor any paving certifi-
Gates primarily chargeable against spe-
cial assessments for street paving, shall
be included in computing the indebted
ness OF said City of New Orleans under
that emergency bonds may be issued as
authorized in Section OF this amend
ment even though said Limitation shall
have been reached provided that the
Nine Million Dollars of bonds authorized
by Section l of this amendment shall
not be subject to the limitation herein
fixed at the time or times that same
shall be issued: but, with respect to
any other bonds that may be issued
hereafter under this amendment there
shall be included in the computation
said Nine Million Dollars of bonds. not
withstanding the fact that all of said
Nine Million Dollars of bonds shall not
have been actually issued. and sucn
amount of emergency bonds as may be
then outstanding.
Section IA. The Board of Liquioa-
ton. City Debt. as now organized and
created with the powers. duties ana
functions prescribed by existing laws
and by this amendment. shall be con-
tinued while any bonds authorized by
this amendment are outstanding and un-
paid: and all taxes which may be levied
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by day as collected, be paid over to said
Board, and shall by it be applied in pay
ment of the principal and interest OF
said bonds; and SAID board shall with
respect to all bonds authorized by this
amendment be entitled to exercise all
the rights and enforce the performance
of all the obligations. the same as ii is
authorized to do under laws existing at
the time of the adoption of this amend
ment with respect to any of the present
ly outstanding bonds of said City or
New Orleans. All funds. property and
things of value held by the Board of LII
quotation. City Debt for bonded deDt
purposes other than taxes now or here
after levied. and particularly all funds.
property and things of value now or
hereafter held by said Board under Act
No. 1873 of the General ssembly of the
State of Louisiana for the year 1880
and all amendments thereto, shall when
released from contract obligations or
dedications imposed by laws existing a
the time of the adoption of this amend
ment be used and employed in the dis
creation of said Board in payment and
retirement of any bonds of the City or
New Orleans then outstanding.
Section Is. For general municipal
purposes, exclusive of the support and
maintenance of the public schools ana
the payment of the bonded debt of the
City of New orleans. said city may in
each year levy upon all taxable property
within said city a tax not exceeding
six and one-half mills on the dollar Of
the assessed valuation thereof; pro-
vided. however, that when the one per
cent debt tax authorized by said Act No.
10 of 1890 and the two mill water and
sewer tax authorized by said Act No.
Of 1899 shall both have ceased to be lew
led and If thereafter the taxes levied by
the City of New Orleans in any one
year for bonded debt purposes be less
than ten mills. said city may in such
events levy for its general purposes
to the tax of six and one-half MINIS
hereby authorized and the taxes levIed
for the payment of the principal and
interest of it's bonds as they severally
mature shall not exceed in the aggre-
gate sixteen and one-half mills.
Section 16. The reservation of twen-
ty per cent of the revenues of the City
of New Orleans shall not hereafter be
made as directed by Section 40 of the
Act No 159 of the General Assembly of
the State of Louisiana for the year
1912. except insofar as the fund so d.
rected to be reserved shall have been
or dedicated before this
takes effect to the payment
of any obligation or the City of New
Orleans. and said reserve fund of each
year, when released from the obliga-
lions charged against il by law and be-
cause of contracts. existing at the time
of the adoption of this amendment,
shall be used for general municipal pur-
poses.
Section II. For the support, mainte-
nance. construction and repair of the
public Schools in the City of New Or
leans, the Board of Directors of the
Public Schools. Parish of Orleans. or its
legal successor. shall levy annually
such tax. not exceeding three and one
half mills. as said Board shall deem
necessary. which levy shall be certified
by said Board to the Commission Coun-
Gil or other future governing body of
the City of New Orleans. which shall
cause the tax to be entered upon the
tax rolls of said city according to law
against all taxable property in said
city as assessed and valued for city
taxation purposes: and said tax shall be
by said city and paid over to
said Board of Directors of the Public
Schools. Parish of Orleans, day by day
as collected.
said tax shall be in lieu of all taxes
and funds now authoriz-
ed or directed to be levied or contrib
uted by the City of New Orleans for
public school purposes, either by said
Act No. 110 of 1890 or other provisions
of the Constitution of this State. All
provisions to the con-
trary. as well as Act No. 1852 of the
General Assembly of the State of Louis
lana for the year 1914. ratified as an
to the Constitution of THIS
State are hereby abrogated and repeal
ed; and the City of New Orleans shall
have no power or authority to use or
employ any of it's taxes or funds for
the establishment. support or mainte-
nance of the public schools. directly or
except as herein authorized;
provided. however. that the City of New
Orleans shall administer, use and en-
ploy all the funds. property or things
of value now or hereafter held by 1t
under any special legacy. bequest or do
nation made or to be made directly TO
it for school purposes. and shall carry
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