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House Bill No. 10-The Fields Nix Bill
JOINT RESOLUTION

House Bill No. 10-The Fields Nix Bill
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to Article 300
OF the Constitution Of the State Of
LOUISIANA relative to pensions for
Confederate Veterans. AS amended
by Act No. 1913 of the General Assem-
bly, of 1914, and for the purpose 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 the members elected to each
House cOncurring, that Article 1903 of the
Constitution of the State of Louisiana as
amended by Act No. 1873 of the General
Assembly OF 1914 be so enacted as to read
as follows:
Article 1903. A pension Of like amount
not to exceed Twenty-Five Dollars (s25. 0O)
per month shall be allowed to each Con.
federate soldier or sailor veteran who
possesses all of the following qualifications
l. He shall have served honorably from
the date of his enlistment until the close
Of the late Civil War, or until he was
discharged or paroled. in some military
Army, OF, Navy of the Confederate States
and shall have remained true to the Con-
federate States until the Surrender.
2 he shall not own property of more
than two thousand dollars valuation.
3. He shall not be salaried 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
organization; or in case at the date of hi.
Louisiana, he shall have resided in this
State for at least five years prior to 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
| Confederate States ha shall haua
| 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 INDECENT
whose marriage to her was contracted
prior to January, 1895: provided that II
her deceased husband served in an organi-
cation, mustered in from Louisiana, or If
| he resided in Louisiana, at the date Of his
| enlistment. then in order that such widow
shall be entitled to the pension as herein
provided, she shall have resided In this
| State for at least five years prior to her
application therefor; and if her deceased
| husband enlisted elsewhere than in Louis
lana, and served in an organization not
| mustered in from Louisiana, such widow
! shall, in order to entitle her to a pension
as herein provided. have resided in this
| state Tor not less than five years prior to
| her application for such pension; provided
| further that all widows who married Con-
federate soldiers or sailors second time
shall not be debarred from the benefits of
this Act but be entitled to a pension on
the same terms as other widows of de-
ceased Confederate soldiers 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 total appropriations
for all pensions in any one year shall be
the proceeds of the annual one-mill tax
hereby levied on all taxable property in
the State, provided said appropriations
ficient to pay all pensions for any. one
year. Any accruing surplus from said tax
fund shall be held as an accommodating
fund for the Confederate Veterans to be
appropriated by the General Assembly for