The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1916-08-31

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tax rolls of said city according to law
| against all taxable property in said
! city s assessed and valued for city
| taxation purposes; and said tax shall be
! collected by said city and paid over to
J 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,
appropriations 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. 10 Of 1890 or other provisions
| of the Constitution of this State. All
constitutional provisions to the con-
/ trary, as well as Act No. e62 of the
4 General Assembly of the State of Louis
/ lana for the year 1914, ratified as an
4 amendment to the Constitution of tins
! 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 its taxes or funds for
! the establishment, support or mainte-
nance of the public schools directly or
| indirectly. except as herein authorized; !;
| provided, however, that the city or New
Orleans shall administer, use and en-
ploy sall 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 70
! it for school purposes. and shall carry
out and execute the conditions or all
such special legacies. bequests or dona-
tions that have been heretofore made to
anu dCCepleu ny SdIu SIIy VI NC" vi :
leans and ali such as may hereafter be
made to and accepted by said city.
Section Is. For the purpose of Civ
ing additional support to the Public
schools, the Board of Directors OF the
Public Schools, Parish of Orleans, or its
legal successor, may levy upon all tax
able property in the city of New Orleans
a special tax not exceeding two mills
on the dollar of the assessed valuation
of said property (Which special tax shall
be in excess Of the tax authorized by
Section II of this amendmeht), wnen-
ever ID in the manner prescribed oy
Act No 256 of the General Assembly Of
the State of Louisiana for the year
1910, and amendments thereon, or III
such other manner as shall be prescrib-
ed by law, the rate of such special tax,
the number of years 1t is to be levled
and the purpose for which the tax 10
intended shall have been by said Board
submitted at an election to a vote OF
the property taxpayers OF the city OF
New Orleans entitled to vote under the
laws of this State, who shall have been
assessed for property in said city as
shown by the last assessment made
prior to the submission of the PROPOSE
tion to the said property taxpayers, ana
(2) a majority of the same in number
and amount voting at said election shall
have voted therefor. The levy by SAID
Board of any tax so authorized shail pe
certified, assessed, collected and paid in
the manner prescribed by Section IL OF
this amendment,
Section 1s The Board of Directors
of the Public Schools Parish of Orleans,
or its legal successor, shall not capt.
taliZe the whole or any part or the
taxes which by this amendment II is au-
thorized to levy, nor fund the same into
bonds, nor borrow money In anticipation
of the collection thereof; provided that
said Board may, in any calendar year,
in anticipation of the collection OF the
taxes of such calendar year and for the
purpose for which such taxes are levied
a1IHk a
cess of the amount of its uncollected
taxes of such year, and may issue It's
notes or other evidences of Indebtedness
therefor and such sums. notes or other
evidences of indebtedness shall be pay
able only out of the taxes of the calen-
dar year in which said loan or loans
are first made and for which indebted
ness Shall not be payable out or any
other funds or moneys whatever; pro-
vided, however. no moneys shall be Dor
rowed by said Board for any other pur-
poses than current purposes, ana n no
event ghaIT any LI0mey be borrowed ~
said Board to make or TO pay for per-
manent improvements; and provided
further, that said Board shall not MAKE
any contract or incur any debtor ooli-
cation unless sufficient funds not otber-
wise appropriated, to pay and discharge
the same are actually in the treasurey
of said Board at the time of making
said contract or mourning said debt or
obligation and are specially set aside
and dedicated to said purpose, except as
may be hereinabove specially provided.
Said Board shall annually and prior
TO the beginning of the scholastic year
prepare a budget of its receipts and ex-
penditures and said budget, before II
becomes effective must be approved py
the Commission Council OF the City or
New Orleans or it's successor as the
governing body of said City. and all APP
propriations by or expenditures OF said
board not included in the said budget
shall likewise before becoming effective
be approved by said Commission Coun-
ell or its said successor;
Provided that nothing herein shall
be taken or construed as authorizing
the Commission Council or its sue
cessor to change, alter, substitute or
eliminate any of the Items of the
budget thus submitted the true in
tent and meaning hereof being that
the said council or its successors shall
have no authority whatsoever In or
over said budget, except to the. extent
of ascertaining whether the proposed
expenditures as exhibited by said
budget are within the probable and
estimated revenues of said Board OF
Directors of the Public Schools, Par
ish of Orleans.
Section 20. The inhibition herein
established against the City of New
Orleans and the Board of Directors of
the Public Schools, Parish Of Orleans,
or either of them, borrowing money,
anticipating their revenues, capitalize
Ing their funds or issuing notes of
other evidences of debt, shall apply
created by or under the authority of
the Common Council OF the City of
New Orleans, or It's successor as the
governing body of said city.
Section 81. The provisions hereof
are self-operative, and the city of
New Orleans and the several boards
and bodies herein referred to shall
carry the same into effect.
Be 1t further enacted, etc, that the
amendment proposed by this act shall
State for their approval or rejection
at the Congressional election to be
held on the first Tuesday after the
frst Monday In the month of Novem-
Der, 1916; that there shall be printed
on the official ballots to be used at
said election the words:
For the proposed amendment to
the Constitution of the State Of Louis
lana providing for the funding of GER
tain debts of the City of New Orleans
and Of the Board Of Directors of the
Public Schools, Parish of Orleans"
and the words;
Against the proposed amendment to
the Constitution OF the State of Louis
lana providing for the funding of GER
tain debts of the City Of New Orleans
and of the Board of Directors of the
Public Schools, Parish of Orleans;''
and that each eleetor shall indicate
on the ballot cast by him. as provided
by the general election laws OF the
State whether he votes for or against
the proposed amendment
HEWITT B0UANCHABD.
Speaker Of the House Of Representa-
tives.
FERNAND MoUToN,
Lieutenant Governor and President OF
the Senate.
Approved: June 5, 1919.
r. G. PLEASANT,
Governor Of the State Of Louisiana.
A true copys
JAMES J. BAILEY.
Secretary of State,
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