New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1916-11-04

or directed to be levied or contributed
81 the ~ity o. New Orleans for public
school purposes, either by said Act No.
10 of 1890 or other provisions of the
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iona provisions to the contrary, as well
as Act No. 2u2 of the General Asseuo'y
Of the State of louisiana for the year
1914, "a tilted as an amendment TO the
| Constitution OF this Stale, are hereby
ab-ogate3 and repealed and the City of
New Orleans shall! have no power or au-
thority to use or employ any of its taxes
= tu,lds to- the establishment, supper.
OF maintenance OF the public schools, Ill
10y G indirectly, except as herein au-
thorized; provided, however, that the
City of New Orleans shall administer,
use and employ all the funds, property
or things of value now or hereafter held
by it under any special legacy bequest
or donation made or to be made directly
to it for school purposes, and shall carry
out and execute the conditions of all such
| special legacies, requests or donations
that have been heretofore made to and
accepted by said City of New Orleans
and all such as may hereafter be made
to and accepted by said city.
| Section Is. For the purpose of giving
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 taxable
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 amendment), when
| ever o. in the manner prescribed by Act
No. ESQ of the General Assembly of the
State of Louisiana for the year 1910, and
manner as shall be prescribed by law,
| the rate of such special tax, the number
of years it is to be levied 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 as
sessed for property in said city as shown
by the last assessment made prior to the
submission Of the proposition to the
| said property taxpayers, and ~ a ma
jority 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 shall be
certified, assessed, collected and paid In
the manner prescribed by Section II o.
this amendment.
Section 49, The Board of Directors
of the Public Schools, Parish of Orleans,
OF its legal successor, shall not capitalize
the whole or any part of the taxes which
by this amendment it is authorized to
levy, nor fund the same into bonds, nor
borrow money in anticipation of the col
lection 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 pur-
pose for which such taxes are levied,
borrow such sums as shall not be in ex-
cess Of the amount of its uncollected
taxes Of such. year, and may issue its
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 indebtedness |
said revenues shall be pledged, and said |
indebtedness shall not be payable out
of any other funds or moneys whatso-
ever; provided, however, no moneys shall
be borrowed by said Board for any other
purposes than current purposes, and in
no event shall any money be borrowed
by said Board to make or to pay for
permanent improvements; and provided
further, that said Board shall not
make any contract OF incur any debt or
obligation unless sufficient funds, not
otherwise appropriated, to pay and dis
charge the same are actually in the
treasury 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, ex-
cept as may be hereinabove specially
provided.
Said Board shall annually and prior
to the beginning of the scholastic year
prepare budget of its receipts and ex-
penditures and said budget, before it be-
comes effective, must be approved by
the Commission Council of the City of
New Orleans, or its successor as the
governing body of said City, and all ap
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
Council or its successor to
:hange, alter, substitute OF eliminate any
IF the items Of the budget thus sub
mitted; the true intent and meaning
hereof being that the said council or its
successor shall have no authority what
soever in or over said budget except to
he extent of ascertaining whether the
proposed expenditures as exhibited by
raid budget are within the probable and
revenues of said Board Of
Directors of the Public Schools, Parish
# Orleans.
Section 20. The inhibition herein es-
sblished against the City of New Or
cans and the Board of Directors of the
Public Schools, Parish of Orleans, or
either Of them, borrowing money, an