The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-21
ACT NO. 203.

House Bill No. 45s-By Mr.. Leopold. Chair
man Committee on Public Works,
Lands and Levees. Substitute for
House Bill No. 225.
| JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the State Of Louisiana.
Whereas the City Of New Orleans is at
present exposed to storm damage and
| floods, and it is highly advisable and
necessary for said city to have more
adequate protection therefrom than can
at present be secured under existing laws.
Therefore. in order to promote the public
safety, health, comfort and convenience:
Section i. 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 the
State be submitted to the qualified electors
| of the State for their adoption or rejection
at the Congressional election to be held on
the first Tuesday after the first Monday
in November, 1916. as follows:
(a) The Board Of Levee Commissioners
of the Orleans Levee District is hereby
empowered to construct and maintain
levees and entertainments along. over and
in the bed of Lake Pontchartrain at such
distance from the present shore line as
the said Board may determine. not to
exceed twenty-five hundred (2500) feet
| from the present shore line, and along
and on the shores adjacent thereto. and
along the canals connecting Herewith,
and in such other places in the Parish OF
Orleans and the adjacent parishes as the
Board may determine, said levees and
entertainments to be of such height, width,
slope. design and character Of material as
said Board may determine. and to protect
said levees and embankments with such
pilings revetments, or walls, as 1t may
deem proper.
| OBJ To enable said Board to perform
said work and for the purpose thereof, the
Board is hereby given right of way over
and use of all public lands including such
portions of the water bottom Of said lake
as ii may deem necessary. 1t is also given
the right to acquire by donation, purchase
appropriation or appropriation. all private
lands or other property in such territory
in the Parish of Orleans and adjoining
parishes as the said board now has au.
thority and jurisdiction over under this
amendment, and under existing laws and
which the said board may deem necessary
or expedient for any of the purposes o.
said board. and to pay therefor in thu
same manner as the said board now pay:
for property taken by 1t on the Mississippi
river front in the parish of Orleans.
Section 2. Be it further resolved, etc.
That the official ballot to be used at sucf
election shall have printed thereon thu
words:
For the proposed amendment to thu
Constitution authorizing the board o
llevee commissioners of the Orleans Leve'
District to make certain construction
along Lake Pontchartrain and elsewhere
and the words Against the proposed
amendment to the Constitution, authoriz
ing the board of levee commissioners o
the Orleans Levee District to make GER
tain constructions along Lake Pontchar
train and elsewhere" And each electo
shall indicate his vote on the proposed
amendment as provided in the genera
election laws of the State.
HEWITT BOUANCHAUD.
Speaker of the House of Representatives
FERNAND MOUTON,
Lieut.. Gov. and President Of the Senate
Approved July 6, 1916.
r. G. PLEASANT,
Governor of the State Of louisiana
A true COPY:
| JAMES j. BAILEY,
Secretary OF State.