The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1916-10-14


renewing extending or explaining the
charters thereof"
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 the following
amendment to Article 48 of the Constitu-
ton of the State of Louisiana be submitted
to the qualified electors Of the State for
their adoption or rejection, at the Con-
gressional election to be held on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in the
month of November, 1916. as follows:
Article 4s. The General Assembly shall
not pass any local or special law on the
following specified subjects:
For the opening and conducting of cleo
lions, or fixing or changing the place of
voting.
Changing the names OF persons.
Changing the venue in civil Or criminal
cases.
Authorizing the laying out. opening.
closing, altering or maintaining roads.
highways stress or alleys, or relating to
ferries and bridges, or incorporating
bridge or ferry companies, except for the
erection of bridges crossing streams which
form boundaries between this and any
other State
Authorizing the adoption of legitimatioTs
of children or the emancipation of minors.
Granting divorces.
Changing the law of descent or sue
cession. q
Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disabilities.
Renting fines penalties, and forfeit
ures, or refunding moneys legally paid
into the treasury
Authorizing the construction of street
passenger railroads in any Incorporated
town or city.
Regulating labor, trade, manufacturing
or agriculture
Creating corporations or amending, re-
newt g, extending, explaining the char
ters thereof provided, this shall not apply
to municipal corporations having a pepu
lation of not less than twenty-five hum
dred inhabitants, or to the organization
of levee districts and parishes, river i'm
provement districts, harbor Improvement
districts and navigation districts.
Granting to any corporation. associa-
ton, or individual any special or exclusive
right, privilege or immunity.
Extending the time for assessment of or
collection OF taxes, or for the relief Of any
assessor or collector of taxes from the
performance of his official duties, or Of
his sureties for liability; nor shall any
such law or ordinance be passed by any
political corporation of the State.
Regulating the practice OF jurisdiction
of any court, Or changing the rules of
in any judicial proceeding or
inquiry before courts, or providing or
changing methods for the collection of
debts or the enforcement Of judgments
or prescribing the effects Of judicial sales
Exempting property from taxation.
Fixing the rate Of interest.
Concerning any criminal or civil actions.
Giving effect to informal or invalid wills
or deeds, or to any Illegal disposition of
property.
Regulating the management of public
schools the building or repairing of
and the raising of money
for such purposes.
Legalizing the unauthorized or invalid
acts of any officer, servant or agent of
the State, or of any parish or municipality
thereof
Section 2. Be it further resolved, ETC.,
That the official ballot to be used at said
election shall have printed thereon the
words: For the proposed amendment to
Article 4S Of the Constitution Of the State
IF Louisiana, relative to the inclusion of
liver and improvement districts, harbor
Improvement districts, and navigation dis
riots in the proviso, excepting municipal
having population of not
ess than twenty-five hundred inhabitants. |
evee districts and parishes from the pro-
visions of said Article 48 Of the Constitu- |
ion providing for the creating corpora |
ions, or amending, renewing, extending |
n explaining the charters thereof" and
he words Against the proposed amend |
nent to Article 4S of the Constitution of |
nclS ion of river Ia Improvement dis
riots, 11arbor Improvement districts, and |
navigation districts in the proviso ex- |
,epting municipal corporations having a |
population of not less than twenty-fveI
hundred inhabitants, levee districts and
parishes from the provision Of said Article
8 of the Constitution providing for the |
reating corporations, or amending, re-
ewing, extending or explaining the char
ers thereof" And each elector shall in
icate, as provided by the general e1ectiopl
avs of the State, whether he votes for orr
,gainst the proposed amendment.
FERNAND MOUTON,
lieut.. Gov. and President Of the Senate.
HEWITT BOUANCHAUD, Y
speaker of the House of Representatives.
Approved: July 5, 1916.
RSG. PLEASANT,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
true copy:
JAMES j. BAILEY,
Secretary Of State.