The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1916-10-28

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man Committee on Public Works.
| Lands and Levees. A Substitute for
House Bill No. 225.
JOINT REsOI IoN
Proposing an amendment 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 /. Be 1t resolved by the General
embly of the State of louisiana, two
thirds of all the membet ected to each
House concurring. THAI the following
amendment to the Con tuition Of the
State be submitted to the aIif1ed electors
of the State for their adopSon or rejection
at the Congressional electian 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
leyees 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 (2506) 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
embankments to be of such height, width,
slope, design and character OF material as
said Board may zdetermine, and to naasSAct
said levees and emhankments with such
pilings, revetments, or walls, as it may
deem proper
(b) To enable said Board to perform
said work and for thespurpose thereof, the
Board is hereby given a right of way over
and use of all public lands including such
portions of the water bottom Of said lake
as it may deem necessary. It 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
/ OF exponent IOF any Oh stHS purposes gOl
said board, and to pay therefor in the
same manner as the said board now pays
for property taken by it on the Mississippi
river front in the parish of Orleans.
Section q Be it further resolved, etc
That the official ballot to be used at such
election shall have printed thereon the
words:
For the proposed amendment to the
Constitution authorizing the board o.
Ievee commissioners Of the Orleans Levee
District to make certain constructions
along Lake Pontchartrafn and elsewhere
| and the words Against the proposed
amendment to the Constitution. authoriz-
/ ing the board of Ievee commissioners OF
| the Orleans Levee District to make GER
| tain constructions along Lake Pontchar-
| train and elsewhere" And each electol
shall indicate his vote on the proposed
amendment as provided in the general
| election laws of the State.
HEWITT BoUANCTIAUD,
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.
JAMES j. BAILEY.
Secretary of State.