Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-09-01
Act No. 1O1

House Bill No. 10. the FIeiu5
JOINT RESOLUTION
Promising an amendment to Article
3o3 of the Constitution OF the state OF
Louisiana, relative to pensions ios
Confederate veterans. As am a..
by Act No. 1913 of the General AS
sembly of 1914, and for the purpose
Of nroviding a sufficient revenue Tor
the carrying out of this article or
the Constitution.
Section l. BE IT resolved Dy INC
General Assembly of the State or Lou
tsiana. tvo-thirds of all the members
elected to each House concurring. that
Article 3O3 of the Constitution OF the
State of Louisiana, as amended py
Act No. 1913 of the General Assembly
of 1914. be SO enacted as to read as
Article 303 A pension of like
amount. not to exceed twenty-five dol
lars ($25.O0) per month shall be allow
ed to each Confederate soldier or sail
or veteran who possesses all Oh ING
following qualifications:
l. He shall have served honorary
from the date of his enlistment until
the close Of the late Civil War. or until
he was discharged or paroled, In some
military organization regularly mus
tered into the Army or Navy OF the
Confederate States, and shall have re-
NAMED true to the Confederate states
until the surrender.
2. He shall not own properly OF
alton.
8. He shall not be salaried or 9TH
erwise n-ovided for by the State or
Louisiana. or by any other State or
Government In case he enlisted IN
any organization mustered into said
service as a Louisiana organization, or
in case at the date of his enlistment
he resided in the State of Louisiana.
he shall have resided in this state Tor
at least five years prior to his appli-
cation for pension. In case he resid-
ed elsewhere than in this State, and
enlisted in an organization not mus
tered in from Louisiana, or in the
Navy of the Confederate States, he
shall have resided in this State for at
least five years prior TO his applica-
tion for such pension. A like pension
shall be granted to the widow who
shall not have married again, in in
digent circumstances, of such soldier
or sailor, whose marriage TO her was
contracted prior to January. 1885; pro-
vided. that if her deceased husband
served in an organization mustered In
from Louisiana. or If he resided in
Louisiana at the date of his enlist
ment, then in order that such widow
shall be entitled to the pension as
herein provided. she shall have resid-
ed in this State for at least five years
prior to her application therefor; and
II her deceased husband enlisted else
where than in Louisiana. and served
in an organization not mustered IN
from Louisiana, such widow shall, In
order to entitle her to a pension as
herein provided, have resided in this
State for not less than five years pri-
or to her application for such pen
sion; provided. further. that all wild
ows who married Confederate soldiers
or sailors a second time shall not be
debarred from the benefits of this Act.
but be entitled to, pension on the
same terms as other widows of deceas-
ed Confederate soldiers or sailors:
lad f,rv hot hot h.
err to veterans or to widows. shall be
allowed only from the date of applica-
ton under this Article. and the total
appropriations for all pensions in any
annual one mill tax is hereby
in the State. provided said ap-
preparations shall never be more
than an amount sufficient to pay all
pensions for any one year. Any &C
cruing surplus from said tax fund
shall be held as an accommodating fund
for the Confederate veterans to be ap-
propriated by the General Assembly
for their use and benefit as the
General Assembly may in future de-
termine. and the collection of any 9TH
er tax or the making of any appro-
priation for pensions in excess OF the
amount Of the one-mill tax levied and
collected, and to be known as Con
federate Veteran Pension Fund" is
hereby prohibited, and said fund is to
be used for no other purpose than that
herein stipulated: and upon the adop-.
ton of this Amendment same shall at
once become elf-operative. and the
funds derived therefrom be immedi-
ately used for said purpose; and pro-
vided, further. that the tax collectors
and assessors shall receive no COM
missions for assessing and collecting
one mill tax herein provided.
Provided. that nothing in this Arti-
Gle shall be construed so as to pro-
hibit the General Assembly from pro-
viding artificial limb to disabled Con-
federate soldiers or sailors.
Section 2. Be 1t further resolved.
submitted to the qualified electors of
the State of Louisiana. for adoption or
rejection at the Congressional election
to be held on the first Tuesday next
following the first Monday in Novem-
Der. 1916.
at said election shall have printed
thereon the words. For the proposed
amendment to Article 300 OF the Con-
stitution of the State OF Louisiana rel
alive to the pensions for Confederate
vetrans." and the words. Against the
proposed amendment to Article 900 OF
the Constitution of the State of Louis
lana relative to pensions for Confeder-
ate veterans" and each elector shall
indicate. as provided IL the general
election laws of the State. whether or
not he votes for or against the amend
ment.
HEWITT BOUANcHAUD.
Speaker of the House of Representa-
FERNAND MOUTON.
Lieutenant Governor and President OF
the Senate.
Approved: July 5. 1916.
r. G. PLEASANT,