The Natchitoches enterprise., 1918-09-05

November. 1918, shall not be adopted
then the Limitation Of thlce mills here
inaboye specified shall be fixed at four
mills.
2. Except as otherwise provided in
this Constitution no parish I'aIish Of
Orleans excepted, municipal lcvee or
public board tax, for ali purposes what
soever, shall exceed in any one year
five mills on the dollar Of assessed val
uation provided that whore any munic-
Ipality Is, by its charter or By law
exempt from the payment of parish
taxes, 1T may levy a tax rate in any
one year at not exceeding ten mills on
the dollar Of assessed valuation; the
pa!ice juries of ;he several parishes
and boards Of trustees and municipal
councils Of incorporated cities and
towns (Parish OF Orleans excepted
shall levy collect and turn over to the
parish school boards of their respect
i've parishes. fer the support Of the
public schools Of heir respective par
iGhos, cities or towns, the proceeds of
one and cnc-half mills, instead Of the
three mills provided in Article 255 Of
sEe Constitution, and under conditions
therein set forth.
3. The State good roads tax of one
fourth Of one mill levied under Article
81 of the Constitution is hereby fixed
a. one-eightn Of one mill and the Con-
federate pension tax Of one mill levied
under Article &03 Of the Constitution is
and said taxes shall constitute, and be,
a part of the three mills hcrclnabove
first specified.
4. In all districts, parishes or other
subdiyiOns of the State. where, under
the law, bonded Indebtedness has been
incurred, the governing authority shall
impose only sufficient annual tax to
maintain the security herft ofore given
under the law for such obligations, and
to pay the interest and the indebted
ness as the same may become due. The
levy of the tax to meet ~ n ma turing
obligations shall be ample. but no sub
stantial excess shall Se allowed to ac-
cumulato; provided that nothing herein
snail be construed as affecting Act
No. approved Tule s. 1916, and subse-
querJly adopted as a part Of the Con-
stitut.on concerning he funding of GER
tain debts Of the City of New Orleans
and the issue Of serial bonds. etc, pro-
vided that the five-m limit Of taxa
tion for parishes. municipa ,ities, levees
and public boards, as set forth In para
graph two herein. shall rot apply TO
such special taxes as may be required
each year to pay their respective ma
TURTLES the principal and interest on
any bonds now outstanding or that may
hereafter be issued under the provi-
sions OF the Constitution Of this State.
S. In all cases where, under existing
laws, other than the laws provided for
bonded debts, a specified number of
mills has boen voted at special tax
election as a special annual tax to pro-
vide for public improvements. or the
maintenance of public education or
public improvements, the governing
authority which levied such tax shall
reduce the rate thereof to one-half OF
the mileage; provided that this require
ment shall not apply in any case where
parish has before The adoption here
OF assessed taxable property at actual
value and adjusted the special tax rate
accordingly.
Section g Be it further resolved, ETC.,
That the provisions Of this amend
Tnent shall not alter, amend, or repeal
any provision of the Constitution ex-
cept as the same are inconsistent there
with.
Section g. Be 1t further resolved, ETC.
That the foregoing amendment shall be
submitted to the qualified electors, for
adoption or reflections, at the General
Congressional Election, to be held in
November. 1918. and there shall be
printed on the ballot Far the consti-
tutfona1 amendment limiting the State
tax rate to three mills. and parish, mu
nicipal, levee and other board tax rate
TO five mills, and limiting special taxa
ton; and, Against the constitutional
amendment limiting the State tax rate
10 three mills and the parish, municipal
levce and other board tax rates to five
mills, and limiting special taxation
and each elector shall indicate, as pro-
vided in the general election laws of the
State, whether he votes for or against
said amendment. 4
HEWITT BOUANCHAUD.
Speaker of the House Of Representa-
~tives.
FERNAND NIOUTON.
Lieutenant Governor and President OF
the Senate.
Approved: July 10, 1918.
r. G. PLEASANT,
Governor of the State of Louisiana
A true copy:
JAMES j. BAILEY,
Secretary of State,