St. Tammany farmer., 1920-09-11
A true copy.
JAMES J. BAILEY,
Secretary of State.
ACT NO 140

ACT NO. 140.
House Bill No. 286. BY Mr.. Sch ell
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Propos -ng an amendment to Article
1903 OF the Constitution OF the
State of Louisiana as heretODe-
fore amended relative to pensions
for Confederate Veterans.
Section l. BE it resolved by inc
General Assembly OF the STATE II
LOUISIANA, two-thirds of all the men,
bers elected to each House con-
curing, That Article 3O3 of tn
Const tuition OF the State OF Louis =
ana as heTetobeIore amended De
amended and re-enacled so as to rel
as follows:
Article 3O3. A pension not to ex
ceed thirty Dollars $500 per month
shall be allowed to each Confel-
crate Soldier or Sailor veteran VINO
possesses all of the following qualii-
cations:
/. He shall have served honor
ably from the date OF his enlistment
until the close OF the late Civil War.
or until he was discharged Or pa
rolled, in some military organization
regularly mustered into the Army Gr
Navy OF the Confederate States and
shall have remained true to the Con-
federate States until the surrender.
2. He shall not own property Of
more than two thousand dollars va
uation.
3. He shall not be salaried or
otherwise provided for by the State
Of Louisiana, or by any other State
or Government. In case he enlist
ed in any organization mustered in
to sa ID service as Louisiana organi-
zation, or In case at the date of MS
enlistment he resided in the State
Of Louisiana, he shall have resided
in this State for at least five years
prior to his application for pension.
In case he resided elsewhere than in
this State, and enlisted in an organi-
Zation not mustered in from Louisi-
ana, or in the Navy of the ConfeJ-
crate States, he shall have res .dad
in this State for at least five years
prior to his application for sucn
pension. A like pension shall be
granted to the widow who shall not
have married again, in INDECENT Cir
cumstances, Of such soldier or SAIL
or whose marriage to her was con-
tracted prior to January, 1895; pro-
Vided that II her deceased husband
served in an organization, mustered
in from Louisiana, or if he resid I'd
in Lou tsiana, at the date of his Gu
listment, then in order that sucn
widow shall be entitled to the pen
sion as herein provided, she shall
have resided in this State for at
least Eve years prior to her applica-
ton therefor; and If her deceased
husband enlisted elsewhere than n
Louis ana, and served in an organi-
cation not mustered in from Louist-
ana, such widow shall, in order to
entitle her to pension as herein
provided, have resided in this State
FOR not less than five years prior to
her application for such pension;
provided further that all widows
who married Confederate soldiers Or
sailors a second time shall not DC
debarred from the benefits of this
Act but be entitled to a pension on
the same terms as other widows OF
deceased Confederate soldiers II
sailors; provided further, that PEN
sions whether to veterans or to wild
ows shall be allowed only from the
date OF application under this Article
and .he total appropriations for all
pensions in any one year shall De
the proceeds of an annual tax of
three .fourths of one mill on the dol-
lar VIII htch tax Is hereby levied on
all taxable property in the State,
provided such appropriations shall
never be more than an amount sufft-
cient to pay all pensions for any one
year. ANY accruing surplus from
said tax fund shall be held as an ac-
eumulating fund for the Confederate
Veterans to be appropriated by the
Cen erdl Assembly for their use and
benefit as the General Assembly may
in future determine, and the cole :.
tion of any other tax or in the max
ing Of any appropriation for pen,
sions In excess of the amount of the
| three-sourths of one mill tax levia
| and collected and to be known as
I"Conrsderato Veteran Pension Fund
Is hereby prohibited and said fund is
to be used for no other purpose thar
that here n stipulated; and upon tht
adoption of this Amendment sa,ot
shall at once become self operative
and the funds derived therefrom b;
Immediately used for said purpose
and provided further that the Ia
collectors and assessors shall receive
no commissions for assessing ant
collecting said three-fourths of Oh
mill tax herein provided.
Provided that nothing in thi
Article shall be construed SO as t.
prohib.t the General Assembly from
providing artificial limbs to disable
Confederate soldiers and sailors.
Section 2. Be it further resolved
etc, That this proposed amendmen
be submitted to the qualified ele
tors If the State of Louisiana, 70
ladoption or rejection at the -Congras