The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-10-23


or accounts to be known as Redemption
Accounts, the amount of all bonds ma
turing or becoming payable. and 1t
shall be the duty of said Treasurer to
pay or provide for the payment Of such
bonds. Such deposits shall be made
with the State Treasurer In timely sea-
son FOR the payment OF such principal
a a56 interest and not less thap thirty
moneys become payable. 1t shall be
| the duty OF said Treasurer to collect
such deposits as aforesaid. and in case
of failure the part of said Board to
make said deposits in an amount suf-
fcient to provide for the payment of
interest due or to become due, and for
the redemption of the bonds. the said
treasurer is hereby empowered and d.
rected, and it is made his duty. to
collect the charges and revenues Of
the Fort and TO apply the same, after
providing for necessary operating ex-
penses and any prior charges. to the
payment OF the principal and interest
OF the said bonds. and for that pur-
pose and for such time as may be
necessary, the said Treasurer is hereby
authorized to exercise all the powers
and duties vested in the Board of Com
missioners of the Port of New Orleans.
me accounts of said Board as De-
partment OF State shall be subject to
audit and investigation by the State
auditor or Supervisor of Public Ac-
counts, and the auditor shall counter
sign all bonds hereafter issued The
| board may acquire real and personal
property subject to mortgage or other
lien and may make or execute pur-
chase money mortgages or property
acquired Nothing herein contained
| shall prejudice the right of the holder
or any bonds of the Port now outstand-
ing. or that may be issued under the
ordinance and mortgage heretofore
made and executed for canal purposes
to segregation of such revenues as
are applicable to his bonds under said
ordnance and mortgage or other COW
enant OF his bonds. This amendment
shall not repeal any statutes hereto
fore enacted. except insofar as incon-
sistent herewith.
Section 2. Be it further resolved,
used at said election shall be placed
the words, For the proposed amend
ment to the Constitution giving addi-
tional powers to the Board Of Commits
sioners of the Port of New Orleans In
the financing and control Of the prop
erty under its administration" and the
words Against the proposed amend
ment to the Constitution giving addi-
| tional powers to the Board of Commits
sioners of the Port OF New Orleans in
the hnanoing and control of the prop
erty under it's administration" and
each elector shall Indicate his vote for
or against the proposed amendment az
provided in the general election laws
of the State
r. F. WALKER
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives.
HEWITT BOUANCHAUD.
Lieutenant Governor and President of
the Senate.
Approved: July Z, 1920.
JNO. NJ. PARKER,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
JAMES j. BAILEY,
Secretary of State.
ACT NO. 14o.
House Bill No. 286-By Mr.. Schell.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article 303
Louisiana as heretobefore amended
relative to pensions for Confederate
Veterans.
Section /. Be 1t resolved by the
lana, two thirds Of all the members
elected to each House concurring, That
Article 500 of the Constitution Of the
State OF Louisiana as heretobefore
as to read as follows:
Article 30S. pension not to exceed
Thirty Dollars ($30.00) per month shall
be allowed to each Confederate soldier
the following qualifications:
1. He shall have served honorably
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
Con derssite Sea tss' szad tie
NAMED true to the Confederate States
until the Surrender.
2. He shall not own property OK
| more than two thousand dollars val
uation.
g. He shall not be salaried or other
wise provided for by the State Of Louis
lana, or by any other State or Govern
| ment. In case he enlisted in any orr
| ganiZation mustered into said service
as 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 for at least dve
years prior to his application for pen
sion. In case he resided elsewhere
than in this State, and enlisted in an
organization not mustered. In from
| Louisiana, or In the Navy of the Con-
| federate States, he shall have resided
prior to his application for such pen.
siop. A like pension shall be granted
to the widow who shall not have mar
| ried again, in INDECENT circumstances,
rage to her was contracted prior to
January, 1895; provided that IL her de-
| ceased husband served In an Organise
| ton, mustered in from Louisiana. or II
| he resided in Louisiana, at the date OF
his enlistment. then in order that such
| widow shall be entitled to the pension
| as herein provided. she shall have re-
/ sided in this State for at least five
years prior to her application therefor;
and If her deceased husband enlisted
elsewhere than In Louisiana, and
| served In an organization not mustered
| in from Louisiana, such widow shall
in order to entitle her to pension az
| 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
second time shall not be debarre6
from the benefits of this Act but BIZ
entitled to a pension on the same terms
as other widows of deceased Confeder.
ate soldiers or sailors; provided further
that pensions whether to veterans OF
to widows shall be allowed only from
the date of application under thii
Article, and the total appropriation
for all pensions in any one year shall
be the proceeds of an annual tax O
| three-fourths. of one mill on the dolla
which tax is hereby levied on all tax
able property in the State. provides
said appropriations shall never be NOR
than an amount sufficient to pay al
pensions for any one year. Any &C
cruing surplus from said tax fund shall
be held as an accommodating fund 70
the Confederate Veterans to be appro
| priated by the General Assembly 70
, their use and benefit az the Genera
, Assembly may in future determine. an
, | the collection of any other tax or Il