The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-08-28
ACT NO. 140.


House Bill No 2S6-By Mr.. Schell
JOINT RESOLUTION.
proposing an amendmenttto Article 3g3
OF the Constitution of the State OF
Louisiana as heretobefOre amended
relative to pensions for confederate
Veterans.
Section l. Be it resolved by the
General Assembly of the State of Louis-
lana, two thirds of all the members
elected to each House concerning. THAI
Article 303 of the Constitution of the
State of Louisiana as heretoBefore
amended be amended and re-enacted SO
as to read as follows:
Article 303. A pension not to exceed
Thirty Dollars (s30.00) per month shall
be allowed to each Confederate soldier
or sailor veteran who possesses all Of
the following qualifications: So
l. He shall have served honorabiv
from the date of his enlistment until
the close of the late Civil*War. or until
he was discharged or paroied, in Some,
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 property or.
more than two thousand dollars val
uation.
B. He shall not be salaried or Others
wise provided for by the State OF Eol1is-
lana, or by any other State or Govern
ment. In case he enlisted in any or-s
ganization mustered into said service.
as a Louisiana organization or in eases
at the date Of his enlistment he res;f.ss
In the State of Louisiana he shall have
resided in this State for at least Eve
years prior to his application for pe1l-s
sion. In case he resided elsewhere
than in this State, and enlisted in an
organization net mustered in frons
Louisiana, or in the Navy OF the Cen
federate States, he shall have resided
in this State for at least FIVE years
prior to his application for ouch PEN
stop. like pension shall be granted
to the widow who shall not have Tl1sr-
ried again, in INDECENT circumstances
of such soldier or sailor whose mar
rage to her was contracted prior to
January 1895; provided that IL her de-
ceased husband served in an orgaSli "a
ton, mustered in from Louisiana, or il
he resided in louisiana. at the date bf
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
and if her deceased husband enlisted
elsewhere than in louisiana and
served in an organization not mustered
in from Louisiana, such widow shah,
herein provided. have resided in this
State for not less than Ave years prior
to her application for such pension;
provided further that all widows VINO
married Confederate soldiers or sailors
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 deceased Confeder-
ate soldiers or sailors; provided further.
that pensions whether to veterans or
to widows shall be allowed only from
the date of application under this
Article, and the total appropriations
for all pensions in any one year shall
be the. proceeds of an annual tax of
three-fourths of one mill on the dollar |
which tax is hereby levied on all tax
able property in the State provided
said appropriations shall never be more |
than an amount sufficient to pay all |
pensions for any one year. Any ac-t
cruing surplus from said tax fund small |
be held as an accommodating fund for
the Confederate Veterans to be appro-
priated by the General Assembly for /
their use and benefit as the General |
Assembly may in future determine. and |
the collection of any other tax or in |
the making of any appropriation for
pensions in excess of the amount or
the three fourths of one mill tax levied /
and collected and to be known as Con I
federate Veteran Pension Fund is |
hereby prohibited and said fund is to I
be used for no other purpose than that I
herein stipulated; and upon the adop- +
once become self operative ana the
funds derived therefron be i1sasietti-
ately used for said purpose, and pros
vided further that the tax collectors
and assessors shall receive no commits
sions for assessing and collecting said
three, fourths of one mill tax herein
provided.
Provided that nothing in this Article I
shall be construed so as to prohibit
the General Assembly from praviding /
artificial limbs to disabled Confederate
Soldiers or Sailors.
Section 2. Be it further resolved. T
etc, That this proposed amendment be
submitted to the qualified electors Of
the State of Louisiana. for ADOPTION or
the Congressional Election <
10 be held on the first Tuesds1x mex 1
following the first Monday in Nove1n-
Der. 1920.
That the official ballots 10 be used
at said election shall have printed
thereon the words For the propcsssl
to Article sos ros the Cen-4
of the State of Louisiana rel
ltfve to the pensions for Confederates
Veterans" and the words Against the I,
proposed amendment to Article So3 az
he Constitution of the State Of Louis
ana relative to pensions for eonfed-
rate Veterans" and each elector shall