The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1920-10-14
ACT NO 1l0

House Bill NO. 2S6-By Mr.. 0ChelI.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article 30:
of the Constitution Of the State OF
Louisiana as heretobefore amended
relative to pensions for Confederate
Veterans.
Section 1. BE it resolved by the
General Assembly of the State OF Louis
lana. two thirds of all the members
elected to each House concurring. That
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 $4,000 per month shall
be allowed to each Confederate soldier
or sailor veteran who possesses all of
the following qualifications:
]. 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
Confederate States and shall have re-
manned true to the Confederate States
until the Surrender.
e. He shall not own property Of
more than two thousand dollars val
5. He shall not~be saiaried or other
wise provided for by the State of Louis
lana. or by any other State or Govern
ganization mustered into said service
as a Louisiana organization, or in case
at the date of his enlistment he resided
resided in this State for at teas least INV" i've
years prior to his application for pen
sion. In case he resided elsewhere
than In this State, and enlisted in an
Louisiana, or in the Navy of the Con
federate States, he shall have resided
in this State for at least five years
prior to his application for such pen
sion. A like pension shall be granted
to the widow who shall not have mar
ried again, in INDECENT circumstances,
o. such soldier or sailor whose mar
riige to her was contracted prior to
January, 1895; provided that If her de-
cee sed husband served in an o1ganiza-
ton, mustered in from louisiana or if
he resided in Louisiana, at the date Of
his enlistment then in order that such
widow shah 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 a pension as
State for not less than five years prior
to her application for such pension;
provided further that all widows who
Confederate soldierstor sailors
from the benefits of this Act but be
entitled to a pension on the same terms
as other widows Of deceased Confeder-
ate soldiers or sailors; provided further,
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
three fourths Of one mill on the dollar
which tax is hereby levied on all tax
allie property in the State, provided |
said appropriations shall never be more |
A. ffnt~
for any one year. Any ac-
cruing surplus from said tax fund shall |
be held as an accommodating fund for /
the Confederate Veterans to be appro-
printed 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 spprropriation for
The three fourthe of one mill tax levied
ard collected and to be known as Con |
federate Veteran Pension Fund" il
no oter ban
.ercin stipulated; and upon the adop-
Ion OF this Amendment same shall at
.nce become self operative and the
.tely used for said purpose, and pro-
.ided further that the tax collectors
nd assessors shall receive no commits
ions for assessing and collecting said
hree. fourths Of one mill tax herein
\
Provided that nothing In this Article
hall be construed 80 a. to prohibit
he General Assembly from providing
rtincial limbs to disabled Confederate
o1diers or Sailors.
Section 2. Be IL further resolved,
tc., That this proposed amendment be
admitted to the qualified electors Of
hesitate Of Louisiana. for adoption or
!, be held on the hrst Tuesday next !,
the first Monday In Novem-
er. 1920. In
That the official ballots to be used
said election shall have printed
lereon the words: For the proposed q
II endment to Article 302 of the Cons
tuition of the State Of Louisiana re1-
i've to the pensions for Confederate
cterans." and the words: Against the
opposed amendment to Article 500 Of 7
e Constitution of the State OF Louis
ma relative to pensions for confed- I
ate Veterans" and each slectoP shall