St. Tammany farmer., 1920-08-28
ACT NO. 14O.

House Bill No. 2S6. BY Mr.. Schall
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Propos ng an amendment to Article
303 of the Constitution of the
State of Louisiana as heretobe-
fore amended relative to pensions
for Confederate Veterans.
Section /. Be it resolved by the
! General Assembly of the State IF
Louisiana, two-thirds of all the men,
bers elected to each House con-
curing, That Article 303 of the
Const tuition of the State of Louis
ana as heretobefore amended be
amended and re-enacted so as to rea
as follows:
Article 300. A pension not to ex-
ceed thirty Dollars $500 per month
shall be allowed to each Confed-
crate Soldier or Sailor veteran WnO
possesses all of the following qualiii-
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 or
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
h1 cf
ed in any Organization mustered IN
to ga d 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 Confel-
crate States, he shall have resided
| in this State for at least five years
prior to his application for such
pensi1n. A like pension shall be
granted to the widow who shall not
have married again, in indigent Cir
| cums,ances, of such soldier or sail
or whose marriage to her was con-
tracted prior to January, 1895; pro-
vided that if her deceased husband
served in an organization, mustered
in from Louisiana, or if he resided
| in Lou siana, at the date Of his en-
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 al
least five years prior to her applica'
tion therefor; and il her deceased
husband enlisted elsewhere than -
Louis ana, and served in an organi
zation not mustered in from Louisi
ana, such widow shall, in order tt
entitle her to a pension as herelr
provided, have resided in this State
for not less than five years prior t
her application for such pension
provided further that all widows
who married Confederate soldiers u
sailors a second time shall not b.
debarred from the benefits of thi
Act but be entitled to pension o,
the same terms as other widows o
deceased Confederate soldiers !,
sailors; provided further, that pen
sions whether to veterans or to wild
ows ahall be allowed only from tn
} date OF application under this Artic,
!; and lhe total appropriations for al
pensions in any one year shall o
the proceeds of an annual tax j
three-fourths of one mill on the do
: lar VIII .ch tax is hereby levied O
. all taxable property in the State
: provided such appropriations sha
7 never be more than an amount suff
cient TO pay all pensions for any on
year. Amy accruing surplus fro,