New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-10-09
ACT NO. 40.

ACT NO. 40.
House Bill No. 2s6-By Mr.. Schel.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article 300
of the Constitution of the State of
Louisiana as heretobefore amended
relative to pensions for Confederate
Veterans.
General Assembly of the State of Louis
lana, two thirds of all the members
elected to each House concurring, That
Article 900 of the Constitution of the
State of Louisiana as heretobefore
amended be amended and enacted so
as 10 read as follows:
Article sea. A pension not to exceed
Thirty Dollars ($s0.00) per month shall
be allowed 20 each Confederate soldier
or sailor veteran who possesses all of
the following Qualifications:
I. 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
tered into the Army or Navy OF the
Confederate States and shall have re-
unfit the Surrender.
Z. He shall not own property of
more than tive thousand dollars VAL
g. He shall not be salaried or other
Wise provided for by the State of Louis
iana, or by any other State or Govern
meat. In case he enlisted in any or
KaniEation mustered into said service
az . 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 five
years prior to his application for pen
sion. In case he resided elsewhere
than In this State, and enliHted In an
organization not mustered In from
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
sien. A like pension shall be granted
to the widow who shall not have mar
risd again. in INDECENT circumstances.
of such soldier or sailor whose mar
rage to her was contracted prior to
January, 1895; provided that If her de-
ceased husband served in an organiza-
den, mustered In from Louisiana, or If
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 ave
years prior to her application therefor;
and II her deceased husband enlisted
elsewhere than in Louisiana, and
In from Louisiana, such widow shall,
In order to entftle her to a 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 debarred
from the benefits of this Act but be
entitled TO q pension on the same terms
A. other widows of deceased Confeder-
ate soldiers or sailors; provided further,
10 widows snail be allowed only from
ths date of application under this
Article, and the total appropriations
for ail pensions in any one year shall
three-fourths of one mill on the dollar
which tax il hereby levied on all tax
able property in the State, provided
said appropriations shall never be more
than an amount sufficient to pay al
pensions for any one year. Any ao-
cruing surplus from said tax fund shall
be held az an accommodating fund for
the Confederate Veterans to be appro-
priated by the General Assembly for
thair 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
the three fourths OF one mill tax levied
and collected and to be known as Con
feAerats Veteran Pension Fund In
hereby prohibited and said fund il to
be used for no other purpose than that
herein stipulated; and upon the adop-
ton of this Amendment same shall at
once become self operative and the
funds derived therefrom be inlmedi-
ately used for said purpose, and pro-
videe further that the tax collectors
and assessors shall receive no commits
eions for assessing and collecting said
three-fourths of one mill tax herein
provided.
Provided that nothing in this Article
shall be construed so as to prohibit
the General Assembly from providing
artificial limbs to disabled Confederate
Soldiers or Sailors.
Section q Be 1t further resolved,
etc, That this proposed amendment be
submitted to the qualified electors Of
the State of Louisiana. for adoption or
rejection at the Conversational Electfon
TO be held on the first Tuesday next
following the first Monday in Novem-
Der, 1896.
That the official ballots to be used
at said election shall have printed
thereon the words: For the proposed
amendment TO Article 300 of the Con-
stitution of the State of Louisiana rel
alive to the pensions for Confederate
Veterans" and the words: Against the
proposed amendment to Article 500 OF
the Constitution of the State of Louis
lana relative TO pensions for confed-
srafs Veterans" and each eIector shall