The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1920-10-14
ACT NO. 140.

ACT NO. 140.
House Bill No. 2S6-By Mr. Schell.
Joint RESOLUTION.
pronosing an amendment to Article 1893
of the Constitution of the State OF
louisiana as heretobefOre amended
relative to pensions for Confederate
Veterans.
Section /. 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 heretobetore
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 snail
he allowed to each Confederate soldier.
or sailor veteran who possesses all OF
the following qualifications:
/, He shall have served honorary
from the date of his enlistment uhti
the close of the late Civil War. or untl
he was discharged or paroled, In some
military organization, regularly mus
tered into the Army or Navy or the
Confederate States and shall have re-
mgined true to the Confederate StateS
until the Surrender. l.
2. He shall not own property OF
more than two thousand dollars val
| uati0n.
8. He shall not be saiaried 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 or
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 fVe
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
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
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 organlza..
ton, mustered in from Louisiana or II
he resided in Louisiana, at the GATE 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 hVe
years prior to her application, therefor
and if her deceased husband enlisted
elsewhere than in Louisiana aho
served in an organization NOT musterse
In from Louisiana, such widow snail
In order to eptitle her to pension az
herein provided, have resided In TINS
STATE for not less than FIVE years prior
ia her applica ton for such pension
nrovided further that all widows who
morried Confederate soldiers or sailors
IA second time shall not be debarree
| from the benefits of this Act but ot
entitled to pension on the same terms
az other widows of deceased COnfeder'
ate soldiers or sailors; provided further
that pensions whether to veterans OF
/ TO widows shall lie allowed only from
the date of application under TIM
/ Article. and the total appropriation
for all pensions in any one year sinai
he the proceeds of an annual tax o
three- fourtbs of one mill on the dolla
which tax Is hereby levied on all tax
able property in the State, provided
aaid appropriations shall never be NOR
than an amount sufficient to pay al
nensions for any one, year. Any &C
cruing surplus from said tax fund shai
| he held as an accommodating. rund 10
tbe Confederate Veterans to be appro
nriated by the General Assembly 10
, their use and benefit as the Genera
, Assembly may in future determine, an
, the collection of any other tax or !!
the making of any appropriation 10
nensions in excess of the amount 0
the three fourths of one mill tax leyie
and collected and to be known as Con
. federate Veteran Pension Fund"
, hereby prohibited and said fund 10
! be used for no other purpose than tina
. herein stipulated; and upon the adop
fion of this Amendment same shall a
: once become self operative and tn
funds derived therefrom be immedi
, ately used for said purpose, and pro
: yided further that the tax collector
i and assessors shall receive no commits
, sions for assessing and collecting sal
three fourths of one mill tax herel
provided, Ia,
shall be construed SO a. to prohibl
! the General Assembly from provs9in
artificial limbs to disabled Confederat
. Soldiers or Sailors.
! Section 2. Be II further resolved
: etc, That this proposed amendment b
4 submitted to the qualified electors
the state of Louisiana, for adoption @
q rejection at the Congressional Electio
4 to be held on the first Tuesday mex
= following the frst Monday in NoveH
9 Der, 1920.
\ That the official ballots to be use
i ut said election shall have printe
thereon the words For the propose
4 amendment to Article 303 of the Cor
). stitution Of the State OF Louisiana re-
I alive to the pensions for Coaftalefat
\ Veterans" and the words: Against Il
:. proposed amendment to Article 503
a the Constitution OF the State of lou.i
4 lana relative to pensions for cohfet
Z arate Veterans" and eaci elector sha