St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1920-10-30

curing, That Article 303 of tn:
Constitution of the State of LOUIS
ana as heretobefore, amended De
as follows:
Article 500. A pension not to ex
amended and re-enacted so as to real
coed thirty Dollars $500 per month
shall be allowed to each Confed-
crate Soldier Or Sailor veteran wac
possesses all OF the following qualia-
cations:
l. 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.
8. He shall not be salaried OR
otherwise provided for by the State
OF Louisiana, or by any other State
or Government. In case he enlist
ed in any organization mustered in
to sa service as Louisiana organi-
cation, 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-
cation not mustered in from Louis;-
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
penston. A like pension shall be
granted to the widow who shall not
have married again, in INDECENT 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 II he resid I'd
in Lou siana, at the date Of his en-
listment, then in order that sucn
widow shall be entitled to the pen-
sion SIS herein provided, she shall
have resided in this State for at
least Eve years prior to her applica-
ton therefor; and II her deceased
husband enlisted elsewhere than n
Louis ana, and served in an organi-
cation not mustered in from Louisi-
ana, such widow shall, in order to
ent1tle her to pension as herein
provided, have resided In this State
Tor not less than i've years prior to
her application for such pension;
provided further that all widows
who married Confederate soldiers Or
sailors a second time shall not be
debarred from the benefits of this
Act but be entitled to a pension On
the same terms an other widows Of
deceased Confederate soldiers IT
sailors; provided further, that pen
sions whether to veterans or to wild
ows ehall be allowed only from the
date OF application under this Article
and The total appropriations for all
pensions in any one. year shall De
the proceeds of an annual tax d;
three fourths of one mill on the do'-
lar which TAX Is hereby levied on
all taxable property in the State,
provided such appropriations shall
never be more than an amount suffi-
Gent TO pay all pensions for any one
year.. Any accruing surplus from
said tax fund shall be- held as an ac-
cumulating fund for the Confederate
Veterans to be appropriated by the
General Assembly for their use and
benefit as the General Assembly may
in future determine, and the cole =
ton of any other tax or in the max
ing If any appropriation for pen
sions In excess of the amount of tho
three-sourths Of one mill tax levisi
and collected and to be known as
"Confsderato Veteran Pension Fund"
is hereby prohibited and said fund is
to be used for no other purpose than
that herein stipulated; and upon the
Adoption Of this Amendment sane
shall at once become self operative
and :he funds derived therefrom be
Immediately used for said purpose,
and provided further that the tax
collectors and assessors shall receive
no commissions for assessing and
collecting said three-fourths of oae
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 and sailors.
Section 2. Be 1t further resolved,
etc., That this proposed amendment
be submitted to the qualified ele =
tors If the State of Louisiana, To-.
adoption or rejection at the Congrss.
sionaI Election to be held on the
first Tuesday next following the frs,
Monday in November, 1920.
That the Official ballots to be ussd
at said election shall have printed
there IN the words: "For the pr1-
posed amendment to Article 300 OF
the Constitution Of the State of Lou
isiana relative to the pensions for
Confederate Veterans" and the
words, Against the proposed amend
ment tc Article 300 of the Cons,i-
tuition of the State Of Lou ,siana reia
tive ~ pensions for Confederate Vet
erans,' and each elector shall indi.
cate, as provided in the general cleo
ton laws Of the State, whether 81
not he votes for or against the
amendment.
r. r. WALKER,
Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentativps.
HEWITT BOUANCHAUD,
Lieutenant Governor and Presi-
dent of the Senate.
Approved: July 7, 1920.
JNO. NJ. PARKER,
Cove nor of fhn Cfofo ~ Tnufoi-