New Iberia enterprise and independent observer., 1920-09-25
ACT NO. 14n.

N T.,
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.
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 heretobetore
amended be amended and re-enacted so
| as to read as follows:
Article 30S. A pension not to exceed
Thirty Dollars ($S0.00) per month shall
be allowed to 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 paroied. in some
! military organization, regularly mus
| tered into the Army or Navy of the
| Confederate States and shall have re-
manned true to the Confedsrate states
until ths Surrender.
T. He shall not own property of
more than two thousand dollars VAL
uation.
3. He shall not be salaried or other
wise provided for by the Stats Of Louis
lana, or by any other State or Govern
ment. In case he enlisted in any or
Rantzation mustered into said service
as q 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 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
rted again, in INDECENT circumstances,
OF Ssuch soldier or sailor whose mar
( xiage to her was contracted prior to
January, 1895; provided that IL her de-
ceased husband served in an organlza-
don, mustered in from Louisiana, or II
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 IL 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
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
q second time shall not be debarred. i
from the dement's of this Act but be 4
entitled to pension on the same terms
AZ other widows of deceased Confsder-
that pensions whether to veterans or |
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 /
be the proceeds of an annual tag Of I
three -fourths, Of one mill on the dollar |
able property in the State, provided |
said appropriations shall never be more |
than an amount sufficient to pay all /
pensions for any one year. Any ao-
cruing surplus from said tax fund shall
ha held as an accumulatinR fund for
the Confederate Veterans to be appro- I
priated 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 appropriation for
pensions In excess OF the amount Of
the three fourths of one mill tax levied
and collected and to be known as Con
federate Veteran Pension Fund IL
hereby prohibited and said fund ts to
herein stipulated; and upon the adon-
tfon of this Amendment same shall AZ
once become self operative and the
funas derived therefrom be inimsdi-
videc further that the tax COLLECTORS
and assessors shall receive no Commits
sions for assessing and collecting said
three. .fourths Of one mill tax herein
Provided that nothing in this Article
shall be construed so as 10 prohIbTf |
the General Assembly from providing
artificial limbs to disabled Confederate
Soldiers or Sailors
Section 2. Be 1t further resolved I
stes That this proposed amendment he
submitted to the qualified electors az
ne state OF Louisiana. for adoption or
at the Congressional Election {
o be held on the first Tuesday nexf I
ollowing the first Monday ins Noverns |
,er, 1920. 6
That the official ballots to be usad
u said election shall have printed Z
hcreon the words: For the pronoseS =
Imendment 70 Article 500 OF the Cor {
titution Of the State or Louisiana rel q
tive TO the pensions for Cenfederafe
.eterans. ana the words: Against the '
lrcposed amendment to Article so2 -
hs Constitution Of the State OF Louis- 2
ana relative % pensions for confed- y
ssss FstsrapA fnd each slseter ahali