New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-09-18
ACT NO 140

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House Bill No. 286-By Mr.. ScheII
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article 3O3
Of the Constitution of the State of
Louisiana as heretobefore amended
relative to pensions for Confederate
Veterans.
Section l. 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 300 of the Constitution of the
State of Louisiana as heretobefore
amended be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:
Article 300. A pension not to exceed
Thirty Dollars $4,000 per month shall
be allowed to each Confederate soldier
or sailor veteran who possesses all of
the following qualifications:
1. He shall have served honorabIy
from the date of his enlistment until
the close of the late Civil War, or until
he was discharged or paroled, in some
tered into the Army or Navy of the
Confederate States and shall have re
manned true to the Confederate States
until the Surrender.
z. He shall not own property of
more than two thousand dollars val
uation.
8. He shall not be salaried 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 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
10 ha ,fa1
to the widow who shall not have mar
ried again, in INDECENT circumstances,
of such soldier or sailor whose mar
riage to her was contracted prior to
January, 1895; provided that if her de-
ceased husband served in an organiza-
ton, 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 five
years prior to her application therefor;
and If 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 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 |
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 /
4s other widows of deceased Confeder-
ate soldiers or sailors; provided further, |
that pensions whether to veterans or
to widows shall be allowed only from |
the date of application under this
Article, and the total appropriations
be the proceeds Of an annual tax of
of one mill on the dollar
which tax is hereby levied on all tax
able property in the State, provided
iof Tor uho1l no
than an amount sufficient to pay all
pensions for any one year. Any &C
cruing surplus from said tax fund shall |
be held as an accommodating fund for
the Confederate Veterans to be appro-
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" is
hereby prohibited and said fund is 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 immedi-
ately used for said purpose, and pro-
yided further that the tax collectors
md assessors shall receive no commits
sions for assessing and collecting said
of one mill tax herein
provided.
Provided that nothing in this Article
shall be construed so as to prohibit
he General Assembly from providing
artificial limbs to disabled Confederate
Soldiers or Sailors.
Section 2. Be it further resolved.
,tc., That this proposed amendment be
unlimited to the qualified electors of
he State of Louisiana, for adoption or
election at the Congressional Election |
o be held on the first Tuesday next
the first Monday in Novem-
yer, 1920.
That the official ballots to be used 4
It said election shall have printed
hereon the words: For the proposed
to Article 300 of the Con-
titution of the State of Louisiana rel
tive to the pensions for Confederate
Teterans." and the words: Against the
proposed amendment to Article 300 of ,
he Constitution of the State of Louis !
ana relative to pensions for confed-
rate Veterans" and each elector shall Z