The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-06-04

of schoolhouses. and the raising OF
money for such purposes. except as
otherwise provided In this constitution
"Legalization of the unauthorized or
invalid acts of any officer. servant or
agent of the state. or of any parish
or municipality thereof.
"ArtiCle-The Legislature shall not
indirectly enact special or local laws
by the partial repeal of general law;
but laws repeating local or speclai
"ArticIe-No local or special law
shall be passed on any subject not emu
merated in article = OF TINS constltu-
apply therefor shall have been pub
lished. without cost to the State, in the
locality whore the matter or thing to
be affected may be situated. which
notice shall state the substance of the
contemplated law, and shall be pub
lished a least thirty days prior to the
such bill. and In the same manner pro-
vided by law for the advertisement of
judicial sales. The evidence of such
notice having been published. shall be
exhibited in the Legisla ture before
such act shall be passed, and every
such act shall contain a recital that
such notice has been given.
"Article-No law shall be passed fix
ing the price of manual labor, but the
Legislature through a commission or
otherwise may establish minimum
wages for and regulate the hours and
working conditions of women and
girls, except those engaged in agrl-
cultural pursuits or domestic service.
"Article-No money shall ever be
| taken from the public treasury, direct
~ or indirectly. in aid of any church
sect or denomination or religion. or in
aid OF any priest, preacher, minister or
| teacher thereof as such, and
preference shall ever be given to, nor
, any discrimination made against any
church. sect or creed of religion or any
form of religious faith or worship. No
appropriation from the State treasury
shall be made for private, charitable
or benevolent purposes to any person
or community; provided, this shall not
apply to the State aSylumS for the
insane, and State schools for the deaf
dumb and blind. and the charity hos
plta IS and public charitable institutions
conducted under State authority.
Artcle-The general appropriation
bill shall embrace nothing but appro-
priations for the ordinary expenses of
the government. pensions. the public
dept and interest thereon. public
schools; public roads, public charities
ana al State Institutions; and such
Dill snail be itemized as to show for
what account each and every appropri-
atom shall be made. All other appro-
piTlGa a shai DE made by separate
pllls, eaCh embracing but one object
"Article-Each appropriation shall be
Tor a specific purpose and for spe-
enc amount and no appropriation
OF contingent; nor shall any officer or
department Of government receive any
amount from the treasury for con-
a
Article-No appropriation of money
shati be made by the Legislature in the
last five days of the session thereof.
All appropriations, to be valid shall
be passed and receive the Signatures
or the president of the Senate and the
speaker Of the House of Representa-
ment sine die of the Legislatures.
Article-The funds, credit property
or things OF volue of the State or Of
any political corporation thereof, shall
Tod
~ ior any person or persons. associa-
tlon or corporation, public or private;
nor snail the State. or any political
corporation. purchase or subscribe to
tho capital or stock of any corporation
or association whatever or for any
prlvate enterprise. Nor shall tho
thereof. assume the liabilities of any
political. municipal, parochial private
Or corporation or association whatso
ever except as otherwise provided in
this constitution: nor shall the State
undertake to carry on the business of
any such corporation or association, or
become part owner therein: pro-
Nided, the State, through the Legisla-
ture, shall have power to grant the
right Of way through 1t public lands to
any railroad or canal; and, provided.
police juries and municipal corporations
may. in providing for destitute persons,
utilize any charitable institutions with
In their corporate limits for the care
maintenance and asylum of such per-
sons; and all appropriations made to
such institutions for the purpose afore-
said shall be accounted for by them in
the manner required of officials en-
trusted with public funds
Article-The Legislature shall have
no power to release or extinguish or
to authorize the releasing or extin-
guishment, in whole or in part, of the
Indebtedness liability or obligation of
any corporation or individual to the
State, or to any parish or municipal
corporation thereof; provided the
heirs to confiscated property may be
released fro mall taxes due thereon at
the date of it's reversion to them
Article-No educational or charita-
BILE institution, other than the State
Institutions now existing, or expressly
provided for in this constitution. shall
be established by the State except
upon vote of two tn irds of the mem
bers elected to each House of the
Legislature.