Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Louisiana: Held at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, November 10-22, 1913 [and Calendar ...] |
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adjourn Amend Article B. P. Sullivan Bankston Baton Rouge Board of Liquidation bonds Butler moved C. D. O'Connor chair Chairman City Clayton Committee on Law Committee on Style Constitution of 1898 Constitutional Convention Dumez election Estopinal finally adopted Flournoy following amendment Friedrichs full and adopted Garlick Hart moved Hodges Holstein insert the following insert the words J. P. Teal James O'Connor Joffrion Journal Judice Keiser Koppel Kronenberger Labarre Labbe LANDRY Law Committee Laycock Leopold lieu thereof Louisiana Madison Marks Martin Martin McDougall McDougall ment Messrs mittee on Style Monti motion was agreed o'clock p. m. O'Connell O'Connor offered the following Ordinance Orleans President Blanchard President declared read by title read in full recommitted Red River Parish Relative resolution Resolved roll being called Secretary Section Sewerage and Water strike Style and Revision substitute Tammany Teer Theard third reading Thornhill tion vention Voegtle vote Wallace Water Board Whitehead yeas
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Page 59 - We favor the cooperation of the United States and the respective States in plans for the comprehensive treatment of all waterways with a view of coordinating plans for channel improvement, with plans for drainage of swamp and overflowed lands, and to this end we favor the appropriation by the Federal Government of sufficient funds to make surveys of such lands, to develop plans for draining...
Page 47 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, the inevitable hour — The path of glory leads but to the grave.
Page 45 - It shall be unlawful for persons or corporations, or their legal representatives, to combine or conspire together, or to unite or pool their interests for the purpose of forcing up or down the price of any agricultural product or article of necessity for speculative purposes ; and the Legislature shall pass laws to suppress it.
Page 55 - The debt due by the State to the Agricultural and Mechanical College Fund is hereby declared to be the sum of one hundred and eighty-two thousand three hundred and thirteen dollars...
Page 55 - State for the use of a seminary of learning, and said amount shall be placed to the credit of said fund on the books of the Auditor and Treasurer of the State as a perpetual loan, and the State shall pay an annual interest of...
Page 47 - The General Assembly shall have no power to contract or to authorize the contracting, of any debt or liability on behalf of the State, or to issue bonds or other evidence of indebtedness thereof, except for the purpose of repelling invasion, or for the suppression of insurrection.
Page 36 - Be it further resolved, etc., that the foregoing section is self-operative and the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans may by ordinance or otherwise carry the same into effect.