Section 1. Be it resolved by the General
assembly of the State of Louisiana, two
thirds of all the members elected to each
House concurring, That the police Juries of
the several parishes and boards of trustees
and municipal eounclls of incorporated cities
and towns (the Parish of Orleans excepted),
shall levy, collect and turn over to the par
ish school boards of their respective par
ishes, for the support of the public schools
of their respective parishes, cities or towns,
the proceeds of at least three mills of the
annual tax which they are empowered to
levy on each dollar of the assessed valuation
of the property thereof; provided, that cities
and towns that are not exempted by the
terms of their charters from the payment of
parish taxes and which are subjected to the
similar burdens of taxation as are the par
isheg, shall not pay this tax as same is in
cluded in the taxes imposed by the parish
in which the town is situated, "unless the
pearish boards of school directors of that
parich certify that the needs of the schools
can be met by a smaller levy of such taxes."
Section 2. Be it further resolved, etc.,
That at the Congressional election to be held
in this State on the first Tuesday following
the first Monday in November, 1910, the
foregoing amendment to the Constitution of
the State shall be submitted to the electors
of the State: that on the official ballot to bhe
used at said election shall be placed the
words, "For the three mills school tax,"
and the words, "Against the three mills
school tax," and every elector shall indi
cate his vote on the proposed amendment,
as provided by the general laws of this
H. G. DUPRE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
