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Excerpt from Louisiana Affairs: Report of the Select Committee on That Portion of the President's Message Relating to the Condition of the South, 1875
Statutes of 1867 authorized the imposition Of' a poll-tax for highway purposes to the amount of fifteen dollars. Under this law it would be possible to raise the sum of in the State in a Single year, which should be divided per capita among the males over twenty-one, rich and poor paying the same sum. These laws perished with the over throw of the government which enacted them, in 1867.
In 1864 a convention was held which framed the constitution of the State. It adjourned subject to the call of its president. In 1866 it was summoned to meet again in New Orleans, to consider some proposed amendments to the constitution, which had gone into effect. It was claimed that by the adoption of the constitution its functions were ex hansted, and that its future assembling could have no official character. If this were true it would seem to have been harmless.
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