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Louisiana's Poll Tax: 1940

1940

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ACT No. 46. AN ACT To provide for calling, holding, conducting and regulating primary elections by political parties and to. define the term political party; to provide for defraying. expense of said primary elections; and to prescribe what violation of the provisions of this Act shall be offenses and to provide penalties for same; to repeal all laws on the same subject matter and all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith; and to provide that no offense heretofore committed against the laws repealed hereby shall be condoned by this repeal, or the prosecution thereof in any sense abated or affected, and to provide the effect on this Act of the legislative enactment of House Bill 552.

Approved by the Governor: July 8, 1940.

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ACT No. 374. A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to Sections 2 and 3 of Article VIII of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to the qualifications of electors.

Adopted at the Regular Session of the Legislature of Louisiana for the year 1940.