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by the first legislature returned by a general election
after its passage.
Art. lis. The legislature shall provide by law for a
change of venue in civil and criminal cases
Art. 116. No lottery shall be authorised by tins state,
andsthe buying or selling Of lottery tickets within the
state, is prohibited.
Art. liz. Nc divorce shall be granted by the legisla-
ture.
Art. 1ls. Every law enacted by the Legislature
shall embrace but one object, and that shallbe express
ed in the title.
Art, 10. No law shall be revised or amended by
reference to its title ; but in such case. the act revised,
or section amended, shall be re-enacted and published
at length.
Art. 100. The Legislature shall never adopt any sys-
TEN or code of laws. by general reference to such sys-
tenn or code of laws, but in all such cases shall specify
several provisions of the laws it may enact.
Art. 121. The state shall not become subscriber to
the stock Of any corporation or joint stock company.
Art. 1872. No corporate body shall be hereafter crea-
ted, renewed or extended, with banking or discountng
privileges.
Ayt. 1873. Corporations shall not be created in this
state by special laws, except for political or municipal
purposes; but the legislature shall provide, by general
laws. for.the organization of all other corporations ex-
cept corporations with banking or discounting privile-
ges, the creation. of which is prohibited.
Art. 124. From and after the month of January,
1890, the legislature shall have the power to revoke
the charters of all corporations whose charters shall not
have expired previous TO that time, and no corporations
hereafter to be created shall ever endure for d longer
tenn than twenty-five years, except those which are POI
hticaL or municipal.
Art. 1875. The general assembly shall never grant
any exclusive privilege or monopoly, for a | longer period
than twenty years.
Art. 1876. No person shall hold or exercise, at the
same time, more than one civil Office of cmolument,
except that of a Justice of the Pence.
Art. 1871. Taxation shalt be equal and uniform
throughout the state. After the year 1916. all property,
on which taxes shall be levied in this state, shall be
taxed in proportion TO its value, to be ascertained as
directed by law. No one species Of property shall be
| ayad h,uLar fba,,H aYoibcr epoc,os of M IF onloI
value, on which taxes shall be levied. The legislature
shall have Powerlto levy an income tax, and to tax all
persons pursuing any occupation, trade or profession.
Art. l28. The citizens Of the city Of New Orleans
shall have the right of appointing the several public
officers necessary for the administration OF the police
of the said city, pursuant to the mode of elections which
shall be prescribed by the legislature; provided, that
the Mayor and Recorder shall be ineligible to a seat in
the general assembly; and the Mayor, Recorders and
Aldermen shaHb be commissioned by the governor as JUS
tees of the peace, and the legislature may vest in them
such criminal jurisdiction as may be necessary for the
punishment of minor crimes and offences, and as the
police and good order of said city may require.
Art. 1919. The Legislature may provide by law IN
what case officers shall continue to perform the duties
of their offices until their successors shall have been
indicted into Office.
Art. 1870. Any citizen ofthis state who shall after
the adoption of this Constitution, fight a duel with
| deadly weapons with a citizen OF the state, or send or
accept a challenge to fight a duel with deadly weapons,
either within the state or out of with a citizen OF the
state, or WHO shall act as second, or knowingly and
and assist in any manner, those thus offending, shat
be deprived. of holding any office of trust or profit, and
of enjoying the right of suffrage under this constitution.
Art. 1871. The Legislature shall have power TO ex-
; tend this constitution and the jurisdiction of this state
over any territory acquired by compact with any State
or with the United States, the same being done by the
consent of the United States, h.
Art. 132. The ~constitut on and laws of this State
shall be promulgated in the English and Freuch Ian
guages.