Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-08-30
PROCLAMATION.
Office Of the Secretary Of State.

Whereas Art. 40 of the Constitution of tn
State makes it the duty of the Secretary of Sta:
to cause to be published, three months before Il
next general election, in at least one newspape
in French and in English, in every Parish in tn
State in which a newspaper shall be publishes
any proposed amendment or amendments to sal
Constitution, which shall have been agreed to b
three ftths Of the members elected to the Senat
and House of Representatives, and approved b
the Governor:
Now, be it known that, | Charles Gayarre, Sec
rotary OF State, do by these presents make know
and cause to be published the following propose
amendments to the Constitution of this State
which were approved and adopted by both house
and approved by the Governor on the goth O
March 1850:
Amendments to the Constitution.
Article /. The Chief Justice and Associate
Justice Of the Supreme Courts hall be elected by
| the Electors qualified to vote for The Representa-.
tives to the General Assembly: G.. re: by general
ticket or by District, as may ne tc.ei.nined oy
law.
ART. 2. The Chief Justice and Associate JUS
| tees of the Supreme Court shall be elected tor a
| term of four wears and at the first meeting OF the
! Supreme Court. after this amendment takes effect
| the Associate Justices shall be divided by lot mic
| two classes, the seats of two of the Associate JUS
tice shall be vacanted at the expiration ottwo years,
and the seat of the Chief Justice and OF the thlrd
| Associate Justice at the expiration of four years,
so that a rotation thereby be kept up perpetually.
ART. 3. The Judges of the District Courts
shall be elected in their respective Districts by the
Electors therein qualified to vote for Representa-
tives to the General Assembly.
ART. 4. The Judges ofthe District Courts Shall
be elected for the term Of four years.
ART. 5. The District Attorneys shall be cleo
ted in their respective Districts for a term OF two
years, by the Electors therein qualified to vote for
Representatives to the General Assembly.
ART. 6. An Attorney General shall be elected
for the term of two years, by the Electors quail
fed to vote for Representatives. to the General AS
throughout the State.
ART. 7. A Secretary of State shall be elected
for the term of two years, by the Electors quail
fled to vote for Representatives to the General AS
sembly throughout the State.
ART. S. A State Treasurer shall be elected for
4 term of w years, by the Electors qualified to
vote for Representatives to the General Assembly
throughout the State.
ART. 9. A State Superintendent of Public Ed
lcation shall be elected for term of two years, by
he Electors qualified to vote for Representatives
o the General Assembly throughout the State.
ART. 10. If in the election of Chief Justice, |
Justices of the Supreme Court, Judges
# the District Court, Attorney General District, !
Attorney, Secretary of State, State Treasurer and
tate Superintendent of Public Education, two or
more persons shall be equal and highest in the
lumber Of votes polled for any of the above nam
d Offices it shall be the duty of the Governor, by
PROCLAMATION so to declare it, and Immediately to
elect between the two or more persons having
quail and highest number Of votes polled, and
him to fill the Office for which he shall
e thus chosen.
ART. II. The Chief Justice and Associate JUS
of the Supreme Court, and Judges of the
district Courts shall receive a salary to be fixed by
which shall not be increased or diminished
uring their term of Office.
ART. IL. In all elections by the people, every
zee white male who has been one year a citizen
f the United States, who has attained the age of
wenty one years, and resided in the State one year
ext preceding the election, and the last six months
hereof in the Parish in which he offers to vote,
aall have the rightof voting.
ART. 10. The General Assembly shall have
le right to create among the District Judges an in
system, for the trial of recused cases on
Given at Baton Rouge, under my hand and the
al Of the State, on the LIST day of July, in the year
Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
1e. and of the independence Of the United States,
lie seventy fifth.
CHARLES GAYARRE,
Secretary of State