New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-11-01

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ART. l16. No law shall be revived or amended by |
reference to its title; but in such case, the act
revised or section amended, shall be reenacted and
published at length.
ART. III The Legislature shall never adopt any
system or code Of laws by general reference to such
system or code OF laws, but in all shall specify
the several provisions of the laws it may enact
ART. ils Corporations with banking or discount
ing privileges may be either created BY special acts,
or formed under general laws but the Legislature
notes issued or put in circulation as money, and
shall require ample security for the redemption of
the same in specie.
ART. 119. The Legislature shall aave no power to
pass any law sanctioning in any manner, directly or
indirectly, the suspension of specie payments, by
any person, association or corporation issuing bank
notes of any description.
ART 1870. In case of insolvency of any bank or
banking association, the bill holders thereof shall be
entitled to preference in payment, over all other
creditors of such bank or association.
ART. 121 The Legislature shall have power to
pass such laws it may deem expedent for the
relief or revival Of the Citizens Bank of Louisiana,
and the acts already passed for the same purpose are
| ratified and confirmed. Provided that the Bank is
subjected to the restrictions contained in articles liz
| and 120 of this Constitution.
ART. 1923. No person shall hold or exercise, at the
same time, more than one civil office OF emoument,
| except that OF Justice OF the Peace.
| ART. 1913. Taxation shall be equal and uniform
throughout the State. All property which taxes
may be levied, in this State, shall be taxed in pro-
portion to its value, to be ascertaned directed by
law. No one species of property shall be taxed
higher than another species OF property OF equal
value, which taxes shall be levied the Legisa-
ture shall have power to levy income tax, and to
| tax all persons pursuing any occupation, trade or
profession.
ART. 1874. The citizens of the City of NewOr-
| leans 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 Legisla-
| ture; provided, that the Mayor and Recorders shall
be Ineligible to seat in the General Assembly; and
the Mayor, Recorders, and Aldermen and Assistant
| Aldermen, shall be commissioned by the Governor
as Justices of the Peace, and the Legislature may
vest in them such criminal jurisdiction may be
| necessary for the punishment OF minor crimes and
offences, and the police and good order OF said city
may require.
ART. 1875 The Legislature may provide by law
in what officers shall continue to perform the
| duties of their offices until their successors shall
| have been indicted into Office
ART. 1876. Any citizen OF this State who shall,
| after the adoption of this Constitution fight duel
with deadly weapons with citizen Of this State,
send or accept challenge to fight duel with
deadly weapons, either within this State or out of h
with citizen Of this State, who shall act as Sec
ond, or knowingly aid and assist in any manner
those thus offending, shall be deprived OF holding
any office of trust profit and OF enjoying the right
suffrage under this Constitution; and the office OF
any State officer, member of the General Assembly,
Off any other person holding office of profit trust
under this Constitution and the laws made in pur-
suance thereof, shall be tpso jacto vacated by the
fact of any such person committing the offence men
toned in this arcle and the Legislature shall pro-
vide by law for the ascertaining and declaration OF
such forfeiture.
| ART 1877. The Legislature shall have power to
extend this Constitution and the jurisdiction of this
State over any territory acquired by compact with
any State, or with the United States the being
done by the consent of the United States.
ART. 1913. None of the lands granted by Congress
to the State of Louisiana for aiding it in constructing
the necessary levees and drains, to reclaim the
swamps and overfowed lands in this State, shall be
diverted from the purposes for which they were
granted
ART. 1919. The Constitution and laws of this State
shall be promulgated in the English and French
languages.
i TITLE VII.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
ART 100. There shall be Board of Public
| Works. to consist of four Commissioners. The State
shall be divided by the Legislature into four Dis
tricts, containing nearly may be an equal num-
Der of voters, and one Commissioner shall be elected
in each District, by the legal voters thereof, for
the term Of four years but, OF the first elected, two
to be designated by lot, shall remain in office fol-
two years only.
Art 13l. The General Assembly, at its first seq.
sion after the adoption of this Constitution, shall
provide for tine election and compensation of the
| Commissioners ana the organization oil the Dodru
The Commissioners first elected shall assemble on
| day to be appointed by law, and decide by lot the
order in which their terms OF service shall EXPIRE
ART. 1872 The Commissioners shall exercise q
dilgent and faithful supervision over ali public
works, in which the State may be interested excep
: those made by joint stock companies. They shall
| communicate to the General Assembly, from time t.
time, their views concerning the same, and recon
mend such measures as they may deem necessary
in order employ to the hest advantage and for the
| fnr ntpI fha
and overlooked lands conveyedby the United States
to this State. They shall appoint all officers en-
gagged the public works, and shall perform sucl
other duties as may be prescribed by law.
ri ART. l33. The Commissioners may be removed
by the vote Of majority Of all the mem
bers elected to each House of the General Assem-
bly,; but the cause of the removal shall be entered
on the journal Teach House,
ART. 1874. The General Assembly shall hav,
, power by a vote of threefhs of the member
elected TO each house, to abolish said Board when
ever in their opinion Board of Public Works shal
. | no longer be necessary.
TITLE VIII.
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
ART. 1875. There shall be elected Superintendent
+ of Public Education, who shall hold his office for thu
term OF two years. His duties shall be prescribed
by law, and he shall receive such compensation a
the Legislature may direct; provided that the Gen
eral Assembly shall have power by vote oil thu
e majority of the members elected to both houses, t.
abolish the SAID ONCE OF superintendent OF fubll
Education, whenever in their opinion said office sha
Z be no longer necessary.
VI ART 1876. The General Assembly shall establish
free Public Schools throughout the State, and sha
provide for their support by general taxation pro
e perty or otherwise: and all moneys raised pro
vided, shall be distributed to each Parish in proper
ton to the number of free white children betwee
such ages shall be fixed by the General Assembly
e ART 1877. The proceeds of all lands heretofor
. granted by the United States to this State for tn
support of Schools and of all lands which ma
= hereafter be granted bequeathed to the State, an
; not expressly granted or bequeathed for any otte
II purpose, which hereafter may be disposed of by tn
Stale, and the proceeds OF the estates of decease
persons to which the State may become entitled b
n law, shall be held by the State loan, and sha
s be and remain perpetual fund, on which the Stat
$ shall pay annual interest of six per cent; whic
interest," together with the interest the trust fund
deposited with this State by the United States, un
der the act of Congress approved Juns %, 1856, an
all the rents of the unsold lands shall be appropr
ated the support of such schools, and this apprc
e pration shall remain nviolable.
r ART. 13S All moneys arising from the sales whic
: have been, or may hereafter he made of any land
, heretofore granted by the United States to thi
e State for the OF Seminary of Learning, an
from any kind of donation that may hereafter b
made for that purpose. shall be and remain perpt
tual fund.- the interest OF which at six per cent pc
II annum shall be appropriated to the support of
e Seminary of Learnng for the promotion Of lteratur
# and the arts and sciences, and no law shall ever
# made diverting said fund to any other than to tn
establishment nd Improvement of said Seminary