New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-25

ART. IA. No divorce shall be granted bv the
Legislature
ART ll5. Every law enacted by the Legislature
snail embrace but one object, and that shall be ex
pressed in the title.
ART ll6 No law shall be revived or amended bv
reference to its titIe 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 cases shall specfv
the several provisions OF the laws it NAV enact
ART ile Corporations with banking or discount
ing privileges may be either created by special acts
or formed under general laws; but the Legislature
sha III both cases provide for the registry of alt bills
or notes issued or put in circulation as money and
shall require ample security for the redemption of
the same in specie.
ART. ll9. The Legislature shall lave no power to
pass any law sanctlonlng in any manner directly or
indirectly. the suspension of specie payments by
any person, association corporation ISSUING bank
| notes Of any description.
ART. 100. 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. 1871. The Legislature shall have power to
pass such laws as it may deem expedent for the
relief or revival OF the Citizens Bank of Louisiana
and the acts already passed for the purpose
ratified aud confirmed. Provided that the Bank is
subjected to the restrictions contained in articles
ART l22 No person shall hold exercise, at the
same time, more than one civil office of emolument
except that OF Justice OF the Peace
ART l23. Taxation shalt be equal and uniform
throns hont the State. All property which taxes
may be levied, in this State, Shall be taxed in pro-
portion to It's value, to be ascertaned as directed by
law. NO one species of property shall be taxed
higher than another species of properly of equal
value, on which taxes shall be levied the Legisla-
tufe shall have power to levy income tax, and to
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profession
ART. l2f 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 Iegisa-
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 NAV
vest in them such criminal jurisdiction as 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 case officers shall continue TO perform the
duties OF their offices until their successors shall
have been indicted into office.
ART. 126. Any citizen of this State who shall,
after the adoption Of this Constitution, fight duel
with deadly weapons with citizen OF this State,
send accept challenge to fight duel with
with citizen of this State or 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
of suffrage under this Constitution and the office OF
| any State officer, member of the General Assembly,
or OF any other person holding office of profit or trust
under this Constitution and the laws made in pur-
suance thereof, Shall be ipSO taet0 vacated by the
Tact OF any such person committing the offence
toned in this article and the Legislature shall pro,
vide by law for the ascertainng 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 same being
done by the consent of the United States
ART. 12S. 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 overlooked lands in this State, shall be
diverted from the purposes for which they were
granted.
ART. 129 The Constitution and laws OF this State
| shall be promulgated in the English and French
languages
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