New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-27

Legislature.
ART. l15. Every law enacted by the Legislature
shai embrace but one object, and that shall be
pressed in the title.
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 re.enacted and
| published at length
Ant ~. 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 specify
| the several provisions of the laws it may enact
ART. lis. Corporations with banking or discount
ing privileges may be either created by special acts
or formed under general laws; but the Legislature
shall in both provide for the registry Of ali hills
or notes issued or put in circulation as money! and
shall require ample security for the redemption of
| the same in specie.
ART. 49, The Legislature shall lave 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, all ether
creditors Of such bank association.
| ART. I'll The Legislature shall have power to
| pass such laws it may deem expedent for the
reiet or revival of the Citizens Bank of Louisiana
and the acts already passed for the purpose
ratified and confirmed. Provided that the Bank is
subjected to the restrictions nained in articles 10
and 100 Of this Constitution.
| ART l22 No person shall hold or exercise, at the
same time more than civil office of emolument,
except that of Justice OF the Peace.
ART. 1913 Taxation shall be equal and uniform
Throughout. the State. All property on which taxes
may be levied, in this State, Shall be taxed in pro-
portion to its value to be ascerained 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 Lepsla.
ture shall have power to levy an income tax and to
tax all persons pursuing any occupation, trade or
profession.
ART. l24. The citizens of the City of NewOr-
cans shall have the right OF appointing the several
public officers necessary for the admins tration 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
he ineligible to a 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 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. 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. l2b Any citizen of this State who shall,
| after the adoption OF this Constitution fight duel
with deadly weapons with citizen of this State or
send or accept challenge to fight duel with
deadly weapons either within this State or out of it,
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
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
| under this Constitution and the laws made in pur-
suance thereof, shall be tps0 facto vacated by The
fact OF any such person committing the offence men,
toned in this article and the Legislature shall pro-
vide by law for the asceralning 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 with the United States the same being
done by the consent Of the United States.
| ART l25 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 u slish and French
languages.
TITLE VII.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
ART. 1870. There shall be Board of Public
Works, to consist Of four Commits soners. The State
shall be divided by the Legislature into four Dis
trcts, 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
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| two years only.
ART. l31. The General Assembly, at its first ses.
sion alter the adoption of this Constitution, shall
provide for the election and compensation of the
Commissioners and the organization of the Board.
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 shal! exercise
dlIigent and faithful supervision over all public
works, IN which the > tate may be Interested except
those made by joint stock companies. They shall
communicate to the General Assembly from time to
time, their views concerning the same, and recon-
mend such measures as they may deem necessary,
IN order to employ the best advantage and for the
purposes for which they were granted, the swamps
and oyeIiowed lands conveyedby the United States
to this State. They shall appoint all officers en-
gagged on The public works, and shall perform such
other duties as may be prescribed by law.
ART. l33. The Commissioners may be removed
by the concurrent vote of majority of all the mem
bers elected to each House of the General Assem-
bly,; bu, the cause OF the removal shall be entered
on the journal of each House.
ART. l34. The General Assembly shall have
power by q vote of three ffths of the members
elected to each house, to abolish said Board when.
ever in their opinion Board of Public Works Shall
no longer be necessary.
TITLE VIII.
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
ART. l3j. There shall be elected Superintendent
oil Public Education, who shall hold his office for the
term OF two years. His duties shall be prescribed
ny law, and he shall receive such compensation as
the Legislature may direct provided that the Gen.
eral Assembly shall have power by vote OF the
majority OF the members elected to both houses to
abolish the said office of Superintendent of Public
Education, whenever in their opinion said office shall
be no longer necessary.
ART. 1856 The General Assembly shall establish
free Public Schools throughout the State, and shall
provide tor their support by general taxation on pro-
pery or otherwise and all moneys raised or pro-
vded shall be distributed each Parish in proper
ton to the number of free white children between
such ages as shall be fixed by the General Assembly
ART 1877 The proceeds of all lands heretofore |
granted by the United States this State for the
use or support Of schools and Of all lands which NAV
hereafter be granted or bequeathed to the State and
not expressly granted bequeathed for any other
purpose, which hereafter may be disposed of by the
State and the proceeds of the estates OF deceased
persons to which the State may become entitled by
law, shaft be held by the State as loan, and shall |
be and remain perpetual fund, on which the State
shall pay an annual interest of six per cent; which |
interest together with the interest on the trust funds
deposited with this State by the United States I'M
der The act OF Congress approved June %, 1886 and
oil the rents OF the unsod lands shall be appropri-
ated to the support Of such Schools and this appro.
prlation shall remain inviolabe.
ART. 13S. All moneys arising from the sales which
have been, or may hereafter be made, of any lands
heretofore granted by the United States to this
State, for the OF Seminary of Learning, and
from any kind OF donation tina. may hereafter be
made for that purpose. shall be and remain perpe
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