Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1852-08-07

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~.u. me State. All pro-
perry on which taxes may 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 taxed
higher than another species OF property OF
equal value. OH which taxes shall be levied;
the Legislature shall have power to levy
an income tax, and to tax all persons pur-
suing any occupation, trade or profession.
s Art. 124.-The citizens of the city of
New Orleans shall have the right of ap-
pointing the several public officers neces-
sary for the administration of the police OF
the said city, pursuant to the mode Of cleo
tions which shall be prescribed by the
Legislature !; Pyovidea, that the Mayor
and Recorders shall be Ineligible to a seat
in the General Assembly and the Mayor,
Recorders, Aldermen, and Assistant Alder
men, shall be commissioned by the Gov
ernor as Justices of the Peace, and the
Legislature may vest in them such crimi-
nal 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 125.-The Legislature may pro-
vide by law in what case officers shall
continue to perform the duties of their
offices until their successors shall have
been inducted into Office. ts,'s z'.,A
Art. 126.-Any citizen Of this State
who shall, after the adoption of this Con-
stitution, fight a duel with deadly weapons
with a citizen of this State, or send or ac-
cept a challenge TO fight a duel with dead
" weapons, either within the State or out
of it, with a citizen of this State, Or who
shall act as second, or knowingly aid and
assist in any manner, those thus offending,
shall be deprived of holding any office OF
trust or 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 pnrsu-
ance thereof, shall be apso .facto vacated
by the fact of any such person commit
ting the offence mentioned in this Article,
and the Legislature shall provide by law
for the ascerlaining and declaration Of such
Art. 127.-The Legislature shall have
i 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. al2S.-None Of the lands granted
by Congress to the State of Louisiana fol
aiding it in constructing the necessary
levees and drains, to reclaim the swamp
and o%veraowed 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 he promulgated in the
English and French languages.
10 ta TITLE VII. o~
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
Art. 13o.-There shall be a Board Of Public
Works to consist of four Commissioners The
State shall be divided by the Legislature into foul
Districts, containing as nearly as maybe an equa
number Of voters, and one Commissioner shall be
elected in each District by the legal voters there
Of for the term Of four years; but of the first ell
ected, Wo,, to be designated by lot, shall remair
in Office for two years only.
Art. 13l-The General Assembly at its frs
session. after the adoption Of this Constitution
shall provide for the election andcompensafion o
the Commissioners, and the organization of TIT
Board. The Commissioners first elected shall
assemble on a day to be appointed by law, ant
decide by lot the order in which their terms o
service shall expire. gL = = ~
M. 132.-The Commissioners shall exercise
4 diligent and faithful supervision of all publi'
works in which the State may be interested, ex
cept those made by joint stock companies. IheJ
shall communicate to the General Assembly from
|, time to time their views concerning the a m
and recommend such measures as they may deem
necessary in order to employ to the best advan
tage and for the purposes for which they wer
: granted. the swamp and overlooked lands con
veyed BY the United States to this State. The
shall appoint all officers engaged on the publ
works. and shall perform such other duties as ma.
? be prescribed by law. a4s a..
. .art 133.-The Commissioner may be emov
ed by the concurrent vote Of a majority Of all tn
members elected to each House Of the Genera
Assembly: but the cause of the removal shall b
entered on the journal Of each House.
Att 134-The General Assembly shall hav
> power. by . vote of three-ffths Of the member
elected TO each House, to abolish said Boar
whenever in their opinion a Board Of Publ
2 Works shall no longer be necessary.
So. TITLE VIII. .s $50
III s PUBLIC EDucATIos. $780,
An. 135-There shall be elected = Superinter
z dent Of Public Education, who shall hold his o
e fee for the term of two years. His t.uties sl.a
e be prescribed by law and he shall receive sue
i compensation - the Legislature may direct
4 Provided, That the General Assembly shall hay
7 power by Arote Of the majority Of the member