New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-07


pressed in the title.
ART. ll6 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-enactsd and
published at length.
ART LII. 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. 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 all bills
or notes issued put in circulation as money, and
shall require ample security for the redemption of
| the same in specie.
| ART. 49, The Legislature shall have no power to
pass any law sanctoning in any manner, directly or
| Indirectly, the suspension Of specie payments, by
any person, association or 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 association.
ART 121. The Legislature shall have power to
pass such laws as it may deem expedient 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 1l9
and 100 of this Constitution.
ART 1872 No person shall hold or exercise, at the
same time, more than civil ofice 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 ascertaned directed by
| law No species of property shall be taxed
! higher than another species of properly OF equal
value, on which taxes shall be levied the Legisla-
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
plb tha nIt Stratio of
the police Of the said city, pursuant to the mode Of
elections which shall be prescribed by the Legisa-
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.
ARr.125. The Legislature may provide by law
in what officers shall continue to perform the
duties of their offices until their shall
| have been inducted into office.
ART l26. Amy 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 out Of it,
with citizen OF this State, who shall act
| ond, or knowing y aid and assist in any
those thus offending, shall be deprived of holding
Of 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 fpSo facto vacated by the
fact OF any such person committing the offence
toned in this article and the Legislature shall pro-
vide by law for the asceraining and declaration of
| such forfeiture.
| ART. 1877. The Legislature shall have power to
extend this Constitution and the jurisdiction of this
| State territorv acouirpd hv with
any State with the United States, the same being
done by the consent of the United States.
| ART 1873 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 129. The Constitution and laws of this State
shall be promulgated in the English and French
| languages.
| 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
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 OF four years but, of the first elected two,
| to be designated by lot shall remain in Office for
two years only.
| ART 131. The General Assembly, at its first ses-
sion after 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 shall exercise
diligent and faithful supervision all public
works, in which the State 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 they may deem necessary,
in order to employ to the best advantage and for the
purposes for which they were granted, the swamps
and overfiowed lands conveyed by the United States
to this State. They shall appoint all officers
gagged on the public works. and shall perform such
other duties may be prescribed by law.
ART. 1873. 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,; but the of the removal shall be entered
on the journal of each House.
ART. 1874. The General Assembly shall have
power by vote of three-fifths 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, 1886 There shall be elected Superintendent
of Public Education who shall hold his office for the
torn OF two years. His duties shall be prescribed
by law, and he shall receive such compensation as
the Legislature may direct; provided that the Gen.
tldi Assembly siltll HdVe power ny 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 for their support by general taxation pro-
perty or otherwise: and all moneys raised pro-
vded shall be distributed to each Parish in proper
ton to the number OF free white children between
such ages shall be fixed by the General Assembly
ART. 1877. The proceeds Of all lands heretofore
granted by the United States to this State for the
support Of Schools and Of all lands which may
hereafter be granted or bequeathed to the State, and
not expressly granted or 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, shall be held by the State 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, un-
der the act of Congress approved June 90, 1885, and
all the rents of the unsold lands shall be appropri
ated to the support OF such schools and this appro
pration shall remain invioable.
ART lbs. 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 that may hereafter be
made for that purpose, shall be and remain perpe-
tual fund, the interest of which six per cent per
annum, shall be appropriated to the support of
Seminary OF Learning, for the promotion of literature
and the arts and sciences, and no law shall ever be
made dvertng said fund to any other than to ae