Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-08-14
Legislative APARTMENT.

Art. 8. The legislati power of the State
shall be vested in twoistinct branches, the
one to be styled the Hoe of Representatives.
the other the Senate, al both ''the General
Assembly Of the State louisiana"
Art. /. The membepf the House Of Re-
representatives. shall conhe in service for the
term of two years frome day Of the closing
of the general elections.
Art. 5. Representa-, shall be chosen on
the first Monday in Noye,er, every two years;
and the election shall bempleted in one day.
The General Assembly il meet annually, on
the third Monday in Jary, unless different
dav shall be appointed law, and their ses-
sons shall be held at theat of government.
Art. 6. Every duly gifted eIector under
this constitution shall higible to seat in
the General Assembly, pided that no person
shall be Representative Senator unless he
be, at the time of his elton, duly qualified
voter Of the Representative senatorial district
from which he is elected
Art. 7. Elections formbers of the Gen.
eral Assembly shall be at the several cleo
ton precincts establisheF law. The Legis-
lature may delegate the Ter Of establishing
election precincts to the ochial or municipal
authorities.
Art. s. Representation the House of Re-
presentatives shall be I'd and uniform, and
Shall be regulated and attained by the total
population of each of tbeveral parishes of
The State. Each parish Il have at least one
Representative. No nearish shall be ere
ated with territory lesan six hundred and
twenty-five square milesy with population
less than the full numbetitling it to Rep
resentatiye, nor when theation Of such new
parish would leave anYer parish without
the said extent Of terry and amount of
population.
The first enumeration The State authori-
ties under this constitut shall be made in
the year 1853, the secoIn the year 1868,
and the third in the yea865; after which
time the General Assemblall direct in what
manner the census shall aiken, so that it be
made at least once in eVten years, for the
purpose of ascertaining total population in
each parish and election 6ct.
AT the first regular sessOf the Legislature
after the making of each meration, the Le-
gslature shall apportione representation
among the several parishnd election dis
tricts on the basis of theal population as
aforesaid. A representathumber shall be |
fixed, and each parish and ton district shall |
have as many Representatives its aggregate
population shall entitle it tad an additional |
Representative for any frac, exceeding one
half of the representative nller The num-
Der of Representatives shalt be more than
one hundred, nor less than hty.
Until an apportionment be made, and
elections held under the S, in accordance |
with the first enumeration tonade as direct
ed in this article, the repression in the Sc
nate and House of Represtives shall be
and remain as at present esta bed by law.
The limits of the parish cleans are here
by extended, so as 10 embrace whole of the
present city of New Orlearhcluding that
part of the parish of Jeffersornerly known
as the city of Lafayette. Il |
All that part of the parish cleans which
is situated on the left bank o. Mississippi
river shall be divided by the islature into
not more than ten representaaistricts, and
until new apportionment slbe made ac-
cordng to the first census to aiken under
this constitution, that part of tty of New
Orleans which was comprised VI the form
er limits of the city of LafayetiaH vote for
Senators from the parish OF Ors, and shall
form the Tenth Representatives,, and
shall elect two out of the three ksntatives
now apportioned by law to the p q JefIer.
son; the other representative dlss shall re-
main as they are now establlshes
Art.e. The House Of Represtives shall
choose its Speaker and other otfls
Art 10. Every free white NAL ho has at
tanned the age Of twenty-one Wand who
has been resident of the State t3e months
next preceding the election, and last six
months thereof in the parish in VIII offers !