New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-06

| ART. l Is. Every law enacted by the Legislature
shall embrace but object, and that shall be ex-
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.
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 specify
| the several provisions of the laws it NAV enact
Ant. lis Corporations with banking or discount
ing privileges may be either created by special acts
OF formed under general laws but the Legislature
shall in both provide for the registry Of all bills
or notes issued or put in circulation money, and
shall require ample security for the redemption of
| the same in specie.
ART. 1l9. The Legislature shall lave no power to
pass any law sanctionng in amy manner, directly
indirectly, the suspension of specie payments, by
any person, association or corporation issuing bank
notes ct 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 other
creditors oil such bank or association.
ART. l2l. 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 purpose
ratified and confirmed. Provided that the Bank is
subjected to the restrictions tanned in articles 10
and 100 Of this Constitution.
ART 1872 No person shall hold or exercise, at the
same time, more than civil office OF emoumen
except that OF Justice OF the Peace.
ART 123. Taxation shall be equal and uniform
throngh out the State. All property which
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, which taxes shall be levied the Legsla
ture shall have power to levy an income tax, and to
tax all persons pursuing any occupation, trade or
profession.
ART. l2l. 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 the mode of
elections which shall be prescribed by the Legsla
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.
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
r have been indicted into office
Art 126. Any citizen of this State who shall,
after the adoption of this Constitution, fight duel
S with deadly weapons with citizen of this State, or
send accept Il challenge to fight duel with
deadly weapons, either within this State OF it,
with citizen OF this State who shall act
a ond, or knowingly aid aud 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 Cons tuition and the office OF
any State officer, member of the General Assembly,
any other person holdiag office of profit trust
under this Constitution and the laws made i'll pur-
suanoe thereof shall be tpso facto vacated by ,le
fact OF any such person committing the offence men
toned i'll this article and the Legislature shall pro-
vide by law for the ascertainng and declaration OF
t such forfeiture.
ART. 1877. The Legislature shall have power to
extend this Constitution and the jurisdiction Of this
i State any territory acquired by compact with
n any State, with the United States the being
done by the consent of the United States.
n ART. 12S. None OF the lands granted by Congress
the State OF Louisiana for aiding in constructing
d the necessary levees and drains, to reclaim the
swalnps and overlooked lands in this State shall be
. diverted from the purposes for which they were
: granted.
r ART. 1919. The Constitution and laws OF this State
e shall be promulgated in the English and French
= languages. -
: TITLE VII.
, INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
ART. 130 There shall be Board of Public
Works, to consist of four Commissioners. The State
shall be divided by the Legislature into four Dis
: tricts containing nearly may be an equal mum
, Der OF voters, and one Commissioner shall be elected
l. in each District by the legal voters thereof, io
the term OF four years; but, of the first elected two
J., to be designated by lot, shall remain in office fol
ART, 13l. The General Assembly, at its first SEES
O sion after the adoption of this Constitutions, shall
:. provide for the election and compensation OF the
n Commissioners and the organization Of the Board
:, The Commissioners first elected shall assemble
day to be appointed by law, and decide by lot the
order in which their of service shall expire
II ART. 1872 The Commissioners shall exercise
= dilgent and faithful supervision all public
# works, in which the State may be interested excep
= those made by joint stock companies They shall
communicate to the General Assembly, from time to
q time, their views concerning the same, and recon-
= mend such measures as they may deem necessary
in order to employ to the best advantage and tor the
purposes for which they granted, the swamps
, and overlooked lands conveyed by the United States
. to this State. They shall appoint all officers
r. gagged the public works, and shall perform such
+ other duties as 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-
q bly,; but the of the removal shall be entered
on the journal of each House.
i ART. 134. The General Assembly shall hav.
y power by vote of three.fiths of the members
l., 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.
N ART. 1876. There shall be elected Superintendent
of Public Education, who shall hold his office for The
term of two years. His duties shall be prescribet
n ny law, and he shall receive such compensation a.
the Legislature may direct; provided that the Gen
e era Assembly shall have power by vote of the
majority oil the members elected to both houses, t
l. abolish the said office of Superintendent of Publ,
Education, whenever in their opinion said office shall
be no longer necessary.
ART. 1876. The General Assembly shall establish
l. free Public Schools throughout the State, and shall
provide for their support by general taxation pro
IS perty otherwise and all moneys raised pro
vided, shall be distributed each Parish in proper
e ton to the number of free white children between
e 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 ant
81 not expressly granted bequeahed for any othe
purpose which hereafter may be disposed of by til,
Stale, and the proceeds of the estates of deceased
n persons to which the State may become entitled by
s law, shall be held by the State loan, and shall
IS be and remain perpetual fund.- which the State
shall pay annual interest OF six per cent. which
interest together with the interest the fund.-
d deposited with this State by the United States, un
IS der the act Of Congress approved June %, 1885,
all the rents of the unsold lands shall be appropri
e ated to the support of such schools and this appro
II priation shall remain involabe.
l. ART. 13S. All moneys arising from the sales which
5, have BEEN or may hereafter be made, of any lands
e toore granted by the United States to THU
State, for the OF Seminary Of Learning, anc
o from any kind OF donation that may hereafter bt
Is made for that purpose shall be and remain perpe
81 ual fund, the interest Of which at six per cent PEI
e annum, shall be appropriated to the support Of
Seminary Learning for the promotion of literature