New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-10

ART. lis. Every law enacted by the Legislature
shall embrace but object, and that shall bs eA
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 rsenacted and
published at length.
ART. III. The Legislature shall never adopt any
system or code OF laws by general reference such
system code of laws, but in all cases shall specify
the several provisions Of the laws it may enact
ART l1S. Corporations with banking or discount
ing privileges may be either created BY special acts
formed under general laws; but the Legislature
shall in both provide for the registry Of all bills
notes issued or put in circulation money, and
shall require ample security for the redemption of
the same in specie
ART. 119. The Legislature shall lave no power to
pass any law sanctionng in any manner, directly
indirectly, the suspension OF specie payments, by
any person, association corporation issuing bank
notes o 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. l2l. The Legislature shall have power to
pass such laws as it may deem expedient for the
relief 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 contained in articles l19
and 1870 OF this Constitution.
| ART 122 No person shall hold or exercise, at the
same time, more than civil office of enlolumen
| except that OF Justice oil the Peace.
| ART l23. 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 one species OF property shall be taxed
| higher than another species OF properly of equal
value, on which taxes shall be levied the Legsla
ture shall have power to levy income tax, and to
tax all persons pursuing any occupation, trade or
| profession.
| act. l24. The citizens of the City of NewOr-
| LII IL, a.
public officers necessary for the administration 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
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 perform the
duties OF their offices until their successors shall
have been indicted into Office
| ART. l26. 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 out off:
with citizen Of this State, or 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,
any other person hold office OF profit trust
under this Constitution and the laws made in pur-
suance thereof, shall be tpso fccto 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 ascertaning 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, or with the United States. the same being
done by the consent of the United States.
AR. 12S. None Of the lands granted BY Congress
to the State of Louisiana for aiding in constructing
the necessary levees and drains reclaim the
sgamps and overfowed lands in this State shall be
diverted from the purposes for which they were
| granted.
ART. 100. The Constitution and. laws of this State
shall be promulgated in the Esish 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 as nearly may be equal num-
Der Of voters and one Commits sioner shall be elected
in each District, by the legal thereof, for
the term of four years but, of the first elected two
to be designated by let shall remain in office for
two years only,
ART, 1871. 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 u
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 a
dlIgent and faithful supervision over 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 Tor the
purposes for which they were granted, the swamps
and overlooked lands yed by the United Sta
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 of majority Of all the mem
bers elected to each House of the General Assem-
bly,; but the cause OF the removal shall be entered
on the journal ofeach House
ART. 1874. The General Assembly shall have
power by a vote of three Rfhs 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. 1875. There shall be elected a Superintendent
of Public Education, who shall hold his office for the
term of two years. His duties shall be prescribed
by law, and he shall receive such compensation as
the Legislature may direct provided that the Zen.
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 for their support by general taxation pro-
perty otherwise and all moneys so raised or pro-
vided, 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
use support OF schools, and Of all lands which may
hereafter be granted 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 as loan and shall
be and remain perpetual fund, on which the State
shall pay annual interest Of six per cent; which
interest," together with the interest the trust funds
deposited with this State by the United States, un-
der the act of Congress approved june %, 1886 and
all the rents of the unsod lands shall be appropr-
ated to the support Of such schools, and this appro
priation shall remain involabe.
| ART. us. 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 use Of Seminary of Learning, and
from any kind OF do iation that may hereafter be
made for that purpose, shall be and remain perpe-
tual fund, the interest of which at six per cent per