New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-27
n 7slS adjourn for more than Tires days, nor 70
IN Sis9 pIscs than that in which tkey may be sit

~ SSsS placs than that which they may be sit
lii skai receive from the public treasury compen-
safio5 services which shall be four dollars
bel day during their attendance, going to and return
ing from the session Of their respective houses.
The compensation may be increased or diminished
" law but no alteration shall take effect during
lie period Of service Of the members of the House OF
Representatives BY whom such alteration shall have
sbeen made No session shall extend TO pertod pc
Yond sixty days, TO date from its commence ment'
and any Legislative action had after the exprsrson
Of the said sixty days. shall be null and void. ms
provision shall not apply to the first LegisarsuIe
which is to convene after the adoption Of TINS oon-
4 stitution. ~. Ii
AaT.26, The members Of the General Assembly ~ ~
shall in all cases except treason felony bfeacn q VS.
i peace, be privileged from arrest curing their at
tendance at the sessions Of their respective houses,
and going to or returning from the same, ana lol
any speech or debate in either house, they snail hot
i be questioned in any other place.
4 inc the term for which he was elected nor for one
wear thereafter be appointed or elected to any clv
office of profit under this State, when sna,i haVe
4 been created, or the emoluments OF winch shali
Il have been Increased during the time such SenaIor
/ ~ REPRESENTATIVE was in office, except to such OIL
N ces 81 anpoin tments as may be filled by the cleo
II tions Of the people.
II ART. oS;sN q person who at any time may have
heen = collector OF taxes, whether State, Parish or
II Or who may have been otherwise entrusted
Il with public money, shall be eligible to the General
Assembly or to any office Of profit or trust under
1.-The State Government, until he shall have obtained
Il discharge forthe amount Of such collections and
Il for all public moneys with which ne may nave
Il been entrusted. :,
Arr 49, No bill shall have the force of a law until
On three several days it be read over in each house
4 ofthe General Assembly, and free discussion allowed
thereon unless in case of urgency four-hfths OF the
Il house, where the bill shall be pending, may deem 1t
i ex Incident to dspense with this rule.
4 ART 80. All bills for raising revenue shall orig
mate in the House Of Representatives, but the Senate
may propose amendments as in other bills PROVIDED
i thew shall not introduce any matter under colo
II Of IN amendments which does relate to raising
4 revenue.
Il ART. 81. The General Assembly shall REGULATE
Il by law, by whom and in what manner writs Q
election shall be issued to fill the vacancies whic
a may happen in either branch thereof
ART go The Senate shall vote the confrma
ton or rejection of officers to be appointed by tn
4 Governor, with the advice and consent of thu
Senate, by yeas and nays, and the names OF the Sen
!, ators voting for and against the appointments re
spectivey, shall be entered on a journal TO be KEEP
for that purpose, and made public at the eno Oh eac
Q session, or before.
ART.33 Returns of all elections for members o
the General Assembly shall be made to the Secretar!
"a Of State
ART. 34 In the year in which regular election 70
Senator of the United States is to take place. tn
!. members Of the General Assembly shall meet il
II the Hall of the House of Representatives, on tn
Monday following the meeting Of the Legislature
and proceed to the said election.
/ TITLE III.
III EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. & .a.
ART. So. The Supreme Executive power of tn
State shall be vested in a Chief Magistrate, VIII
shall be styled the Governor of the State of Louisiana
\. He shall hold his office during the term OF tou
years, and, together with the Lieutenant Governe
I chosen for the same term, be elected follows
4 The qualified electors for Representatives sha
s vote lor a Governor and Lieutenant Governor
the time and place Of voting for Representative
the returns of every election shall be sealed up an
! transmitted by the proper returning officer to IN
! Secretary Of State who shall deliver them to tn
X Speaker Of the House Of Representatives. on tn
s. second day Of the session of the General Assem-
4 bly,, then next to be holden The members OF tn
!, General Assembly shall meet in the House of Rs
7 representatives.. to examine and count the vote
The person having the greatest number of votes fe
]. Governor shall be declared duly elected but if tw
i or more persons shall be equal and highest in tn
: number Of votes polled for Governor, of ther
|, shall Immediately be chosen Governor by joint vot
! Of the members of the General Assembly Til
! person shaving the greatest number of votes 70
Leutenant Governor, shall be Lieutenant Governor
but two or more persons shall be equal and hghes
in the number of votes poled for Lieutenant Gov
e ernor, one -cf them shall be Immediately chose
Lieutenant Governor by joint vote of the members
the General Assembly.
ART 36. No person shall be eligible to the otic
a Of Governor Lieutenant Governor, who shall nc
have attained the age oil twenty years and bee
e citizen and resident within the State for til
space of four years next preceding his election.
ART. 81. The Governor shall enter on the dlscharg
n of his duties on the fourth Monday of Januai
Y next ensuing his election, and shall continue
= office until the Monday next succeeding the da
j, that his successor shall be declared duly electe
and shall have taken the oath or affirmation require
Z by this Constitution.
ART. So The Governor shall be ineligible for tn
!, succeeding four years after the expiration of tn
s time for which he shall have been elected.
: ART 80. No member of Congress person hole
& ing any office under the United States shall be elgibl
to the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor.
y ART. 40. In case of the impeachment of the GoS
ernor, his removal from office, death, refusal or il
ability to qualify, resignation or absence from til
State, the powers and duties OF the office shall dt
! vove upon the Lieutenant Governor FOR the res
!, due Of the term, or until the Governor, absent
Z impeached, shall return or be acquitted The Leg
I lature may provide by law for the of remova
! impeachment, death, resignation, disability or ref,
sal to qualify, of both the Governor and Leutenal
. Governor, declaring what officer shall act Go
ernor: and such officer shall act accordingly, uni
the disability be removed or for the residue OF I'll
: term.
J ART al. The Lieutenant Governor, or other off
Ger discharging the duties of Governor shall durin
his administration, receive the same compensatio
to which the Governor would have been entitled
4, had he continued in office.
ART. AZ. The Lieutenant Governor SHALL by vii
N tue of his office, be President of the Senate, blu
shall have only casting vote therein. Wheneve
he shall administer the Government, or shall be uf
able to attend as President of the Senate, tn
4 Senators shall elect of their own members a
1 President of the Senate for the time being.
ART. 43. While he acts as President Of the Senate
the Lieutenant Governor shall receive for his ser
vices the same compensation which shall for tn
same period be allowed to the Speaker of thu
\. House Of Representatives, and no more.
Z ART. A. The Governor shall have power to gran
reprieves for all offences against the State, and
except in Of impeachment, shall, with the con
sent OF the Senate, have power to grant pardons an,
remit fines and forietures, after conviction. Ii
cases oil treason he may grant reprieves, until TIL
end OF the next session OF the General Assembly, il
!, which the power of pardoning shall be vested.
ART as. The Governor shall at stated times re
cepe for his services compensation, which sha
!. neither be increased nor diminished during tn
term for which he shall have been elected.
Arr. 46. He shall be Commander-in-Chief Of til
Army and Navy of this State, and of the Militi
thereof except when they shall be called into til
service Of the United States.
Il ART. A. He shall nominate and, by and with tn
advice and consent OF the Senate appoint all off
GERS whose offices are established by this Coustitu
4 ton, and whose appointment is not therein other
Il wise provided for Provided however, that the LIE
gslature shall havea right to prescribe the mode o
appointment to all other offices established by law
4 ART as. The Governor shall have power to fl
vacancies that may happen during the recess o
the Senate, by granting commissions which shal
4 expire at the end of the next session. unless other
wise provided for in this Constitution but no person