New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-11

I pressed IN the title.
ART. 116. No law shall be revived or amended by
reference to its title; but in such case the act
revised or section amended shall be reenacted 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 shall specify
| the several provisions of the laws it may enact.
ART. lls. 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 cases provide for the registry Of all bills
or notes issued or put in circulation as money and
shall require ample security for the redemption oil
| the same in spece.
ART. 49, The Legislature shall have no mower to
pass any law sanctioning 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 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. l21. 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 119
| and 40 of this Constitution.
| ART. l22 No person shall hold or exercise, at the
same time, more than civil office of emolument,
except that of Justice of the Peace.
ART. l23. Taxation shall be equal and uniform
throughout the State. All property 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 Legisla.
ture shall have power to levy income tax, and to
tax all persons pursuing any occupation, trade or
| profession.
ART. l24. 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 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 as the police and good order OF said city
may require.
| ART. 1876 The Legislature may provide by law
| in what case officers shall continue TO perform the
duties oil their offices until their successors shall
| have been indicted into office.
| ART. l2G 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 a challenge to fight duel with
deadly weapons either within this State or out of it.,
with citizen of this State, 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 or profit, and of enjoying the right
OF suffrage under this Constitution and the office Of
any State officer, member of the General Assembly,
of any other person holding office of profit or trust
! under this Constitution and the laws made in pur-
suance thereof, shall be tpsq tacto 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 with the United States, the being
done by the consent Of the United States.
| ART l2S 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 a Board of Public
Works, to consist of four Commissioners The State
shall be divided by the Legislature into four Dis
tricts containing as nearly may be equal num-
Der of voters and Commissioner shall be elected
in each District, by the legal voters thereof, for
the term 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 frs, ses-
sion after the adoption of this Constitution shall
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 a
| dlligent 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 recom-
mend such measures they may deem necessary,
in tn a.,
purposes for which they granted, the swamps
and overlooked lands conveyed by the United States
to this State. They shall appoint all officers en-
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 cause OF the removal shall be entered
on the journal OF each House.
ART. 1874. The General Assembly shall have
power by vote OF three-ift 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. 80, There shall be elected 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 Gen.
eral Assembly shall have power by a 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. 1876. The General Assembly shall establish
tree Public Schools hroug bout the State, and shall
provide for their support by general taxation pro-
perty otherwise and all moneys so raised or 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 49, 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 or bequeathed to the State and
not expressly granted or bequeathed for any other
purpose, which hereafter may be disposed OF by the
Stale 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 the trustfunds
deposited with this State by the United States un-
der the act Of Congress approved June 49, 1885, and
all the rents of the unsoid lands shall be approp-
ated to the support of such schools, and this appro-
pration shall remain nvlolable.
ART l3S 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 do ration that may hereafter be
made for that purpose. shall be and remain perpe
ualtund the interest of which six per cent. per
annun, shall be appropriated to the support of a
Seminary OF Learning, for the promotion oliterature
and the and sciences, and q shall ha