New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-11-01

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| ART. III. The Legislature shall never adopt an
system code Of laws by general reference to sue
system code Of laws but in all cases shall specif
| the several provisions Of the laws it may enact.
ART. 116 Corporations with banking or discount
ing privileges may be either created by special act
or formed under general laws but the Legislator
shall in both cases provide for the registry Of all bill
or notes issued or put in circulation money, an
shall require ample security fofthe redemption
the same in specie.
Art. 49, The Legislature shall lave no power /
pass any law sanctioning in any manner, directly
Indirectly, the suspension of specie payments, b
any person, association corporation issuing ban
| notes of any description.
ART. 120 In case of insolvency Of any bank o
banking association the bill holders thereof shall
entitled to preference in payment, over all othe
| creditors Of such bank or association.
ART. 121. The Legislature shall have power +
pass such laws as it may deem expedient for th
relief revival of the Citizens Bank Of Louisiana
and the acts already passed for the purpose ar
ratified and confirmed. Provided tina. the Bank j
subjected to the restrictions contained in articles Ill
and 120 of this Constitution.
ART. 1872 No person shall hold or exercise, at til
same time, more than one civil office Of emolumeni
except that Of Justice Of the Peace.
ART. 1913. Taxation shall be equal and uniform
throughout the State. All property on which take
may be levied, in this State, shall be taxed in pro
portion to its value, to be ascertaned directed b.
law. No one species of property shall be taxed
higher than another species OF property of equa
value, on which taxes shall be levied the Legisla
ture shall have power to levy an income tax, and Il
tax all persons pursuing any occupation, trade OF
profession.
ART. 124. The citizens Of the City of NewOr
leans shall have the right Of appointing the severa
public officers necessary for the administration
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 as may be
necessary for the punishment of minor crimes and
offences, and as the police and good order Of said city
may require.
ART. 125 The Legislature may provide by law
in what case officers shall continue to perform the
duties Of their offices until their successors shall
have been nducted into office.
ART. 126. ANY citizen of this State who shall,
after the adoption of this Constitution, fight duel
with deadly weapons with citizen Of this State, OF
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 oil
any State officer, member Of the General Assembly,
or Of any other person holding Office of profit or trust
under this Constitution and the laws made in pur.
suance thereof shall be lpso facto vacated by the
fact OF any such person committing the offence men.
toned in this article and the Legislature shall pro-
vide by law for the ascertaining and declaration Of
such forfeiture.
ART. 1T. 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
In hv he rnnco fof In,ko Cknto
ART. 12S. None of the lands granted by Congress
to the State OF Louisiana for aiding 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 Board of Public
orks, to consist Of four Commissioners. The State
shall be divided by the Legislature into four Dis.
trics, containing nearly may be an equal mum.
Der OF voters, and one Commissioner shall be elected
in each District, by the legal voters thereof, for
the term OF four years but Of the first elected two
two years only.
Art. 131. The General Assembly, at its first SEES
sion after the adoption Of this Constitution shall
provide for the election and compensation of tn,
commissioners and the organization of the Board
Ihe Commissioners first elected shall assemble on
day to be appointed by law, and decide by lot tn.
order in which their terms of service shall EXPIRE
ART. l32. The Commissioners shall exercise a
diligent 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 as they may deem necessary,
in order to employ to the best advantage and for the
purposes for which they were granted the swamps
and overlooked lands conveyedb the United States
to this State. They shall apr NJ all officers en-
gagged on the public works, an; II perform such
other duties as may be prescrit ew.
ART. 49, The Commissioners 4aay &c removed
by the concurrent vote of majority Of ali the mem
bers elected to each House of the General Assem-
bly,; but the of the removal shall be entered
on the journal of each House,
ART. 1874 The General Assembly shall have
power by a vote of three.ffths 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. l35. 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 vote of the
indlurty ol Tie 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
free Public Schools throughout the State, and shall
provide for their support by general taxation pro-
perty or otherwise: and all moneys raised or pro-
vided, shall be distributed to each Parish in propor-
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
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 an annual interest Of six per cent? which
interest," together with the interest on the trust funds
deposited with this State by the United States, un-
der the act OF Congress approved June 49, 1885, and
ated to the support of such schools, and this appro.
priation shall remain invioable.
ART. 138 All moneys arising from the sales which
have been, 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 donation that may hereafter be
made for that purpose. shall be and remain perpe-
tual fund.- the interest of which at six per cent per
annum, shall be appropriated to the support of
Seminary of Learning for the promotion ofiterature
and the arts and Sciences and no law shall ever be
made divertng said fund to any other than to the
establishment and improvement of said Seminary Of
Learning.
ART. 1879. The University of Louisiana, in New