New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-18

ART. ID. No divorce shall be granted by the
| Legislature.
ART. lis. Every law enacted by the Legislature
snail embrace but one object, and that shall be en-
| pressed IN the title.
ART ll6. 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 snecfv
the several provisions Of the laws it NAV enact.
ART. lls Corporations with banking or discount
ing privileges may be either created by specal acts
OF formed under general laws but the Ieoislatrre
shall in both provide for the registry Of all bills
or notes issued or put in circulation as money and
shall require ample security for the redemption of
the same in specie.
ART ll9. The Legislature shall have no power to
pass any law sanconing in any manner, directly or
indirectly, the suspension OF specie payments, by
any person, association corporation issuing bank
notes ot 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 or association.
ART l2l. The Legislature shall have power to
pass such laws as it may deem expedient for the
reet or revival of the Citizens Bank of Louisiana
aud the acts already passed for the same purpose are
subjected to the restrictions contained in articles 1l9
and l20 of this Constitution.
ART 1872 No person shall hold or exercise, at the
same time, more than one civil office OF enoument,
except that OF Justice OF 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 Legisla-
tnre 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 admins raton of
the police OF the said city, pursuant the mode of
elections which shall be prescribed by the Legsla-
ure; 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 1876. 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 indicted into office
ART. l26. Amy citizen Of this State who shall,
after the adoption OF this Constitution, fight duel
with deadly weapons with citizen of this State,
send or accept a challenge to fight a duel with
deadly weapons. either within this State or out of it,
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,
or OF any other person hodiug office Of profit
under this Constitution and the laws made in pur-
suance thereof, shall be apSo fucto vacated by The
fact of any such person committing the offence mem
toned In this article and the Legislature shall pro-
vide by law for the ascertainng 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 same being
done by the consent of the United States.
ART. 1913. None of the lands granted by Congress
to the State OF Louisiana for aiding in constructing
the necessary eVees and drains to reclaim the
swamps and overlooked lands in this State shall be
diverted from the purposes for which they were
| granted.
ART. 1879 The Constitution and, laws Of this State
shall be promulgated in the @eg fish and French
languages.
TITLE VII.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
ART. 1870. There shall be a 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 mum
Der OF voters, and enc 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 first ,es-
sion after the adoption of this Constitution, shall
provide tor the election and compensation of the
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
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 they may deem necessary
IN order to employ to the best advantage and for the
! purposes for which they granted the swamps
and overlooked lands conveyed By the United States
to thus State They shall appoint all officers en-
gagged Oh me public works and shall perform such
other duties as may be prescribed bylaw.
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-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. 1855 There shall be elected Superintendent
Of Public Education who shall hold his office for the
!
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
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 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
use or support of schools, and Of all lands which may
hereafter be granted bequeathed to the State and
not expressly granted bequeathed for any other
purpose, which hereafter may be disposed of by the
State, and the proceeds Of the of deceased
persons to which the State may become entitled by
law, shall be held by the State oan 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 tustunds
deposited with this State by the United States,
der the act of Congress approved June %, 1885, and
all the rents of the unsold lands shall be appropri-
ated to the support of such schools, and this appro-
pEiation shal! remain inviolable.
ART. l3S. All moneys arising from the sales which
have been, or may hereafter he made, of any lands
heretofore granted by the United States to this