New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-25

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 reenacted and
published at length.
ART. III. The Legislature shall never adont anv
system code Of laws by general reference to such
system code of laws but in all cases shall specv
t.e several provisions of the laws it may enact.
ART lis 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
or notes issued 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 sanctoning in any manner, directly
indirectly, the suspension oil specie payments, by
any person, association 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. 12l. The Legislature shall have power to
pass such laws as 1t may deem expedient for the
relief or 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
and l2O Of this Constitution
ART. 1872. No person shall hold or exercise at the
same time, more than one civil office Of emoument,
except that of Justice OF the Peace
ART. 1913. Taxation shall be equal and uniform
throughout the State. Ali property on which taxes
may be levied in this State shall be taxed in pro-
portion to its value to be aseerained 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 Legisa-
ture shall have power to levy an income tax and to
tax all persons pursuing any occupation, trade or
profession.
ART 1874. The citizens of the City of NewOr-
leans shall have the right OF appointing the several
public officers necessary for the administration oil
the police OF the said city, pursuant to the mode OF
elections which shall be prescribed by the Legisa-
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. 1875. The Legislature may provide by law
| in what officers shall continue to perform the
duties of tuer offices until their successors shall
have been indicted into office.
| ART 1876 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 accept cha lenge to fight a duel with
deadly weapons either within this State out oft
with citizen OF this State, who shall act
ond, 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 hold office Of profit trust
under this Constitution and the laws made in pur-
suance thereof shall be tpSo tacto 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 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 being
done by the consent of the United States.
Arr. l2S None of the lands granted by Congress:
to the State Of Louisiana for aiding it 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
| grant-d.
ART 1919. The Constitution and laws of this State
shall be promulgated in the ~ glish and French
| languages.
TITLE VII.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS,
ART. l3O There shall be Board of Public
| Works, to consist of four Commissioners The STATE
shall be divided by the Legislature into four Dis
tricts, containing nearly may be equal mum
Der OF voters and one Commissioner shall be elected
in each District, by the legal voters thereof fo
the term oil four years. but, of the first elected. two
to be designated by lot, shall remain in office fo
| two years only.
ART, l31. The General Assembly, at its first SEES
sion after the adoption of this Constitution, shall
| provide for the election and compen sation of the
| Commissioners and the organization of the Board
The Commissioners first elected shall assemble on a
day to be appointed by law, and decide by lot the
order in which their 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 sWanps
and overlooked lands conveyedby the United States
| 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 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 ifths of the members
elected to each house, to abolish said Board, when
ever in their opinion B GARD of Public Works shall
no longer be necessary.
TITLE VIII.
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
ART. 1856 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 a,
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, tc
abolish the said office of Superintendent of Public
Education whenever in their opinion said office shal
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 on pro
perty otherwise and all moneys so raised or pro
vided, shall be distributed 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 10 this State for the
use support of schools, and Of all lands which may
hereafter be granted beqreathed 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 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 a perpetual fund, on which the State
shall pay an annual interest of six per cent. viii,
interest together with the interest the trustiunds
deposited with this State by the United States uu
der the act OF Congress approved Jnus %, 1886 and
ali the OF the unsod lands shall be appropr
ated to the support Of such schools, and this appro
priation shall remain lnviolabe,
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 use OF Seminary of Learning, and
from any kind of do ration that may hereafter be
made for that purpose. shall be and remain perpe-
tua fund, the interest of which six per cent per
annum, shall be appropriated to the support of a
Seminary OF Learning, for the promotion Of literature
and the arts and sciences, and no law shall ever be
made dverng said fund any other use than to the
establishment and improvement of said Seminary Of