New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-15


the other adjourn for more than three days, nor to
any other place than that in which they may be sit
ting.
ART. 25. The members of the General Assem-
bly, shall receive from the public treasury compen-
sation for ;hea services, which shall be four dollars
per day during their attendance, going and return
ing from the session OF their respective houses
The compensation may be increased diminished
BIZ law but no alteration shall take effect during
he period Of service OF the members of the House Of
Representatives by whom such alteration shall have
been made. No session shall extend to a period be-
yond sixty days. to date from its commencement
and any Legislative action had after the expiration
of the said sixty days, shall be null! and void This
provision shall not apply To the first Legislature
which is to after the adoption of this Con
| stituton.
Arr 26. The members of the General Assembly
shall in all cases except treason felony breach Of the
peace, be privileged from arrest during their at
tendance at the sessions Of their respective houses
| and going to returning from the same, and FOL
any speech debate in either house, they shall 10
be questioned in any other place.
ART.2 No Senator or Representative shall, dur
ing the term for which he was elected, nor or ont
year thereafter be appointed elected to any eiv
Office of profit under this State, which shall have
been created, or the emoluments of which shai
| have been increased during the time such Senator
oes appointments as may be filed by the cleo
| tons OF the people.
| ART. 49, No person who at any time may have
been collector of taxes, whether State Parish oil
Municipal or who may have been otherwise entrusted
with public money, shall be eligible to the General
Assembly, or to any office Of profit trust undel
the State Government, until he shall have obtanec
discharge for the amount of such collections, ane
for all public moneys with which he may have
been entrusted.
L L.,
on three several days it be read in each house
of the General Assembly, and free discussion allowed
thereon, unless in Of urgency four tths OF the
house, where the bill shall be pending, may deem it
expedient to dispense with this rule.
ART. 80 All bills for raising revenue shall orig
mate in the House of Represen taves, but the Senate
may propose amendments in other bills; provided
they shall not introduce any new matter under color
of an amendment, which does not relate to raising
revenue.
ART. 81. The General Assembly shall regulate
by law by whom and in what manner wrlts OF
election shall be issued to fill the vacancies which
may happen in either branch thereof
ARE 49, The Senate shall vote on the confirms
ton rejection OF officers to be appointed by the
Governor, with the advice and consent OF the
Senate, by yeas and nays, and the of the Sen
ators voting for and against the appointments re-
specvely, shall be entered on journal to be kept
for that purpose and made public at the end Of each
session, or before.
ART. SO. Returns of all elections for members of
the General Assembly shall be made to the Secretary
OF State.
ART. 81 In the year in which regular election for
Senator Of the United States is to take place, the
members of the General Assembly shall meet in
the Hall Of the House of Representatives, on the
Monday following the meeting Of the Legislature,
and proceed to the said election.
TITLE III. ..-
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
AM a.
State shall be vested in Chief Magistrate, who
shall be styled the Governor OF the State of Louisiana
He shall hold his Office during the term of four
years, and, together with the Lieutenant Governor
chosen for the same term, be elected as follows:
The qualified electors for Representatives shall
vote for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, at
he time and place of voting for Representatives;
The returns Of every election shall be sealed up and
transmitted By the proper returning officer to the
Secretary of State, who shall deliver them to the
speaker of the House of Representatives, on the
second day Of the session of the General Assem-.
by. then next to be holden. The members of the
General Assembly shall meet in the House of Re-
,resentatives. to examine and count the votes.
he person having the greatest number Of votes for
Governor, shall be declared duly elected; but iftwo
" more persons shall be equal and highest in the
number Of votes polled for Governor, one of them
hall Immediately be chosen Governor by joint vote
VI the members of the General Assembly. The
oerson having the greatest number Of votes for
Lieutenant Governor, shall be Lieutenant Governor
but II two persons shall be equal and highest
IN the number of votes polled for Lieutenant Gov.
ernor, of them shall be immediately chosen
Lieutenant Governor by joint of the members OF
the General Assembly.
ART 36. No person shall be eligible to the office
OF Governoro or Lieutenant Governor, who shall not
have attained the age of twenty eight years and been
a citizen and resident within the State for the
space of four years next preceding his election.
ART.3A The Governor shall enter on the discharge
OF his duties the fourth Monday of January
next ensuing his election, and shall continue in
office until the Monday next succeeding the day
that his successor shall be declared duly elected
and shall have taken the oath or affirmation required
by this Constitution.
ART. 3s. The Governor shall be ineligible for the
succeeding four years after the expiration of the
time for which he shallhave been elected.
ART 80. No member of Congress or person hold
ing any office under the United States shall be eligible
to the office Of Governor or Lieutenant Governor
ART 40, In case of the impeachment of the Gov
ernor, his removal from office, death, refusal or in
ability to qualify, resignation or absence from the
State, the powers and duties OF the office shall de-
vove upon the lieutenant Governor for the resi-
due OF the term, or until the Governor absent or
lmpeached shall return or be acquitted. The Legis-
lature may provide by law for the case Of removal
death, resignation, disability or ref-
sal to qualify, of both the Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, declaring what officer shall act as Gov
ernor; and such officer shall act accordingly until
the disability be removed, or for the residue of the
term
ART. Al. The Lieutenant Governor or other Off
,er dischargng the duties Of Governor shall during
his administration, receive the same compensation
% which the Governor would have been entitled
lad he continued in office.
ART. AZ. The Lieutenant Governor shall, BY viz. |
ue of his office, be President of the Senate, but
shall have only casting vote therein. Whenever
ne shall administer the Governments or shall be un- |
lhe to attend as President of the Senate, the |
Senators shall elect one of their own members as
President OF the Senate for the time being
ART. As. While he acts as President Of the Senate
he Lieutenant Governor shall receive for his SER
vices the same compensation which shall for the
same period be allowed to the Speaker Of the
House OF Representatives, and no more.
ART "A. The Governor shall have power to grant
.eprieves for all offences against the State and,
except in cases OF impeachment, SHALL with the con-
sent OF the Senate have power to grant pardons and
emit fines and ioreitures after conviction. In |
Eases OF treason he may grant repreves, until the
md OF the next session OF the General Assembly, in
Which the power of pardoning shall be vested.
ART. DO. The Governor shall at stated times re-
elve Tor hts services compensation, which shall |
leither be increased nor diminished during the
ERIN for which he shall have been elected.
ART. 46. He shall be Commander-in-Ch Chief of the
Army and Navy of this State, and of the Militia
hereof, except when they shall be called into the
ervice of the United States.
ART. A. He shall nominate and by and with the
dyice and consent OF the Senate, appoint all Off
ers whose offices established by this Coustitu
ION, and whose appointment is not therein other
wise provided for: Provided, however, that tile Lee
siaure shall have right to prescribe the mode of
pponment to all other offices established by law.
ART 49, The Governor shall have nny.r To fl