New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-16

shsll embrace but object, and that snail be ex
pressed in the title.
| ART. l16. No law shall be revived or amended BIZ
reference to its title; but in such case, the ac
revised or section amended, shall be re.enacted ane
published at length.
system or code of laws by general reference to suci
OF code OF laws, but in all shall specify
the several provisions of the laws it may enact.
Art 10. Corporations with banking or discount
ing privileges may be either created by special acts
or formed under general laws but the Legslature
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 O
| the same in specie.
| ART. 119. The Legislature shall have M no,vsr :,
pass any law sanctoning in any manner, directly o,
indirectly, the suspension Of specie payments by
any person, association corporation issuing bank
notes OF any description.
ART. 100. In case of insolvency of any bank o,
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 it 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 119
! and 100 of this Constitution
ART. 122. 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 on which taxes
may be LEVIED, IN this State, shall be taxed in pro-
portion to its vaue 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 Legisa-
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 shal! have the right of appointing the several
pubic ofhcers necessary for the administration OF
the police of the said city, pursuant 10 the mode of
elections which shall be prescribed by the Lesisla
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 NAV
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.
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
alter the adoption of this Constitution, fight duel
with deadly weapons with citizen of this State or
send or accept challenge to fight duel with
deadly weapons, either within this State or out of
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 holding office of profit trust
under this Constitution and the laws made in mr.
suance thereof shall be spso facto vacated by The
tact OF any such person committing the offence men,
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. l2o. N zone of the lands granted by Congress
to the State of Louisiana for aiding it constructing
the necessary levees and drains, to reclaim the
swamps and overlooked 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
w orks, to consist of four Commissioners. The State
shall be divided by the Legislature into four Dis
trlcts, containing nearly may be an equal num-
Der oil 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,
to be designated by lot, shall remain in office for
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 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
diiigent and faithful supervision over all public
works, in Which the State may be Interested except
those made by joint stock companies. They shall
to the General Assembly from time to
Time their views concerning the same, and recon-
mehd 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 |
ana 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 as may be prescribed byaw
ART. l53. The Commissioners may be removed
by the concurrent vote of majority Of all the mem
befs 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. l34. 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
10 longer be necessary.
TITLE VIII.
PUBLIC EDUCATION
ART. 100. There shall be elected a Superip tendent
u Public Education, who shall hold his office for the
erm OF two years. His duties shall be prescribed
" law, and he shall receive such concentration "a
he Legislature may direct; provided that the Gen.
raj Assembly shall have power by a vote of the
majority Of the members elected to both houses to
holsh the said office of Superintendent of Public
whenever in their opinion said office shall
re no longer necessary.
Art. 1856 The General Assembly shall establish
rec Public Schools throughout the State and shall
rovlde for their support by general taxation on pro-
erty or otherwise and all moneys so raised or pro.
ided, shall be distributed to each Parish in propor
on to the number of free white children between
UGH ages as shall be fixed by the General Assembly
ART, l37. Ihe proceeds of all lands heretofore |
ranted by the United States to this State for the
Sc or support of schools and Of all lands which NAV
GREATER be granted bequeathed to the State and
OF expressly granted or bequeathed for any other
urpose which hereafter may be disposed of by the
tate, and the proceeds of the estates of deceased
ersons to which the State may become entitled by \
w, shall be held by the State as loan. Ind shall
3 and remain perpetual fund, on viii II the State
,a pay an annual interest of six per cent; which
erest together with the interest on the trustfunds
sposited with this State by the United States, un
n the act OF Congress approved June 49, 1896 and
the rents OF the unsold lands shall be appropr-
ed to the support of such schools, and this appro
ration shall remain nviolable.
ART l3S. All moneys arising from the sales which =
I've been, or may hereafter be made, of any lands
'retoiore granted by the United States to this
late, for the use OF Seminary of Learning, and =
'm any kind of donation that may hereafter he
AIDE for that purpose. shall be and remain a perpe.
al fund, the interest of which at six per cent per
mum, shall be appropriated to the support of a
'mnary OF Learning, for the promotion ofterature
d the arts and sciences, and no law shall ever he
ide diverting said fund any other use than to the
adjustment and improvement Of said Seminary Of \
'arning