New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-18


pressed in the title.
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 re-enacted and
published at length.
ART. III. The Legislature shall never adopt any
system code Of laws by general reference to such
system code of laws but in all shn specify
the several provisions Of the LAVISH it may enact.
ART l1S Corporations with banking or discount
ing privileges may be either created by special acts,
or formed under general laws but the Legislature
shall in both provide for the registry Of all bills
notes issued or put in circulation money, and
shall require ample security for the redemption of
the same in specie.
ART. 119. The Legislature shall have no power to
pass any law sanctloning in any manner, directly or
indirectly, the suspension Of specie payments, by
any person, association corporation issuing bank
notes of any description.
banking association, the bill holders thereof shall be
entitled to preference in payment, over all other
creditors Of such bank or association.
ART. 121. The Legislature shall have power to
pass such laws as it may deem expedent 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. 1872 No person shall hold or exercise, at the
same time, more than civil office of emolument,
except that Of Justice Of the Peace.
ART. 1913. Taxation shall be equal and uniform
throughout the State. All property which taxes
may be levied in this State shall be taxed in pro-
portion to its value to be ascertained directed by
law. No one species of property shall be taxed
higher than another species Of properly of equal
value, which taxes shall be levied; the Legisla.
ture shall have power to ivy an income tax, and to
profession. ,sr0
ART. 1914. The citizens of the City of NewOr-
leans shall have the right Of appointing the several
public officers necessary for the administration Of
elections which shall be prescribed by the Legsla
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 the police and good order Of said city
may require.
ART. 1875. 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. 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 or accept challenge to fight duel with
deadly weapons either within this State out oft,
with citizen of this State, or who shall act 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,
ofany other person holding 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 any territory acquired by compact with
any State, or 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 it in 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. $780, 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
Works, to consist of four Commissioners. The State
shall be divided by the Legislature into four Dis
tricts containing nearly may be an equal num-
Der of voters and one Commissioner shall be elected
in each District, by the legal voters thereof, for
the term of four years; butt of the first elected two,
to be designated by lot, shall remain in office for
two years only.
ART. l3l. The General Assembly, at its first ses-
sion after the adoption of this Constitution, shall
provide for the election and compensation of the
Commissioners ana the organization OF the DOaTQ
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 as they may deem necessary,
in order to employ to the best advantage and for the
which granted.
and overlooked lands conveyed by the United States
to this State. They shall appoint all officers
gagged on the public works. and shall perform such
other duties 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 Of the removal shall be entered
on the journal of each House. -
ART. 1874. The General Assembly shall have
power by vote of three-dfths 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. 1875. There shall be electeda 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 a 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 pro-
vded shall be distributed to 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 to this State for the
use 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 e&tited by
law, shall be held by the State loan. and shall
be and remain perpetual fund on whilh the State
shall pay annual interest of six per cent; which
interest, together with the interest the trustfunds
deposited with this State by the United States,
der the act of Congress approved June 49, 1885, and
all the rents of the unsold lands shall be appropr
ated to the support of such schools, and this appro
pration shall remain nviolable.
ART. 13S 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 OF Seminary Of Learning, and
from any kind of donation that may hereafter be
made for that purpose, shall be and remain perpe
ual fund.- the interest of which at six per cent per
annum, shall be appropriated to the support of
Seminary of Learning, for the promotion of literature
and the arts and sciences, and no law shall ever be
made divertng said fund any other than to the
establishment and improvement of said Seminary Of
Learning.
ART. $780, The University Of Louisiana, in New
Orleans, as now established, shall be maintained.