New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-29

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revised y section amended, shall be re-snected and
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systen q code Il laws BY general reference 70 such
system code Of aws but in all cases shall specify
the several provisons Of The laws it may enact
Art. III. Corporations with banking or discount
ing privileges may be either created by special acts
OF formed under general laws but the Legislature
or notes issued Or put in circulation money and
shall require ample security for the redemption Of
the same in specie.
AIT. 49, The Legislature shall have no power to
indirectly, the suspension Of specie payments, by
any person, association or corporation issuing bank
notes Of any description.
ART. 126. In case Of insolvency Of any bank Or
banking association the bill holders thereof ghal be
entitled to preference in payment, over all other
creditors Of such bank or association.
ART 1911 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 already passed for the same purpose are
ratified and confirmed Provided that the Bank Is Is
subjected to the restrictions contained in articles llS
and 100 Of this Constitution.
ART. 22. No person shall hold OF exercise, at the
same time, more than one civil Office Of emolument,
except that Of Justice Of the Peace.
ART. 1913. Taxation shall be equal and uniform
may be levied, in this State shall be taxed in pro-
portion to its vaue to be ascertained as directed by
law. No one species Of property shall be taxed
higher than another species Of property 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 Of
kl- oIs- Is I~tew n
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 as may be
necessary for the punishment Of minor crimes anc
offences, and the police and good order Of said city
may require.
Arr The Legislature may provide by Law
in what officers shall continue to perform the
duties Of their offices until their successors shal
have been indicted into office.
ART. 1876. Any citizen of this State who shall
after the adoption Of this Constitution, fight due
with deadly weapons with citizen Of this State, O.
send accept a challenge to fight duel will
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 name
those thus offending, shall be deprived Of holding
any office of trust profit, and of enjoying the RICH
i any State officer, member Of the General Assembly
or fany other person holding office of profit trus
under this Constitution and the laws made in pur
suance thereof shall be fpso facto vacated by th
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 O
| such forfeiture.
ART. 1877. The Legislature shall have power t
extend this Constitution and the jurisdiction Of thi
State over any territory acquired by compact witt
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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 tn
swamps and overlooked lands in this State, shall b
diverted from the purposes for which they wer
| granted.
| ART. 1919. The Constitution and laws Of this Stat
shall be promulgated in the English and Frenc
| languages.
| INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
ART. 100. There shall be Board Of Publ
Works. to consist Of four Commissioners. The Stat
shall be divided by the Legislature into four Dis
trcts, containing nearly as may be an equal mum
Der Of voters, and one Commissioner shall be electe
in each District, by the legal voters thereof, 70
the of four years but Of the first elected, two
to be designated by lot, shall remain in office 70
two years only.
ART. 13l. The General Assembly, at its first ses
sion after the adoption of this Constitution sha
Commissioners and the organization Of the Boart
The Commissioners first elected shall assemble on
day to be appointed by law, and decide by lot tn
order in which their terms of service shall expire
ART. 1872. The Commissioners shall exercise
diligent and faithful supervision over all publ
works, in which the State may be interested, exceI
II those made by joint stock companies. They sha
communicate to the General Assembly, from time
time, their views concerning the same, and recon
mend such measures as they may deem necessar,
1 in In tn a adj
purposes for which they were granted, the swamp
; and overaowed lands conveyedby the United State
to this State. They shall appoint all officers Ell
gagged on the public works, and shall perform sue
other duties may be prescribed bylaw
: ART. 1873. The Commissioners may be remove
by the concurrent vote of majority of all the men
bers elected to each House of the General Assem-
bly,; but the cause of the removal shall be entere
| on the journal Of each House.
ART. 1874. The General Assembly shall ha,
power by vote Of three-ffths of the member
elected to each house, to abolish said Board, whel
ever in their opinion Board Of Public Works sha
no longer be necessary.
TITLE VIII.
Il PUBLIC EDUCATION. I
ART. 1875. There shabe elected Superintendent
of Public Education who shall hold his office for II
| term of two years. His duties shall be prescribe
by law, and he shall receive such compensation
the Legislature may direct; provided that the Gei
eral Assembly shall have power by vote of Il
majority OF the members elected to both houses,
abolish the said office of Superintendent of Publ
Education, whenever in their opinion said office sha
be no longer necessary. ~
a ART. 1876. The General Assembly shall establis
free Public Schools throughout the State, and sha
provide for their support by general taxation pr
perty or otherwise; and all moneys raised pr
vided, shall be distributed to each Parish in propo
ton to the number of free white children betwee
such ages as shall be fixed by the General Assembl
! ART 1877. The proceeds Of all lands heretofo
granted by the United States to this State for IL
use or support of schools, and Of all lands which ma
hereafter be granted bequeathed to the State, ar
; not expressly granted or bequeathed for any 9TH
purpose, which hereafter may be disposed Of by Il
State, and the proceeds OF the estates of deceast
persons to which the State may become entitled
law, shall be held by the State loan, and sha
be and remain a perpetual fund, on which the Sta
shall pay annual interest Of six per cent; whic
interest, together with the interest the trustfunt
deposited with this State by the United States III
der the act of Congress approved June %, 1885 ar
all the rents Of the unsold lands shall be appropr
ated to the support of such schools, and this appr
priation shall remain nviolabe.
ART. 1873. All moneys arising from the sales whic
have been, or may hereafter be made, of any lane
, heretofore granted by the United States to tn
State, for the use OF a Seminary of Learning, an
from any kind of donation that may hereafter |
made for that purpose, shall be and remain perp
tua fund.- the interest Of which at six per cent. p,
f annum, shall be appropriated to the support of
!, Seminary Of Learning, for the promotion ofteratui
and the arts and sciences, and no law shall ever
made dverng said fund to any other use than to t..
establishment and improvement of said Seminary
: Learning.
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