New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-16

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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 adopt any
system or code of laws by general reference such
system or code OF laws, but in all cases shall specify
the several provisions Of the laws it may enact.
ART. us 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 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 Of
the same In specie.
ART. 1l9. The Legislature shall have no power to
pass any law sanconing in any manner, directly or
indirectly, the suspension OF specie payments, by
any person, association or corporation issuing bank
notes OF any description.
ART. 100 In case 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. 121 The Legislature shall have power to
pass such laws as it may deem expedient tor the
relief revival of the Citizens Bank Of Louisiana,
and the acts already passed for the purpose are
ratified and confirmed Provided that the Bank is
subjected to the restrictions contained in articles ll9
and 100 of this Constitution.
ART. 122. No person shall hold exercise, at the
| same time, more than civil office of emolument,
except that of Justice oil the Peace.
ART. 1913. Taxation shall be equal and uniform
may be levied, in this State, shall be taxed in pro-
portion to its value, to be ascertaned 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 levy income tax, and to
tax all persons pursuing any occupation, trade or
profession.
ART. l24. The citizens of the City of NewOr-
leans shall have the right OF appointing the several
public officers necessary for the administration of
the police of the said city, pursuant to the mode Of
elections which shall be prescribed by the Legisla
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
IS 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 as 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. 126. 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 cha lenge to fight duel with
deadly weapons, either within this State out Of it,
with citizen of this State, who shall act as sec
| ond, 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 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 ascertainng 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, 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. 1879 The Constitution AND laws of this State
shall be promulgated in the Mglish and French
languages.
TITLE VII.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
ART. 100. There shall be 4 Board of Public
| Works, to consist of four Commissioners The State
| shall be divided by the Legislature into four Dis
! tricts continuing nearly may be an equal mum
Der Of voters and one Commissioner shall be elected
in each District, by the legal voters thereof fol
the term Of four years but, OF the first elected, two
to be designated by lot, shall remain in office fol
| two years only.
ART 1871 The General Assembly, at it's first SEES
sion after the adoption of this Constitution, shal
provide for the election and compensation OF tbs
Commissioners and the organization OF the Board
The Commissioners first elected shall assemble
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
diiigent and faithful supervision over all public
works, in which the State may be interested, except
| those made by joint stock companies. They sha
communicate the General Assembly, from time tc
| time, their views concerning the same, and recon-
mend such measures they may deem necessary
in order to employ the best advantage and tor the
purposes for which they granted the swamp'
| and overlooked lands conveyedby the United States
| to this State. They shall appoint all officers en-
gagged on the public works, and shall perform suct
other duties may be prescribed by law.
ART. 1888. 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. ffths 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. 1876. There shall be elected Superintendent
of Public Education, who shall hold his office for thu
term of two years. His duties shall be prescribed
by law, and he shall receive such compensation al
the Legislature may direct; provided that the Gen
eral Assembly shall have power by vote of tht
majority OF the members elected to both houses, tt
abolish the said office of Superintendent of Publ,
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 pro
perty or otherwise: and all moneys 80 raised or pro
vided, shall be distributed to each Parish in proper
ton to the number of free white children between
such ages as shall be fixed by the General Assembly
ART 1877. The proceeds OF all lands heretofore
granted by the United States to this State for tn.
support of schools, and Of all lands which may
hereafter be granted or bequeahed to the State ant
not expressly granted bequeathed for any othe
purpose, which hereafter may be disposed OF by thu
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 anu shal
be and remain a perpetual fund.- on which the Stat
shall pay an annual interest of six per cent; wh,l
interest together with the interest on the trusttund
deposited with this State by the United States, un
der the net of Congress approved June % 1886, am
all the rents OF the unsod lands shall be apProPrl
ated to the support of such schools, and this appro
ptntion shall remain involabe.
ART. l3S All moneys arising from the sales whic
have been, or may hereafter be made. OF any land
heretofore granted by the United States to thi
State for the use Of Seminary OF Learning, ant
from any kind OF do ,ation that may hereafter b
made for that purpose shall be and remain perpe
tual fund the interest of which at six per cent. pc
annum, shall be appropriated to the support of
Seminary of Learning, for the promotion Of teratur
and the arts and Sciences and no law shall ever b