New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-18


reference to it's title but in such case, the act
revised section amended, shall be re.enacted and
published at length.
| ART. lit. The Legislature shall never adopt any
system code of laws by general reference to such
system code of laws, but in all shall specify
| the several provisions of the laws it may enact
ART. lis. Corporations with banking 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
or notes issued or put in circulation money, and
shall require ample security for the redemption OF
| the same in specie.
ART l19. The Legislature shall lave no power to
pass any law sanctioning in any manner, directly
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. l2l. 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 same purpose
ratified and confirmed. Provided that the Bank is
subjected to the restrictions tanned in articles
and 100 of this Constitution.
ART. 122. No person shall hold or exercise, at the
same time, more than one civil office OF emoument
except that OF Justice Of the Peace.
ART. 133, 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 ascertaned directed by
law. No one species of property shall be taxed
higher than another species OF property 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. 1874. The citizens of the City of NewOr-
leans shall have the right of appointing the several
public officers necessary for the admins tration of
the police of the said city, pursuant the mode OF
elections which shall be prescribed by the Legisa-
ture provided, that the Mayor and Recorders shall
be ineligible to a 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 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 officers shall continue to perform the
duties of their offices until their 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 challenge to fight duel with
deadly weapons, either within this State out OF it,
with citizen of this State, who shall act
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 pur-
suance thereof, shall be zpso tacto vacated by The
fact of any such person committing the offence
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 over 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. 129. The Constitution and laws Of this State
| shall be promulgated in the English and French
| languages.
| TITLE VII.
| INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
ART. $50. There shall be Board of Public
Works, to consist of four Commissioners. The State
shall be divided by the Legislature into four Dis
trlcts, containing as nearly may be an equal num-
Der OF voters, and Commissioner shall be elected
in each District by the legal voters thereof fot
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 1871 The General Assembly, at its first ses-
| 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
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
dgent 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 they may deem necessary
in order to employ to the best advantage and for the
| purposes for which they were granted the swamps
and overtowed lands conveyedby 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 bylaw.
ART. l33. 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 cause of the removal shall be entered
on the journal of each House.
ART. 1874. The General Assembly shall have
power by vote OF three-fth of the members
elected to each house, to abolish said Board when.
ever in their opinion Board of Public Works shall
40 longer be necessary
TITLE VIII.
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
ART. l3J. 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 vote of the
majority oil 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 or otherwise: and all moneys raised pro.
vlded, 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 or support 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 entitled by
law. shall be held by the State as loan, and shall
be and remain perpetual fund, on which the State
shall pay an annual interest of six per cent; which
interest, together with the interest the trust funds
deposited with this State by the United States un-
der the act OF Congress approved June 49, 1885, and
all the rents OF the unsod lands shall be appropri-
ated to the support Of such schools, and this appro-
priation shall remain invioable.
ART. l3S. 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 use OF Seminary of Learning, and
from any kind of donation that may hereafter be
made Tor that purpose shall be and remain perpe-
tual fund, the interest oil which at six per cent per
annum, shall be appropriated to the support of a
Seminary OF Learning for the promotion oferature
and the arts and sciences, and no law shall ever be
made dvertng said fund to any other use than to the
Learning.
ART. 139. The University of Louisiana, in New
Orleans as now established shall be maintained
ART, ll0. The ,euisstnra shall have oo,uor .. |