New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-30

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shall embrace but object, and that shall be ex
pressed in the title.
ART ll6 No law shall be revived or amended by
reference to its title; but in such case, the act
revised 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 cases shall specify
the several provisions of the laws it may enact
ART. l1S Corporations with banking OF 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 as money, and
| shall require ample security for the redemption OF
the same in specie.
ART. 49, The Legislature shall lave no power to
pass any law sanctoning in any manner, directly or
indirectly, the suspension of specie payments, by
| any person. association corporation issuing bank
| notes oil 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 for the |
relief or revival Of the Citizens Bank OF Louisiana,
and the acts already passed for the same purpose are
ratified and confirmed. Provided tina. the Bank is
subjected to the restrictions contained in articles 119
| and 100 Of this Constitution.
ART. 1872 No person shall hold 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
througho 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 properly OF equal
value, which taxes shall be levied the Legisla-
ture shall have power to levy an 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 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
r 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.
ARr125 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. 1875. Any citizen of this State who shall,
after the adoption of this Constitution, fight duel
with deadly weapons with citizen Of this State, or
j. send or accept challenge to fight duel with
deadly weapons. either within this State or out of it,
l. with citizen of this State who shall act as sec
n ond, or knowingly aid and assist in any manner
> those thus offending, shall be deprived Of holding
4 any office Of profit and Of enjoying the right
>, of suffrage under this Constitution and the office
h any State officer member of the General Assembly
h OF any other person holdng office of profit or trus
a under this Constitution and the laws made in pur
h suance thereof shall be ipso facto vacated by lh
ID fact Of any such person committing the offence men
ID toned in this article and the Legislature shall pro
vide by law for the ascertainng and declaration c
az such forfeiture
10 ART 1877. The Legislature shall have power
m extend this Constitution and the jurisdiction of h
o. State any territory acquired by compact wit
N any State with the United States the same bein
done by the consent of the U nted States.
m ART. 1873 None of the lands granted by Congress
to the State of Louisiana for aiding it in constructin
I'd the necessary levees and drains, to reclaim tn
svamps and overlooked lands in this State, shall
If. diverted from the purposes for which they wer
e. granted.
or ART. 1879 The Constitution and laws Of this Stat
re shall be promulgated in the uslish and Ffenc
10 languages.
-. ~ TITLE VII.
v, INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS
ART. $780, There shall be a Board of Publ
"a Works. to consist of four Commissioners The Stat
u. ae shall be divided by the Legislature into four D
tricts, containing nearly may be an equal nun
af her of voters and Commissioner shall be electe
~ in each District, by the legal voters thereof, #
q" the term OF four years but, of the first elected, tw
| to be designated by lot, shall remain IN ONCE II
"a two years only.
md ART 1871 The General Assembly, at its first Sc
sion after the adoption of this Constitution, sh'
~ provide for the election and compensation OF
anu The Commissioners first elected shall assemble or
nay day to be appointed by law, and decide by lot
49, order in which their terms OF service shall EXPIRE
Iii ART. 1872. The Commissioners shall exercise
.a' diiigent and faithful supervision over all pub
" works, in which the State may be interested. exec
those made by joint stock companies. They shi
0"- communicate to the General Assembly, from time
~. time their views concerning the same, and recon
~ mend such measures as they may deem necessar
in order employ to the best advantage and for Il
~ purposes for which they were granted, the swami
o and overlooked lands conveyed by the United Stat
10" to this State They shall appoint all officers e
In gagged the public works, and shall perform SUE
'ei other duties as may be prescribed by law.
VI ART. 1873. The Commissioners may be remov
'e7 by the concurrent vote of majority OF all the meI
~ bers elected to each House of the General Asser
M bly,; but the cause of the removal Shall be enter
"se the journal of each House.
III ART. 1874. The General Assembly shall ha
'eo power by vote Of three fhs OF the membs
elected to each house, to abolish said Board, whe
GIN in their opinion Board Of Public Works sh
CIV longer be necessary.
no. TITLE VIII.
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
Oh ART. 1885, There shall be elected Superintende
sla of Public EDUCATION who shall hold his office for
term of two years. His duties shall be prescrib
or by law, and he shall receive such compensation
nD- the Legislature may direct provided that the Ge
ne eral Assembly shall have power by vote OF t
I'M majority of the members elected to both houses,
I'M abolish the said office of Superintendent OF Pub
ing Education, whenever in their opinion said office sh
Dry be no longer necessary.
ART. 1876. The General Assembly shall establi
I'M free Public Schools throughout the State, and sh
the provide for their support by general taxation on p
ess perty otherwise: and all moneys so raised or p
6e vided shall be distributed to each Parish in prop
he ton to the number of free white children betwe
be such ages as shall be fixed by the General Assemb
'ea- ART. 1877. The proceeds of all lands hereofe
granted by the United States to this State for
i'm use or support of schools, and Of all lands which
ed hereafter be granted bequeathed to the State,
$ of not expressly granted bequeathed for any ot
pre- purpose which hereafter may be disposed OF by
State, and the proceeds of the estates of decea
zen persons to which the State may become entitled
'ns law, shall be held by the State loan and 81
this be and remain perpetual fund.- on which the 81
shall pay an annual interest of six per cent; VIII
and interest together with the interest the trustfu
we'd deposited with this State by the United States,
ses der the Of Congress approved June %, 1885,
all the rents of the unsold lands shall be approx
the aed the support of such schools and this app
for priation shall remain invloable.
ON ART. 1855 All moneys arising from the sales VIII
ses, have BEEN or may hereafter be made of any la
the heretofore granted by the United States to t
State. for the use Of Seminary of Learning, {
r to from any kind OF donation that may hereafter
uas made for that purpose. shall be and remain per
IS of tua fund the interest of which six per cent
the annum shall be appropriated to the support OF