New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-15
TtTLE VIII.

| PUBLIC EDUCATION.
ART. 1875. There shall be elected a Superintendent
of Public Education, who shall hold his office for the
term OF two years. His duties shall be prescribed
ny law, and he shall receive such compensation as
the Legislature may direct; provided that the Gen.
efai Assembly shall have power by a 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 sha II
| be no longer necessary.
! ART. 1856. The General Assembly shall establish
tree Public Schools throughout the State, and shall
provide for their support by general taxation on pro-
perry otherwise and all moneys so raised or bro
vlded, 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 l37. 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 bequeahed to the State and
| not expressly granted hequeathed 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 annual interest of six per cent; which
interest together with the interest the funds
deposited with this State by the United States, un-
der the act OF Congress approved June %, 1886, and
all the rents of the unsoId lands shall be appropri-
ated to the support of such schools and this appro
prlation shall remain lnvioable.
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 Of Seminary of Learning, and
from any kind of donation that may hereafter be
made tor that purpose. shall be and remain perpe-
tua lund, 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 to any other use than to the
establishment and improvement Of said Seminary OF
Learning.
ART. 49, The University of Louisiana, in New
Orleans, as now established, shall be maintained
ART. 140 The Legislature shall have power to
pass such laws as may be necessary for the further
regulation of Me University, and for the promotion
oil literature and science, but shall be under no obi
cation to contribute to the support of said Uniyer
sIty by appropriations.
TITLE TX. -
MODE OF REVISING THE CONSTITUTION
ART. 14l. Amy amendment or amendments to this
Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or House
OF Representatives, and il the same shall be agreed
to by two-thirds of the members elected to each
house, such proposed amendment or amendments
shall be entered their journals, with the yeas and
nays taken thereon and the Secretary of State shall
cause the same to be published three months before
the next general election for Representatives to the
State Legislature, in at least one newspaper
French and English, in every Parish in the State in
which newspaper Shall be published; and such
proposed amendment or amendments shall be sub
nltted to the people at said election and ii major
ity OF the voters said election shall approve and
ratify such amendment amendments, the same
shall become part Of the Constitution. If more
than amendment be submitted at a time thew
shall be submitted t'suoh manner and'furm that the
people may vote for or against each amendment
separately. ~
TITLEk. ~
SCHEDULE.
ART. 142 The Constitution adopted in eighteen
hundred and terty-tve is declared to be superseded