New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-16

any other place than that IN which they may be Sit
ting. CT
bly shall receive from the public treasury compen-
saton for their services which shall be four dollars
day during their attendance, going to and return
ing from the session Of their respective houses
The compensation may be increased or diminished
by law but no alteration shall take effect during
the period of service of the members OF the House OF
| Representatives by whom such alteration shall nave
been made. No session shall extend to period pc
yond sixty days, to date from its commencement,
and any legislative action had after the expiration
of the said sixty days, shall be null and void: ms
provision shall not apply to the first Legislature
which is to convene after the adoption oil this oo"
sttution. ,,,
sbal in ali cases except treason felony, breach OF the
, neace be privileged from arrest during their at
tendance Mt the sessions of their respective houses
and going to or returning from the same, and Tor
anv speech or debate in either House. they snail not
be questioned in any other place.
ART 81 No Senator or Representative shall, dur
inc the term for which he was elected, nor tor one
wear thereafter, be appointed or elected to any civil
Office of profit under this State, which shall have
have been increased during the time such Senator
or Representative in office, except to such Off
ces or appointments as may be filled by the cleo
tons of the people,
ARr. IS. No person who at any time may have
been collector of taxes or who may have been other
wise entrusted with public money whether State,
Parish or Municipal, shall be eligible to the General
/ Assembly, to any office of profit or. trust under
the State Government, until he shall have obtained
a discharge for the amount OF such collections and
for all public moneys with which he may have
| been entrusted.
ART. 90. Nc bill shall have the force of law until
on three several days. it be read over in each House
ofthe General Assembly, and free discussion allowed
thereon unless in of urgency, four-iths of the
| House where the bill shall be pending, may deem 1t
4 aypeiient IN disDense with this rule
/ ART. so. All bills for raising revenue shall orig
mate in the House Of Representatives, but the Senate
may propose amendments as in other bills provided
they shall not introduce any new matter under color
of an amendment which does not relate to raising
revenue.
ART. 81. The General Assembly shall regulate
by law, by whom, and in what manner writs ct
election shall be issued to fill the vacancies which
may happen in either branch thereof.
ART. 49, The Senate shall vote on the contlrma
ton or rejection of officers to be appointed by the
Governor, with the advice and consent OF the
Senate, by yeas and nays, and the names OF the SEN
ators voting for and against the appointments re-
spectively, shall be entered on journal to be kept
for that purpose, and made public at the end OF each
session, or before
/ ART 49, Returns Of all elections for members of
the General Assembly shall be madeto the Secretary
of State
ART a. Tn the year in which a regular election OF
Senator of the United States is 10 take place, the
members of the General Assembly shall meet in
the Hall of the House Of Representatives, on the
Monday following the meeting OF the Legislature,
and proceed to the said election.
TITLE I'll.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
ART. 50. The Supreme Executive power of this
State shall be vested in Chief Magistrate, who
shall be styled the Governor Of the State of Louisiana
He shall hold his office during the term of four
years, and, together with the lieutenant Governor
chosen for the term, be elected as follows
The qualified eectorS Representatives shall
vote for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, at
the time and place of voting for Representatives;
the returns Of every election shall be sealed up and
transmitted by the proper returning officer to the
Secretary of State, who shall deliver them to the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, on the
second day of the session of the General Assem-
bly,, then next to be holden. The members of the
General Assembly shall meet in the House OF Re-
presentatlveS, to examine and count the votes.
The person, having the greatest number Of votes for
Governor, shall be declared duly elected, but if two
or more persons shall be equal and highest in the
number OF votes poled for Governor, one of them
shall Immediately be chosen Governor by joint vote
Of the members of the General Assembly. The
person having the greatest number of votes for
Lieutenant Governor shall be Lieutenant Governor ;
but two or more persons shall be equal and highest
In the number of votes poed for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, of them shall be Immediately chosen
Lieutenant Governor by joint vote of the members of
the General Assembly.
ART SO. No person shall be eligible to the office
of Governor Or Lieutenant Governor, who shall not
have attained the age of twenty eight years and been
citizen and a resident within the State for the
space OF four years next preceding his election.
ART 81. The Governor shall enter on the discharge
of his duties on the fourth Monday of January
next ensuing his election and shall continue in
office until the Monday next succeeding the day
that his successor shall have taken the oath or
affirmation prescribed by this Constitution.
ART. SO. The Governor shall be ineligible for the
succeeding four years after the expiration of the
time for which he shall have been elected.
ART. 49, M member OF Congress person hold
ing any office under the United States shall be eligible
| to the office of Governor and Lieutenant Governor
ART. DO. In of the impeachment of the Gov
ernor, his removal from office, death, refusal or in
ability to qualify, resignation absence from the
State, the powers and duties of the office shall de-
volve upon the Lieutenant Governor for the resi-
due of the term, until the Governor, absent or
mpeached, shall return or be acquitted. The Legis-
ature may provide by law for the case of removal,
impeachment, death, resignation disability, refu-
sal to qualify, of both the Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, declaring what officer shall act as Gov
ernor and such officer shall act accordingly, until
the disability be removed, for the residue of the
term.
ART. Al The Lieutenant Governor or other off
Ger dischargng the duties OF Governor shall, during
his administration, receive the same compensation
to which the Governor would have been entitled
| had he continued in office.
ART. 49, The Lieutenant Governor shall, by vir-
tue of his office, be President of the Senate, but
shall have only casting vote therein. Whenever
he shall administer the Government, shall be I'M
able to attend as President of the Senate the
Senators shall elect of their members as
President of the Senate for the time being.
| ART 43. While he acts President Of the Senate,
| the Lieutenant Governor shall receive for his SER
vices the same compensation which shall for the
same period be allowed to the Speaker of the
House of Representatives and no more.
ART. A. The Governor shall have power to grant
reprieves for all offences against the State, and,
except in of impeachment shall with the con-
sent OF the Senate, have power grant parons and
remit fines and forteitures, after conviction In
cases OF treason he may grant reprieves, until the
end of the next session OF the General Assembly in
which the power of pardonng shall be vested.
ART 45. The Governor shall at stated times re-
ceve for his services compensation, which shall
neither be increased nor diminished during the
term for which he shalt have been elected.
ART. 46. He shall be Conmander-in-Chief of the
Army and Navy of this State, and of the Militia
thereof, except when they shall be called into the
service of the United States.
ART. AZ. He shall nominate and by and with the
advice and consent OF the Senate, appoint all oi-
GERS whose offices established by this Cousti,u-
ton, and whose appointment is not therein other
wise provided for Provided however, that the Lee
gislature shall have right prescribe the mode of
appointment to all other offices established by law
ART, As. The Governor shall have power to fill
vacancies that may happen during the recess OF
the Senate by granting commissions which shall
expire at the end Of the session, unless other
wise provided for in this Constitutions but no person
who has been nominated for office, and rejected