New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-27

General Assembly, shall, without the consent Of
the other, adjourn for than three days,
any other place than that i'll which they may he sit
ting.
bly, shall receive from the public treasury compen-
sation for their services which shall be four dollars
per day during their attendance, going 10 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
he period Of service of the members of the House OF
Representatives by whom such alteration shall have
been made. No session shall extend to period be-
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 Inns
provision shall not apply to the first Legislature
which is to after the adoption OF this Con-
stitution.
4 ART. 26. The members of the General Assembly
shall, in all cases except reason felony oreach oil le
peace, be privileged from arrest during theif at
tendance at the sessions Of their respective houses,
and going to or returning from the same, and for
any speech or debate in either house, they shall not
be questioned in any other place.
ART. 81. No Senator Representative shall, dur.
ing the term for which he was elected, nor for one
wear thereafter be appointed elected to any civil
office of profit under this State which shall have
been created or the emoluments of which shall
have been increased during the time such Senator
or Representative was in office, except to such off
ces or appoin tments may be filed by the cleo
tions OF the people.
!. ART. %. No person who at any time may have
been collector of taxes, whether State, Parish or
Municipal, who may have been otherwise entrusted
with public money, shall be eligible to the General
Assembly or to any office Of profit or trust under
the State Government, until he shall have obtained
discharge for the amount of such collections and
! for all public moneys with which he may have
been entrusted.
ART. 20. No bill shall have the force of law until
on three several days it be read in each house
ofthe General Assembly, and free discussion allowed
thereon, unless in case of urgency four-ths of the
house, where the bill shall be pending, may deem it
| expedient to dispense with this rule.
| ART. 3d. 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 rot introduce any 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 wris of
election shall be issued to fill the vacancies which
| may happen in either branch thereof
ART. 80. The Senate shall vote the confrma-
ton 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-
spectivey, shall be entered 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 made to the Secretary
of State.
| ART. 81 In the year in which regular election for
a Senator Of the United States is TO take place. the
| members of the General Assem- bly, 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 Ill
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT..
| ART 35. The Supreme Executive power Of the
State shall be verted 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 electors for 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 tie
Secretary of State, who shall deliver them to the
Speaker of the House Of Representatives, on the
| second day oil 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-
representatives.. to examine and count the votes.
The person having the greatest number of votes Tor
Governor, shall be declared duly elected but if two
| or more persons shall be equal and highest in the
| number Of votes polled 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 polcd for Lieutenant Gov
elHo, oHc u tHeul SnalI ne immediately chosen
Lieutenant Governor by joint 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 years and been
citizen and a resident within the State for the
| space OF lour years next preceding his election.
ART. 81 The Governor shall enter the discharge
OF his duties 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 be declared duly elected
and shall have taken the oath affirmation required
by this Constitution.
ART. So. The Governor shall be ineligible for the
succeeding four years after the expiration OF the
time Tor which he shall have been elected.
ART. 80. No member of Congress or person hold.
my any office under the United States shall be eligible
to the office OF Governor or Lieutenant Governor.
ART 40 In case 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-
volye upon the Lieutenant Governor for the resi-
due OF the term, or until the Governor, absent or
impsached shall return or be acquitted. The Leyis-
lature may provide by law for the case of removal,
impeachment death, resignation, disability, or relt-
sal to qualify, of both the Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, declaring what officer shall act az Gov
ernor: and such officer shall! act accordingly, until
the disability be removed, or for the residue of the
term.
ART. d. The Lieutenant Governor or other off
Ger dlschargng 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 AZ. 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, or shall be I'M
able to attend President of the Senate the |
Senators shall elect one OF their own members as |
President of the Senate for the time being
ART. 13. While he acis as President Of the Senate
Inc 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 IA. The Governor shall have power to grant
repreves for all offences against the State, and |
except in cases Of impeachment, shall with the con-
sent OF the Senate, have power grant pardons and
remit fines and torteitures, after conviction. In
cases OF treason he may grant rcpreves, until the
END OF the next session OF the General Assembly, in
which the power Of pardoning shall be vested.
ART. DO. The Governor shall at stated times re-
ceive Tor his services compensation, which shall
neither be increased diminished during the
term for which he shall have been elected
ART 46. He shall be Commander-in- Chief of the
Army and Navy of this State, aud of the Militia
thereof except when they shall be called into the
service of the United States.
ART. Al. He shall nominate and, by and with the |
advice and consent of the Senate, appoint all Off
GERS whose offices established by this Coustitu-
ton, and whose appointment is not therein other
wise provided for; Provided, however, that the Lee
gisature shall have right to prescribe the mode of
appointment to all other offices established by law
ART. As. The Governor shall have power to ill |
vacancies that may happen during the recess o.