New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-19

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Legislature
| ART. ia Every law enacted by the Legislature
slla,l embrace but object and that shall be
| pressed in the title.
| ,AgT. l16 No law shall be revived or amended by
reference to its title but in such case, the act
revised or section amended, shall be re.enacted and
published at length
ART. III. The Legislature shall never adopt any
system or code of laws by general reference to such
system or code of laws but in all cases shall specify
the several provisions of the laws it may enact.
| ART. lls Corporations with banking or discount
ing privileges may be either created by special acts,
or formed under general laws but the Legislature
shall IN both cases provide for the registry of all bills
or notes issued or put in circulation as money! and
shall require ample security for the redemption of
the same in specie.
ART. ll9. The Legislature shall have no power to
| pass any law sanctonng i'll any manner directly or
indirectly, the suspension Of specie payments BY
any person, association or corporation issuing bank
notes oil any description.
| ART. 1870. 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 or association.
ART. l21. The Legislature shall have power to
pass such laws 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 contained in articles ll9
and 100 of this Constitution.
ART. l22. No person shall hold or 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
throughout the State. All property on which taxes
may be levied, in this State, shall be taxed in pro-
portion TO its value, to be ascertaned rs 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 legisa-
ture shall have power to levy an income tax and to
tax all persons pursuing any occupation, trade or
profession.
ART. l2i. 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 oil
elections which shall be prescribed by the Legisa-
ure; 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 NAV
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.
| ART 1875. 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 l26. Any citizen Of this State who shall,
after the adoption Of this Constitution, fight duel
with deadly weapons with citizen of this State,
send or accept challenge to fight duel with
deadly weapons, either within this State out oft,
with citizen Of this State, who shall act
those thus offending, shall be deprived OF holding
any Office Of trust profit and Of enjoying the right
Of suffrage under this Constitution and tho Office Of
any State officer, member Of the General Assembly,
of eany s'se sefsen hadi.s oa;ro Of sFefi at trust
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susREa .hoteei sssi be sris tsqts sasa.as BY sae
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such tasfetuie
ARR 1877, Tia 1ssisiasurs shall have psess 20
sstena this Constitution and the jurisdiction Q. this
State over sng scrFitoIy acquired by compact with
any State with the United States the same being
done by the consent of the United States
Act. 1913 None OF the lands granted by Congress
to the State OF Louisiana for aiding it in constructing
the necessary levees and drains, 70 reclaim the
swanlps and oveThowed lands in this State, shall be
diverted from the purposes for which they We're
granted.
ART 129. The Constitution and laws OF this State
shall be promulgated in the English and Frencl!
languages.
TITLE VII.
/ INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
ART. 1870. There shall be a Board of Public
w orks to consist OF four Commissioners. The State
shall be divided by the Legislature into four Dis
trIcts, containing nearly may be equal mum
Der OF voters, and Commissioner shall be elected
in each District, by the legal voters thereof, toy
the term OF four years. but, OF The first elected two
to be designated by lot, shall remain in Office Tor
| two years only.
ART. l3l. The General Assembly, at its first ses-
sion alter 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 on Il
: 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 :.
diligent 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 as they may deem necessary,
IN order to employ to the best advantage and for the
purposes for which they granted, the swamps
and overlooked lands conveyedby the United States
to this State. They shall appoint all officers en-
gagged on the public works, and shah perform such
other duties as may be prescribed bylaw.
ART. 1913, The Commissioners may be removed
by the concurrent vote Of Il 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-fGhs of the members
elected to each house, to abolish said Beard when
ever in their opinion Board Of Public Works shall
no longer be necessary,
TITLE VIII.
| PIrELIC EDUCATION.
| ART. l25. There shall be elected Stlperintendept
OF Public Education, who shall hold his office for the
term Of two years. His duties shall be prescribed