New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-25
CONSTITUTION
Or THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
.A9ePfed in Convention July 81, 1852.
PREAMBLE.
We, the people Of the State of Louisiana, do or
did md establish this Constitution

PREAMBLE.
w, ths people Of the State of Louisiana, do or
Iii nd establish this Constitution
TITLE /.
DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS.
AR. /. The powers Of the government ofthe State
ii Louisans shall be divided into three distinct de-
pattmeats, and each of them be confded to separ-
ate BODY Of magistracy, to-wit: those which are
Legislative to one, those which are Executive to an
other and those which are Judicial to another.
Ant. q No one oil these Departments, nor any
person holding office in Of them, shall exercise
power properly belonging to either Of the Others
sept in the instances hereinafter expressly directed
TITLE II.
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT..
Arr. 8. The Legislative power of the State shall
b vested in two distinct branches, the one to bs
styled the House OF Representatives the othel
The Senate, and both the "General Assembly Of the
State 81 Louisiana.
ARTssE The members Of the House Of Represen
tatives shall continue in service for the term o
two years from the day Of the closing of the genera
elections.
first Mo- day ii November every two years; and the
election hal be completed in one day. The Gene
raj Assembly shall meet annually, the third
Monday il January, unless different day be ap.
pointed " lsw and their sessions shall be held at
= the seat government.
ART.6. Every duly qualified elector, under this
Constitetisa, shall be eligible to seat in the Gen
& eEal Assembly, provided that person shall be a
s stSse or Senator anless he be- at the time
HI NJ duly qualified voter Of the Repre-
District from which he is elect
AMx EIections for members Of the General As
semhly Sasn 81 held at the several election pre-
cincts ts$ztlished by law. The Legislature may
aeegae the power of establishing election precincts
to the IatechiaI municipal authorities.
AIR 8 Representation in the House of Repre-
sentative shall be equal and uniform, and shall be
rsgual cd and ascertained by the total population of
each the several parishes of the State. Each par
ish shall nave at least one Representative. No new
parish ,a be created with territory less than six
hundr. and twenty five square miles, nor with a
popuist ii N lessthan the full number emitting it to
a keprs conservative, nor when the creation of such
new sh would leave any other parish without the
said xt-nt Of territory and amount Of population.
The st enumeration by the State authorities un-
der this Constitution shall be made in the year 1883
the SEQ ,nd in the year 1858, the third in the year
1855 alter which time the General Assembly shall
direct in what manner the shall be taken,
that It be made at least in every period Of ten
years, the purpose Of tanning the total popu-
Il lstion in each parish and election district.
At the first regular session Of the Legislature after
the making 0feach enumeration, the Legislature shall
apPortion the representation among the several par
ishes AMI election districts the basis of the total
population, aforesaid. A representative number
shall be fixed and each parish and election district
shall have as many Representatives as its aggre-
gate population shall entitle it to, and an additional
Repre- for any fraction exceeding one-half
the Representative number. The number of Re-
presc tatives shall not be than one hundred
nor less than seventy. Until an apportionment
shall Q made, and elections held under the same
in acs ordance with the first enumeration to be made
as directed IN this article, the Representation in
the Senate and House Of Representatives shall be
and remain as at present established by law.
The limits Of the Parish Of Orleans are hereby ex-
tended, 50 as to embrace the whole Of the present
eity OF New Orleans, including that part Of the Pa
rish Of Jefferson formerly known as the city of La
fayette
All that part Of the Parish Of Orleans which is sit
mated on the left bank Of the Mississippi river shall
be divided by the Legislature into not more than
ten hePresentative Districts, and until appor-
tioninent shall be made according the first CEN
sns 70 be taken under this Constitution, that part
81 the city Of New Orleans which was comprised
within the former limits of the city Of Lafayette,
shall vote Tor Senators from the Parish of Orleans
and form the Tenth Representative District and
shall elect two out OF the three Representatives
now apportioned by law to the Parish Of Jefferson /,
the other Representative Districts shall remain as
they are now established.
Ar 9. The House Of Representatives shall choose
its Speaker and other officers.
AIR. 10. Every free white male who has attained
the age of twenty-one years. and who has been
resident Of the State twelve months next preceding
tho election, and thesIast six months thereof in the
Parish in which he offers to vote and who shall be
citizen Of the United States shall have the right of
voting but no voter on removing from one Parish
to another within the State, shall lose the right of
voting in the former untilhe shall have acquired it in
the latter Electors shain all cases, except treason
felony, o. breach of the peace be privileged from
arrest during their attendance at going to- or return
ing from elections.
= ART "a. The Legislature shall provide by law,
that the Names and residence of all qualified electors
Of the city Of New Orleans shall be registered in or
der to snte them to vote but the registry shall be
fres Of cost to the elector.
ART ~. No soldier, seaman or marine in the army
Or navy Of the United States, pauper, no person
under introduction, nor under conviction Of any crime
punishable with hard labor, shall be entitled to vote
at any election in this State.
ART. 10 Mcpherson shall be entitled to vote at any
election held In this State except IN the Parish of his
residence and IN cities and towns divided into cleo
ton precincts, in the election precinct in which he
resides.
ART. IA. The members of the Senate shall be
chosen for the term Of four years. The Senate when
assembled shall have the power to choose its officers
ART -. The Legislature, in every year in which
.ney snail apporton representation in the House of
Representatives, shall divide the State into Senate
rial Districts. No Parish shall be divided in the
formation Of Senatorial District-the Parish Of Or
leans excepted. And whenever new Parish, shall
PC shall be attached to the Senatorial Dis
trict from which most gifts territory was taken or to
another contiguous District, the discretion of the
Legislature, but shall not be attached to more than
one District The number Of Senators shall be hirty-
two, and they shall be apportoned among the Senate
tai Districts according to the total population con.
tanned in the several Distriots-Provided that no
Parish shall be entitled to than five Senator's
ART 10 In all apportlonments of the Senate, the
population Of the city of New Orleans shall be deduc-
TED from the population Of the whole State, and the
remainder Of the population divided by the number
twenty.seven, (27) and the result produced by this
division shall be the Senatorial ratio emitting Sem
1 :, District to Senator. Single or contiguous
rafishes shall be formed into Districts, having a
population the nearest possible to the number en-.
tithng District to Senator; and it, in the amor
ton'aent to be made Parish or District fall short of
Or exceed the ratio one6f,h, then District NAV he
formed having not more than two Senators. hui NOT
otherwise No superintendent shall have ths
effect OF abridgng the term of service of anv Soma,
tor already elected at the time OF making the annnr
tionment After enumeration has been made a. |
directed in the eighth Article the Legislature shall
not pass any law until an opportionment of Rene.
sentation in both Houses Of the General A,semhlr
b. made.
ART. H. At the first session of the General As.
semby after this Constitution takes effect, the Sena
tors shall be equally divided by lot into two glasses
The seats Of the Senators of the FIRST class shall he
vacated at the expiration OF the second year; of the
second class, at the expiration OF the fourth year so
tnat one hall shall be chosen every years and
rotation thereby kept up perpetualIy. In case any
o,s.flci Shall have elected two or more Senator's
SAD Senators shall their seats respectively at
.ne enc Of and four years. and lots shall be drawn
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