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

General Assembly, shall without the consent of
the other, adjourn for more thnn three days. 10
any other place than that in which they MAY he Sit
ting, ,s
Arr. o5. The members Of The General Assem-.
bly, shall receive from the pubic treasury coulpen-
sation for their services, which shall he four doags
per day during their attendance, going and retu-
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,
aud any legislative action had after the expiration
of the said sixty days. shall be null and void. Ihls
provision shall not apply to the first Legislature
which is 10 convene after the adoption OF this Con-
sttution
ART. &C. The members of the General Assembly
shall, in all cases except treason, felony breac OF Inc
peace, be privileged from arrest during their at
tendance at the sessions Of their respective houses
and going to or returning from the same, and tor
any speech or debate in either house, they shall not
be questioned in any other place.
ART. 81. No Senator or Representative shall, dur
ing the term for which he was elected, nor Tor one
year thereafter be appointed or elected to any civil
been created, or the emoluments Of which shall
have been increased during the time such Senator
or Representative in Office except to such Off
ces OF appointments as may be filed by the cleo
tons Of the people.
ART. 90. No person who at any time may have
been a collector Of taxes, whether State Parish
Municipal OF 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
a discharge for the amount of such collections and
for all public moneys with which he may have
been entrusted.
ART. 90 No bill shall have the force of a 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-fhs of the
house, where the bill shall be pending, may deem it
expedient to dispense with this rule.
ART. 80. 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 OF
election shall be issued to fill the vacancies which
may happen in either branch thereof
ART. 49, The Senate shall vote the confirms
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 OH journal TO be kept
for that purpose and made public at the end OF each
session, or before.
a 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
Senator OF the United States is to take place, the
members of the General Assembly shall meet in
the Hal! Of the Hoa=e- Il REPRESENTATIVES., ON the
Monday following the nesting Of the Legislature.
and pyoasea to the said eleetiun.
TITLE III.
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State shRil ts ssstsa Ia chlsf MaslhMa.s, @as
shall bs ssyipa The Qsssssf vi sha statsuf Leasslsna
Es shall hala Ills ssfiea during the term Of !aus
years, and ssgs.hss with The Lsu!shshs Governor
ehoscn for the saftss tsfir, bs sls1tsa al follows
Ihe qualified electors for Representatives shall
vote fof 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-
personalities. to examine and count the votes.
The person having the greatest number of votes for
Governor shall be declared duly elected but 1.-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 if Two or persons shall be equal and highest
IN the number of votes poled for Lieutenant Gov
srnor Of them shall be Immediately chosen
Lieutenant Governor by joint vote Of the members OF
the General Assembly.
ART 36. No person shall be eligible to the office
Of Governor or Lieutenant Governor, who shall not
have attained the age of years and been
a citizen and 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 be declared duly elected
and shall have taken the oath or affirmation required
by this Constitution
+ ART. 80. The Governor shall be ineligible for the
succeeding four years after the expiration OF the
time for which he shall have been elected.
ART 80. No member Of Congress or person hold
ing any office under the United States shallbe 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 or absence from the
State, the powers and duties of the office shall de-
voiye upon the Lieutenant Governor for the resi-
due of the term, or until the Governor, absent or
impeached shall return or be acquitted. The Legis-
ature may provide by law for the case of removal
impeachment death, resignation disability, or refu-
sal to qualify, of both the Governor and Lieutenant
ernor and such officer shall act accordingly, until
the disability be removed, for the residue of the
term.
ART. 4l. The Lieutenant Governor, or other Off
Ger dscharging 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 viz
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 nm
able to attend as President of the Senate, the
Senators shall elect one of their own members as
President of the Senate for the time being.
ART. 43. While he acts as President OF the Senate
HE 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 cases of impeachment, shall, with the con-
sent OF the Senate, have power to grant pardons and
emit fines and toreitures, after conviction. In
Eases oil treason he may grant repreves, until the
end of the next session Of the General Assembly, in
which the power of pardonng shall be vested
ART d. The Governor Shall at stated times re-
'eive for his services compensation which shall
leither be increased nor diminished during the
ERIN for which he shall have been elected.
ART. 46. He shall be Commander-in-Chief OF the
Army and Navy of this State, and of the Militia
hereof except when they sha be called into the
service of the United States.
ART. AZ. He shall nominate and by and with the
ldvice and consent of the Senate, appoint all Off
,ers whose offices established by this Coustitu-
ion, and whose appointment Is not therein other
wise provided for Provided. however, that the Lee
slsature shall havea right prescribe the mode of
appointment to all other offices established by law 4
ART As. The Governor shall have power to fill
vacancies that may happen during the recess OF
the Senate, by granting commissions which shall