New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-25
NUMBER $50.
MODE OF REVISING THE CONSTITUTION.

| MODE OF REVISING THE CONSTITUTION.
Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or House
OF Representatives, and If the shall be agreed
to by two-thirds OF the members elected to each
| house, such proposed amendment or amendments
shall be entered their journals, with the yeas and
nays taken thereon, and the Secretary af State shall
| cause the same to be published three months before
the general election for Representatives to The
State Legislature, in at least one newspaper, in
French and English, in every Parish in the State in
! which a newspaper shall be published and such
| proposed amendment amendments shall he sub
,nitted to the people at said election and major
ty of the said election shall approve and
ratify such amendment or amendments, the same
shalt become part OF the Constitution If more
than one amendment be submitted at time, they
shall be submitted in such and form that the
people may vote for or against each amendment
| separately.
| TITLE x.
| scHEDTLE.
| ART. ll2. The Constitution adopted IN eighteen
hundred and forty.fv is declared to be superseded
by this Constitution, and in order to carry the same
into effect it is hereby declared and ordained as fol-
| lows:
| ART 1I3. All rights, actions. prosecutions, claims
and contracts. as well OF individuals as ot bodies
corporate, and all laws in force at the time Of the
adoption OF this Constitution and not inconsistent
herewth shall continue ii the same had not been
adopted.
hRI. l9i. III o!uer tndt no inconvenience may re.
suit to the public service from the taking effect Of
this CONSTITUTIONS, office shall be superseded there
by. but the laws Of the State relative the duties
of the several officers, Executive, Judicial and Mill
tary, shall remain in full force, though the be
contrary to this Constitution and the several duties
shall be performed BY the respective officers of the
State according TO the existing laws, until the or
ganization of the Government under this Consttu-
ton, and the entering into office of the officers,
to be appointed under said Government, aud no
longer.
| ART. 145. Appointments to office by the Execu-
| tive under this Constitutions shall be made by the
| Governor to be elected ander its authority.
ART LAG. The Legislature shall provide for the
removal of all causes now pending in the Supreme
Court or other Courts of the State under the Cons,
tuition of 1915, to Courts created by under this
| Constitution.
ART lat. The time of service of all officers
chosen by the people at the first election under this
Constitution, shall terminate as though the election
had been holden on the first Monday OF November,
| ls3l, and they had entered on the discharge Of
their duties at the time designated therein. The
first class Senators, designated in article II, shall
hold their seats until the day of the closing of the
general elections in November, 1853 and the second
class until the day of the closing Of the general cleo
tions in November, 1855.
4 ART. 14S The first election for Judges of the Su.
preme Court shall be held on the first Monday OF
April next, usj3) and they shall enter into office on
the first Monday of May, 1858.
ART. 49, The first term OF service OF the District
Attorneys and the Clerks of the Inferior to be
ordered and established under this Constitution, shal
be regulatedvby the term of service OF the first Gov
err so that election for these officers shal
be held on the first Monday of November, 1855.
| TITLE XI.
| ORDINANCE.
| ART. 15O. Immediately after the adjournment o
J. the Convention, the Governor shall issue his Pro
camaton, directing the several officers of this State
authorized by law to hold elections for members o
the General Assembly, to open and hold poll il
every Parish of the State, at the places designated
by law, upon the first Tuesday of November next
for the purpose Of taking the of the good peo
pie of this State in regard to the adoption reec
ton Of this Constitution and it shall be the duty o
said officers to receive the votes OF all persons
entitled to vote under the old Constitution and unde
this Constitution Each voter shall express his opn
ion by depositing in separate box, kept for tha
purpose, ticket, whereon shall be written !" lh,
Constitution accepted or the Constitution rejec
ted,'' some sach words as will distinctly conve
the intention Of the voter. At the conclusion c
said election, which shall be conducted in every
pect the general State election is conducted
:he commissioners designated to preside over tn
; same shall carefully examine and coun, each ballc
SO deposited and shall forthwith make due return
thereof to the Secretary of State, in conformity
the provisions of the existing law upon the subjec
of elections.
ART. 151. Upon the receipt of the SAID returns, o
on the 9th Monday in November, if the returns b.
sooner received, 1t SildlI De uuty OF
ernor, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General
and the State Treasurer, in the presence OF all sucl
persons may choose to attend, to compare The
votes given at the said poll for the ratification and
lection OF this Constitution, and fit shall appear from
said that majority OF all the votes given il
for ratifying the Constitution, then it shall be the
duty of the Governor to make proclamation OF tina
fact and thenceforth this Constitution shall be
dained and established as the Constitution of tn.
State OF Louisiana. But whether this Constitution
lx,, al tal kali la IS
Governor to cause be published in the official pa
per of the Convention the result OF the pos showing
the number of votes cast in each Parish for anc
against the said Constitution.
ART. 152. Should this Constitution be accepted
by the people, it shall also be the duty OF the Cover
nor forthwith to issue his proclamation declaring
the present Legislature, elected under the old Con.
stmtion, to be dissolved, and directing the several
officers Of the State, authorized by law, to hold cleo
tions for members of the General Assembly, to hold
election at the places designated by law upon the
fourth Monday of December next for Governor, Lieu
tenant Governor members OF the General Assembly,
Secretary OF State, Attorney General Treasurer and
Superintendent of Public Education. And the said
election shall be conducted, and the returns thereof
made in conformity with existing laws upon the SUBJ
ject of State elections.
ART. 1853 The General Assembly elected under
this Constitution shall convene at the State House, in
Baton Rouge, upon the third Monday Of January
next QS53O after the elections and the Governor
and Lieutenant Governor, elected at the same time
shall be installed in office during the first week OIL
this session, and before it shall be competent for the
| said General Assembly to proceed with the transac
| ton of business.
ART. 154. All The publications herein ordered
shall be made in the Official Journal of the Conven
ton.
ART. 155. This Constitution shall be published in
French and English in the Official Journal of the
Convention from the period OF its adjournment unit
4 the first Tuesday Of November QSJ2,) one thou
sand eight hundred and ifty-two.
Done at Baton Rouge, July 81, 1852.
[Signed DUNCAN T. KENNER,
| President OF the Convention
| TAttsstl J. B. WALTON,
6 tIa NJ,