New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-04

ART lis Every law enacted by the Legislature
shall embrace but object and that shall be ex-
pressed in the title.
ART. ll6 No law shall be revived or amended by
reference to its title; but in such case the act
revised section amended, shall be re-enactsd and
published at length.
ART. H. The Legislature shall never adopt any
system or code OF laws by general reference to such
system code of laws, but in all shall specify
| the several provisions OF the laws it may enact.
| ART. lis. Corporations with banking discount
ing privileges may be either created by special acts,
| or formed under general laws; but the Legislature
shall in both provide for the registry of all bills
or notes issued put in circulation as money, and
shall require ample security Tor the redemption OF
the same in specie.
| ART ll9 The Legislature shall lave no power to
pass any law sanctloning in any manner, directly or
indirectly, the suspension OF specie payments, by
any person, ASSOCIATION or corporation issuing bank
notes OF any description
ART. 100. In case of insolvency OF any bank or
banking associations the bill holders thereof shall be
entitled preference in payment, over all other
creditors of such bank association.
ART. l2l. The Legislature shall have power to
pass such laws as it may deem expedent for the
relief revival OF the Citizens Bank of Louisiana,
and the acts already passed for the same purpose are
ratified and confirmed Provided that the Bank is
subjected to the restrictions tanned in articles ll9
and 100 of this Constitution.
ART. l22. No person shall hold exercise, at the
same time, more than one civil office OF emolument
except that OF Justice of the Peace.
ART. 1913. Taxation shall be equal and uniform
throusho the State. All property on which taxes
may be lsvied in this State, shall be taxed in pro-
portion to its value, to be aseerained 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 Legsla-
ture shall have power to levy income tax, and to
tax all persons pursuing any occupation, trade or
profession.
ART. l24. The citizens of the City of NewOr-
.ball I,o al
public officers necessary for the administration OF
the police OF the said city, pursuant to the mode Of
elections which shall be prescribed by the Legsla-
ure; provided, that the Mayor and Recorders shall
be Ineligible to a 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 may
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 office until their successors shall
+ have been Indicted mo office.
| ART. 126. Any citizen of this State who shall,
after the adoption OF his Constitution; fight duel
with deadly weapons with citizen of this State, or
send accept challenge to fight duel with
| deadly weapons either within this State or out OF it,
with citizen OF this Sta {, or who shall act
, | ond, or knowingly aid and assist in any manner
those thus offending, shall be deprived OF holding
any office OF trust or profit and oil enjoying the right
| of suffrage under this Constitution and the office OF
any State officer, member of the General Assembly,
or oany other person hold office OF profit trust
under this Constitution and the laws made in pur-
suance thereof shall be tpso tacto vacated by The
fact OF any such person committing the offence
toned in this article and the Legislature Shall pro,
vide by law for the ascertaning and declaration Of
I such forfeiture.
ART. l27. The Legislature shall have power to
extend this Constitution and the jurisdiction of this
| State any territory acquired by compact with
any State, with the United States, the being
done by the consent of the United States.
ART. l2S. None of the lands granted by Congress
the State OF Louisiana Tor aiding in constructing
swamps and overfowed lands in this State, shall be
diverted from the purposes for which they were
| granted.
ART. 1929 The Constitution and laws Of this State
shall be promulgated in the English and French
| languages.
TITLE VII. ...
| INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
ART. 100. There shall be Board Of Public
Works. to consist Of four Commissioners The State
shall be divided by the Legislature into four Dis
trcts, containing nearly may be an equal mum
Der of voters and one Commissioner shall be elected
in each District, by the legal voters thereof fol
the term Of four years. but, OF the first elected, two
to be designated by lot shall remain in office fol
= two years only.
d ART 1871. The General Assembly at its first SEES
sion after the adoption OF this Constitution, shall
provide for the election and compensation of the
:. Commissioners and the organization Of the Board
d The Commissioners first elected shall assemble
day to be appointed by law, and decide by lot the
order in which their terms of service shall expire
ri 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 they may deem necessary,
! in IN hsrt anI no
purposes for which they were granted, the swamps
and overlooked lands conveyedby the nited States
TO this State. They shall appoint all officers en-
gagged on the public works, and shall perform such
| other duties may be prescribed by law.
ART. 1873. The Commissioners may be removed
by the concurrent vote of 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 a vote of -three-flths Of the members
elected to each house, to abolish said Board when
ever in their opinion a Board Of Public Works shall
| no longer be necessary.
TITLE Viii
| PUBLIC EDUCATION.
| ART. l35. There shall be elected Superintendent
of Public Education who shall hold his office for the
term OF two years. His duties shall be prescribed
by law, and he shall receive such compensation as
the Legislature may direct provided that the Gen.
| era Assembly shall have power by oil the
majority OF the members elected to both houses, to
abolish the said office of Superintendent Of Public
Education, whenever in their opinion said Office shall
. | be no longer necessary.
ART. 1856. The General Assembly shall establish
free Pnblc Schools throughout the State, and shall
provide for their support by general taxation pro-
perty otherwise and all moneys raised or pro-
vided, shall be distributed to each Parish in propor-
e ton to the number of free white children between
e such ages shall be fixed by the General Assembly
e ART 1877. The proceeds of all lands heretofore
granted by the United States this State for the
support oil schools and OF all lands which may
hereafter be granted baqueahed to the State, and
; not expressly granted bequeathed for any other
purpose, which hereafter may be disposed OF by the
State, and the proceeds OF the of deceased
persons to which the State may become entitled by
O law shall be acid by the State loan, and shall
$ be and remain perpetual fund.- on which the State
shall pay annual interest OF six per cent; which
interest together with the interest the trustunds
4 deposited with this State by the United States, I'M
der the of Congress approved June 30, 1886 and
: all the rents of the I'D lands shall be appropri
ated the support Of such schools, and this appro
e priation shalt remain ,nvolabe.
T ART 1873. All moneys arising from the sales which
-. have been or may hereafter he made of any lands
, heretofore granted by the United States to this
e State, for the Of Semna OF Learning, and
from any kind OF do ration that may hereafter be
made for that purpose shall be and remain perpe-
ual fund, the interest OF which at six per per
If annum, shall be- appropriated to the support of a
Seminary of Learning, for the promotion oliteraure
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