New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-16

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Mr. Jennings offered the following resolution which
being read, motion adopted
Resolved That the of hundred fifty dollars
be allowed to Il. r. Easten, who employed to make
out tabular statement Of the of 1850 in com
pance with call Of the Convention
Mr.. Benjamin, behalf of the Committee on Enroll
ments reported the Contribution having duly
rolled and ready for final adoption, US follows
PREAMBLE.
We, the people of the State of Louisiana, do Of
daln and establish this Constitution
TITLE /.
DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS.
ART, |. The powers Of the government ot the State
OF Louisiana shall be divided into three distinct de-
partments and each of them be confded to a separ-
ate body of magistracy to-wit those which are
Legislative to one, those which Executive to an
other, and those which are ] judicial to another.
ART. 2 No OF these Departments, nor any
person holding otice in one o them, shall exercise
cept in the instances hereinafter expressly directed
or permitted
TITLE II.
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.
ART. 3. The Legislative power of the State shall
be vested in two distinct branches, the one to be
styled the " House of Representatives, the other
the Senate and both the General Assembly of the
State of Louisiana.
ART. 4. The members of the House OF Represen-
tatives shall continue in service for the term of
two years from the day OF the closing OF the general
elections.
ART. 5. Representatives shall be chosen on the
first Monday in November every two years; and the
election shall be completed in day. The Gene
raj Assembly shall meet annually, the third
Monday in January, unless different day be ap-
pointed by law, and their sessions shall be held at
the seat of government
ART. g. Every duly qualified eecor under this
Constitution, shall be eligible to a seat in the Gen
era Assembly, provided that no person shall be a
Representative Senator unless he be, at the time
OF his election, duly qualified voter of the Repre-
sentative or Senatorial District from which he is elect
ART. 7. Elections for members of the General AS
semby shall be held at the several election pre-
cncts established by law The Legislature may
delegate the power OF establishing election precincts
to the parochial municipal authorities.
ART. s. Representation in the House of Repre-
sentatives shall be equal and uniform and shall be
regulated and ascertained by the total population oil
each OF the several parishes OF the State. Each par
parish shall be created with territory less than six
hundred and twenty-fv square miles, nor with a
population lessthan the full number emitting it
Representative, nor when the creation of such
new parish would leave any other parish without the
said extent of territory and amount of population
The first enumeration by the State authorities un
der this Constitution shall be made in the year 1858
the second in the year 1858, the third in the year
1865; after which time the General Assembly shall
direct in what manner the census shall be taken so
that he made least n eve neriol nf ton
years, for the purpose OF ascertanng the total popu-
lation in each parish and election district.
At the first regular session of the Legislature after
the making each enumeration, the Legislature shall
apporon the representation among the several par
lshes and election districts the basis of the total
population, aforesaid. representative number
shall be fixed, and each parish and election district
shall have many Representatives as it's aggre-
gate population shall entitle it to, and an additional
Representative for any fraction exceeding one-half
the Representative number. The number of Re-
presentatives shall not be more than one hundred,
nor less than seventy. Until apportionment
shall be made, and elections held under the same,
IN accordance 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.
1he limits OF the Parish of Orleans are hereby ex-
tended, so as to embrace the whole of the present
city OF New Orleans, including that part of the Pa
rlsh oil Jefferson formerly known the city of La
iayete.
All that part of the Parish of Orleans which is sit
nated on the left bank OF the Mississippi river shall
be divided by the Legislature into not more than
ten Representative Districts, and until new appor-
tlonment shall be made according to the first CEN
sus to be taken under this Constitutions that part
of the city of New Orleans which was comnrsed
within the former limits of the city of LAFAYETTE
shall vote for Senators from the Parish of Orleans
and form the Tenth Representative District, and
shall elect two out OF the three REPRESENTATIVES.
apporoned by law to the Parish of Jefferson
the other Representative Districts shall remain ms
they now established
Arts. The House of representatives. shall choose
its Speaker and other officers
ART 10. Every free white male who mas attained
the age of twenyone years, and who has been a
resident OF the State twelve months next preceding
the election, and the last 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 o
voting but no voter on removing from one Parish
to another within the State, shall lose the right oil
voting in the former until he shall have acquired it in
the latter Electors shall in all cases. except treason
felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from
arrest, during their attendance at going to- return
ing from elections. q.
ART. II. The Legislature shall provide by law
that the and residence of all qualified electors
of the city of New Orleans, shall be registered in or
der to entte them to vote but the registry shall be
free OF cost to the elector.
ART. 12 No soldier seaman or marine in the army
navy of the United States, pauper no person
under Introduction, under conviction Of any crime
punishable with hard labor, shall be entitled to yots
At any election in this State.
ART 49, Noperson 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 eec
ton precincts, in the election precinct III which he
resides.
ART. IA. The members of the Senate shall bc