New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-24
CONSTITUTION
or THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
ADOPTED IN Convention July 81, 1907.
PREAMBLE.
W., the people Of the State Of Louisiana, 40 OF
asip aad establish this Constitution
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prsrRIpuTIoN OF POWERS. !,
s,,h. ,,o,vefs Of the government OF the State
~ Ton;a;nna shall be divided into three distinct de-
nartmeuts, and each Of them DO confded to separ
4 \. hndv IL inagstracy, to-wit: those which are ,
Le2islatN g one nose wh'Gh nre hkeeunve 20 an
Apr. No one Of these Departments, any
n.rson holding office in o. them, shall exercise
rover properiy belonging to either ofthe others,
sspt III The instances hereinafter expressly directed
y sss7'' TITLE II.
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT..
ARTS. The Legislative power of the State shall
" vested in two distinct branches, the one to be
styled the House Of Representative the other
the Senate, and both the General Assembly of the
State 81 Louisiana.
l Arr 4. The members of the House Of Represen-
tatiyes shall continue in service for the term Of
two years from the day of the closing Of the general
elections
ART. s. Representatives shall be chosen the
frat Mo- day November every two years; and the
election shall be completed in one day. The Gene
raj Asss mbfy shall meet annually, on the third
Monday in January, unless different day be ap-
pointed law, and their sessions shall be held at
the seatsf government. .s
Arr. 6. Every duly qualified eector, under this
Constituti IN, shall be eligible to- seat in the GEN
eral Assembly, provided that person shall be a
Represr Mt live Or Senator unless he be- at the time
81 kis ee elton, duly qualified voter of the Repre-
xpntatiSe Senatorial District from which he is elect
Art. i. Elections for members Of the General As
tembly saa,i be held at the several election pre-
cincts rs .ablished BY law The Legislature may |
ieeeae tae power Of establishing election precincts
h 10 the = ,chia OF municipal authorities.
ART 8 Representation in the House Of Repre- |
sentative shall be equal and uniform, and shall be |
Yegna cd and ascerained by the total population OF
zach d TIE several parishes Of the State. Each par
ish shsN nave at least Representative, No new
parish al be created with territory less than six
hundred aud twenty-five square miles, with a
population lessthan the full number emitting ito a
& Repress sentative, when the creation Of such
new arsh would leave any other parish without the
said sxt.at Of territory and amount OF population.
Tie ~ enumeration by the State authorities UNI
der this Constitution shall be made in the year 1883
the sec md in the year 1885, the third in the year
y 1855 after which time the General Assembly shall
direct ia what the shall be taken, so
that be made at least once in every period Of ten
years. Fl the purpose of asceraining the total popu-
s1afiSain each parish and election district
Aths first regular session Of the Legislature, after
the making ofeach ration the Legislature shall
sppor'ion the representation among the several par
ishes AMI election districts the basis Of the total
population as aforesaid. A representative number
shall be fixed, and each parish and election district
shall have as many Representatives as its aggre-
gate population shall enttle it to. and additional
Representative for any fraction exceeding onehalf
the Representative number. The number of Re-
presct ta,ves shall not be more than one hundred,
nor Il SIS than seventy. Until apportonment
y shall . made, and elections held under the same,
in ac. oriance with the FIRST enumeration to be made
as directed in this article the Representation in
tho Senate and House of Representatives shall be
and remain as al present established by law.
The limits of the Parish OF Orleans are hereby ex-
tended, 80 to embrace the whole of the present
city Of New Ofleans, including that part of the Pa
rish Of Jefferson formerly known the city of La
fayette.
AL that part Of the Parish Of Orleans which is sit
mated the left bank Of the Mississippi river shall
be divided BY the Legislature into than
ten Representative Districts, and until appor-
tonment shall be made according to the first CEN
sus TO be taken under this Constitution, that part
of the city Of New Orleans which comprised
within the former limits Of the city Of Lafayette,
shall vote Tor Senators from the Parish of Orleans,
Al and form the Tenth Representative District, and
shall elect two out of the three Representatives
apportioned by law to the Parish OF Jefferson
the other Representative Districts shall remain as
they now established
AR The House Of Representatives shall choose
its Speaker and other officers.
AL ART. To- Every free white male who has attained
the age of twenty-one years, and who has been a
resident of the State twelve months next preceding
the election, and the last six months thereof in the
Parrish which he offers to vote, and who shall be
citizen Or the United States, shall have the right of
voting; But no voter on removing from one Parish
~ another within the State, shall lose the right of
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-
ing from elections.
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
der to entite Them to vote but the registry shall be
free Of cost to the elector.
ART. H. No soldier, seaman or marine in the army
or navy Of the United States, no pauper no person
under Introduction, nor under conviction Of any crime
punishable with hard labor, shall be entitled vote
At any election in this State.
"A IA No arson oh he entit1ed at anv
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
they shall 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 Disrict--the Parish of Or.
leans excepted And whenever new Parish shall
be created, it shall be attached to the Senatorial Dis
trict from which most gifts territory taken, or to
another contiguous District the discretion of the
Legislature but shall not be attached to more thar
one District The number Of Senators shall be thirty
two and they shall be apportioned among the Senate
rial Districts according to the total population con
tanned in the several Districts--Provided that nc
Parish shall be entitled to more than five Senators.
ART. TO- In all apportlonments of the Senate, the
population OF the city of New Orleans shall be deduc
wv toA NAo PoPuiatioH VI WAole Stdtej anu tHt
remainder Of the population divided by the number
twentyseven, (27) and the result produced by this
division shall be the Senatorial ratio emitting Sena
toriaI District to a Senator. Single or contiguous
Parishes shall be formed into Districts, having a
population the nearest possible to the number en-.
titiing District to Senator; and it, in the appor-
tonnent to be made, Parish or District fall short oil
OF exceed the ratio fifth, then District may be
formed having not more than two Senator'S but not
otherwise No new apportionnent shall have the
eject OF abridging the term of service OF any Sena
tor already elected at the time of making the amor.
tionment. Alter an enumeration has been made as
directed IN the eighth Article the Legislature shall
not pass any law until opportionment OF Repre
sentation IN both Houses of the General Assembly
be made.
ART. II. AT the first session of the General AS
sembly after this Constitution takes effect the Sena
tors shall be equally divided by 10, into two classes
The seats OF the Senators Of the first class shall b,
vacated at the expiration OF the second year of til,
second GLASS; at the expiration Of the fourth wear s,
that one half shall be chosen every two years and
rotation thereby kept up perpetually In case an,
District shall have elected two or more Senators
said Senators shall vacae their seats respectively
the end OF two and four years, and let's shall be draw
between them,
ART. Is, The first election for Senators shall b
general throughout the State, and at the same tim
tnat the general election for Representatives is held
ana hereafter there shall be biennial elections f.
me pace oil those whose time of service may hav
I. Art. ~. Not less than majority Of the member