New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-29

pressed in the title.
Art ll6 No law shall be revived or amended by
reference to its title but in a1ch case, the act
revised section amended, shall be re-enactsd and
published at length.
ART. III. The Legislature shall never adopt any
system code OF laws by general reference to such
system or code OF laws, but in all shall specify
the several provisions of the laws it may enact.
ART. us Corporations with banking or 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 or put in circulation money, and
shall require ample security for the redemption of
the same in specie.
ART ll9. The Legislature shall lave no power to |
pass any law sanctloning in any manner, directly
indirectly, the suspension of specie payments, by
any person, association or corporation issuing bank
notes nf any description.
AR. 100 In case of insolvency of any bank or
banking association, the bill holders thereof shall be
entitled to preference in payment all ether
creditors Of such bank association.
ART, 12l The Legislature shall have power to
pass such laws it may deem expedient for the |
relief or revival Of the Citizens Bank OF Louisiana,
and the already passed for the purpose
ratified and confirmed. Provided tina, the Bank is
subjected to the restrictions tanned in articles 9
and l20 Of this Constitution.
ART. 1872 No person shall hold exercise, at the
same time, more than civil office OF emoument,
except that of Justice Of the Peace.
ART. l23. Taxation shall be equal and uniform
throughout the State. All property on which taxes
may be levied in this State shall be taxed in pro-
portion to ts value, to be ascertaned directed by
law No one species Of property shall be taxed
higher than another species of properly of equal
value, which shall be levied the Leglsa.
tnfe shall have power to levy income tax, and to
tax all persons pursuing any occupation, trade or
profession.
ART. 1874 The citizens of the City Of NewOf-
leans shall have the right OF appointing the several
public officers necessary for the administration Of
the police Of the said city, pursuant to the mode Of
elections which shall be p escribed by the Legisla-
,ure; provided, that the Mayor and Recorders shall
be ineligible seat in the General Assembly; and
the Mayor, Recorders, and Aldermen and Assistant
Aldermen, shall be commissioned by the Governor
az 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 tneir offices until their successors shall
have been indicted into office.
ART. 1876 Any citizen of this State who shall,
after the adoption of this Constitution fight duel
with deadly weapons with citizen OF this State, or
send accept a challenge to fight duel with
deadly weapons either within this State out OF it,
with citizen OF this State, who shall act as
ond, or knowingly aid and assist in any manner
those thus offending, shall be deprived Of holding
any office OF trust profit and of enjoying the right
any State officer, member of the General Assembly,
ofany other person holding office OF profit or trust
under this Constitution and the laws made in pur
suance thereof, shall be tpso facto vacated by The
fact Of any such person committing the offence men.
toned in this article and the Legislature shall pro-
vide by law for the asceraining and declaration of
such forfeiture
ART 1877. The Legislature shall have power to
extend this Constitution and the jurisdiction OF this
State over any territory acquired by compact with
,pith fbeI Tpitu Sfafes he heinu
| done by the consent of the United States.
ARR 1873 None of the lands granted by Congress
to the State of Louisiana for aiding it in constructing
| the necessary levees and drains, to reclaim the
swamps and overt1owed lands in this State shall be
| Inverted from the purposes for which they were
| grantd.
| ART l29. The Constitution and laws Of this State
shall be promulgated in the English and French
languages.
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
tricts containing nearly as may be an equal num-
N each District, by the legal thereof, or
The Of four years. but, OF the first elected. two
to be designated by lot shall remain in office fol
| TWO years only.
ART 1911. The General Assembly, at its first SEES
sion alter the adoption of this Constitution, shall
provide for the election and compensation OF tn,
| Commissioners and the organization Of the Board
The Commissioners first elected shall assemble on
| lay to be appointed by law, and decide by lot til
| ,rder in which their terms OF service shall expire.
| ART. 1872. The Commissioners shall exercise
dilig-nt and faithful supervision over all publ
works, in which the State may be interested, eIcep
, those made by joint stock companies. They sha
| communicate to the General Assembly, from time Il
time, their views concerning the same, and recon
mend such measures they may deem necessary
IN order to employ to the best advantage and Tor the
| purposes for which they were granted the swanlps
| and overlooked lands conveyedby the United 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
beers elected to each House Of the General Assem-.
bly,; but the OF the removal shall be entered
| on the joarna! of each House.
| ART. 1874. The General Assembly shall have
| power by vote of three htths OF the members
elected to each house, to abolish said Board when.
ever in their opinion Board OF Public Works shall
| no longer be necessary
! TITLE VIII.
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
ART. 1875. There shall be elected Superintendent
of Public Education, who shall hold his office for the
| torn oil two years. His duties shall be prescribed
by law, and he shall receive such compensation az
the Legislature may direct; provided that the Cen
| eraI Assembly shall have power by vote OF 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
| he no longer necessary.
| ART. 1876 The General Assembly shall establish
free Public Schools throughout the State, and shall
provide for their support by general taxation on pro-
perty otherwise and all moneys so raised or pro-
vded, shall be distributed to each Parish in proper
| ton the number of free white children between
such ages shall be fixed by the General Assembly
| ART 1877. The proceeds Of all lands heretofore
| granted by the United States to this State Tor the
use or support Of schools, and Of all lands which may
hereafter be granted bequeated to the State, and
not expressly granted bequeatlled for amy other
purpose, which hereafter may be disposed OF by the
State, and the proceeds of the estates OF deceased
| persons to which the State may become entitled by
law, shall be held by the State as loan, and shall
| be and remain perpetual fund, on which the State
shall pay annual interest oil six per cent; which
interest together with the interest the trusttnnds
deposited with this State by the United States, un
der he OF Congress approved June %, 1886, ant
all the rents OF the unsold lands shall be appropri
aed to the support Of such schools, and this appro
| priation shall remain nviolable.
ART. 1888. All moneys arising from the sales which
have been, or may hereafter be made Of any lands
heretofore granted BY the United States to this
State, for the use OF Seminary of Learning, ane
from any kind of do ration tina. may hereafter BIT
made for that purpose. shall be and remain perpe
tual fund the interest Of which at six per cent. pei
annum shall be appropriated to the support OF 1
Seminary of Learning, for the promotion OF literature
and the arts and sciences, and law shall ever be
made divertiug said fund any other use than to tae
establishment and improvement of said Seminary o
Learning.
ART. l39. The University of Louisiana, in New