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any other place than that in which they may be sit
ting.
ART IS. The members Of the General Assem-
bly, shall receive from the public treasury compen-
saton for their services, which shall be four dollars
per day during their attendance, going TO and return
ing from the session OF their respective houses.
The compensation may be increased or diminished
by law but alteration shall take effect during
the period OF service OF the members OF the House oil
Representatives by whom such alteration shall have
been made. No session shall extend to period be-
yond sixty days, to date from its commencement,
and any Legislative action had after the expiration
of the said sixty DAYS shall be null and void Inns
provision shall not apply to the first Legislature
which is to convene after the adoption oil this Com
suon.
ART 26 The members Of the General Assembly
shall in all cases except treason, felony breach OF the
l peace be privileged from arrest during their at
tendance at the sessions of their respective houses,
and going to returning from the same, and tor
any speech or debate in either house, they shall not
/ be questioned in any other place.
, ART. 81 No Senator or Representative SHALL dur
| ng the term for which he elected for one
year thereafter be appointed or elected to any civil
office of profit under this State, which shall have
been created or the emoluments of which shall
Z have been increased during the time such Senator
or Representative was in office, except to such Off
ces or appointments as may be filled by the cleo
tons Of the people.
4 ART. 49, No person who at any time may have
Municipal, or who may have been otherwise entrusted
with public money, shall be eligible to the General
Assembly, or to any office Of profit trust under
the State Government until he shall have obtained
a discharge for the amount OF such collections, and
for all public moneys with which he may have
\ been entrusted.
ART. 20. No bill shall have the force of law until
on three several days it be read in each house
ofthe General Assembly, and free discussion allowed
thereon, unless in case of urgency four-fths Of the
house, where the bill shall be pending, may deem it
expedent to dispense with this rule
ART. 80. All bills. for raising revenue shall orig
mate in the House OF Representatives, but the Senate
may propose amendments in other bills !; provided
they shall not introduce any matter under color
Of amendment, which does not relate to raising
revenue.
ART 81. The General Assembly shall regulate
? by law, by whom, and in what manner wrts OF
election shall be issued to fill the vacancies which
A may happen in either branch thereof
al ART. 80. The Senate shall vote the confrma-
ton rejection OF officers to be appointed by the
e Governor, with the advice and consent Of the
Senate, by yeas and nays, and the names OF the Sen
ators voting for and against the appointments
specvely, shall be entered on journal to be kept
for that purpose, and made public at the end of each
| session, or before.
n ART. 80. Returns of all elections for members of
the General Assembly shall be made TO the Secretary
Of State.
ART. 3D. In the year in which regular election for
Senator of the United States is to take place, the
members Of the General Assembly shall meet in
the Hall Of the House of Representatives, on the
Monday following the meeting of the Legislature,
and proceed to the said election
TITLE III.
II EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
ART. IS. The Supreme Executive power of the
State shall be vested in Chief Magistrate who
shall be styled the Governor of the State of Louisiana
He shall hold his office during the term of four
years, and, together with the Lieutenant Governor
chosen for the term, be elected as follows:
The qualified electors for Representatives shall
vote for Governor and Lieutenant Governor at
the time and place OF voting for Representatives;
the returns of every election shall be sealed up and
transmitted by the proper returning officer to the
Secretary of State, who shall deliver them to the
Speaker of the House of Representatives on the
second day of the session of the General Assem-
bly,, then next to be holden. The members of the
General Assembly shall meet in the House of Re-
representatives.. TO examine and count the votes.
The person having the greatest number of votes for
Governor shall be declared duly elected but if two
or more persons shall be equal and highest in the
number OF votes poled for Governor one of them
shall Immediately be chosen Governor by joint vote
of the members of the General Assembly The
| person having the greatest number Of votes for
Lieutenant Governor, shall be Lieutenant Governor
but il two more persons shall be equal and highest
| In the number of votes polled for Lieutenant Grow.
ernor, of them shall be Immediately chosen
Lieutenant Governor by joint vote OF the members of
| the General Assembly.
| ART. SO. No person shall be eligible to the office
OF Governor Or Lieutenant Governor, who shall not
have attained the age of twentyegh years and been
a citizen and resident within the State for The
space OF four years next preceding his election.
ART. ~. The Governor shall enter the discharge
of his duties the fourth Monday of January
| next ensuing his election, and shall continue in
office until the Monday next succeeding the day
| that his successor shall be declared duly elected
and shall have taken the oath or affirmation required
by this Constitution.
ART 80. The Governor shall be ineligible for the
succeeding four years after the expiration of the
time for which he shall have been elected.
ART. ~. No member of Congress or person hold |
ing any office under the United States shall be eligible
to the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor
ART. 40. In case of the impeachment of the Gov
ernor, his removal from office, death, refusal or in
ability to qualify, resignation or absence from the
State, the powers and duties of the office shall de-
yolve upon the Lieutenant Governor for the resi- |
due OF the term, until the Governor. absent or |
lmpeached, shall return or be acquitted. The Leeis-
latnre may provide by law for the case OF removal,
impeachment, death, resignation, disability retu-
sal to qualify of both the Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, declaring what officer shall act as Gov.
ernor; and such officer shall act accordingly until
the disability be removed, for the residue of the
term.
ART. Al. The Lieutenant Governor, or other off
Ger dschargng the duties OF Governor shall during
his administration, receive the same compensation
to which the Governor would have been entitled
had he continued in office.
ART. *. he Lieutenant Governor shall by vir-
tue OF his office, be President Of the Senate, but
shall have only casting vote therein. Whenever
he shall administer the Government, or shall be UNI
able to attend as President of the Senate, the
| Senators shall elect OF their own members as
President OF the Senate for the time being
ART 43. While he acts as President OF the Senate
the Lieutenant Governor shall receive for his SER
vices the same compensation which shall for the
same period be allowed to the Speaker OF the
| House oil Representatives, and no more.
| ART. "A The Governor shallhave power to GRANT
| reprieves for all offences against the State and
| except in cases of impeachment shall with the con,
sent OF the Senate have power grant pardons and
! remit fines and toreitures, after conviction In
cases OF treason he may grant repreves until the
end OF the next session OF the General Assembly in
which the power OF pardoning shall be vested.
ART. Do The Governor shall at stated times re-
| celve for his services compensation, which shall |
neither be increased nor diminished during the |
term for which he shall have been elected
ART. 49, He shall be Commanaer-in- Chief of the |
Army and Navy of this State and of the Militia
thereof, except when they shall be called into the
service OF the United States
ART. ~. He shall nominate and, by and with the |
advice and consent of the Senate, appoint all Off
GERS whose offices established by this Coustitu-
ton, and whose appointment is not therein other
wise provided for Provided, however, that the Lee
gislature shall have right prescribe the mode of
appointment to all other offices established by law
ART. ~. The Governor shall have power to fill
vacancies that may happen during the recess Of
the Senate, by granting commissions which shall
expire at the end of the session, unless other