New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-25
CONSTITUTION
OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
.ddopted IN Convention July 81, 1852.

ate body of magistracy, to.wit: those which arr
Legisatye to one, those which Executive to an
other and those which are Judicial to another
ART. @ No ono oil these Departments, nor an,
person holding office in o: them, shall exercise
mower properly belong ing to either of the Others ex
cept in the instances hereinafter expressly directed
or permitted.
TITLE II.
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.
ART g. The Legislative power of the State shal
be vested in two distinct branches the one to bt
styled the House OF Representatives, the othc
the Senate and both the General Assembly of the
State of Louisiana.
ART. a. The members of the House of Represen
tatives shall continue in service for the term o
two years from the day Of the closing of the genera
elections.
ART. s. Representatives shall be chosen on the
first Monday in November every two years; and the
election shall be completed in one day. The Gene
raj Assembly shall meet annually on the third
Monday in January, unless different day be ap
pointed by law, and their sessions shall be held al
the seat OF government. aa
ART. g. Every duly qualified eector, under this
Constitution, shall be eligible to seat in the Gen
eral Assembly, provided that person shall be
Representative Senator unless he be- at the time
of his election, duly qualified voter of the Repre-
sentative Senatorial District from which lie is elect
ed.
ART. 7. Elections for members of the General As
semby shall be held at the several election pre-
delegate the power OF establishing election precincts
to the parochial municipal authorities
ART. 3. Representation in the House Of Repre-
sentatves shall be equal and uniform, and shall be
regulated and ascertained by the total population o.
each of the several parishes of the State Each par
ish shall have at least one Representative. No new
parish shall be created with territory less than six
hundred and twenty-five square miles, nor with 4
population essthan the full number enttling it
Representative, nor when the creation OF such
said extent of territory and amount of population
The first enumeration by the State authorities nn
der this Constitution shall be made in the year 1888
the second in the year 1853, the third in the year
1865; after which time the General Assembly shall
direct in what manner she census shall be taken, SC
that it be made at least in every period Of ten
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 OF each enumeration, the Leg glsature shall
apportion the represen taon among the several par.
shes and election districts the basis of the total
population. aforesaid. A representative number
shall be fixed, and each parish and election district
shall have many Representatives. its aggre-
gate population shall entte it TO, and additional
Representative for any fraction exceeding one-ha
the Representative number. The number of Re-
presentatives shall not be more than one hundred
nor less than seventy. Until apportionmcnt
shall be made, and elections held under the same,
IN accordance with the first enumeration to be made
the Senate and House OF Representatives shall be
and remain as at present established by law.
The limits of the Parish oil Orleans are hereby ex.
tended, as to embrace the whole OF the present
city Of New Orleans, including that part of the Pa
IRISH Of Jefferson formerly known as the city of La.
fayettc
All that part of the Parish OF Oreans which is sit
uated the left bank of the Mississippi river shall
be divided by the Legislature into not more than
ten Representative Districts, aud until appor-
Oh. ha ,t,o
to be taken under this Constitution, that part
Of the city of New Orleans which was comprised
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
now apporaoned by law to the Parish Of Jefferson
the other Representative Districts shall remain as
they now established.
ART9 The House of Representatives shall choose
its Speaker and other officers
ART. 10. Every free white male who mas 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
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.
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 entlte them to vote but the registry shall be
free Of cost to the elector.
ART II. No soldier, seaman or marine in the army
or navy of the United States, no pauper, person
under Introduction, nor under conviction of any crime
punishable with hard labor, shall be entitled to vote
at any election in this State
ART 10. 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 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. 10. The Legislature, in every year in which
they shall apportion representation in the House OF
Representatives, shall divide the State into Senate
rial Districts. No Parish shall be divided in the
formation OF Senatorial District-he Parish OF Or
leans excepted. And whenever new Parish shall
be created it shall be attached to the Senatorial Dis
trict from which most ofts territory taken, or 10
another contiguous District, at the discretion of the
Legislature, but shall not be attached to than
one District. The number of Senators shall be thirty
two, and they shall be apportoned among the Senate
rial Districts according to the total population con-
tanned in the several Districts-Proyded that no
Parish shall be entitled to more than five Senators.
ART l6. In all apportlonments of the Senate the
population of the city Of New Orleans shall be deduc-
ted from the population OF the whole State, and the
remainder Of the population divided by the number
twenty-seyen, C270 and the result produced by this
division shall be the Senatorial ratio emitting Sena-
toral District to q Senator. Single contiguous
Parishes shall be formed into Districts, having 4
population the nearest possible to the number en-
ttlng District to Senator; and if, in the appor-
tonment to be made, Parish District fall short OF
exceed the ratio one-ffth, then District may be
formed having not more than two Senators, but not
otherwise. No apportionment shall have the
effect OF abridgng the term of service of any Sena
tor already elected at the time OF making the appor-
tlonment 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 alter this Constitution takes effect, the Sena-
tors shall be equally divided by lot into classes
The seats OF the Senators of the first class shall be
vacated at the expiration of the second year Of the
second class at the expiration of the fourth year SC
that onehalt shall be chosen every years, and
rotation thereby kept up perpetually In case any
District shall have elected two or more Senators
said Senators shall vacate their seats respectively al
the end OF two and four years. and lots shall be drawn
between them.
ART. ls The first election for Senators shall be
general throughout the State, and at the same time
that the general election for Representatives is held
the place of those whose time OF service NAV have
expired
ART. 49, Not less than ma orty Of the member.
OF each house of the General Assembly shall form a
quorum to do business, but smaller number may
adiourn from dav to day and shall be authorized hy