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ART. ia. No divorce shall be granted by the

ART. l16. No law shall be revived or amended by
reference to its titlej but in such case, the act
revised or section amended, shall be reenacted and
published at length.
ART III. The Legislature shall never adopt any
system or code OF laws by general reference to such
system or code OF laws but in all cases shall specify
the several provisions of the laws it may enact.
ART. ilS' Corporations with banking or discount
ing privileges may be either created by snecial acts
or formed under general laws but the Legislature
shall in both provide for the registry Of all hills
or notes issued or put in circulation as money and
shall require ample security for the redemption of
the same in SPECIE
ART. 49, The Legislature shall lave no power to
pass any law sanctioning in any manner, directly or
indirectly, the suspension Of specie payments, by
any person. association or corporation issuing bank
notes OF any description.
ART. 100. In case of insolvency Of any bank or
banking association, the bill holders thereof shall be
entitled to preference in payment, all other
creditors of such bank association.
ART. l2l. 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 acts already passed for the purpose
ratified and confirmed. Provided that the Bank is
subjected to the restrictions contained in articles 1l9
and 100 Of this Constitution.
ART. 122. No person shall hold exercise at the
same time, more than one civil office Of emoument,
except that of Justice of the Peace.
ART. l2o. 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 its value, to be ascerained directed by
law. No one species of property shall be taxed
higher than another species of properly of equal
value, on which taxes shall be levied the Legisa-
ture shall have power to levy an income tax and to
tax all persons pursuing any occupation, trade
profession.
ART. 1874. The citizens of the City of NewOr-
leans shall have the right OF appointing the several
public officers necessary for the admins traton OF
nj tbpG mid nF
elections which shall be prescribed by the Legisla-
ture; provided that the Mayor and Recorders shall
be ineligible to a seat in the General Assembly; and
the Mayor, Recorders, and Aldermen and Assistant
Aldermen, shall be commissioned by the Governor
as 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 as the police and good order Of said city
may require.
ART. l25. The Legislature may provide by law
IN what case officers shall continue to perform the
duties OF their offices until their successors shall
have been indicted into office.
ART. 126 Any citizen of this State who shall,
after the adoption of this Constitution, fight duel
with deadly weapons with citizen OF this State,
send accept a challenge to fight duel with
deadly weapons either within this State out of il,
with citizen Of this State, who shall as sec
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
OF under THIS constitution, and the ONCE oil
any State officer, member of the General Assembly,
OF any other person holding office OF profit trust
under this Constitution and the laws made in pur-
suance thereof, shall be tpso f1cto vacated by the
fact OF any such person committing the offence
toned in this article; and the Legislature shall pro-
vide by law for the ascertanng 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
any State or with the United States the same being
done by the consent Of the United States.
ART 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 overfowed lands in this State, shall be
diverted from the purposes for which they were
granted.
ART. 1919. The Constitution ana. laws Of this State
shall be promulgated in the a ! fish and French
languages.
TITLE VII.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
ART. 1870. 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 near may be equal num-
Der of voters and one Commissioner shall be elected
in each District, by the legal voters thereof, for
the term OF four years but, of the first elected, two,
to be designated by lot, shall remain in Office for
two years only.
ART. 13l. The General Assembly, at its first ses-
provide for the election and compensation Of the
Commissioners and the organization of the Board.
The Commissioners first elected shall assemble on
day to be appointed by law, and decide by lot the
order In which their terms OF service shall expire.
ART 1872. The Commissioners shall exercise
dlligent and faithful supervision over all public
works, in which the State may be interested except
those made by joint stock companies. They shall
communicate to the General Assembly, from time to
time their views concerning the same, and recon-
mend such measures as they may deem necessary,
In order to employ to the best advantage and for the
purposes for which they were granted the swamps
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 as may be prescribed by law.
ART. l33, The Commissioners may be removed
by the concurrent vote of majority Of all the mem
bers elected to each House Of the General Assem-
bly,; but the cause OF the removal shall be entered
on The journal of each House.
ART. 1874. The General Assembly shall have
power by a vote of three.f fths 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. 1855. There shall be elected a Superintendent
OF Public Education, who shall hold his office for the
term Of two years His duties shall be prescribed
by law, and he shall receive such compensation as
the Legislature may direct; provided that the Gen
eral Assembly shall have power by vote of the
majority of the members elected to both houses,
abolish the said office of Superintendent of Public
Education whenever in their opinion said office shall
be 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 or otherwise and all moneys raised pro-
vided shall be distributed to each Parish in proper
ton to the number oil free white children between
such ages shall be fixed by the General Assembly
ART 1877 The proceeds of all lands heretofore
use support Of schools, and Of all lands which may
hereafter be granted bequeathed to the State, and
not expressly granted or bequeathed for any 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 loan, and shall
be and remain perpetual fund, which the State
shall pay an annual interest of six per cent. which
interest," together with the interest the funds
deposited with this State by the United States, I'M
der he act of Congress approved june 49, 1886, and
all the rents OF the unsod lands shall be appropri
ated to the support of such schools, and this appro-
priation shall remain involabe.
ART 1873 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 OF a Seminary OF Learning, and
from any kind OF donation that may hereafter be
made for that purpose. shall be and remain erpe-
tual fund.- the interest Of which six per cent per
annum, shall be appropriated to The support OF a
Seminary OF Learning, for the promotion Of literature
and the arts and sciences, and no law shall ever be
made divertng said fund to any other use than to ae