New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-30

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ART. ll6. No law shall be revived or amended by
reference to its title; but in such case, the act
revised or section amended, shall be re.enacted and
published at length.
ART III. The Legislature shall never adopt any
system code Of laws by general reference tn such
system or code OF laws but in all cases shall specy
| 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 I,enis stature
shall in both provide for the registry OF all bills
or notes issued or put in circulation money, and
shall require ample security tot the redemption oil
| the same in specie.
ART. 119. 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
emitted to preference in payment, over all other
creditors of such bank association.
| ART. 12l. The Legislature shall have power to
pass such laws as it may deem expedient for the
relief or revival Of the Citizens Bank of Louisiana
and the acts already passed for the same purpose are
ratified and confirmed Provided that the Bank is
subjected to the restrictions outaned in articles ll9
and 100 of this Constitution.
| ART. l22. No person shall hold or exercise at the
same tllne more than one civil office OF emolumen
| 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 its value, to be asceraned directed BY
law. NO one species of property shall be taxet
higher than another species Of properly of equa
value, on which taxes shall be levied the Leyisla
ture shall have power to levy an income tax, and tc
tax all persons pursuing any occupation, trade OF
| profession.
ART. l24. The citizens of the City of NewOr.
leans shall have the right of appointing the severa
public officers necessary for the administ oil
the police of the said city, pursuant to the mode oil
elections which shall be prescribed by the Legisla
ture; provided, that the Mayer and Recorders shall
be ineligible to seat in the General Assembly, and
the Mayor, Recorders, and Aldermen and Assisan,
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 the police and good order Of said city
may require.
ART l23. The Legislature may provide by law
in what case officers shall continue TO perform the
duties of their offices until their successors slaI
have been indicted into office
ART 10 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 or accept challenge to fight q duel with
deadly weapons either within this State or out OF it,
with citizen OF this State, who shall act as sec
ond or knowingly aid and assist in any manner
those thus offending, shall be deprived Of holding
any office oil trust or profit and OF enjoying the right
OF suffrage under this CONSTITUTION and the office OF
any State officer, member of the General Assembly
or OF any other person holding office of profit
under this Constitution and the laws made in pur-
suance thereof, shall be fpSo tactO vacated by ME
tact OF any such person committing the offence
toned IN this article and tile Legislature shall pro.
vide by law for the ascertaling and declaration OF
such forfeiture.
ART. l27. 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 being
done by the consent of the United States.
ART. 1875 None Of the lands granted by Congress
to the State OF Louisiana for aiding in constructing
the necessary levees and drains, to reclaim the
swamps and overlooked lands in this State, shall be
diverted from the purposes for which they were
granted.
ART. 1879, The Constitution and laws of this State
shall be promulgated in the English 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
trlcts containing as nearly as may be equal num-
Der OF voters and one Commissioner shall be elected
ia each District, by the legal voters thereof for
the term OF four years but, OF the first cleo ted two
to be designated by lot, shall remain in office for
two years only.
ah lol lIe Ieneral Assembly, at Its ilTSt
sion after the adoption of this Constitution, shall
provide for the election and compensation of the
commissioners and the organization of the Board.
The Commissioners first elected shall assemle on
day to be appointed by law, and decide by lot the
order IN which their terms Of service shall expire.
ART l32. The Commissioners shall exercise
diIigent 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 tor the
purposes for which they were granted, the sWamps
and overlooked lands conveyedby the United States
to this State They shall appoint all officers
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 a majority OF all the
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. 134. The General Assembly shall have
power by vote of three ftths 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. 135. 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
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, to
abolish the said office of Superintendent of Public
Education whenever in their opinion said office shall
be no longer necessary.
ART l36 The General Assembly shall establish
Tree Public Schools throughout the State, and shall
provide Tor their support by general taxation on pro-
perty or otherwise: and oil moneys so raised or pro-
vlded, shall be distributed to each Parish in proper
ton to the number OF free white children between
such ages shall be fixed by the General A ssembIy
ART. 1877. The proceeds of all lands heretofore
granted by the United States 10 this State for the
use support of schools and of all lands which may
hereafter be granted bequea hed to the State and
not expressly granted or bequeathed for any other
purpose, which hereafter NAV be disposed of by the
Stale, and the proceeds Of the estates Of deceased
persons 10 which the State may become entitled by
law, shall be held by the State as i oan and shall
be and remain perpetual fund, on which the State
shall pay an annual interest OF six per cent; which
interest," together with tie interest on the trust funds
deposited with this State by the United States, un-
der the act of Congress approved june %, 1856 and
all the rents OF the unsoh lands shall be uppropri-
aed to the support Of such schools, and this appro
pr!atlon shall remain lnvIoable.
ART. l3S. All moneys arising from the sales which |
have been, may hereafter De made of any lands |
heretofore granted by the United States to this |
State, for the Of Seminary OF Learning, and |
from any kind OF donation that may hereafter be |
made for that purpose shall be and remain a perpe-
Lua fund, the interest of which at six per cent per
innum, shall be appropriated to the support Of IL
Seminary OF Learning tpr the promotion literature
and the arts and sciences, and no law shall ever be
made diverting said fund to any other use than In ~