New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-02-28

ART. IL. No law shall be passed fixing
the price Of manual labor.
Article twelve was adopted as fol-
lows
ART, IL. Every person has the nat
ural right to worship Ged according to
the dictates of his own conscience. No
religious test shall be required as
qualification for Office.
The substitute recommended by
Messrs. Crane and Pinchback was
adopted as article thirteen in place of
the original article, reading as follows:
ART. 10. All persons shall enjoy
equal rights and privileges upon any
conveyance of q public character and
all places of business, or of public re-
sort, or for which license is required
by either state, parish, or municipal
authority, shall be deemed places Of a
public character. and shall be opened
to the accommodation and patronage
Of all persons, without distinction or
discrimination on account of race or
color. -..
Mr.. Cooley moved to amend article
fourteen by adding:
Provided, Nothing contained in ar
ticle thirteen shall be construed to give
greater rights to any persons, of what
ever race or color, than are now pos
sessed by the white race.
Laid on the table.
Mr. Cooley recorded his vote:
l vote against laying on the table
the proviso offered by me to article
fourteen, bill of rights.
w. H. COOLEY.
Article fourteen, as follows, was
adopted:
ART. IA. The rights enumerated in
this title shall not be construed to
limit or abridge other rights of the
people not herein expressed.
Mr.. Wickliffe moved to amend arti-
Gle fifteen by striking out the words
general assembly" and inserting the
word Legislature"
Lost.
Articles sixteen, seventeen, eight
cen, and nineteen were adopted as
follows:
ART. 16. The members of the house
of representatives. shall continue in
Office for two years from the day of
closing of the general elections.
ART. II. Representatives shall be chosen
on the first Monday in November every two
years, and the election shall be completed
in one day. The general assembly shall
meet annually on the first Monday in Janu-
airy, unless different day be appointed by
law; and their sessions shall be held at the
seat Of government.
ART Is. Every eleetor under this consti-
tuition shall be eligible to seat in the house
of representatives; and every eleotor who
has reached the age of twenty-five years
shall be eligible to the senate; provided
that no person shall be representative OF
senator unless at the time of his election be
be qualified elector of the representative
or senatorial district from which he il
elected.
ART. 10. Elections for members Of the
general assembly shall be held at the several
election precincts established by law.
The substitute to article twenty, proposed
by the committee, as follows, was adopted
in lieu of the original article:
ART. 20. Representation in the house o.
representatives shall be equal and uniform
and after the first general assembly elected
under this constitution, shall be ascertained
and regulated by the total population; eact
parish in the state being entitled to at least
one representative. A census of the state
by state authority shall be taken in the veal
eighteen hundred and seventy five, and
every ten years thereafter. In case o.
intormality, omission, or err0r in the eensul
returns from any parish or election district
the general assembly may order a new
census taken in such parish or election
district; but until the state census O
eighteen hundred and seVenty-fVe, the
appOrtionment Of the state shall be made OF
the basis Of the census Of the United StateI
fer the year eighteen hundred and seventy
Article tWenty-one was adopted, al
follows
ART 81. The general assembly, at thu
first session after the making of each emu
merati0n, shall appOrtion the representa-
ton among the several parishes and repre-
sentative districts, on the basis Of the tota
population as Aforesaid A representative
Rumber shall be Hxed, and each parish ant
representative district shall have aa many
Representatives Is the number OF its tota
population will entitle it to have and al
additional representative for any Fraction
exceeding one-half Of the representative
number. The number Of representative
shall never exceed one hundred and twenty
nor be less than ninety.
All amendments to article twenty-five, a
proposed by the committee, were adopted
and the article as amended, reading as fol
lows, was adopted
ART, %. Until an apportionment shall b
made in accordance with the provisions Q
| article twenty, the representation in tn
senate and house Of representatives shall b
as follows
For the parish of Orleans:
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