New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-08

parishes, and shall keep their Offices At
such place therein as may be required
by law.
ART. los. All civil officers shall be
removable by an address of two-thirds
of the members elect to each house of
the general assembly, except those
whose removal is otherwise provided
for by this constitution.
ART. los. In all elections by the
people the vote shall be taken by bal
lot; and in all elections by the senate
and house Of representatives, jointly
or separately, the vote shall be given
vipG uOce.
ART. 107. None but citizens of the
United States and of this state shall
be appointed to any Office of trust or
profit in this state.
The following amendments to arti-
Gle los were adopted:
Article 10S-To strike out, second
line, the word written"
Recommended by the
COMMITTEE.
To strike out, third line, the words
land conducted" and insert after the
word promulgated " the word land"
Recommended by the
COMMITTEE.
Article 10S-To add to the article
the words land no law shall require
judicial process to be ISSUED in any
other than the English language"
Recommended by the
COMMITTEE.
Article 109, as amended, was adopt
ed, as follows:
ART. I08. The laws, public records,
and the judicial and Legislative pro-
ceedings of the state shall be promul-
gated, and preserved in the English
language, and no law shall require iu-
dicial process to be issued in any other
than the English language.
Article 100 was stricken cut.
The following amendment to article
40 was adopted:
Article 110-to strike out. fourth
line, the word previously
Recommended by the
COMMITTEE.
The article, as amended, was
adopted, as follows:
ART. 10. No ex post facto OF re-
troactive law, nor any law impairing
the obligation of contracts, shall be
passed; nor vested rights be Invested,
unless for purposes Of public
utility and for adequate compensation
made.
Tho following amendment to article
Ill was adopted:
Article 1ll-To strike out, seventh
line, after the word ''irrepealable, +"
the word "unless," and insert the word
"until."
To strike out the letter IS" in ''con-
tains,' eighth line.
Recommended by the
COMMITTEE.
Article Ill, as amended, was
adopted, as follows:
ART. III. Whenever the general
assembly shall contract a debt ex-
ceeding in amount the sum of one
hundred thousand dollars, unless in
case of war, to repel invasion, or sup
press instruction, it shall in the law
creating the debt provide adequate
ways and means for the payment of
the current interest and of the princi-
pal when the same shall become due,
and the said law shall be irrepealable
until principal and interest be fully
paid, or unless the repeating law CON
tain some adequate provision for the
payment of the principal and interest
of the debt.
Articles 1l2 and 113 were adopted,
as follows;
ART. 112. The general assembly
shall provide by law for all change Of
venue in civil and criminal cases.
ART. i13. The general assembly
may enact general laws regulating the
adoption of children, emancipation of
minors, and the granting of divorces,
but no special law shall be passed re-
lating to particular or individual cases.
The following amendments to article
ia were adopted:
Article 11A--Te strike out the words
passed by the general assembly"
And to strike out, second line, the
words "shall embrace but one object,
and that shall be expressed by the
title" and insert the words ''shall ex-
press its object or objects in its title ?
so that the article shall read, Every
law shall express its object or objects
in its title" -
Recommended by the
COMMITTEE.
Article Tia as amended was adopted,
as follows;
Article ll4-Every law shall express
its object or objects in its title.
Articles lis, l16, and liz were
adopted, as follows:
ART. lis. No law shall be revived oil
amended by reference to its title, but
in such case the revived or amended
section shall be re-enacted and pub
lished at length.
ART. ZIG. The general assembly
shall never adopt any system or code o
laws by general reference 10 such sys
tenn or code of laws, but in all cases
shall specify the several provisions o
the law 1t may enact.
ART. ll7.--No person shall hold OIL
exercise at the same time more than
one Office of trust or profit, excepf
that Of justice Of the peace or notary
nuhlio.