New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-02
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, ART Ia. The general assembly, at 1t
, first session under this constitution, shal
provide an annual pension for the veteran
OF eighteen hundred and fourteen and eigh,
cen hundred and fifteen residing in the state
ART. lbs. The military shall be in subor
dination to the civil power.
ART. 1926 1t shall be the duty of the gen
eral assembly to make it obligatory upoI
each parish to support all paupers residing
within its limits.
ART. I27. All agreements, the considers
tion of which was confederate money, notes,
or bonds, are null and void; and shall not
be enforced by the courts of this state.
ART. 12S. Contracts for the sale of per.
sons are null and void; and shall not be en-
forced by the courts of this state.
ART. l29. The state of Louisiana shall
never assume nor pay any debt or obliga-
ton contracted or INQUIRE aid of the
rebellion; nor shall this state ever in any
manner claim from the United States or
make any allowance or compensation for
slaves emancipated or liberated in any way
whatever.
ART. 100. All contracts made and'entered
into under the pretended authority of any
governments heretofore existing in this
state, by which children were bound out
without the knowledge or consent of their
parents, are hereby declared nall and void;
nor shall any child be bound out to any
one for any term of years, while either one
of its parents live, without the consent of
such parent, except in cases Of children
legally sent to the house of correction.
ART. I3l. The seat of government shall be
established at the city Of New Orleans, and
shall not be removed without the consent
of two-thirds of the members of both houses
of the general assembly.
ART. l32. All lands sold in pursuance of
DEGREES of courts shall be divided into
tracts of from ten to fifty acres.
ART. 1873. No Judicial powers shall be ex.
ercised by clerks OF courts.
ART. 1874. No soldier, sailor, or marine in
the military or naval service of the United
States shall hereafter acquire a residence in
this state by reason of being stationed or
doing duty in the same.
TITLE vII-PUBLlO EDUCATION.
ART. 1856. The general assembly shall e.
tabli5h at least one free public school in
every parish throughout the state, and
shall provide for its support by taxation or
otherwise. All children of this state be-
tween the ages of six (6) and twenty-one (2I)
shall be admitted to the public schools or
other institutions of learning sustained or
established by the state, in common, with
out distinction Of race, color, OF previous
condition. There shall be no separate
schools or institutions of learning estab-
lished exclusively for any race by the state
of Louisiana.
ART. 1856. No municipal corporation shall
make any rules or regulations contrary to
the spirit and intention of article one hund.
red and thirty-fve QS5.)
ART. 1877 There shall be elected by the
qualified voters of this state superintend-
emit of public education, who shall hold his
Office for four years. His duties shall be
prescribed by law, and he shall have the
supervision and the general control of all
public schools throughout this state. He
shall receive salary of FIVE thousand dol
lars per annum, payable quarterly on his
own warrant.
ART. 1888. The general exercises in the pub
lie schools shall be conducted in the En-
glish language.
ART. lSe. The proceeds of all lands here
tofore granted by the United States for
the use and support of public schools,
and of all lands or other property
which may hereafter be beeueathed
for that purpose, and of all lands which may
be granted Or bequeathed to the state, and
not granted or bequeathed expressly for
any other purpose which may hereafter be
disposed of by the state, and the proceeds of
all estates of deceased persons to which the
state may be entitled by law, shall be held
by the state as loan, and shall be and re-
main q perpetual fund on which the state
shall pay an annual interest Of six per cent,
which interest, with the interest of the trust
fund deposited with this state by the United
States, under the act of congress approved
June the twenty-third, eighteen hundred
and thirty-six, and the rent OF the unsold
lands, shall be appropriated to the support
Of such schools. aud this appropriation shall
remain ingiolable. Fi1
z. &c. NJ "a ssioI shall ii DC made
By the general assembly for the support of
any private school, or any private institus
ton of learning whatever.
ART. I4l. One half of the funds derived
nom the poll tax herein provided for shall
be appropriated exclusively to the support |
Of the free public schools throughout the
state, and the university Of New Orleans.
iAkT l42. Auniversltg shall be established
and maintained in the city Of New Orleans. |
It shall be composed Of law, medical |
and 8 collegiate department, each with AZ. |
prcpriate faculties. The general assembly
shah provide BY Law for its organization and
maintenance; Provided, That all depart. |
ments Of this institution Of learning shaIl be
opened IN cemmon to all students capable
Of matriculating. No rules or regulations
shall be made By the trustees, faculties, or
other officers Of said Institution Of learning,
nor shall any laws be made BY the general
assembly violating the letter or spirit Of the
articles under this title, AA
AIR. las. institutions for the support Of
the insane, theeducasion and support ofthe
blind and the deaf and dumb, shan slwnysI
be fsstered By the state, and be- subject %
euoh regulations as may be prescribed b
the general assembly.
TrTLE vETE.--HTLITIA.
ARF. IA Il shall be the duty Of the gem
ersl assembly 10 organize the militia OF the
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