The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-30

No debt can be created or DOnd6 lSSueu Sbfs
to repel invasion or suppress insurrection
The Legislature has no power to authorize
any parish or municipal authority to grant
any extra compensation, fee or allowance, or
pay any claim against the State, parish or
municipality, made without express authority
6f law.
Local and special laws are forbidden on the
following subjects:
Concerning elections.
Changing the venue In civil or criminal cases
Changing names.
Laying and opening roads, building bridges,
or establishing ferries.
LegitImation or emancipation OF children.
Granting divorces.
Changing the law OF descent or succession
Affecting estates OF minors or persons In
terdicted.
Remitting fines or refunding money paid
into the treasury.
Authorizing the construction Of street rail-
roads In city or u town.
Regulating labor, trade manufacturing or
agriculture.
Creating corporations, or amending, renew
ing, extending orr explaining the charter
thereof; provided, that this shall not apply to
the corporation OF the city OF New Orleans or
to the organization OF the levee districts and
parishes.
Granting to any corporation, association or
Individual any special or exclusive right,
privilege or immunity.
Extending the time for the assessment or col
lection Of taxes or for therelief Of any assessor
or collector OF taxes from the due perform
ance Of his official dutles or OF his securities
from liability; nor shall any such be passed by
any political corporation OF this State.
Regulating the practice or jurisdiction OF
any court, or changing the rules OF evidence
in any judicial proceeding or Inquiry before
courts, or providing or changing the methods
for the collection OF debts or the enforcemen OF
| judgments. or prescribing the effects OF judi
cial sales.
Exempting property from taxation.
| Fixing the rate OF interest.
Giving effect to informal or invalid Wills or
deeds, or to any illegal disposition Of prop
erty
Regulating the management Of public
schools, the building or repairing OF school
houses, and the raising OF money for such
purposes.
Legalizing the unauthorized or invalid acts
Of any officer, servant, agent Of the State, or
of any parish or municipality thereof
No local or special laws shall be passed on
any subject not enumerated In the foregoing
Limitations, unless notice Of the intention tc
! amply therefor shall have been published ir
the locality where the matters and things tt
be affected may be situated, which notice
shall state the substance OF the contemplated
law. Such publication, without cost to thu
State, must be made thirty days prior to tht
introduction of such bill In the Legislature.
i No bill shall be passed fixing the price o
manual labor.
No money OF the State can be given In ale
OF any religious sect or institution or an!
other charitable institution conducted unde
, State authority.
The following limitations are 80 importan
, and embrace SO wide q range, that we deem
1t important and instructive to reproduc
them in full:
: ART. So. The general appropriation bill sha
embrace nothing but appropriations for tn
: ordinary expenses OF the government, intel
est on the public debt, public schools and pnt
lie charities and such bll snail De 80 llemla ME
I as to show for what account each and ever
r. appropriatiOn shall be made. All other or
. propriations shall be made by separate bill
. each embracing but one object.
ART. 81. Each appropriation shall DC for
9 specific purpose, and no appropriation sha
n be made under the head or title OF contingent
: nor shall any officer or department OF GO
y eminent receive any amount from the treas
+ ury for contingencies or Tor contlngei
fund.
!. ART. S. No appropriation Of money sha
. he made by the General Assembly In the las
It five days Of the session thereof; all apprt
8 prlations, to be valid, shall be passed and r
J. ceive the signatures OF the Presldent !, OF u
. Senate and Speaker Of the House OF Hepr
y sentatives five full days before the adjourn
/ ment sine die of the General Assembly.
!. ART. S. The funds, credit, property I
& things of value Of the State or Of any poll
Is pledged or granted to or for any person!
If persons, association or corporation, public
: private; nor shall the State, or any polite
:. corporation, purchase or subscribe TO the ca
u ital or stock OF any corporation OF assoclatle
q whatever, or for any private enterprise ~
la shall the State, nor any political corporate
= thereof, assume the liabilities OF any polittct
u municipal, parochial, private or other corp
ration or association whatsoever; nor sht
Il the State undertake to carry on the eusine
= Of any such corporation or association, or
% come a part owner therein; proOided, T.
10 State, through Its Legislature, shall ha
power to grant the right Of way through
re public lands to.any rallToad or Canal. -
@ ne power to release or extinguish, or to a
thorize the releasing or distinguishing,
le whole or in part, the Indebtedness, liabili
Il or obligation OF any corporation or indlvldu
y to this State, or to any parish or municip
g. corporation; provided, the heirs OF conf
Gated property may be released OF all tax
- due thereon at the date OF Its reversion
n them.
- This is the full enumeration OF the limit
:; - lions and restriction upon the legislati
power under the new constitution.
- 1t will be observed that they so circumscr1
: the power, labors and duty OF the Genel
Assembly as to exclude from their consider
: ton and action the subjects and objects
- three-fourths of our past legislation, and
- that proportion to reduce the volume Of G
:, statutory law. This will bring great rel
= to the people, will simplify and abridge G
Jurisprudence, so as to prevent litigation, a
% render practical and effective the old max