The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-18
THE CONVENTION.

THE CONVENTION.
We resume our synopsis of tho pro-
ceedings of the Constitutional Conven-
ton.
The regulation of the sale of alco-
h0lic and spiritu0us liquors is declared
a police regulation, aud tho General
Assembly may enact laws regulating
Its sale and use.
The Louisiana Lottery Company Is
recognized as a contract binding on
tho State, except as to the monopoly
clause, which is declared void. The
company Immediately accepted the
condition and fled written renuncia-
ton of that feature of its charter. The
General Assembly can grant charters
to any parties on the payment of a
license of not less than $4,000 per
annum.
Gambling is declared to be a vice
and the General Assembly shall enact
laws for its suppression. Query: What
are lotteries?
Citizenship is fixed at one years
residence In the State, six months In
the parish and thirty days in the pre-
cinct in which the elector resides.
There will be no registration outside
Of New Orleans, unless specially desig-
mated in legislative acts. General
State elections will bc held once every
four years ON the Tuesday next follow
ing the 3d Monday in April; parish
and municipal officers to be chosen at
the same time.
The ordinance reported by the Com
aries was taken up on its third reading
and adopted-yeas 81, nays 2. The
ordinance is as follows:
Article 1. Tho General Assembly
may establish and organize new parishes
which shall be bodies corporate, with
such powers as may be prescribed by
law; but no new parish shall contain
less than 625 square miles nor less than
1000 inhabitants; nor shall any parish
be reduced below that area or number
of Inhabitants.
Art. 2. All laws changing parish lines
or removing parish seats shall, before
taking effect, be submitted TO the cleo.
tors of the parish or the parishes to be
affected thereby Mt a special election
held for that purpose, and bo adopted
by majority of votes of each parish
cast ut such election.
Art. 3. Any parish may be dissolved
and merged by the General Assembly
into Contiguous parish or parishes,
two-thirds of the qualified electors of
the parish proposed to be dissolved
voting in favor thereof ut an election
held for that purpose; provided, that
each of tho parishes into which the
Incorporated consents thereto by a
majority of its or their qualified cleo
tors voting therefor.
Art. 4. Whenever parish shall be
enlarged or created from territory con-
tiguous thereto, it shall be entitled to a
just proportion of the property and
assets and liable for a just proportion
of the existing debts or liabilities of
the parish or parishes from which such
territory shall be taken.
The report of tho Committee on
Public Education was taken up on its |
third reading, and after slight amend !
mcnt was adoptcd-yeas II, nays 8. 1t
Is as follows:
Article l. There shall be free public |
schools established by tho General |
Assembly throughout tho Stote for the
education of all the children of the
State between the ages ofsix and eigh-
teen years; and the General Assembly |
shall provide for their establishment, |
maintenance and support by taxation |
or otherwise. And all moneys SO raised |
except the poll tax, shall be distributed |
to each parish in proportion to the
number Of children between the noes
of six and eighteen years.
Art. 2. There shall be elected. NV the
qualified electors of the State. a Su.
perintendent of Public Education, who
shall hold his Office for the term ~ E,ur
years, and until his successor is quail |
he'd. His duties shall be prescribed by
law, and he shall receive salary ~
two thousand dollars per annum. The
aggregate expenses of his office, includ-
ing his salary, shall not exceed the
sum of threo thousand dollars per
annum. The General Assembly shall
DrQYide for n0rish h0a ria In each Of 4hs,