The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE or LOUISIANA.
4. For lawful claims for taxes or assessments.

sufficient to make his homestead and exemption equal to the whole
amount allowed by this constitution.
6. The homestead shall not be susceptible OF mortgage, except for
the purchase price, labor and material furnished for the building,
waiver nMar Of q homestead rights or exemptions be valid. The right to
sell any property which shall be recorded as a homestead shall be
s Fhsssile'' but no Sale la osS'''' or impair ~ 'S"' VI s"''i'
ART. 22o. Equitable laws shall be passed for the protection of cred
itors against the fraudulent claims Of debtors, for the punishment Of
fraud and for reaching property and funds OF the debter concealed
A"A ~ ''N PUBLIC EDUCATION.
ART. 221. There shall be free public schools established by the Gen
eral Assembly throughout the State for the education OF all the chill,
the General Assembly shall provide for their establishment, mainten-
sass and s1 sepPf fss p sS tax, ssal Se d Gshsb"sssi to A each ' par 21G & pr 50
portion to the number of children between the ages OF SIX and elgh-
ART 222. There shall be elected by the qualified electors of the State,
Superintendent of Public Education, who shall hold his office for
duties shall be prescribed by law, and he shall receive an annual
salary of two thousand dollars: The aggregate annual expenses of his
dollars The General Assembly shall provide for the appointment of
parish boards of public education for the different parishes .u,,.
schools in their respective parishes who shall be e1-oetc'o secretary
not exceed two hundred dollars annually, except that in the parish
Of Of Orleans aaa the ,ss salary Of # the S. parish naid a superintendent eF 4ta dents shall sehod be fixed fixed ?.
cruing to each parish respectively:
ART: 223. The general exercises in the public schools shall be con-
Quoted in the English language and the elementary branches taught
therein; 1rorded, that these elementary branches may be also taught
in the French language in those parishes in the State or localities in
tional expense is incurred thereby.
shall be applied exclusively to the maintenance of the public schools
as organized under this constitution, and shall be applied exclusively
to the support OF the pubic SCHOOLS II n parish IN WHO III I'M
shall be collected, and shall be accounted for and paid by the collect
ing officers directly to the competent school authorities of each par
ART. M5. No funds raised for the support of the public schools of
the State shall. be appropriated to or used for the support Of any Sec
ART. 22e. Women over twenty-one years of age shall be eligible to
any Office of control Or management under the school laws of this
NA'' CONCERNING A STATE UNIVERSITY.
ART 227. The University of Louisiana, as at present established and
located at New Orleans, is hereby recognized in its three depart
ments, to-wit: the law, the medical and the academical departments
to be governed and controlled by appropriate faculties.
The General Assemblies shall. from time to time. make such nrO-
vision for the proper, government, maintenance and support of said
the public necessities and weIbeing Of the people of the State of
Louisiana may require, not to exceed ten thousand dollars annually;
College, now established and located i'll the the city Of Baton Rouge,
is hereby recognized, and all revenues derived and to be derived
from the sales of land or land scrip donated by the United States
to the State of Louisiana, for the use of a seminary Of learning. and
mechanical nj cal and agrioultur raj college nege. shall HI BE be appropriated rps,Ea. ed e s9
cultural and Mechanical College, and the General Assembly shall
tenance and support Of said Louisiana State University and Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College as the public necessities and the we'll
exceed ten thousand dollars annually.
ART. 22s. The General Assembly shall also establish in the city of
New Orleans a university for the education of persons of color; pro-
vide for its proper government, and shall make an annual appropria-
ton of not less than five thousand nor more than ten thousand dol
lars for its maintenance and support.
THE FREE SCHOOL FUND, SEMINARY FUND AND AGRICULTURAL
AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE FUND.
ART 229. The debt due by the State to the free school fund is
thousand eight hundred and siztyseven dollars and dfy-one cents n IN
principal and shall be placed on the books Of the Auditor ndTreasurer
to the credit of the several townships entitled to the same the said
principal being the proceeds of the sales of lands heretofore granted
by the United States for the use and support of free public schools,
which amount shall be held by the State as a loan and shall be and
remain a perpetual fund, on which the State shall pay an annual
interest of 4 per cent from the first day of January, 1880, and that
said interest shall be paid to the several townships in the State
entitled to the same, in accordance with the act of Congress, No. 68,
approved February Is, 1913, and the bonds of the State heretofore
issued, belonging to said fund and sold under act of the General
Assembly No 81, Of 1872 are hereby declared null and void, and
the General Assembly shall make no provision for their payment,
and may cause them to be destroyed.
The debt due by the State to the seminary fund is hereby declared
to be one hundred and thiry-ax thousand dollars, being the proceeds
of the sales of lands heretofore granted by the United States to this
State for the use of a seminary Of learning and said amount shall be
placed to the credit of said fund on the books of the Auditor and
Treasurer of the State as a perpetual loan, and the State shall pay
an annual interest of four per cent on said amount from January l,
1880, for the Use Of said seminary Of learning; and the consolidated
bonds of the State now held for use of said fund shall be null and
void after the first day Of January 1880, and the General Assembly
shall never make any provision for their payment, and they shall be
destroyed in such manner as the General Assembly may direct.
The debt due blythe State to the AGRICULTURAL and Mechanical Col
lege fund is hereby declared to be the sum of one hundred and
eighty-two thousand three hundred and thirteen dollars and three
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