The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-08-09

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otherwise provided for by this
constitution.
No member of congress nor
persons holding or exercising any
Office Of trust or profit under the
United States or either of them,
OF under any foreign power, shall
be eligible as a member the of
General Assembly, or hold or ex-
ercise any Office OF trust or profit
under the State.
The laws, public records and
the judicial and Legislative written
proceedings of the State shall be
promulgated, preserved and con-
ducted in the English language,
but the Legislature may provide
for the publication of the laws in
the French language, and pre-
scribe that judicial advertisements
in certain designated cities and
parishes shall also be made in
that language.
No ex post facto law, nor any
law imparinp the obligations of
contracts, shall be passed, nor
vested rights be divested unless
for purposes OF public utility and
for adequate compensation pre-
viously made.
Private property shall not be
taken nor damaged for public pur-
poses without just and adequate
compensation being first paid.
No power of suspending the laws
Of this State shall be exercised un-
less by the General Assembly or
it's authority.
The General Assembly shall pro-
vide by law for change OF Venue i'll
civil and criminal cases.
No person shall hold or exercise,
at the same time, more than pne
Office Of trust or profit, except that
Of justice of the peace or notary
public.
The general Assembly may de-
termine the mode of filling vacan
cies in all offices for which provision
is not made in this constitution.
All officers shall continue to dis
charge the duties of their offices
until their successors shall have
been inducted into office, except in
case ofimpeachmeut or suspension.
The military shall be in subOrd-
ination to the civil power, and no
soldier shall, in time OF peace, be
quartered in any house without the
consent of the owner.
The General Assembly shall make
il obligatory upon each parish to
support all infirm, sick and disabled
paupefs residing within its limits;
provided, that in every municipal
corporation in a parish where the
powers OF the police jury do not ex
tend, the said corporation shall
support its own infifln, sick and
disabled paupers.
No soldier, sailor or marine in
the military or naval service OF the
United States shall hereafter ac-
quife domicil in this State by
reason OF being stationed or doing
duty in the same.
1t shall be the duty of the Gen
eral Assembly to pass such laws as
may be proper and necessary to de-
eide differences by arbitration.
The power of courts to punish for
contempt shall be limited by law.
The General Assembly shall have
authority to grant lottery charters
or privileges; provided each charter
or privilege shall pay not less than
forty thousand dollars per annnm
in money into the treasury OF the
State; and provided further, that
all charters shall cease and expire
on the first of January, 1895, from
which time all lotteries are prohib-
tied in the State.
The forty thousand dollars per
annnm now provided by law to be
paid by the Louisiana Lottery Com
pany, according 10 the provisions
OF its charter, granted IN the year
1868, shall belong to the Charity
Hospital OF New Orleans, and the
of said company is rec0g-
nized as a contract binding on the
State for the period therein speci-
fed, except its monopoly clause,
which is hereby abrogated, and all
laws contrary to the provisions OF
this article are hereby declared null
and void; provided, said company
shall file a written rennnciatiOii OF
all its monopoly features in the
Office of the Secretary of State with