The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-06-04
SIX ORDINANCES PUT IN NEW
CONSTITUTION OF LOUISIANA
Amendments Sea Wall Penienary Appointment
and Creation of Legislature and Limiting Powers
of Government Granted.

ing clause after the first section OF
an act.
at the seat of government on the first
Tuesday after the second Monday In
May, 1922, at IL o'clock noon and BIZ
thereof shall be limited to sixty days;
provided no new matter intended TO
have the effect of law shall be intro
duced or received by either branch OF
the first thirty days of it's session. ex
cept in case OF emergency and then
only by yea and nay vote Of ma
iority of the member elect. Should a
Vacancy occur in either house, the gov
ernor shall order an election to fill
such vacancy for the remainder OF the
term.
"Article-Every elector under this
constitution shall be eligible to seat
in the House Of Representatives., and
every elector who has reached the age
in the Senate; provided, that no person
shall be eligible to the Legislature un-
less at the time of his election ne mas
been a citizen Of tho state LOT I'VE ~
district or parish or ward OF the city
Gf ew organs from Taay wh|Ga m ed may
preceding his election. The seat OF any
member who may change his residence
from the district or parish or ward OF
the City Of New Orleans which he rep
declaration of a retention of domicile
to the contrary notwiths tanding; and
members of the Legislature shall be
elected for term Of four years
"Article-Each house shall be the
judge of the qualifications. elections
and returns of its own members, choose
is own officers, except preside ut OF
the Senate, determine the rules OF its
provisions OF this constitution, and may
punish its members for Gisorderly con-
duct and contempt and with the con-
currence of two-thirds of all it's MEM
"Article-Either house, during the
session. may punish by imprisonment
any person not member who shall
have been guilty Of disrespect. or dis
such imprisonment shall not exceed ten
days for each offense.
"Article-No senator or represents
tive shall. during the term for which he
ter, be appointed or elected to any
civil office or profit under this State
which may have been created. or the
emoluments OF WHICH may have been
the time such senator or representative
was a member thereof.
"Article-The members of tho Legis-
latsre shall In all cases. except treason.
LEGGED from arrest during his attend
ance at the sessions Of their respective
houses, and in going to and returning
from the same; and for any speech or
debate in either house they shall not be
questioned in any other place.
"Article-The members of the Legis.
lature shall receive a compensation OF
$40 per day during their attendance.
and 10 cents per mile going and re-
turning from the seat of government
not to exceed three round trips.
the same to be published Immediately
after the close of the session. The
original journal shall be preserved af-
secretary Of state, but there shall be
required no other record thereof.
"Article-Every law enacted by the
Legislature shall embrace but one OBJ
ject, the title Of which must be fndi-
cative thereof
"ArticIe-No law shall be revived or
amended by reference to its title. but
in such cases the act sought to be re-
vived or amended shall be re-enacted
and published at length. and shall con-
tain repeating clause.
"Article-The Legislature shall never
adopt any system or code Of laws by
general reference to such system or
code of laws: but in all cases shall re-
cite at length the several provisions
of the law it may enact
"Article-No less than majority Of
the members of each house OF the Leg
islature shall form quorum to trans
act business, but smaller number
have power to compel the attendance
of absent members.
"ArticIe-Neither house, during the
sitting of the Legislature, shall, with
for more than three days. nor to any
other place than that in which 1t
may be sitting.
"Article-The yeas and nays on any
question in either house shall, at the
desire Of one-fifth of the members
elected, be entered on the journal.
"Article-All bills, for raising rev.
enue or appropriating money shall
originate in the House of Representa-
tives, but the Senate may propose or
concur in amendments as in other bills.
"Artfcle-No bill, ordinance or reso-
luton intended to have the effect Of
law, which shall have been rejected by
either house, shall be again proposed
in the same house during the same
title. without the consent Of a majority
of members elected to the house by
which the same was rejected.
"Article-Every bill shall be read on
thre different days in each house and
no bill shall be considered for final
passage unless 1t has been read once
in full, and the same has been re-
ported on by committee; nor shall
any bill become a law unless, on its
final passage. the vote be taken by
yeas and nays, the names of the men,
be entered on the journal, and a ma
jority of the members elected to each
house be recorded thereon as voting in
it's favor; provided. that bills revising
the statutes or codes of this State, or
adopting a criminal code as a whole,
shall be read and promulgated in such
manner as may be prescribed by the
Legislature.
"Article--No amendments to bills by
one house shall be ooncurred in by the
other, nor shall reports of committees
of conference be adopted in either
house except by a majority of the men,
bers elected thereto, the vote to be
taken by yeas and nays, and the names
of those voting for or against recorded
upon the journal.
"Article--Whenever a bill that has
been passed by both houses has been
enrolled and placed in possession of the
house in which it originated. the title
shall be read, and, at the request Of
any five members, the bill shall be read
in full, when the speaker of the House
of Representatives or the president of
the Senate, as the case may be, shall
at once, sign 1t in open house, and the
fact of signing shall be noted on the
journal; thereupon the clerk or secre-
tary shall Immediately convey the bill
to the other house, whose presiding
officer shall cause suspension OF
all other business to read and sign the
bill in open session and without DELAY
AS soon as bills are signed by the
speaker of the House and president or
the Senate, they shall be taken at
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