Suffrage and Elections. Section 169. No salaried officer shall be al lowed fees. 170. The General Assembly shall have power to enact laws regulating the sale and use of spirituous liquors. 171. No person intrusted with the care of public money shall be eligible to any office of trust or profit until surrender of said moneys. 172. Gambling is prohibited. 173. Relative to bribery of any State officer. 174. Any person may be compelled to testify in lawful proceedings against bribery, but said person's testimony shall not criminate him or subject him to public infamy. 175. The General Assembly shall pass laws to protect laborers and property. 176. Relative to mortgages or priv ileges on immovable property. 177. Privileges on movable property exist without registration. 178. The General Assembly shall provide for the interest of State medicine, and for the health of the citizens. 179. The General Assembly shall create a bureau of agriculture and provide for expenditures of the same. 180. The New Basin Canal and Shell road shall not be leased. The Governor shall appoint a superintendent of canals. Section 184. The people shall elect by ballot. -Representative election shall be by voice. 185. Relative to the qualifications of an elector. 186. The General Assembly shall provide for the registration of voters. 187. Any person who has been convicted of treason or other crimes shall not vote or hold any public office. 188. No restriction on account of color or race shall be placed on voting. 189. Electors shall be free from ar rest during elections except for treason, felony or breach of the peace. 190. The General Assembly shall by law forbid the sale of spirituous liquors on election day within a certain distance of the polls. 191. The general election shall be held every four years, on the Tuesday following the third Monday in April. 192. Parochial and municipal elec tions in New Orleans and Shreveport shall be held on the same day as the general election. 193. For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by his presence or absence in the service of the United States. 194. The General Assembly shall provide by law for the trial and determination of all con tested elections. 195. No person shall be eligible to any office who is not a citizen of the State and a duly qualified voter of the judicial dis. trict, parish, municipality or ward wherein the functions of said office are to be exercised. And whenever any of Militra. 181. The General Assembly shall provide for the militia of the State. 182. The militia shall not receive any compensation when not in actual service. 183. The General Assembly may exempt from military services.--The Governor may call out the militia. Section ficer may remove his residence from the State, judicial district, etc., in which he holds office, the same shall thereby be vacated. Impeachment and Removal from Office. 196. Relative to the impeachment of Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney-General, Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction. 197. House of Representatives shall have sole power of impeachment.-All impeachments to be tried by Senate.-Judg. ments. 197. In cases of impeachments to ex tend only to removal from office and disqualification from holding same, but shall also be liable to prosecution, trial and punishment according to law. 198. All officers against whom articles impeachment have been preferred shall be suspended from the exercise of of the functions of their offce. 199. For reasonable cause, the Gov ernor shall remove any officer the members of the General on the journal of each house. 200. Removal from office of judges. 201. Removal from office of sheriffs, clerks, district attorneys and Section maintain the government and all expenses pertaining to wel. fare and instruction of inhab itants. 205. The power to tax corporations and corporate property shall never be surrendered or sus. pended by act of General As sembly. 206. The General Assembly may levy a license tax. 207. Articles exempt from taxation. 208. General Assembly, to levy an annual poll tax for support of public schools. 209. Limit of taxation. 210. Relative to forfeiture of proper ty for non-payment of taxes. 211. How tax shall be designated and when tax is collectable. 212, The Legislature shall pass no law postponing the payment of taxes, except in cases of overflow, general conflagration, general destruction of the crops or other public calamity. 213. A tax for the maintenance of the levees will be exacted an nually. 214. General Assembly to divide the State into levee districts and to provide for the election of levee commissioners and a tax to support these said commis sioners. 215. The provisions of the above two articles shall cease when the Federal government shall take possession of said levees. -The Federal government is authorized to make geological, topographical, etc., surveys and investigations with in the State. 216. General Assembly shall have power, with the concurrence of adjacent States, to divide the country into levee districts, partly in this State and adjacent States. 217. License of corporations domi ciled out of the State. Perenue and Taxation. 202. General Assembly to exercise a taxing power. 203. General Assembly to provide a system of equality and uni formity in assessments. 204. The taxing power shall be exercised only to carry on and 1 Section 232. Women shall be allowed to vote under the school laws.—The Free school fund, Seminary fund, and Agricultural and Mechanical College fund. 233. Relative to the fund of the Ag ricultural and Mechanical College. Corporations. on 234. Relative to the forfeiture of charters of corporations. 235. Corporations not to infringe on the rights of individuals. 236. No foreign corporation shall do business without having one or more known agents Section lection of taxes shall apply to Homesteads and Exemptions. from seizure and sale. valuation of the homestead.- homesteads. to supplement his exemption. 222. The homestead not susceptible of mortgage. for the protection of credit- Public Education. 224. There shall be free public schools established by the ad amount to each parish. Instruction to be elected.- pensation, schools shall be in the Eng lish language. collection of the poll tax shall of public schools. port of the public schools to sectarian schools. sist of. 230. University of Louisiana as es tablished is recognized in its three departments. in New Orleans a university whom process may be served. 237. No corporation shall engage in business other than that expressly authorized in its con stitution. 238. No corporation shall issue stock or bonds except for work actually done. 239. The stock of any corporation shall not be increased except in pursuance of general laws. 240. The term corporation as used in this Constitution shall be construed to include all joint stock companies or associa tions. 241. Relative to bank officers receive ing deposits after the bank is insolvent. 242. The General Assembly shall have power to enact laws authorizing parish or municipal officers to levy special taxes. 243. Any railroad corporation shall have the right to construct and operate a railroad in this State.-Every railroad shall have the right to intersect or cross any other railroad. 244. Railroads are hereby declared public highways. 245. Every railroad corporation doing business shall have an office for transaction of general business. Amendment and Revision of Constitu tion. Section 256. If two-thirds of members of General Assembly vote for proposed amendments they shall be submitted to vote of electors of State. Schedule. 257. The Constitution adopted in 1868 and all amendments thereto are superseded by this con stitution. 258. Monopoly feature of corpora. tions abolished. 259. No office to be superseded by thd effect of this Constitu tion. 260. Appointments to be made by the Governor. 261. Relative to the transfer of causes pending in courts. 262. Election of members of General Assembly. - Dissolution of General Assembly elected in 1878.-General Assembly to compile votes and declare the results of election. 263. First session of the General As. sembly elected under this Constitution. 264. When officers shall enter upon discharge of their duties. 265. When terms of officers shall terminate. 266. When judicial officers shall en enter upon discharge of their duties. 267. The General Assembly shall provide for the payment of convention printer. 268. Relative to parochial and mu. nicipal elections in New Orleans and Shreveport. City of New Orleans. 253. The city of New Orleans shall have the power to appoint public officers necessary for the administration of police affairs. 254. The General Assembly shall enact such legislation as will liquidate the indebtedness of city of New Orleans.-It shall have power to cancel charter. 255. General Assembly to pass laws prohibiting foreign sailors working on wharves of city of New Orleans. PREAMBLE. We, the people of the State of Louisiana, in order to establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, acknowledging and invoking the guidance of Almighty God, the author of all good government, do ordain and establish this Constitution. BILL OF RIGHTS. Article 1. All government of right originates with the people, is founded on their will alone, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole, deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed. Its only legitimate end is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty and property. When it assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression. Art. 2. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizeures shall not be violated, and no warrant shall issue upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the person or things to be seized. Art. 3. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged. This shall not prevent the passage of laws to punish those who carry weapons concealed. Art. 4. No law shall be passed respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances. Art. 5. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servi. tude in this State otherwise than for the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Prosecutions shall be by indictment or information: Provided, That no person shall be held to answer for a capital crime unless on a presentment or indictment by a grand jury, except in cases arising in the militia when in actual service in time of war or public danger, nor shall any person be twice put in jeopardy of life or liberty for the same offense, except on his own application for a new trial, or where there is a mistrial, or a motion in arrest of judg. ment is sustained. |
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