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LOUISIANA.

Art. 7. The General Assembly shall not indirectly enact special or local laws, by the partial repeal of a general law; but laws repealing local or special laws may be passed.

Art. 158. The General Assembly shall provide by law for change of venue in civil and criminal cases.

46.

The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law on the following specified objects: For the opening and conducting of elections, or fixing or changing the place of voting. Changing the name of persons. Changing the venue in civil and criminal cases.

Authorizing the laying out, opening, closing, altering or maintaining roads, highways, streets or alleys, or relating to ferries and bridges, or incorporating bridge or ferry companies, except for the erection of bridges crossing streams which form boundaries between this and any other State.

Authorizing the adoption or legitlmation of children or the emancipation of minors. Granting divorces.

Changing the laws of descent or succession.

Affecting the estates of minors

or persons under disabilities. Remitting fines, penalties and forfeitures or refunding moneys legally paid into the treasury. Authorizing the construction of street passenger railroads in any incorporated town or city.

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Regulating labor, trade, manufacturing or agriculture. Creating corporations, or amending, renewing, extending or explaining the charter thereof: Provided, That this shall not apply to the corporation of the city of New Orleans, or to the organization of levee districts and parishes.

Granting to any corporation, association or individual any special or exclusive right, privilege or immunity.

Extending the time for the assessment or collection of taxes. or for the relief of any assessor or collector of taxes from the due performance of his official duties, or of his securities from liability; nor shall any such be passed by any political corporation of this State.

Regulating the practice or juris

diction of any court or changing the rules of evidence in any judicial proceeding or inquiry before courts, or providing or changing methods for the collection of debts or the enforcement of judgments, or prescribing the effects of judicial sales. Exemption of property from taxation.

Fixing the rate of interest. Concerning any civil or criminal actions.

Giving effect to informal or invalid wills or deeds, or to any illegal disposition of property. Regulating the management of public schools, the building or repairing of school houses and the raising of money for such purposes.

Legalizing the unauthorized or invalid acts of any officer, servant, agent of the State, or of any parish or municipality thereof.

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No local or special law shall be passed on any subject not enumerated in article 46 of this Constitution, unless notice of the intention to apply therefor shall have been published, without cost to the State, in the locality where the matter or thing to be effected may be situated, which notice shall state the substance of the contemplated law, and shall be published at least thirty days prior to the introduction into the General Assembly of such bill, and in the same manner provided by law for the advertisement of judicial sales. The evidence of such notice having been published shall be exhibited in the General Assembly before such act shall be passed, and every such act shall contain a recital that such notice has been given.

Art. 205. The power to tax corporations and corporate property shall never be surrendered nor suspended by act of the General Assembly.

Art. 234. The General Assembly shall not remit the forfeiture of the charter of any corporation now existing, nor renew, alter or amend the same, nor pass any general or special law for the benefit of such corporation, except upon the condition that such corporation shall thereafter hold its charter subject to the provisions of this Constitution.

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pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, viz.: For extending the time for the collection of taxes; granting divorces; changing the name of any person; providing for the sale of real estate belonging to minors or other persons laboring under legal disabilities, by executors, administrators, guardians or trustees; giving effect to informal or invalid deeds or wills; refunding money paid into the State treasury, or releasing persons from their debts or obligations to the State, unless recommended by the Governor or officers of the State Treasury Department and the General Assembly shall pass no special law for any case for which provision has been made by any existing general law. The General Assembly, at its first session after the adoption of this Constitution, shall pass general laws providing for the cases enumerated in this section which are not already adequately provided for, and for all other cases where a general law can be made applicable.

wholly within this State. 4th. For authorizing the sale or mortgage of real or personal property of minors or other persons under disability.

5th. For changing any county seat. 6th. For assessment or collection of taxes, or for extending the time for the collection thereof. 7th. For granting corporate powers or privileges, except to cities. 8th. For authorizing the apportionment of any part of the school fund.

9th. For incorporating any town

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all cases where a general law can be made applicable, and would be made advantageous, no special law shall be enacted. 88. IV.

The Legislature shall pass general laws, under which local and private interests shall be provided for and protected, and under which cities and towns chartered and their may be charters amended, and under which corporations may be created, organized, and their acts of incorporation altered; and all such laws shall be subject to repeal or amendment.

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There shall be appointed in each house of the Legislature a standing committee on local and private legislation; the house committee to consist of seven representatives, and the Senate committee, of five Senators. No local or private bill shall be passed by either house until it shall have been referred to said shall and committee thereof, have been reported back with a recommendation in writing that it do pass, stating affirmatively the reasons therefor, and why the end to be accomplished should not be reached by a general law, or by a proceeding in court; or if the recommendation of the committee be that the bill do not pass, then it shall not pass the house to which it is so reported unless it be voted for by a majority of all the members elected thereto. If a bill is passed in conformity to the requirements hereof, other than such as are prohibited in the next section, the courts shall not, because of its local, special or private nature, refuse to enforce it. 90. IV.

The Legislature shall not pass

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local, private or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, but such matters shall be provided for only by general laws, viz.:

(a) Granting divorces.

(b) Changing the names of persons, places or corporations. (c) Providing for changes of venue in civil and criminal cases. (d) Regulating the rate of interest on money.

(e) Concerning the settlement or administration of any estate, or the sale or mortgage of any property, of any infant, or of a person of unsound mind, or of any deceased person.

(f) The removal of the disability of infancy.

(g) Granting to any person, corporation or association the right to have any ferry, bridge, road or fish-trap.

(h) Exemption of property from taxation, or from levy or sale. (1) Providing for the adoption or legitimation of children.

(J) Changing the law of descent and distribution.

(k) Exempting any person from jury, road, or other civil duty (and no person shall be exempted therefrom by force of any local or private law).

(1) Laying out, opening, altering and working roads and highways.

(m) Vacating any road or highway, town plat, street, alley or public grounds.

(n) Selecting, drawing, summoning or empaneling grand or petit juries. (0) Creating,

increasing, or decreasing the fees, salary or emoluments of any public officer. (p) Providing for the management or support of any private or common school, incorporating the same or granting such school any privileges.

No obligation or liability of any person, association, or incorporation held or owned by this State, or levee board, or any county, city, or town thereof, shall ever be remitted, released or postponed, or in any way diminished by the Legislature, nor shall such liability or obligation be extinguished except by payment thereof in to the proper treasury; nor shall such liability, or obligation be exchanged or transferred except upon payment of its face value; but this shall not be construed to prevent the Legislature from providing by general law for the compromise of doubtful claims.

51. IV.

MISSOURI.

The General Assembly shall have no power to release or extinguish, or authorize the releasing or extinguishing, in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability or obligation of any corporation or individual to this State, or to any county or other municipal corporation therein.