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The Eighteenth Senatorial District shall be composed of the parish of East Baton Rouge, and shall elect one Senator;
The Nineteenth Senatorial District shall be composed of the par- ishes of St. Helena, Livingston, Tangipahoa, Washington and St. Tammany, and shall elect two Senators;
The Twentieth Senatorial District shall be composed of the par- ishes of Rapides and Vernon, and shall elect one Senator.
The Twenty-first Senatorial District shall be composed of the parishes of Natchitoches, Sabine, De Soto and Red River, and shall eleet two Senators.
The Twenty-second Senatorial District shall be composed of the parish of Caddo, and shall eleet one Senator.
The Twenty-third Senatorial District shall be composed of the parishes of Webster and Bossier, and shall eleet one Senator.
The Twenty-fourth Senatorial District shall be composed of the parishes of Bienville and Claiborne, and shall elect one Senator.
The Twenty-fifth Senatorial District shall be composed of the parishes of Union, Lincoln, Morehouse and West Carroll, and shall eleet two Senators.
The Twenty-sixth Senatorial District shall be composed of the parishes of Ouachita and Jackson, and shall elect one Senator.
The Twenty-seventh Senatorial District shall be composed of the parishes of Winn, Caldwell and Grant, and shall elect one Senator. The Twenty-eighth Senatorial District shall be composed of the parishes of East Carroll and Madison, and shall elect one Senator.
The Twenty- ninth Senatorial District shall be composed of the parishes of Tensas and Concordia, and shall elect one Senator.
The Thirtieth Senatorial District shall be composed of the parishes of Richland, Franklin and Catahoula, and shall be entitled to one Senator.
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'Thirty-nine (39) Senators in all.
And the Representatives shall be apportioned among the parishes and Representative districts, as follows :
For the parish of Orleans-
First Representative District, First Ward, one Representative.
Second Representative District, Second Ward, two Representa- tives.
Third Representative District, Third Ward, three Representatives. Fourth Representative District, Fourth Ward, one Representa- tive.
Fifth Representative District, Fifth Ward, two Representatives.
Sixth Representative District, Sixth Ward, one Representative.
Seventh Representative District, Seventh Ward, two Representa- tives.
Eighth Representative District, Eighth Ward, one Representa- tive.
Ninth Representative District, Ninth Ward, two Representatives. Tenth Representative District, Tenth Ward, two Representatives. Eleventh Representative District, Eleventh Ward, two Represent- atives.
Twelfth Representative District, Twelfth Ward, one Representa- tive.
Thirteenth Representative District, Thirteenth Ward, one Repre- sentative.
Fourteenth Representative District, Fourteenth Ward, one Rep- resentative.
Fifteenth Representative District, Fifteenth Ward, one Repre- sentative.
Sixteenth Representative District, Sixteenth Ward, one Repre- sentative.
Seventeenth Representative District, Seventeenth Ward, one Representative;
The Parishes of Acadia, West Baton Rouge, Bienville, Caldwell, Cameron, East Carroll, West Carroll, Catahoula, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, Jefferson, Lincoln, Livingston, Plaquemines, Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St, John the Baptist, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Vermilion. Vernon, Washing- ton, Webster and Winn, each, one Representative;
The Parishes of Ascension. Assumption, Avoyelles, East Baton Rouge, Bossier, Calcasieu, Claiborne, Concordia, De Soto, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville, Lafourche, Lafayette, Madison, Moreheuse, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee. Ouachita, Rapides, St. James, St. Mary, St. Martin, Tensas, Terrebonne, Union, each, two Representatives;
The Parishes of Caddo and St. Landry, each, three Representa- tives.
This apportionment of Senators and Representatives shall not be changed or altered in any manner until after the enumeration shall have been taken by the United States. After the year 1902 the ap- portionment made in this article shall cease to exist.
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General Assembly.
Art. 21. The legislative power of the State shall be vested in a General Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Art. 22. The style of the laws of this State shall be: " Be it en- acted by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana."
Art. 23. The General Assembly shall meet at the seat of govern- ment on the third Monday of May, ISOS, at 12 o'clock noon, and biennially thereafter, on the second Monday of May, and the ses- sions thereof shall be limited to sixty days. Should a vacancy occur in either House, the Governor shall order an election to fill such vacancy for the remainder of the term.
Art. 24. Every elector under this Constitution shall be eligible to a seat in the House of Representatives, and every elector who has reached the age of twenty-five years shall be eligible to the Senate; provided, that no person shall be eligible to the General Assembly unless at the time of his election he has been a citizen of the State for five years, and an actual resident of the district or parish from which he may be elected for two years immediately preceding his election. The seat of any member who may change his residence from the district or parish which he represents shall thereby be va- cated, any declaration of a retention of domicile to the contrary not- withstanding; and members of the General Assembly shall be elected for a term of four years.
Art. 25. Each House shall be the judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of its own members, choose it own officers, ex- cept President of the Senate, determine the rules of its proceedings, and may punish its members for disorderly conduct and contempt, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds of all its members elected, expel a member.
Art. 26. Either House, during the session, may punish by im- prisonment any person not a member who shall have been guilty of disrespect, or disorderly or contemptuous behavior; but such im- prisonment shall not exceed ten days for each offence.
Art. 27. No Senator or Representative shall, during the term for which he was elected, nor for one year thereafter, be appointed or elected to any civil office of profit under this State which may have been created, or the emoluments of which may have been increased by the General Assembly during the time such Senator or Represen- tative was a member thereof.
Art. 28. The members of the General Assembly shall in all cases, except treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance 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.
Art. 29. The members of the General Assembly shall receive a compensation not to exceed five dollars per day during their attend- ance, and five cents per mile going to and returning from the seat of government.
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Art. 30. Each House shall keep a Journal of its proceedings, and cause the same to be published immediately after. the close of the session; when practicable, the minutes of each day's session shall be printed and placed in the hands of members on the day following. The original Journal shall be preserved, after publication, in the office of the Secretary of State, but there shall be required no other record thereof.
Art. 31. Every law enacted by the General Assembly shall en- brace but one object, and that shall be expressed in its title.
Art. 32. No law shall be revived, or amended by reference to its title, but in such cases the act revived, or section as amended, shall be re-enacted and published at length.
Art. 33. The General Assembly shall never adopt any system or code of laws by general reference to such system or code of laws; but in all cases shall recite at length the several provisions of the laws it may enaet.
Art. 34. Not less than a majority of the members of each House of the General Assembly shall form a quorum to transact business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and shall have power to compel the attendance of absent members.
Art. 35. Neither House, during the sitting of the General As- sembly, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which it may be sitting.
Art. 36. 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.
Art. 37. All bills, for raising revenue or appropriating money, shall originate in the House of Representatives, but the Senate may propose or coneur in amendments, as in other bills.
Art. 38. No bill, ordinance or resolution, intended to have the effect of a law, which shall [have] been rejected by either House, shall be again proposed in the same House during the same session, under thesame or any other title, without the consent of a majority of the House by which the same was rejected.
Art. 39. Every bill shall be read on three different days in each House, and no bill shall be considered for final passage unless it has been read once in full, and the same has been reported on by a com- mittee; nor shall any bill become a law unless, on its final passage, the vote be taken by yeas and nays, the names of the members vot- ing for or against the same be entered on the Journal, and a majority of the members elected to each House be recorded thereon as voting in its favor; provided, that bills revising the statutes or codes of this State, or adopting a criminal code as a whole, shall be read in such manner as may be prescribed by the General Assembly.
Art. 40. No amendment to bills by one House shall be concurred in by the other, nor shall reports of committees of conference be adopted in either House except by a majority of the members elected thereto, the vote to be taken by yeas and nays, and the names of those voting for or against recorded upon the Journal.
Art 41. Whenever a bill that has been passed by both Houses
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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 it in open house, and the fact of signing shall be noted on the Journal; thereupon the Clerk or Secretary shall immediately convey the bill to the other House, whose presid- ing officer shall cause a suspension of all other business to read and and sign the bill in open session and without delay. As soon as bills are signed by the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, they shall be taken at once, and on the same day, to the Governor by the Clerk of the House of Representatives or Secretary of the Senate.
Art. 42. No law passed by the General Assembly, except the general appropriation act, or aet appropriating money for the ex- penses of the General Assembly, shall take effect until promulgated. Laws shall be considered promulgated at the place where the State Journal is published, the day after the publication of such law in the State Journal, and in all other parts of the State twenty days after such publication. The State Journal shall be published at the capital.
Art. 43. The clerical officers of the two ITouses shall be a Secre- tary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, with such assistants as may be necessary ; but the expenses of said officials, including the Sergeant-at-Arms, of each House, together with all Clerks of Committees and all other employes of whatever kind, shall not exceed one hundred dollars daily for the Senate, nor one hundred and twenty dollars daily for the House, and the Chairman of the Committee on Contingent Expenses of each House shall not issne warrants for any compensation in excess of said amounts; provided, this shall not affect the employes of the present General Assembly. No donation of any unexpended balances shall be made as extra com- pensation or for any other purpose.
Art. 44. All stationery, printing, paper and fuel used in the legis- lative and other departments of government shall be furnished, and the printing, binding and distribution of the Laws, journals and the department reports, and all other printing and binding, and the re- pairing and furnishing of the halls and rooms used for the meetings of the General Assembly and its committees, shall be done under contract, to be given to the lowest responsible bidder below such maximum price under such regulations as shall be prescribed by law.
No member or officer of any of the departments of the government shall be in any way interested in the contracts; and all such con- tracts shall be subject to the approval of the Governor, the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, or of any two of them.
Limitation of Legislative Powers.
Art, 45. No money shall be drawn from the treasury except in pursuance of specific appropriation made by law; nor shall any appropriation of money be made for a longer term than two years.
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A regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public moneys shall be published every three months, in such man- ner as shall be prescribed by law.
Art. 46. The General Assembly shall have no power to contract, or to authorize the contracting of any debt or liability, on behalf of the State; or to issue bonds or other evidence of indebtedness thereof, except for the purpose of repelling invasion, or for the suppression of insurrection.
Art. 47. The General Assembly shall have no power to grant or to authorize any parish or municipal authority to grant any extra com- pensation, fee or allowance to a public officer, agent, servant or con- tractor, nor pay, nor authorize the payment, of any claim against the State, or any parish or municipality thereof, under any agree- ment or contract made without express authority of law; and all such unauthorized agreements or contracts shall be null and void.
Art. 48. The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law on the following specified subjects :
For the opening and conducting of elections, or fixing or changing the place of voting.
Changing the names of persons.
Changing the venue in civil or criminal cases.
Authorizing the laying out, opening, closing, altering or main- taining 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 legitimation of children or the eman- cipation of minors.
Granting divorces.
Changing the law 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 constructing of street passenger railroads in any incorporated town or city.
Regulating labor, trade, manufacturing or agriculture.
Creating corporations, or amending, renewing, extending or ex- plaining the charters thereof; provided, this shall not apply to municipal corporations having a population of not less than twenty - five hundred inhabitants, 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, . . for the relief of any assessor or collector of taxes from the pe '- formance of his official duties, or of his sureties from liability ; nt " shall any such law or ordinance be passed by any political corpora- tion of this State.
Regulating the practice or jurisdiction 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
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or the enforcement of judgments, or prescribing the effects of judi- cial sales.
Exempting property from taxation.
Fixing the rate of interest.
Concerning any civil or criminal actions.
Giving effeet to informal or invalid wills or deeds, or to any illegal disposition of property.
Regulating the management of public schools, the building or re- pairing of schoolhouses, and the raising of money for such pur- poses.
Legalizing the unauthorized or invalid acts of any officer, servant, or agent of the State, or of any parish or municipality thereof.
Art. 49. The General Assembly shall not indirectly enact special or local laws by the partial repeal of a general law; but laws re- pealing local or special laws may be passed.
Art. 50. No local or special law shall be passed on any subject not enumerated in Article 48 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 affected may be situated, which notice shall state the substance of the con - templated 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 ex- hibited 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. 51. No law shall be passed fixing the price of manual labor. Art. 52. Any member of the General Assembly who has a personal or private interest in any measure or bill proposed, or pending before the General Assembly, shall disclose the fact to the house of which he is a member, and shall not vote thereon.
Art. 53. No money shall ever be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, seet or denomination of religion, or in aid of any priest, preacher, minister or teacher thereof, as such, and no preference shall ever be given to, nor any discrimination made against any church, seet or creed of religion, or any form of religious faith or worship; nor shall any appropria- tion be made for private, charitable or benevolent purposes to any person or community; provided, this shall not apply to the State Asylumn for the Insane and State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and State Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, and the charity hospitals and public charitable institutions conducted under State authority.
Art. 54. The General Assembly shall have no power to increase the expenses of any office by appointing assistant officials.
Art. 55. The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the government, interest on the public debt, public schools and public charities; and such bill shall be so itemized as to show for what account each and every appropriation shall be made. All other appropriations shall be made by separate bills, each embracing but one object.
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Art. 56. Each appropriation shall be for a specific purpose, and no appropriation shall be made under the head or title of contin- gent; nor shall any officer or department of government receive any amount from the treasury for contingencies or for a contingent fund.
Art. 57. No appropriation of money shall be made by the General Assembly in the last five days of the session thereof. All appropri- - ations, to be valid, shall be passed and receive the signatures of the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives five full days before the adjournment sine die of the General Assem- bly.
Art. 58. The funds, credit, property or things of value of the State, or of any political corporation thereof, shall not be loaned, pledged or granted to or for any person or persons, association or corporation, public or private; nor shall the State. or any political corporation, purchase or subscribe to the capital or stock of any corporation or association whatever, or for any private enterprise. Nor shall the State, nor any political corporation thereof, assume the liabilities of any political, municipal, parochial, private or other corporation or association whatsoever; nor shall the State undertake to carry on the business of any such corporation or association, or become a part owner therein; provided, the State, through the General Assembly, shall have power to grant the right of way through its public lands to any railroad or canal; and, provided, Police Juries and municipal corporations may, in providing for destitute persons, utilize any charitable institutions within their corporate limits for the care, maintenance and asylum of such per- sons; and all appropriations made to such institutions for the purpose aforesaid shall be accounted for by them in the manner required of officials entrusted with public funds.
Art. 59. The General Assembly shall have no power to release or extinguish, or to authorize the releasing or extinguishment, in whole or in part, of the indebtedness, liability or obligation of any corpora- tion or individual to the State, or to any parish or municipal corporation thereof; provided, the heirs to confiscated property may be released from all taxes due thereon at the date of its rever- sion to them.
Art. 60. No educational or charitable institution, other than the State institutions now existing, or expressly provided for in this Constitution. shall be established by the State, except upon a vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each House of the General Assembly.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Art. 61. The Executive Department shall consist of a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Auditor. Treasurer and Secretary of State.
Art. 62. The supreme executive power of the State shall be vested in a chief magistrate, who shall be styled the Governor of Louisiana. He shall hold his office during four years, and, together with the Lieutenant Governor, chosen for the same term, shall be elected as
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follows: The qualified electors for Representatives shall vote for a Governor and Lieutenant Governor at the time and place of voting for Representatives. The return of every election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be made and sealed up separately from the return of election of other officers, and transmitted by the proper officer of every parish to the Secretary of State, who shall deliver them, unopened, to the General Assembly then next to be holden. The members of the General Assembly shall meet on the first Thurs- day after the day on which they assemble, in the House of Repre- sentatives, to examine, tabulate and count the votes evidenced by said returns. The person having the greatest number of votes for Governor shall be declared duly elected; but in case two or more persons shall be equal and highest in the number of votes polled for Governor, one of them shall be immediately chosen Governor by the joint vote of the members of the General Assembly. The person having the greatest number of votes for Lieutenant Governor shall be declared duly elected Lieutenant Governor; but in case two or more persons shall be equal and highest in the number of votes polled for Lieutenant Governor, one of them shall be immediately chosen Lieutenant Governor by the joint vote of the members of the General Assembly.
Art. 63. No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor, or Lieutenant Governor, who shall not have attained the age of thirty years, been ten years a citizen of the United States, and resident of the State for the same period of time next preceding his election; or who shall hold office under the United States at the time of or within six months immediately preceding the election for such office; nor shall any person who shall have been elected, qualified and served as Governor under this Constitution be eligible as his own succes- sor; provided, however, that he may again be eligible to the office at the expiration of one or more terms after the term for which he shall have served.
Art. 64. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall enter on the discharge of their duties the first Monday next ensuing the an- nouncement by the General Assembly of the result of the election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor; and each shall continue in office until the first Monday next succeeding the day that his succes- sor shall have been declared duly elected, and shall have taken the oath, or affirmation, required by the Constitution.
Art. 65. In case of the impeachment of the Governor, his removal from office, death, refusal or inability to qualify, disability, resigna- tion. or absence from the State, the powers and duties of the office shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor for the residne of the term, or until the Governor, absent or impeached, shall return or be acquitted or the disability be removed. In the event of the removal. impeachment, death, resignation, disability or refusal to qualify, of both the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor, the President pro tempore of the Senate shall act as Governor until the disability be re- moved, or for the residue of the term. If there should be no Presi- dent pro tempore of the Senate, when any of the above mentioned contingencies arise for him to act as Governor, or in the event of
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