impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent on me according to the best of my ability and understanding.

as

So help me God."

ART. 105. All civil officers of the State at large shall be voters of, and reside within the State; and all district or parish officers shall reside within their respective districts or parishes, and shall keep their offices at such place therein, as may be required by law.

Qualifications and residence

of civil officers.

Civil officers re

ART. 106. All civil officers shall be removable by an address of two-thirds of the members elect to each House of the General movable by address-Excep. Assembly, except those whose removal is otherwise provided for by this Constitution.

tion.

main in office

ART. 122. All officers shall continue to discharge the duties of Officers to retheir offices, until their successors shall have been inducted into till successors office, except in cases of impeachment or suspension.

are inductedException.

Laws to remain

ART. 150. The laws relative to the duties of officers shall remain in force, though contrary to this Constitution, and the several duties in force and dube performed by the respective officers, until the organization of the government under this Constitution.

ties of officers.

Officers remov

1. [SEC. 2607.] Whenever any district or parish officer shall permanently remove from the district or parish, for which he may 1855-350. have been elected or appointed, the office shall, in consequence ing out of the thereof, be deemed vacant, and upon satisfactory information being given of such removal, the Governor shall cause the vacancy to be filled in the manner provided by law.

parish to vacate

their offices.

Officers to hold

successors are

2. [SEC. 2608.] All officers, whether appointed or elected, shall 1861-134. hold their offices and discharge the duties thereof until their succes- over until their sors are elected or appointed, as the case may be, and duly qualified. qualified. 3. [SEC. 2609.] Every officer, for the benefit of whose office 1855–350. there is a contingent fund appropriated, shall render a detailed der an account statement to the General Assembly, at each session thereof, showing gent fund. what disposition has been made of such contingent fund.

of their contin

be sent to Au

4. [SEC. 2610.] Whenever any officer of this State, whose compensation depends upon, or is to be computed by time of service, Copy of oath to shall qualify himself to enter upon the discharge of his duties by ditor. taking and subscribing the necessary constitutional oath, he shall without delay transmit to the Auditor of Public Accounts a true copy of said oath, who shall thereupon record the date thereof in a Salary to combook to be kept for that purpose, and his salary shall commence date of oath. from the date of the oath.

mence from

5. [SEC. 2611.] The several heads of departments herein before enumerated, and the Directors and Lessees of the Louisiana Penifurnished to the tentiary, and Directors of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum, of

1856-87. Reports to be

Governor, at

what time.

Number of copies to be printed.

the Insane Asylum, of the Charity Hospital, of the Board of Health and of the joint stock companies in which the State may be interested, shall be required to furnish the Governor with their respective reports, annually, at least ten days previous to the meeting of the General Assembly, and they shall cause said reports to be printed in pamphlet form, at the expense of the State, by the State Printer. The following number of copies of such reports respectively, shall be printed for the use of the Senate and House of Representatives, viz: Report of the Secretary of State, five hundred copies; report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, fifteen hundred copies; report of the Superintendent of Public Education, one thousand copies; report of the Register of the Land Office, five hundred copies; report of the State Librarian, five hundred copies; report of the Board of Public Works, eight hundred copies; report of the Warden or Lessee or Directors of the Louisiana Penitentiary, five hundred copies; report of the Adjutant and Inspector General, five hundred copies; report of the Attorney General, five hundred copies; report of the Directors of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum, two hundred and fifty copies; report of the Directors of the Insane Asylum, five hundred copies; report of the Directors of the Board of Health, five hundred copies; report of the Directors of joint stock companies in which the State is interested, five hundred copies.

6. [SEC. 2612.] The aforementioned reports, and all other reReports not to ports, ordered by the Senate or House of Representatives, to be be printed in the State paper. printed in pamphlet form, shall not be published in the State

reports, how

printed.

paper.

7. [SEC. 2613.] All executive messages communicated, and the Messages and reports of the various State departments and of all standing and special committees of either branch of the General Assembly, and the documents accompanying the same, shall be printed and bound in a separate volume, in the manner and form prescribed for the printing and publishing of the journals, and shall be designated "Documents of the Legislature, 18-," and there shall be two thousand volumes of the same delivered with the journals.

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Officers to submit statement of their expenses to the General Assembly.

8. [SEC. 2614.] The various State officers are hereby required to submit to the General Assembly a detailed statement of their expenses, giving each item with the proper vouchers, within the first week of its annual session.

Vacancy in the

9. [SEC. 2615.] In case of vacancy in the office of Lieutenant 1865–132. Governor, the Senate shall elect a President, who shall be Lieuten- office of Lieuant Governor.

tenant Gov.

ernor.

case of vacancy

Governor, Lieu

10. [SEC. 2616.] If the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor Succession in and President of the Senate, shall become vacant by death or other- in the office of wise, the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be Governor, tenant Govand the Senate, at their first meeting, shall elect a President, who ident of the shall be Lieutenant Governor.

ernor and Pres

Senate.

ernor respect

ing appointmade by him

ments to be

11. [SEC. 2617.] In all cases, when the law shall direct any ap- Duty of Govpointment to be made by the Governor and Senate within a limited time, a nomination for such appointment shall be laid before the Senate at least six days before the expiration of said time.

12. [SEC. 2618.] The Private Secretary of the Governor shall receive a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly on his own warrant.

13. [SEC. 2619.] The flag of the United States, from sunrise to sunset, shall wave over the public departments and institutions of the State on all public occasions, over the State House during the sessions of the General Assembly, and over the Court Houses in the several parishes during the sessions of the courts.

14. [SEC. 2620.] The several public officers, respectively, shall enforce and execute, or cause to be enforced and executed, the provisions of the foregoing section.

and the Senate within a limited time.

Salary of Private Secretary to Governor.

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The United

be displayed.

Duties of public officers.

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of officers of

itan Police.

15. [SEC. 2622.] Each officer and member of the Metropolitan Police force shall hold office, respectively, during good behavior, and shall be liable to removal from office or membership of the said Police force only after written charges shall have been pre- Qualifications ferred against him, according to the rules and regulations of the the MetropolBoard of Commissioners; but no person shall ever be appointed to office or membership of the said Police force who is not a citizen of the United States and this State, or who has ever been convicted of crime, or who is disqualified by the fourteenth article of the Constitution of the United States, or by the terms of article ninety-nine of the Constitution of this State.

Fiscal year.

16. [SEC. 86.] The fiscal year shall begin on the first of December and end on the thirtieth day of November of each and every year, and this designation of the fiscal year shall apply to the year 1870–126, extra ending on the thirty-first day of December, A. D. 1870. And it session. shall be the duty of the State Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Superintendent of Public Education, and all other officers charged with the receipt, expenditure or safe keeping of the public moneys, cers to the Govto make a detailed and accurate statement thereof to the Governor ernor, when of this State, on or before the fifteenth day of January of each and every year, to be by the Governor submitted to the General Assembly with his annual message.

Reports of offi

made.

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Season for fishing.

tween certain dates.

Penalty for violation.

1. [SEC. 1.] The season for fishing oysters on the reefs, bays and coasts of the State of Louisiana, shall commence on the fifteenth day of September and end on the first day of April, and, during the aforesaid period, all citizens of the United States, or at least those who have declared their intention of becoming such, are hereby permitted, without any restriction whatever or any payment of taxes and dues to the State of Louisiana for the privilege to fish, bed and remove oysters, for their own use and benefit, or for sale or any other purpose, on any of the reefs, bays and coasts of the State of Louisiana.

2. [SEC. 2.] From and after the first day of April to the fifteenth Prohibition be. day of September of each year, no person or persons shall fish, bed and remove, or in any manner disturb oysters on any of the reefs, bays and coasts of the State of Louisiana; and any person or persons who shall violate, or, in any manner, contravene the provisions of this section of this act, shall be fined for each offense not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, recoverable in any court having competent jurisdiction, one-half of said fine to go to the informer, and the remainder to the school fund of the parish in which the offense is committed.

Informer.

Imprisonment.

Aliens not to fish.

3. [SEC. 3.] Should any person or persons, so convicted, refuse, or be unable to pay the above mentioned fine, such person or persons shall be punished by imprisonment in the parish jail for a period of not less than ten nor more than sixty days.

4. [SEC. 4.] None but citizens of the United States, or, at least, those who have declared their intention of becoming such, shall fish, bed or remove oysters on any of the reefs, bays and coasts of the State of Louisiana, under a penalty of not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars, recoverable in any court having competent jurisdiction, one-half to the informer and the remainder to the school fund of the parish in which the offense is committed.

5. SEC. 5.] Should any person or persons, so convicted, refuse

violation.

to pay the above mentioned fine, such person or persons shall be Penalty for punished by not less than twenty nor more than sixty days' imprisonment in the jail of the parish in which the offense is committed.

Districts, how formed.

ART. 29.-No parish shall be divided in the formation of a Senatorial District, the parish of Orleans excepted; and whenever a new District parish shall be created, it shall be attached to the Senatorial District from which most of its territory is taken, or to another contiguous district, at the discretion of the General Assembly; but shall not be attached to more than one district. The number of Senators shall Senators. be thirty-six; and they shall be apportioned among the Senatorial Districts according to the total population of said districts.

Number of

ART. 126. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to make it obligatory upon each parish to support all paupers residing within Paupers.

its limits.

1. [SEC. 2624.] Whenever the Police Jury of any parish shall 1855-35. pass an ordinance for ascertaining and fixing the boundary lines of Boundaries, any parish adjoining thereto, and shall appoint a time and place for determined.

how fixed and