receipts of the Treasurer of the Hospital, for the payment of said sums respectively, and in case he should issue any license without such receipts, the city of Shreveport shall be liable therefor. State. CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS. ART. 2. All persons, without regard to race, color, or previous Citizens of the condition, born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, and residents of this State for one year, are citizens of this State. The citizens of this State owe allegiance to the United States; and this allegiance is paramount to that which Allegiance due, first, to the United States; State. second, to the they owe to the State. They shall enjoy the same civil, political and public rights and privileges, and be subject to the same pains and penalties. Persons eligible ART. 49. No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor or to the offices of Lieutenant Governor, who is not a citizen of the United States and a resident of this State two years next preceding his election. Governor and Lieutenant Governor. and marines. ART. 134. No soldier, sailor, or marine in the military or naval Soldiers, sailors service of the United States, shall hereafter acquire a residence in this State by reason of being stationed or doing duty in the same. ART. 144. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to organize the militia of the State; and all able bodied male citizens, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, not disfranchised by the laws of the United States and of this State, shall be subject to military duty. The militia. Residence not forfeited by absence on business of the 1. [SEC. 411.] Residence once acquired shall not be forfeited 1855-331. by absence on business of the State or of the United States, but a voluntary absence from the State of two years, or the acquisition United States or of residence in any other State of this Union or elsewhere, shall forfeit a residence within this State. of the State. Residence, how forfeited. fish for oysters on the State 2. [SEC. 4.] None but citizens of the United States, or at least those who have declared their intention of becoming such, shall fish, 1870–43. bed or remove oysters on any of the reefs, bays and coasts of the Aliens not to 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. coasts. Parties to a no 1. [SEC. 449.] The parties to a notarial act may, by written 1845–55. clause in the act, dispense with the certificate of mortgage re- Art. 3328. quired by article three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight tarial act may of the Civil Code, and the notary or Parish Recorder shall not in certificate of such case be entitled to charge for such certificate. dispense with mortgage. 1842-232. Art. 3333. scription of 2. [SEC. 450.] Article three thousand three hundred and thirtythree is hereby amended so that the rule requiring the re-inscription Rule of reinof mortgages, at the expiration of ten years from the date of their mortgages not registry, shall not apply to the mortgages which have been or may various propbe given by the stockholders of the various property banks of this erty banks. State. applicable to 1843-52. Duty of Re mortgages after Article three thousand three hundred and thirty-three of the corder to cancel Civil Code shall be so amended that it shall be the duty of the the lapse of ten Recorder of Mortgages, or person acting as such, to cancel and simple applicaerase, on the simple application in writing to that effect, by the interested." years on the tion of the party This section not applicable to certain mortgages. 1853-159. Rule of rein plicable to mort owner, creditor of the owner, or other party interested, all inscriptions of mortgages which have existed, or may exist on their record for a period exceeding ten years without a renewal of such inscription; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to mortgages against husbands, for the dotal and other claims of their wives, to mortgages against tutors and curators, in favor of minors, interdicted or absent persons, nor to mortgages in favor of the property banks. The reinscription of mortgages required by article three thousand three hundred and thirty-three of the Civil Code shall not scription not ap- apply to mortgages now recorded, or which may hereafter be given and recorded in favor of the commissioners of the Poydras legacy, out of the funds bequeathed by the late Julien Poydras to the indigent girls of the parishes of West Baton Rouge and Pointe Coupée. gages given to the Commissioners of the Poydras legacy. 1848-60. 3. [SEC. 452.] The laws of prescription now existing, whereby absentees and non-residents of the State are entitled to longer periods than persons present or residents in the State, before preas to absentees Scription can be acquired against them are abolished; and hereafter, absentees or non-residents of the State are to stand on the same footing, in relation to the laws of prescription, as persons present or residents of the State; provided, that this section shall not apply to any prescription of one year or less. and non-resi dents as to residents. Proviso. 1870-108. Art. 138. Additional causes of divorce. 4. [SEC. 1.] Married persons may reciprocally claim a divorce on account of excesses, habitual intemperance, cruel treatment, and any such misconduct repugnant to the marriage covenant as permanently destroys the happiness of the petitioner, or of outrages of one of them towards the other, if such outrages or ill treatments be of such a nature as to render their living together insupportable. able rights. ARTICLE 1. All men are created free and equal, and have certain inalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of Certain inalienhappiness. To secure these rights, governments are instituted Objects of Govamong men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the ernment. governed. State. Allegiance due: ART. 2. All persons, without regard to race, color, or previous condition, born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to Citizens of the the jurisdiction thereof, and residents of this State for one year, are citizens of this State. The citizens of this State owe allegiance to the United States; and this allegiance is paramount to that which they owe to the State. They shall enjoy the same civil, political and public rights and privileges, and be subject to the same pains and penalties. 1st, to the United States; 2d, to the State. seizures. ART. 9. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and Searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly Warrants, when describing the place to be searched, or the person or things to be seized. to issue. ART. 11. No law shall be passed fixing the price of manual labor. Labor. ART. 12. Every person has the natural right to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience. No religious test shall be required as a qualification for office. No religious test Rights and priv ileges in public etc. ART. 13. All persons shall enjoy equal rights and privileges upon any conveyance of a public character; and all places of business or of public resort, or for which a license is required by either State, conveyances, parish, or municipal authority, shall be deemed places of a public character, and shall be open to the accommodation and patronage of all persons, without distinction or discrimination on account of race or color. Common car 1. [SEC. 456.] All persons engaged within this State in the 1869-37. business of common carriers of passengers shall have the right to riers may make refuse to admit any person to their railroad cars, street cars, steam- lations. rules and regu inate on account boat or other water craft, coaches, omnibuses, or other vehicles, or to expel any person therefrom after admission, when such person shall, on demand, refuse or neglect to pay the customary fare, or Not to discrim- when such person shall be of infamous character, or shall be guilty, of race or color. after admission to the conveyance of the carrier, of gross, vulgar, or disorderly conduct, or shall commit any act tending to injure the business of the carrier, according to the rules and regulations prescribed for the management of his business, after such rules and regulations shall have been made known; provided said rules and regulations shall make no discrimination on account of race or color, and they shall have the right to refuse any person admission to such conveyance when there is not room or suitable accommodations; and, except in cases above enumerated, all persons engaged in the business of common carriers of passengers are forbidden to refuse admission to their conveyance, or expel therefrom any person whomsoever. Admission to 2. [SEC. 457.] Except in cases enumerated in section four hundred and fifty-six of this act, no person shall be refused admisplaces of public sion to, or entertainment at, any public inn, hotel or place of public resort within the State. vide for no dis account of race or color. to 3. [SEC. 458.] All licenses, hereafter granted by this State, and Licenses to pro- by all parishes or municipalities therein, to persons engaged in crimination on business or keeping places of public resort shall contain the express condition that the place of business or public resort shall be open the accommodation and patronage of all persons without distinction or discrimination on account of race or color, and any person who shall violate the condition of such license shall, on conviction thereof, Penalty for vio- be punished by forfeiture of his license, and his place of business or of public resort shall be closed, and, moreover, he shall be liable, at the suit of the person aggrieved, to such damages as he shall sustain thereby, before any court of competent jurisdiction. lation of this law. Party injured entitled to damages. 1870-93, extra session. 4. [SEC. 459.] For a violation of any of the provisions of the four hundred and fifty-sixth and four hundred and fifty-seventh sections of this act, the party injured shall have a right of action to recover any damages, exemplary as well as actual, which he may sustain before any court of competent jurisdiction. 5. [SEC. 1.] All suits instituted under article thirteen of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana, or under an act entitled "An Act to enforce the thirteenth article of the Constitution of this State, and to regulate the licenses mentioned in said thirteenth article," approved February twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, shall be fixed for trial, and tried by preference |