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And the state shall be divided into the following senatorial districts.

All that portion of the parish of Orleans lying on the east side of the Mississippi river shall compose one senatorial district and shall elect four senators :

The parishes of Plaquemines, St. Bernard, and that part of the parish of Orleans on the right bank of the river, shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parish of Jefferson shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parishes of St. Charles and St. John the Baptist shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parish of St. James shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parish of Ascension shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parishes of Assumption, Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne, shall compose one district, with two senators :

The parishes of Iberville and West Baton Rouge shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parish of East Baton Rouge shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parish of Point Coupée shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parish of Avoyelles shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parish of St. Mary shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parish of St. Martin shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parishes of Lafayette and Vermillion shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parishes of St. Landry and Calcasieu shall compose one district, with two senators :

The parish of West Feliciana shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parish of East Feliciana shall compose one district, with one sen or:

The parishes of St. Helena and Livingston shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parishes of Washington and St. Tammany shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parishes of Concordia and Tensas shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parishes of Carroll and Madison shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parishes of Jackson, Union, Morehouse and Ouachita, shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parishes of Caldwell, Franklin and Catahoula, shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parish of Rapides shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parishes of Bossier and Claiborne shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parish of Natchitoches shall compose one district, with one senator :

The parishes of Sabine, De Soto and Caddo, shall compose one district, with one senator :

ART. 144. In order that, no inconvenience may result to the public service from the taking effect of this constitution, no office shall be superseded thereby, but the laws of the state relative to the duties of the several officers, executive, judicial and military, shall remain in full force,though the same be contrary to this constitution, and the several duties shall be performed by the

respective officers of the state, according to the existing laws, until the organization of the government under this constitution, and the entering into office of the new officers, to be appointed under said government, and no longer.

ART. 145. Appointments to office by the executive under this

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constitution, shall be made by the governor to be elected under its authority.

Art. 146. The provisions of article 28, concerning the inability of members of the legislature to hold certain offices therein mentioned, shall not be held to apply to the members of the first legislature elected under this constitution.

Art. 147. The time of service of all officers chosen by the people, at the first election under this constitution, shall terminate as though the election had been holden on the first Monday of November, 1845, and they had entered on the discharge of their duties at the time designated therein.

Art. 148. The legislature shall provide for the removal of all causes now pending in the supreme or other courts of the state under the constitution of 1812, to courts created by this consti. tution.

ART. 149. Appeals to the supreme court from the parishes of Jackson, Union, Morehouse, Catahoula, Caldwell, Ouachita, Franklin, Carroll, Madison, Tensas and Concordia, shall, until otherwise provided for, be returnable to New Orleans.

TITLE X.

ORDINANCE.

Art. 150. Immediately after the adjournment of the convention, the governor shall issue his proclamation, directing the several officers of this state, authorized by law to hold elections for members of the general assembly, to open and hold a poll in every parish of the state at the places designated by law, upon the first Monday of November next, for the purpose of taking the sense of the good people of this state in regard to the adoption or rejection of this constitution ; and it shall be the duty of the said officers to receive the votes of all persons entitled to vote under the old constitution, and under this constitution. Each voter shall express his opinion by depositing in the ballot box a ticket whereon shall be written “the constitution accepted,” or “the constitution rejected," or some such words as will distinctly convey the intention of the voter. At the conclusion of the said election, which shall be conducted in every respect as the general state election is now conducted, the parish judges and commissioners designated to preside over the same, shall carefully examine and count each ballot so deposited, and shall forthwith make due returns thereof to the secretary of state, in conformity to the provisions of the existing law upon the subject of elections.

Art. 151. Upon the receipt of the said returns, or on the first Monday of December, if the returns be not sooner received, it shall be the duty of the governor, the secretary of state, the attorney general, and the state treasurer, in the presence of all such persons as may choose to attend, to compare the votes given at the said poll, for the ratification and rejection of this constitution, and if it shall appear from said returns that a majority of all the votes given are för ratifying this constitution, then it shall be the duty of the governor to make proclamation of that fact, and thenceforth this constitution shall be ordained and established as the constitution of the State of Louisiana. But whether this constitution be accepted or rejected, it shall be the duty of the governor to cause to be published in the state paper the result of the polls, showing the number of votes cast in each parish for and against the said constitution.

Art. 152. Should this constitution be accepted by the people, it shall also be the duty of the governor forthwith to issue his proclamation, declaring the present legislature, elected under the old constitution, to be dissolved, and directing the several officers of the state, authorized by law to hold elections for members of the general assembly, to hold an election at the places designated by law, upon the third Monday in January next (1846) for governor, lieutenant-governor, members of the general assembly, and all other officers whose election is provided for pursuant to the provisions of this constitution.' And the said election shall be conducted, and the returns thereof made, in conformity with the existing laws upon the subject of state elections.

Art. 153. The general assembly elected under this constitution shall convene at the state house, in the city of New Orleans, upon the second Monday of February next (1846) after the elections; and that the governor and lieutenant-governor, elected at the same time, shall be duly installed in office during the first week of their session, and before it shall be competent for the said general assembly to proceed with the transaction of bu. siness.

JOSEPH WALKER,

President of the Convention. Attest:

HORATIO DAVIS, Secretary of the Convention.

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