of any Administrator who shall absent himself from five successive meetings of the board.

They shall meet on their own adjournment, or as often as they

shall be summoned by the chairman, or in his absence, by the senior Manner of callAdministrator, whose seniority shall be accounted according to the ing meetings. order to be made out by the Administrators at the first meeting after their nomination. Notice of the time and place of meeting shall be advertised in one or more newspapers published in the city of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, and those residing in New Orleans shall be notified in writing of the time and place of every meeting.

SEC. 1358. They shall have power to make all ordinances and by-laws which to them shall seem expedient for carrying into effect Power to pass the design contemplated by the establishment of this University, not by-laws. inconsistent with the constitution of the United States and of this State, nor with the provisions of their charter. They shall not make the religious tenets of any person a condition of admission to any privilege or office in the University, nor shall any course of religious Religious test instruction be taught or allowed of a sectarian character and not to be made. tendency.

and degrees.

Degree of Bachelor of Law and

SEC. 1359. They shall have the right of conferring under their Power to confer common seal, on any person whom they may think worthy thereof, literary honors all literary honors and degrees known and usually granted by any university or college in the United States or elsewhere. The degree of Bachelor of Law, and Doctor of Medicine, granted by them, shall authorize the person on whom it is conferred to practice law, physic and surgery in this State.

Doctor of Mediright of practic

cine to confer

ing law or mcdicine.

SEC. 1360. All diplomas granted by them shall be signed by the president of the University, the chairman of the board, and the Diplomas, how professors of the department in which the student may have signed. graduated; and by such other officers of the University as may be provided for by the laws of the University. In the medical depart- Number of proment there shall never be less than seven professors, which number fessors in Medishall be increased only at the suggestion and recommendation of the cal Departm.cnt. faculty of that department.

SEC. 1361. They may, if deemed necessary, establish a prepara

tory or grammar school to be attached to the University, and procure Preparatory Desuitable buildings for the same, appoint tutors and ordain by-laws partment. for the discipline and government of the primary department, and

may also attach to the University such other institutions, literary or Power to attach scientific societies, schools and professorships, as to them may seem literary socieadvisable; all of which, so far as relates to instruction, shall be under University. the control of the board.

ties, etc., to the

SEC. 1362. There shall be but one session in each year, to be of eight months' duration, commencing on the first day of November, Session. and ending on the thirtieth day of June. Students regularly matriculated in the college proper, and candidates for degrees, shall be required to devote at least one session to each of the classes, freshman, sophomore, junior and senior, before graduating, unless their proficiency may, after satisfactory examination before the Adminis- studies. trators, entitle them to enter a higher class. Every candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Arts shall be required to devote a full session to the senior course.

Course of

SEC. 1363. Any student not desiring to pursue all the studies taught in the academical department shall be entitled to an exam- Privilege grant. ination on any branch of learning pursued in the regular course, and

ed to students.

if found proficient, shall receive a certificate under the seal of the University.

SEC. 1364.

There shall be an annual examination of the students Examination of in the academical department of the University, a commencement day for conferring publicly degrees on the graduates of that department, and of the law and medical departments.

students.

SEC. 1365. The Board of Administrators shall appoint a treasurer Duties of treas and secretary, to continue in office for four years. The treasurer urer and secre- shall keep a true and fair account of all moneys by him received and paid out.

tary.

Powers of the the University.

Legislature over

The secretary shall attend the Board of Administrators, and shall keep a fair journal of the meetings and proceedings of the board, in which the yeas and nays, on all questions, shall be entered, if required by any of the Administrators present. Every Administrator shall always have access to all books and papers of the corporation, and be permitted to have copies of them:

SEC. 1366. The Legislature shall have all the power to visit and inspect the University by a committee of their own body to be appointed for that purpose; to control by law the corporation, and to repeal their charter; and may require a full report of the situation of the affairs of the University at any time.

SEC. 1367. No person who shall accept the office of Administrator Administrators of the University shall act as trustee, president, principal or tutor, to hold no other or hold office in any other school, academy, or college in the State.

office in the University.

any

SEC. 1368. All of the real and personal estate whatsoever belonging to the Medical College of Louisiana, is hereby transferred to and vested in the University of Louisiana; Provided, The Administo the Universi- trators of the University appropriate the sum which the real and

Transfer of property of Medical College

ty on certain conditions.

Certain provi

the Medical College.

personal estate of the Medical College cost to the purchase of philosophical and chemical apparatus for the use of the college, and the Medical College, as it is now organized, is herein and hereby incorporated with and made a part of the University of Louisiana, and shall constitute the only medical department of the University. The professors, now filling the chairs in that school shall constitute sions relative to the medical faculty of the department of medicine of the University, and fill the same chairs in the University now filled by them in the Medical School of Louisiana, and hereafter be under the government of the Board of Administrators of the University. The requisites for admission, the examination of candidates for their degrees in the medical and law departments, the management of pecuniary concerns, the salaries of the professors, the tuition and the terms of admission, shall be under the exclusive control of the faculty of the departments respectively.

Law Depart ment.

men to be edu

cated.

SEC. 1369. The department of law shall consist of three or more professors, who shall be required to give a full course of lecures on international, constitutional, maritime, commercial and municipal or civil law, and instruction in the practice thereof.

SEC. 1370. The faculties of the University may admit, free of Indigent young charge, such number of indigent young men of the State, of good abilities, and correct moral deportment, as they may deem expedient. SEC. 1371. The medical department of the University shall at all times have free access to the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, for the purpose of affording their students practical illustrations of the subjects they teach.

Medical Department to have

access to the Charity Hospital.

other schools

SEC. 1372. Any scholar who shall have prepared himself at any Manner in other school or academy in this State, and is desirous of entering which scholars the academical department of the University, shall be permitted so prepared at to do, if, on examination by the academical faculty, he shall be found may enter the competent, and may enter, according to his progress in science, such University. class as his knowledge and examination may justify.

from militia and

SEC. 1373. The students attending the University, the president, Exemption professors, tutors, and under officers of the same, shall be exempt jury duty. from militia duty, and from serving on juries.

Administrators

SEC. 1374. The Board of Administrators of the University of 1861-181. Louisiana be, and they are hereby instructed to turn over to the The Board of medical department of the University of Louisiana the east wing of the Univer-ibuilding of the University, originally designated for a department of ty of Louisiana letters, until otherwise ordered by the Legislature; Provided, That the Medical Dethe Board of Administrators of the said medical department of the partment the University of Louisiana, shall assign two rooms in the said building the University. for the use of the New Orleans Academy of Sciences.

to turn over to

east building of

INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING GENERALLY.

learning may

State treasury.

SEC. 1375. The president and trustees of any institution of learning established in the State of Louisiana, which is or may be here- 1855–330. after incorporated as a body politic, in conformity with the consti- Institutions of tution and laws of this State, who may wish so to do, can deposit in deposit certa n the treasury of the State of Louisiana all sums of money intended moneys in the solely for the uses and purposes of such inst.tutions of learning; and all sums so deposited shall be invested in the bonds or obligations of the State of Louisiana or of the United States, and the said moneys interest accruing thereon, as realized, shall be paid over to such cor- how invested. poration or again invested as they may desire.

establish pro

SEC. 1376. Should any endowment be made either by donation, inter vivos or mortis causa, to establish a professorship in any institu- Endowments or tion of learning in the State, duly incorporated, on the principal donations to being deposited in the State treasury, the same shall be invested, fessorship may and the interest as realized shall be paid over as stipulated in the best preceding section; and it shall be the duty of the Auditor of Public ner. Accounts and the State Treasurer to make the investments to the greatest advantage and interest of said institution.

same man

PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.

Common Coun

SEC. 1377. The Common Council of the city of New Orleans are authorized and requ sted to establish one or more public schools in 1955-331. each district, for the gratuitous education of the children residing cil autho: iz d therein; to enact ordinances for the organization, government and to establish discipline of the same, and to levy taxes for their support, as to etc. them may seem proper.

public schools,

SEC. 1378. The Council shall make a report annually to the Superintendent of Public Education of the disposition of the school Annual report fund, and communicate all other information respecting public educa- to be made by tion which they may possess and which may be called for by him.

Council.

Certain certificate of the clerk....1430 Appeal granted in cases of con

on first Monday

SEC. 1379. Elections for Representatives in the General Assembly shall be held on the first Monday of November, one thousand eight 1868-218. hundred and seventy, and every two years thereafter; and all elec- General election tions to supply the place of Senators in the General Assembly, in November whose terms of service shall have expired, shall be held at the same time as herein provided for the election of Representatives.

every two years.

Governor and

SEC. 1380. In the years in which a Governor and a Lieutenant Governor are to be elected, the election for such officers shall be Lieutenant Govheld at the time and place herein provided for the election of Sena- eruor.

tors and Representatives.

SEC. 1381. Elections for sheriffs and coroners of the several par- Parish officers. ishes of this State shall be held at the same time hereinbefore pro

vided for the election of members of the General Assembly.

SEC. 1382. Elections shall be held in each parish at the several Precincts. election precincts now or hereafter to be established by law, until otherwise directed by the supervisors of registration.

SEC. 1383. All elections shall be completed in one day, and the Election compolls shall be kept open at each precinct from the hour of seven in pleted in one the morning until six in the afternoon.

day.

SEC. 1384. The elections at each precinct shall be presided over by three commissioners of election, to be appointed by the super- Commissioners visors of registration, who shall, before entering upon the discharge of election. of their duties, take and subscribe the oath or oaths prescribed for State officers. Should only one of the commissioners appointed be present, he shall (except in such cases as the commissioners of election are hereinafter required to close the polls), appoint another, and both together shall appoint a third, and the commissioners so appointed shall take the oath and perform all the duties of commissioners of election in the same manner as if they had been appointed by the supervisors of registration.

SEC. 1385. The commissioners of election shall preserve order and decorum at the election, and shall have power to commit to Powers and duprison any disorderly person for a term not to extend beyond the ties of commishour of closing the polls; provided he be permitted to vote before serve order. being imprisoned.

Any person or persons who shall obstruct, hinder, or by violence

sioners to pre

ances at elec

or threats of violence, abusive language, or other species of intimi- Penalty for credation, interfere with a supervisor of registration or commissioner of ating disturb election, or with any person or persons duly appointed to execute tion. the orders of the supervisors of registration or commissioners of election, in the discharge of their duties, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars nor less than one hundred dollars, and by imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months nor less than one month.