ed to students. SEC. 1363. Any student not desiring to pursue all the studies taught Privilege grant in the academical department shall be entitled to an examination on any branch of learning pursued in the regular course, and if found proficient shall receive a certificate under the seal of the university. SEC. 1364. There shall be an annual examination of the students in Examination of 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. Duties of treas tary. SEC. 1365. The board of administrators shall appoint a treasurer 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. 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 have access to all books and papers of the corporation, and be permitted to have copies of them. Powers of the legislature 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 over the univer. 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. sity. Administrators SEC. 1367. No person who shall accept the office of administrator to hold no other of the university shall act as trustee, president, principal or tutor, or versity. hold any office in any other school, academy or college in the State. office in the uni Transfer of property of medical college to the university on certain conditions. Provided. 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 administrators of the university appropriate the sum which the real ard 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 berein and hereby incorporated with and made a part of the university of Louisiana, and shall constitute the only medical faculty of the department of the university. The professors Certain provis now filling the chairs in that school shall constitute the medical faculthe medical col- ty 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 of 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. ions relative to lege. Law depart SEC. 1369. The department of law shall consist of three or more professors, who shall be required to give a full course of lectures on ment. international, constitutional, maritime, commercial and municipal or civil law, and instruction in the practice thereof. men to be edu SEC. 1370. The faculties of the university may admit, free of charge, Indigent young such number of indigent young men of the State, of good abilities and tated. correct moral deportment, as they may deem expedient. cess to the SEC. 1371. The medical department of the university shall at all Medical departtimes have free access to the charity hospital of New Orleans, for the ment to have acpurpose of affording their students practical illustrations of the sub- charity hospital jects they teach. D. sec. 406. SEC. 1372. Any scholar who shall have prepared himself at any other school or academy in this State, and is desirous of entering the academical department of the university, shall be permitted so to do if, on examination by the academical faculty, he shall be found competent, and may enter, according to his progress in science, such class as his knowledge and examination may justify. Manner in which scholars. prepared at other schools may enter the university. Exemption from militia SEC. 1373. The students attending the university, the president, professors, tutors and under officers of the same, shall be exempt and jury duty. from militia duty and from serving on juries. The board of to turn over to SEC. 1374. The board of administrators of the university of Louisiana be and they are hereby instructed to turn over to the medical de- administrators partment of the university of Louisiana the east wing building of the ty of Louisiana university, originally designated for a department of letters, until the medical de otherwise ordered by the legislature; provided, that the board of administrators of the said medical department of the university of Louisiana shall assign two rooms in the said building for the use of the New Orleans academy of sciences. Act 1861, p. 181. INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING GENERALLY. partment the east building of Institutions of learning may deposit certain moneys in the SEC. 1375. The president and trustees of any institution of learning established in the State of Louisiana, which is or may be hereafter in corporated as a body politic, in conformity with the constitution and laws of this State, who may wish so to do, can deposit in the treasury State treasury.. of the State of Louisiana all sums of money intended solely for the uses and purposes of such institutions of learning. And all sums so deposited shall be invested in the bonds or the obligations of the Said moneys, State of Louisiana or of the United States, and the interest accruing thereon as realized shall be paid over to such corporation or again invested as they may desire. how invested. Act 1855, p. 330. SEC. 1376. Should any endowment be made, either by donation Endowments or inter vivos or mortis causa, to establish a professorship in any instit donations to es tablish profes- tution of learning in the State, duly incorporated, on the principal besorship may be deposited in the ing deposited in the State treasury, the same shall be invested, and same manner. cil authorized the interest as realized shall be paid over as stipulated in the preceding section. And it shall be the duty of the auditor of public accounts and the State treasurer to make the investments to the greatest advantage and interest of said institution. D. sec. 682. PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS. SEC. 1377. The common council of the city of New Orleans are Common coun- authorized and requested to establish one or more public schools in each district for the gratuitous education of the children residing therein; to enact ordinances for the organization, government and discipline of the same, and to levy taxes for their support, as to them may seem proper. to establish public schools, etc. Annual report to be made by council. Act 1855, p. 331; Act 1870, No. 6, p. 12; Act 1871, No. 8, p. 42; Act 1873, No. 36, p. 73; Act 1874, No. 123, p. 217. SEC. 1378. The council shall make a report annually to the superintendent of public education of the disposition of the school fund, and communicate all other information respecting public education which they may possess and which may be called for by him. Act 1870, Ex. S, p. 12, No. 6; Act 1871, p. 42, No. 8; Act 1873, p. 102, ELECTIONS. SEC. 1379 to sec. 1416 inclusive are repealed by Act Ex. S., 1877, No. 58, p. 89; Act 1880, No. 123, p. 158-registration; Act 1882, No. 101, p. 152-elections; Act 1882, No. 126, p. 177-special tax; Con. 1879, art. 184-195. CONTESTED ELECTIONS. SEC. 1417. In all contested elections for members of the general Contested elec- assembly each house shall have the power to determine which of the of the general parties is entitled to the seat and to award it accordingly. assembly. tion of members Act 1877, Ex. S., No. 129, p. 197; Act 1855, p. 405, No. 319, sec. 40. SEC. 1418. When any person shall desire to contest the election of any sheriff, coroner or clerk of the parish of Orleans, he shall, within Contested elections in the parten days after the close of the election, give written notice thereof to ish of Orleans. the appropriate party, which notice shall especially set forth all the grounds of contest; and shall, within the space of time, present a petition to the judge of the first district court of the parish of Orleans, The judge shall proceed without delay to examine the grounds of contestation; and may, on the application of either party, order a jury to try the issue, and the decision therein shall be final. Act 1855, p. 415, No. 319, sec. 41; Act 1856, No. 139, p. 117, sec. 1; Act 1877, Ex. S., No. 129, p. 197; 28 A. 700; 13 A. 90. tions, how con SEC. 1419. Any candidate for either of the offices of clerk of the district court, parish recorder, sheriff, coroner, justice of the peace Contested ele and any other parish or district officer, that may claim to have been ducted. elected by the people, intending to contest an election, shall, within thirty days after the official promulgation of the result of said election, file in the district court for the parish or the district in which the election may have been held, a petition setting forth the facts on which he intends to contest the election. And any candidate for either of the offices of secretary of State, auditor of public accounts, State treasurer, attorney-general or superintendent of public education, intending to contest an election, shall, within thirty days after the result of such election shall have been promulgated according to law, file in a court of competent jurisdiction in the parish in which the capital of the State is situate, a petition setting forth the facts in which he intends to contest the election, within thirty days after the official promulgation of the result of the election. The party contesting shall present to the court, and which shall be filed, a petition signed by at least twenty voters of the State, district, parish, or, in case of an election by a ward or other division of the parish, then the voters signing such petition shall be ten in number and be residents of the ward for which the election has been held, praying the court to examine the facts and decide thereon. The signatures to such petition shall be presumed to be genuine until shown by proof to be otherwise. Suits instituted under the foregoing section, contesting the election of a State officer, shall be filed and tried in all respects as ordinary suits, except that they shall be entitled to trial by preference. Any candidate who claims to have been elected prior to the passage of this act to any State office, the term of whose office has not yet expired, be and he is hereby authorized to file a petition setting forth the facts on which he contests said election, and the suit of such candidate shall be filed and tried in conformity with the provisions of the foregoing sections; provided, that the petition be filed within thirty days after the passage of this act. (As reenacted by act 1877, p. 26, No. 24.) Act 1877, Ex. S., No. 129, p. 197; 23 A. 774; 27 A. 305, 541; 28 A. 700. SEC. 1420. Either party shall have a right to proceed to take eviEvidence, how dence relative to the facts specified or to be specified in the petition, taken, etc. at any time before the trial, on giving the other party one day's no- SEC. 1421. (Time in which the election is to be contested) See Act 1877, Ex. S., No. 129, p. 197. SEC. 1422. After ten days from the date of service of the petition Contested elec. of the contestant, and at least ten day's notice of the filing of the petions, how conducted. tition by the voters, the adverse party shall be bound to answer; and the issue thus formed shall be proceeded with summarily before the court and jury. The trial shall be conducted and submitted to the jury according to the laws by which other jury trials are governed. A majority only of the jurors shall be required to return a verdict. The jury shall have power to determine by their verdict which of the parties is entitled to the office, or to refer the same again to the people. The court shall have no power to grant a new trial as in other cases, and no appeal shall be allowed. Verdict, how found. Judgment, when final. New election, how ordered. Act 1877, Ex. S., No. 129, p. 197, sec. 6-10; Act 1858, p. 217. SEC. 1423. The judgment rendered upon the first finding of the jury shall be final; and on certifying the same to the governor a commission shall be issued by him in favor of the person in whose favor the verdlet may be. SEC. 1424. If the finding of the jury be in favor of a new election, the sheriff or coroner shall proceed to hold an election on the fourth Monday after the last day of the term of the court at which the judg ment was rendered; at least fifteen days' notice of which shall be given at each precinct at which the elections are to be held. SEC. 1425. The trial of contested elections shall be proceeded with Special terms to at any regular term of the court for the parish in which the contest is trial of contest- made. If no regular term of the court is to be held within five weeks be held for the ed elections. from the time of filing the petition of the contestant, a special term shall be holden on the third Monday after the day on which the election for the office contested was held, if such term can be holden without interfering with a regular term elsewhere in the district; if |