Administrators

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

office in the

property of

to the Uni

versity on cer

tain conditions

129. [SEC. 1368.] All of the real and personal estate whatsoever, belonging to the Medical College of Louisiana, is hereby Transfer of transferred to and vested in the University of Louisiana; provided, Medical College the Administrators of the University appropriate the sum which the real and 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 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 govern- certain proviment of the Board of Administrators of the University. The requi- the Medical sites 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.

sions relative to

College.

130. [SEC. 1369.] The Department of Law shall consist of three or more Professors, who shall be required to give a full course Law departof lectures on international, constitutional, maritime, commercial ment. and municipal or civil law, and instruction in the practice thereof. 131. [SEC. 1370.] The Faculties of the University may admit,

men to be edu

free of charge, such number of indigent young men of the State, of Indigent young good abilities and correct moral deportment, as they may deem cated. expedient.

ment to have

132. [SEC. 1371.] The Medical Department of the University shall at all times have free access to the Charity Hospital of New Medical departOrleans, for the purpose of affording their students practical illus- access to the trations of the subjects they teach.

Charity Hospital

which scholars

133. [SEC. 1372.] Any scholar who shall have prepared himself at any other school or academy in this State, and is desirous of Manner in entering the Academical Department of the University, shall be per- prepared at mitted 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.

other schools may enter the University.

134. [SEC. 1373.] The students attending the University, the

Exemption from President, Professors, Tutors, and under officers of the same, shall

militia and jury duty.

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The Board of

of the Uni

be exempt from militia duty, and from serving on juries.

135. [SEC. 1374.] The Board of Administrators of the University of Louisiana be, and they are hereby instructed to turn over to Administrators the Medical Department of the University of Louisiana the east versity of Louis-wing building of the University, originally designated for a Department of Letters, until 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.

iana to turn over to the medical department the east building of the University.

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Degrees.

aw.

STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.

136. [SEC. 1.] The University domiciliated in the city of New Orleans, known by the name and style of the "Straight University," and incorporated June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixtynine, by virtue of the general statute of Louisiana, for the education and training of young men and women, irrespective of color or race, shall be composed of the following Departments or Faculties, to wit Academic or Collegiate, Normal, Commercial, Law, and Medical.

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137. [SEC. 2.] The degree of Bachelor at Law or Doctor of Medicine, granted by the University, shall authorize the person on whom it is conferred to practice law, physic and surgery in this

State.

138. [SEC. 3.] The Department of Law shall consist of four or Department of more Professors, who shall be required to give a full course of lectures on international, constitutional, maritime, commercial and municipal or civil law, and instruction in the practice thereof.

medicine.

139. [SEC. 4.] In the Department of Medicine there shall never Department of be less than seven Professors; this department shall at all times have free access to the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, for the purpose of affording medical students illustrations of the subjects taught.

Candidates.

140. [SEC. 5.] The requisites for admission and the examination of candidates for their degrees in the Medical and Law Departments, shall be under the exclusive control of the Faculty of the Departments respectively.

141. [SEC. 6.] Students regularly matriculated, and candidates Course of study for degrees in any of the departments, shall be required to pursue a course, or courses, of study similar to that adopted in other American colleges and universities.

and considera

142. [SEC. 7.] The sum of thirty-five thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated to the "Straight University," for Appropriation the use of the Medical Department, to construct suitable buildings, tion therefor. "Indigent siudents. and secure illustrations of medical science; and the said sum be paid to the order of the Board of Trustees, on the warrant of the Auditor of Public Accounts, from the treasury of the State, provided State aid be rendered this department. The Faculty shall receive one indigent student from each parish free from charge for tuition, which obligation shall continue for ten years; said students to be nominated by the Trustees of the University.

INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING GENERALLY.

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learning may

State treasury.

moneys in the

143. [SEC. 1375.] The President and Trustees of any institution of learning established in the State of Louisiana, which is or may Institutions of be hereafter incorporated as a body politic, in conformity with the deposit certain Constitution and laws of this State, who may wish so to do, can deposit in the 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 said moneys or obligations of the 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.

144. [SEC. 1376.] Should any endowment be made, either by donation, inter vivos or mortis causa, to establish a Professorship in any institution of learning in the State, duly incorporated, on the principal being deposited in the State treasury, the same shall be invested, and 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.

how invested.

Endowments or tablish protes

donations to es

sorship may be

deposited in the

same manuer.

Ballot boxes-by whom furnished.. 22 Sheriffs not to interfere in elections

Election of

General Assembly.

ART. 19. Elections for members of the General Assembly shall members of be held at the several election precincts established by law. ART. 24. Electors, in all cases except treason, felony, or breach of the peace, shall be privileged from arrest during their attendance on, privileged from going to, and returning from elections.

Electors, when

arrest.

ART. 25. At its first session under this Constitution, the General Assembly shall provide by law, that the names and residence of all Registration. qualified electors shall be registered in order to entitle them to vote; but the registry shall be free of cost to the elector.