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established, and the Constitutions of 1864 able proportion of the most prominent and and 1868 contained similar provisions in its distinguished members of the bar in the behalf. Article 141 of the Constitution of State. Several have reached high public 1868 provides "that one half of the funds honors, and filled the offices of District At derived from the poll tax therein provided torney, Attorney-General, Judges of District for shall be appropriated exclusively to the Courts, Justices of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Members of Congress. Two are support of the free public schools through out the State and to the University of New Senators from Louisiana in the present Con gress of the United States. The vigor and

Orleans." Article 142 provides: "A Uni versity shall be es energy imparted to the tablished and main pursuit of legal science tained in the city of by the Law School, and New Orleans. It shall the influences con be composed of a nected with it have Law, a Medical, and been remarkable. It has dispensed sound a Collegiate Depart instruction on Ameri ment." Encouraged by the can constitutional law success of the Medi in a period prolific of cal College, the Law constitutional here Department of the sies. Beginning at University was organ least twenty years be fore the reform in the ized in May, 1847. law of evidence in the The late Judge Isaac T. Preston, as chair United States, which man of the Committee admits the parties to of Administrators, re suits to be witnesses, ported a plan of organ the necessity for this ization; and the first reform and the wisdom Law Faculty con of it were constant sisted of the follow ly inculcated by that ing jurists : Judge learned jurist, Prof. Henry A. Bullard, Randell Hunt, LL.D., PAUL TULANE. in his lectures on the Richard Henry Wilde, subject of evidence, Judge Theodore W. McCaleb, and Randell Hunt. With the until the Legislature actually sanctioned the exception of an interruption occasioned by change, and enacted the required law. The creditable distinction of having kept up for a the war, lectures have been annually de livered by the four professors and their long series of years — alone of all schools of successors, during the several terms, down law in our country — a full course of scien to the present time. Their courses of tific instruction on the subject of the Roman civil law, the principles of which prevail un instruction have embraced the civil, com der our jurisprudence " upon the banks of mon-law, equity, admiralty, commercial, in ternational, and constitutional law, and the the Mississippi " as they once did upon the jurisprudence of the United States. Six " banks of the Tiber," belongs to the Depart hundred and seventy-three students have ment of Law in the University. The early received the degree of Bachelor of Laws, civilians who codified and consolidated the and the graduates constitute a consider- jurisprudence of Louisiana were men of pro-