Louisiana's Justice of the Peace: 1870

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No. 150. AN ACT To Incorporate the Town of Delta, in the Parish of Madison.

Approved December 30, 1869

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No. 25.  AN ACT To incorporate the town of Arnaudville.

Approved February 17, 1870.

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No. 46. AN ACT To incorporate au Jidepteneit Fire Company of the City of Jefferson, parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana.

Approved February 26, 1870.

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No. 51. AN ACT To incorporate the town of Trenton, in the parish of Ouachita.

Approved February 28, 1870.

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No. 89.  AN ACT Revising and amending the Charter of Donaldsonville.

Became law without Governor's approval.

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No. 100.   AN ACT To regulate the conduct and to maintain the freedom and purity of elections; to prescribe the mode of making, and designate the officers who shalt mkce the returns thereof; to prevent fraud, violence, intimidation, riot, tumult, bribery or corruption at elections or it any registration or revision of registration; to limit the powers and duties of the sheriffs of the parishes of Orleans and Jefferson; to prescribe the powers and duties of the Board and officers of the Metropolitan Police in reference to elections; to prescribe the mode of entering on the rolls of the Senate and House of Representatives the names of members; to empower the Governor to preserve peace and order, to enforce the laws; to limit the powers and duties of the Mayors of the cities of New Orleans and Jefferson with regard to elections; to prohibit District or Parish Judges from issuing certain writs to Commissioners of Election; to make an appropriation for the expenses of the next revision of the registration and of the next election; and to enforce article one hundred and three of the constitution.

Approved March 16, 1870.

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No. 102. AN ACT To create the parish of Cameron and providing for the organization thereof.

Approved March 15, 1870.

Extra Session

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No. 6. AN ACT To regulate Public Education in the State of Louisiana and city of New Orleans, and to raise a revenue for that purpose.

Approved March 16, 1870.

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No. 7.  AN ACT To extend the limits of the Parish of Orleans, and to change the boundaries of the parishes of Orleans and Jefferson, and to consolidate the Cities of New Orleans and Jefferson, and to provide for the government of the city of New Orleans and the administration of the affairs thereof, and to repeal an act entitled "An Act, to incorporate the city or New Orleans," approved February 23, 1852; and to repeal all acts amendatory thereto, and to repeal an act entitled "an Act, to incorporate the City of Jefferson," approved March 9,1850, and to repeal all acts amendatory therto, anod to provide for the floating indebtedness of the corporations as consolidated by this act.

Approved March 16, 1870.

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No. 15. AN ACT In addition to the laws now in force relative to the Registry of Births and Deaths, having for its object to compel the registry of all marriages, in the office of Recorder of Births and Deaths, in the parish of Orleans, and providing for the issuing of marriage licenses.

Approved March 16, 1870.

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No. 18. JOINT RESOLUTION Creating the office of Justice of the Peace and Constable at Frenier Station, Lake Shore, in the parish of St. John the Baptist, Louisiana.

Approved March 16, 1870.

No. 19. AN ACT Entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to incorporate the Town of Covington, St. Tammany Parish."

Approved March 16, 1870.

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No. 21. AN ACT To incorporate the Town of Washington, in the parish of St. Landry, and to repeal all existing laws on the same subject matter.

Approved March 16, 1870.

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No. 34.  AN ACT To incorporate the town of Vidalia, in the parish of Concordia.

Approved March 16, 1870.

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No. 40.  AN ACT To authorize the Governor, in certain cases, to issue warrants for the apprehension of persons charged with murder and certain other offenses, and to provide for the arrest and examination of such persons.

Approved March 16, 1870.

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No. 51. AN ACT To renew the corporation of the town of Farmerville, in the parish of Union; to provide for the government of the same and to repeal all laws heretofore existing, on the same subject matter.

Approved March 16, 1870.

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No. 68. AN ACT To provide a revenue, to levy and collect taxes, to grant and collect licenses, to provide for the creation, appointment and removal of revenue officers, and to define their duties; to punish certain crimes and misdemeanors, and to create liens and mortgages in favor of the State in certain cases, and to regulate the manner of the payment of moneys from the treasury.

Approved March 16, 1870.

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No. 75. AN ACT To organize, arm and equip a Uniformed Militia; to provide for its instruction. duties and government; to appropriate one hundred thousand dollars for the armhing, equipping and payment of the same.

Approved April 5, 1870.

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No. 84.  AN ACT To establish a Public Park for the city of New Orleans, and to provide leansq therefor.

Approved March 16, 1870.

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No. 99. AN ACT Relative to vagrants in the parish of Orleans and the city of New Orleans, and repealing an act entitled "AN ACT Relative to vagrants in the Metropolitan District," approved March 6, 1869.

Approved January 2, 1871