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No. 49. AN ACT Creating an additional justice of the peace and constable for the twelfth ward of St. Landry parish.
Approved July 1st, 1890.
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No. 60. AN ACT Making it unlawful for horses, mules, cattle, hogs and sheep, or live stock of any description to go on the levees, or the space between the base of the levees and the draining ditch, from and during the time that the water is against, the levees, and to provide penalties for a violation of this act.
Approved July 2, 1890
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No. 68. AN ACT Creating an additional office of justice of the peace and constable in and for the fourth ward, parish of East Baton Rouge, and a subdivision of the aforesaid ward, for the same.
Approved July 5, 1890.
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No. 71. AN ACT Creating a justice of the peace and constable for the seventh ward of Lafayette parish.
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No. 84. AN ACT Creating an additional justice of the peace and constable for the sixth (6) ward of Vermilion parish;
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No. 97. AN ACT To repeal that portion of act 33 of 1879, creating the Fourth Levee District, and to create a new district to be known and styled, “The Atchafalaya Basin Levee District;” to define the limits of said district, and specify the property subject to taxation, local assessment and contribution; to provide for appointment of commissioners, the qualifications, mode of removal and filling vacancies, and salaries of commissioners and officers; to constitute said commissioners as a levee board, styled, “The Board of Commissioners for the Atchafalaya Basin Levee District;” to make the said board a body politic, invested with corporate powers, and having a corporate seal; to fix the mode, time and place of meetings; to designate a quorum for the transaction of business; to provide for the organization and government of said board, to define its duties, powers and prohibitions; to regulate legal proceedings by and against said board and to fix its domicile; to require a record of its proceedings to be kept and published; to provide a mode of certifying to the copies of said records, and to establish their admissibility and weight as evidence; to re- quire said board to provide rules and regulations for the construction and maintenance of levees, and to establish a comprehensive levee system within said district; to prescribe the duties of the State Engineers in relation to said board ; to provide a revenue for levee purposes; to authorize the levy of a forced contribution or special assessment on cotton, sugar, rice, syrup, molasses and esculents produced upon the lands subject to taxation under the provisions of this act; to require the levy of a ten mill tax, on all property subject to taxation, and prescribe the duty of assessors, tax collectors, Auditor and State Treasurer in reference thereto; to authorize the board under certain circumstances to levy a special assessment or contribution on lands and railroads in said district and providing for its collection; to grant certain lands for levee purposes, and prescribe the duty of the Auditor in relation thereto; to exempt said lands from taxation until sold by the board; to authorize the board to mortgage and sell said lands and apply the proceeds to levee pur- poses; to authorize the board to issue and negotiate its bonds; to provide the mode of issuing, security and paying same, for enforcing payment in case of default ; to authorize the board to buy, to sell, to make contracts for building, repair- ing and maintaining levees, and pay for same in bonds or otherwise; to fix the proportion of General Engineer Fund to be allotted to said district, and prescribe the duty of the Board of Engineers in reference thereto; to provide for the care and police of the levees, and authorize the board to ap- point inspectors and Watchmen, and in certain cases to call out road hands to work on levees; to provide compensation therefor; to provide penalties for neglect of hands to serve; to provide the mode of depositing, keeping and disbursing all funds of the board; to specify by whom and in what manner warrants shall be drawn against the said funds; to define misappropriations of funds and property of the board by president, commissioner or officer, and provide a penalty therefor; to put this act in force and repeal all laws in conflict there with.
Approved July 8, 1890.
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No. 107. AN ACT To create the Parish of Troy, and to provide for the organization thereof.
Approved July 10, 1890.
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No. 121 AN ACT Creating an additional justice of the peace and constable in Cotile ward, parish of Rapides, and defining jurisdiction of said justice of the peace.
