Louisiana's Justice of the Peace: 1894

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No. 2.    AN ACT To amend and re-enact Article 1124 of the Code of Practice of the State of Louisiana, of the edition of 1870.

Approved June 3, 1894.

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No. 18. AN ACT To create a new levee district, to be known and styled the Buras Levee District; to define the limits of said district and specify the property subject to taxation, local assessment and contributions; to provide for the appointment of commissioners, the qualifications, mode of removals and filling vacancies and salaries of commissioners and officers; to constitute said commissioners as a levee board styled “The Board of Commissioners for the Buras 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 meeting; to designate a quorum for the transaction of business; to provide for the organization and governing of said board; to define its duties and powers and to provide certain 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 require said board to provide rules and regula tions for the construction and maintenance of levees, and to establish a comprehensive levee system within said district; to prescribe the duties of the State En gineers 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, oysters oranges and all other esculents produced upon the land subject to taxation under the provisions of this act; to require the levy of a ten mill tax on all the property subject to taxation, and prescribe the duty of Assessors, Tax Collectors, Auditor and State Treasurer in reference thereto; to authorize the board under cer. tain 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 ap- ply the proceeds to levee purposes; to authorize the board to issue and negotiate its bonds; to provide the mode of issuing, securing and paying same, and for enforcing payment in case of default; to authorize the board to buy, to sell, to make contracts for building, repairing and maintain. ing levees; to pay for same; to fix the proportion of the general engineer fund to be allotted to said district, and prescribe the duty of the Board of Engineers in reference thereto; to pro- vide for the care and police of the levees, and to authorize the board to appoint 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 misappropriation 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 herewith.

Approved June 22, 1894.

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No. 23. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Act No. 96 of the regular session of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana of the year 1888, entitled an act to amend and re enact section 2155 of the Revised Statutes of Louisiana, relative to the manner of forcing tenants to give to the proprietors possession of the leased property.

Approved June 25, 1894.

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No. 24.  AN ACT An act to amend and re-enact No. 24 of the regular session of 1877, approved March 1, 1877, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact Section Fourteen Hundred and Nineteen and Fourteen Hundred and Twenty-one of the Revised Statutes º of Louisiana, and to authorize candidates for State offices to contest before the courts the election of their opponents,” and to authorize candidates for Parish, State or any Municipal office of the State to contest before the courts the election of their opponents.

Approved June 25th, 1894.

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No. 44. AN ACT To amend and renact Section 117 of the Revised Statutes of 1870.

Approved June 30th, 1894.

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No. 65. AN ACT To secure the more effective collection of the special assessments and forced contributions authorized to be levied by the Levee Board of the State, imposing certain duties in connection thereto upon assessors and sheriffs; prohibiting the Auditor of the State from auditing for the compensation of said assessors until said duties are performed; prohibiting the removal of produce liable to special assessment or forced contribution from the limits of the parish or district where raised until such assessment or contribution has been paid; imposing penalties for the violation of this act upon owners of such produce, and upon railroad companies, and the owners and officers of boats, vessels, and other water craft and on common carriers; providing for the manner and mode of enforcing said penalties; granting a lien and privilege to secure the payment of said assessments and contributions and penalties, and conferring jurisdiction upon the courts of the parish where such assessments or forced contributions are collectible.

Approved July 6, 1894.

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No. 77. AN ACT To create an additional Justice of the Peace and Constable for the second ward of the parish of Plaquemines.

Approved July 7th, 1894.

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No. 105.   AN ACT To create an additional Justice of the Peace and Constable for the 3rd ward parish of Plaquemines.

Approved July 7, 1894.

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No. 110. AN ACT To create a levee district to be known as the Cat Island Levee District; to define the limits of said district and specify the property subject to taxation, local assessment and contribution; to provide for the appointment of commissioners, the qualifications, mode of removal and filling vacancies, salaries of commissioners and officers; to constitute said commissioners as a levee board styled “The Board of Commissioners for the Cat Island 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 meeting; to designate a quorum for the transaction of business; to provide for the organization and government of said board; to define its duties and powers, and to provide certain 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 pro- vide a mode of certifying to 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 to prescribe the duties 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 authorize the board to issue and negotiate its bonds; to provide the mode of issuing, securing aud paying the same, and for enforcing payment in case of default; to authorize the board to buy, to sell, to make contracts for building, repairing and maintaining levees, and to pay for same in bonds or otherwise; to fix the proportion of the 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 to authorize the board to appoint 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 of all funds of the board; to specify by whom and in what manner warrants shall be drawn against 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 therewith.

Approved July 11, 1894.

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No. 162.   AN ACT To repeal Act No. 68, of 1888 approved July 11, 1888. Entitled an Act creating an additional Justice of the Peace and Con- stable for the seventh ward of the parish of West Feliciana.

Approved July 12th, 1894.

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No. 163.   AN ACT To amend and re-enact Act No. 74 of the Acts of 1876 entitled An Act to provide for the appointment at future elections of one additional Justice of the Peace and one additional Constable for ward number four of the parish of Caddo.

Approved July 12th, 1894.

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No. 197.  JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing amendments to Articles 7, 81, 109, 111, 116, 125, 126 and 127, and abrogating Articles 128 and 129 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana.

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No. 198.  JOINT RESOLUTION  Proposing an amendment to Article 112, of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana, relative to the trial of recused cases in district courts, and interchange of judges.