Louisiana's Justice of the Peace: 1904

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ACT NO. 5. AN ACT To create an additional Justice of the Peace and Constable in and for the Eighth Ward of the Parish of Pointe Coupee.

Approved June 10, 1904.

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ACT NO. 7. AN ACT To create an additional Justice of the Peace and Constable in and for the Second Ward of Jackson parish.

Approved June 10th, 1904.

ACT NO. 8. AN ACT Dividing Ward Five of Bienville Parish, Louisiana, into two Police Jury Wards, making each Justice of the Peace Ward a Police Jury Ward and providing for an additional Justice of the. Peace, Constable and Police Juror therein, until the next general election:

Approved June 14th, 1904.

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ACT NO. 38. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 4 of Act No. 48 of 1900, entitled. An Act abolishing the offices of Justice of Peace and Constable in Ward Six (6) Iberia Parish, and creating in their stead the City Court of City of New Iberia, consisting of Judge and Marshal, and defining their qualifications, powers, jurisdiction and term of office; providing for their salaries and fees and method of executing process.

Approved June 25th, 1904.

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ACT NO. 39. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 2 of Act No. 155 of 1898, relative to Justices of the Peace.

Approved June 25, 1904.

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ACT NO. 79. AN ACT To create a levee district to be known as the Mermentau Levee District, with power to construct levees, locks and dams to protect said district from overflow or in- flow of fresh or salt water: 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 Mermentau 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 provide a mode of certifying to copies of said records, and to establish their admissibility and weight as evidence: to require said board to provide rules and regulations for the construction and maintenance of levees, locks and dams, 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 authorize 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 and paying the same, and for enforcing payment in case of (left all ; to authorize the board to buy, to sell, to make contacts for building, repairing and maintaining levees, locks and dams, 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 duties of the Board of Engineers in reference thereto; to provide for the care and police of the levees, locks and dams, and to authorize the board to appoint inspectors and watchmen, and in certain cases to call out road bands to work on levees, locks and dams; 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 ºresident, commissioner, or officers, and provide a penalty therefor; to put this act in force and repeat all laws in conflict there with.

Approved  July 1, 1904.

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Act NO. 87. AN ACT To create an additional Justice of the Peace and Constable in and for the First (1st) Ward of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana to provide for their appointment, and to fix the locality in which said Justice of the Peace shall maintain his office.

Approved July 4, 1904.

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ACT NO. 91. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 29 Act 130 of 1898 of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, entitled, “An act for the creation and government of municipal corporations throughout the State and defining their powers and duties and providing for the extension and contraction of their limits.”

Approved July 4, 1904.

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ACT NO. 98.  AN ACT To create an additional Justice of the Peace in and for the Fifth Ward Parish of Winn.

Approved July 4, 1904.

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ACT NO. 109. AN ACT To create the Red River and Bayou Des Glaizes Levee and Drainage District of the State of Louisiana; to provide for the appointment by the Governor of a Board of Commissioners to govern the same; to authorize the said Board to levy, assess and collect a tax or a local assessment, or forced contribution; authorizing the levy, assessment and collection of an ad valorem tax on all the property within the District; the levying and collection of a specific tax or assessment on each bale of cotton raised in the said District; authorizing the assessment and collection of a tax upon each mile of railroad within the said District; authorizing the said Board to provide for the fixing of rules and laws for the government of the Levee and Drainage District; authorizing the issuing of bonds; pledging the revenues of the said District to the payment of said bonds, interest and other moneys, to be borrowed in pursuance of the provisions of this act; authorizing and requiring the levying of taxes for the payment of the interest and principal of the same; providing for a sinking fund for the redemption of the bonds; authorizing and empowering the Board to borrow money, for the use of the Board, and authorizing the mortgage or pledge of the property and things of value, including the revenues for the payment of the amount so borrowed; donating to the Levee and Drainage District certain lands in the District belonging to the State, and prescribing the duties of the State Board of Engineers in connection here with.

Approved July 4, 1904

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ACT NO. 122. AN ACT Creating the office of Fire Marshal of the State of Louisiana, and providing the method of appointing said Fire Marshal and defining his duties, powers and authority and providing for a tax to be levied on fire insurance companies for the expense of maintaining the office and putting into force the provisions of this act.

Approved July 5, 1904.

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ACT NO. 135. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 117 of the Revised Statutes of this State, approved March 14th, 1870 as amended by Act 84, approved July 9th, 1896.

Approved July 5, 1904.

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ACT NO. 149. AN ACT Dividing Ward Four of Catahoula Parish, Louisiana into two Police Jury wards and providing for an additional Justice of the Peace, Constable and Police Juror therein: until the next general election:

Approved July 5, 1904.

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ACT NO 152. AN ACT - To create an additional Justice of the Peace for the Sixth Ward, in the Parish of Tangipahoa:

Approved July 5, 1904.

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ACT NO. 155. AN ACT To amend Section S of Act No. 20:8 of the Act 180S relative to a general fee bill for Justice of the Peace.

Approved July 5, 1904.

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ACT NO. 159. AN ACT To create an additional Justice of the Peace and Constable for Ward Eight (8) of the Parish of Calcasieu La., and to provide for their appointment until the General State Election of 1908;

Approved July 5, 1904.

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ACT NO. 168. AN ACT  To enable persons sentenced, in default of the payment of a fine, to imprisonment, to obtain their release, upon payment by them of a sum proportional to the fine imposed and the term remaining to be served by them under the sentence.

Approved July 5, 1904.

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ACT NO. 172. AN ACT To create an additional Justice of the Peace and Constable in and for the Tenth (10th) Ward of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, to provide for the appointment of same and to fix the locality at which said Justice of the Peace shall maintain his office.

Approved July 5, 1904.

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ACT NO. 181. AN ACT Relative to the Militia of the State, and the Louisiana State National Guard: To enroll and organize the same, and to fix the term of service therein.

Approved  July 6, 1904.

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ACT NO. 197. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Articles, 1128, 1134, and 1135, of the Code of Practice

Approved July 7, 1904.