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Louisiana's Justice of the Peace: 1906

Laws and History

1906

page 125

ACT NO. 80.  AN ACT To create the Saline 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 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 monies, 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 herewith.

Approved July 5th, 1906.