Louisiana's Notary Public and Notarial Acts: 1877

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No. 7..] AN ACT Authorizing Notaries Public to administer oaths and take acknowledgments.

Approved February 7, 1877.

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 No. 22.] AN ACT Relative to the charter of the Louisiana Equitable Life Insurance Company, and to continue the same in force.

Approved February 26, 1877.

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No. 33.] AN ACT To enable the city of New Orleans to promote the public health and to afford greater security against fire, by the establishment of a corporation to be called the “New Orleans Waterworks Company;” to authorize the said company, to issue bonds for the purpose of extending and improving the said works, and to furnish the inhabitants of New Orleans an adequate supply of pure and wholesome water; to permit the holders of Waterworks bonds to convert them into stock, and to provide for the liquidation of the bonded and floating debt of the city of New Orleans.

Approved March 31, 1877.

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No. 44.] AN ACT Relative to juries in and for the State of Louisiana, the parish of Orleans excepted, to determine the qualifications of jurors, to exempt certain persons from serving on juries; to provide for a Jury Commission in each parish : to prescribe the manner of procuring a general venire, and of drawing juries; to give certain discretionary powers to the District Judges; to provide for the summoning of jurors; to compel their attendance; for their compensation; taxing jury costs in civil jury cases.

Approved March 8, 1877.

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No. 57.] AN ACT To authorize the city of New Orleans to issue premium bonds, on conditions specified, in exchange for certain bonds heretofore issued and pledged to pay a judgment rendered against said city.

Received in the office of the Secretary of State, at New Orleans, this thirteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, the foregoing bill, having been presented to his Excellency the Governor of this State for his approval and signature, and not having been returned by him to the House of Representatives, in which body it originated, with his signature or his objections to the same, within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the State of Louisiana, the same has become a law without his approval and signature.

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No. 96.] AN ACT Regulating the mode of assessing and collecting taxes throughout the State; providing for the correction of over and under assessments; providing for the collecting of State and Parish taxes, and the appointment of tax collectors; for the recording of their bonds, and the duties of Parish Recorders in that respect, and the removal of Parish Recorders for violation of the provisions of this Act; limiting the power of taxation of all parishes and municipalities throughout the State; giving relief to taxpayers, and granting rights of subrogation, and appointing a board to examine outstanding claims, and repealing all laws in conflict there with, and to remit certain interest and penalties on certain unpaid taxes, and limiting the liens, privileges, and right of pledge for licenses, taxes, and assessments, and appointment of Assessor in all the parishes, and for the taking of the census of the youths between the ages of six and twenty-one in all the parishes of the State, and to regulate the duties of Parish Treasurer, and to fix penalties for violation of provisions of this Act, and to provide for the examination of the books, vouchers, records, and accounts of the Auditor and Treasurer.

Approved April 20, 1877.

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No. 124.] AN ACT To vest in the State Board of Education control of the site purchased for the State in the city of New Orleans for the location of a State normal school, and to authorize the renting or the sale of said site and the use of the revenues or proceeds to aid in maintaining the  school or schools to be established in the city of New Orleans.

Approved April 30, 1877.

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No. 139.] AN ACT To repeal an Act entitled “An Act relative to the Louisiana Levee Company, a corporation organized under the general laws of the State, constituting it, a body politic and corporate with certain powers, privileges, and franchises, and contracting with the said corporation for the construction, maintenance, and repairs of certain levees, and providing the compensation therefor,” approved February twenty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one ; also to repeal Act number forty- three of the Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled “An Act to amend and re-enact section number two of an Act relative to the Louisiana Levee Company, a corporation organized under the general laws of the State, constituting it a body politic and corporate, with certain powers, privileges, and franchises, and contracting with said corporation for the construction, maintenance, and repairs of certain levees, and providing for compensation thereof.” approved February twenty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one; and also to amend and re-enact section one of an Act entitled “An Act ratifying and confirming a contract between the Louisiana Levee Company and the Governor of the State of Louisiana,” approved February twenty-eight, one thousand eight hundred and seventy- one, providing for the acceptance by said Levee Company, and authorizing and requiring a yearly estimate of levees to be built; reducing the compensation thereof from sixty to fifty cents per cubic yard, and providing for converting timber work into earth work; provided, that this repeal of said Acts shall not affect the taxes imposed thereby, and leaving all sections of said Acts regulating the assessment and collection of such taxes in full force and effect; authorizing the Louisiana Levee Company to sue the State under . certain restrictions, and to provide for the settlement and liquidation of such judgments as shall be rendered against the State if the suit instituted by said company should result adversely to the State; appropriating one-third of the levee tax of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, or so much of this appropriation as may be necessary, to pay such judgment as said Louisiana Levee Company shall obtain for levee work done in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, by anticipating the revenues of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, collectible in one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight; and providing for suit to forfeit the charter of said company in the event of non-acceptance of the terms hereof, and forbidding the payment of any tax collected in the future in the event of said non-acceptance.

Approved May 9, 1877.