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ACT NO. 2. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Louisiana for the assessment, levy and collection of a tax in the Parish of Orleans and the State of Louisiana, in aid of locating and building an exposition in the city of New Orleans to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal; said tax to be expended under the direction of the World's Panama Exposition Company.
Approved : May 24th., 1910
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ACT NO. 148. House Bill No. 26. AN ACT To provide what shall, in all applications for security process against property mortgaged by a corporation, constitute sufficient proof of the authority of the office or agent of the corporation to execute the mortgage on it behalf; and to repeal all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act.
Approved: July 6, 1910.
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ACT NO. 173. AN ACT To provide for the disposition, care and custody of foundlings, or abandoned children, and for the disposition, care and custody of foundlings, or children, placed in or received by any charitable institution of, or in this State, and to define an abandoned child.
Approved : July 6, 1910.
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ACT NO. 189. AN ACT To regulate the oyster industry of the State of Louisiana, by recognizing and declaring the ownership of the State to all water bottoms or beds of streams, bayous, lagoons, takes, bays, rivers and canals, along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. and of the Gulf of Mexico, within the jurisdiction of Louisiana, by prohibiting their alienation in fee simple; by recognizing and declaring the ownership of the State in and to all oysters growing thereon by limiting the riparian oysters to low water mark; by providing for the leasing of oyster lands of water bottoms belonging to the State; by recognizing leases already made on the same, by providing for the licensing, registering and designation of vessels employed in the oyster industry; by levying a special assessment or privilege tax on oysters taken from Louisiana waters and a license tax on persons, firms, or corporations, and vessels engaged in the oyster industry; by providing the manner of collecting, handling, depositing and disbursing the revenues derived therefrom ; by providing for the protection of natural oyster reefs, and the designation of oyster preserves; by providing the manner of shipping or taking oysters out of the State; and by providing such other rules and regulations necessary to properly carry out the purposes of this Act; by providing penalties and forfeitures for the violations of this Act; and by repealing and superseding all laws or parts of laws in conflict here- with, more especially Act No. 52 as amended by Act 178 of 1906, Act 167 of 1908 and Act 291 of 1908.
Approved: July 6, 1910
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ACT No. 218. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 23 of Act 171 of 1898, being an Act entitled: “To levy, collect and force payment of an annual license tax upon all persons, associations of persons, or business firms or corporations, pursuing any trade, profession, vocation, calling or business, except those who are expressly excepted from such license tax by Article 229, of the Constitution; and prescribing the mode and method in which certain persons subject to license shall make report of their business,” so as to require applicants for license to sign the affidavit in the presence of the officer administering the oath, and to require licenses to be paid in the parish of the principal place of business. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, That Section No. 23 of Act No. 171 of 1898 be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows, to wit:
