Louisiana's Notary Public and Notarial Acts: 1912

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ACT NO. 13. AN ACT To enforce Article 170 of the Constitution of 1898 declaring that “no person shall hold or exercise, at the same time, more than one office of trust or profit, except that of justice of the peace or notary public,” and providing penalties for the violation of this act.

Approved: June 18th, 1912.

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ACT NO. 22. AN ACT Amending Sections 11 and 12 of Act No. 42 of the General Assembly of 1890, entitled “An Act Relative to Notaries Public for the Parish of Orleans, and Regulating their Appointment, Bond, Qualifications, Duties and Obligations, Providing for Testing of said Bonds, and prescribing certain Penalties.’’

Approved : June 25th, 1912.

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ACT NO 65. AN ACT To provide for the granting of mortgages on lumber, logs, and live stock of all kinds, regulating their effects and enforcement: providing for their registry and providing penalties for injuring, for the fraudulent disposition or concealment of the property on which said mortgage rests and the fraudulent release of said mortgages.

The foregoing Act having been submitted to his Excellency Luther E. Hall, Governor of this State for his approval and signature, and the same not having been returned to the House in which it originated with his approval and signature, or with his objections thereto, within the time prescribed by the Constitution of this State, the same has become a law by limitation.

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ACT NO. 118. AN ACT Relative to the Southern University. Providing for a change of its domicile, and the sale of the present property and the investment of the proceeds of said sale in a new domicile; and to enlarge the scope of its usefulness; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict here-with.

Approved: July 9th, 1912.

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ACT NO. 151. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Act No. 168 of the Acts of 1894, entitled “An Act to provide for the sale of sixteenth section lands, where the township in which such lands are situated is not habitable by reason of the land therein being swamp or sea marsh.”

Approved July 10th, 1912.

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ACT NO. 156.  AN ACT To authorize litigants who are unable to pay costs to litigate as plaintiff, defendant, or intervenor, in the courts of this State without the previous or current payment of costs and without giving a bond for costs, and fixing the extent, terms, conditions and manner of exercising the right herein granted.

Approved July 10th, 1912.

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ACT No. 159.  AN ACT To incorporate the City of New Orleans; to provide a Commission form of Government for the administration of the affairs of said city; to provide for an initiative, referendum and recall, and for the manner and mode of exercising and submitting same, and providing penalties for the violation of any of the provisions of this Act in reference to same; to submit this act to the qualified voters of the City of New Orleans for their approval or disapproval; to provide that if disapproved this act shall be non-operative; to call a special election for the purpose of taking the sense of said voters; to provide a special primary to nominate party can- didates for municipal officers in the City of New Orleans to be elected in November, 1912, and for that purpose only to subordinate the general primary laws of the State to the special provisions of this act, and to repeal all laws and parts of laws in conflict here with.

Approved July 11th, 1912.

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ACT NO. 184. AN ACT Declaring the employment, use or exhibition of children under sixteen years of age, and the training for purposes of exhibition, use and employment, and having in custody, and pro- curing, of such children, as rope or wire walkers, gymnasts, wrestlers, contortionists, riders or acrobats, in singing or dancing, playing upon musical instruments, in theatrical exhibitions, or wandering occupations, in any illegal, immoral or indecent exhibition or practice, or in the exhibition of insane, idiotic, deformed or unnaturally formed or developed children, in any practice or place or exhibition dangerous to the life, limbs, health or morals of children, shall be regarded as contributing to the neglect and delinquency of children, and declaring such acts to be misdemeanors, and providing penalty and punishment therefor by fine and imprisonment, or both ; declaring that the provisions of this or any previous Act of the Legislature shall not apply to the employment of any child as a singer or musician in a church, school or academy, or in teaching or learning the science or practice of music, or in a theatrical exhibition, or as a musician in any concert, where a permit for such child has been obtained from a Juvenile Court, or District Court acting as such, and providing how and under what circumstances permits may be granted to children; requiring the furnishing of a bond by employers for the care and tuition of such children while in their employment, and setting forth the stipulations and conditions of such permits and bonds, and providing for the forfeiture of such bonds; making such permits revocable at the pleasure of the authority granting same; and providing other details in connection with the subject matter; and repealing all laws or parts of laws contrary to or inconsistent or in conflict with this Act.

Approved: July 11th, 1912

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ACT NO. 247. House Bill No. 501. By Mr. Butler, Chairman of Committee on Judiciary Section A. Substitute for House Bill No. 465. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Sections Three (3), Six (6), and Seven (7), of Act 125 of 1908 of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, being an Act to regulate the practice of public accounting by establishing a State Board of Accounts, fixing its fees and emoluments; to prohibit the unlawful use of words, ſetters or other means of identification, hy unauthorized persons, as certified public accountants under this Act, and to provide penalties for the violations of its provisions, and to repeal all laws in conflict here with.

Approved: July 11th, 1912.