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ACT NO. 26. AN ACT Providing for the sale or dedication or both of certain property standing in the Name of the City of New Orleans as sites for the Delgado Central Trades School and the Reconstruction Hospital of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America, respectively, fixing the price and consideration therefor, and directing the dedication of the proceeds thereof as a special fund to be used for the embellishment and enlargement of the New Orleans City Park by the New Orleans City Park Improvement Association.
Approved: June 18, 1918.
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ACT No. 51. - AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 2 of Act No. 109 of 1906, approved July 7, 1906, entitled: “An Act to carry into effect Articles 235 and 236 of the Constitution, and to levy taxes solely for the support of the public schools on all inheritances, legacies and other donations mortis causa, to provide exemptions therefrom ; to prescribe the manner of collecting the same, to fix the fees of attorneys and commissions of tax collectors, and to repeal all conflicting laws’’, as amended and re-enacted by Act No. 42 of 1912, approved July 1, 1912, by adding another paragraph making the inheritance tax levied by said Act apply to personal property of non-residents and others; and also to amend and re-enact Section 17 of said Act No. 109 of 1906, as amended and re-enacted by Act No. 301 of 1914, approved July 9th, 1914, by adding a paragraph prohibiting banks and others from delivering or permitting entry to certain property without notice to and the consent of the inheritance tax collector; and also to amend and re-enact Section 18 of said Act No. 109 of 1906, by adding a paragraph providing what donations and transfers of property have been made in avoidance of the inheritance tax; and repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
Approved: June 27, 1918.
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ACT No. 58. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Act No. 176 of the year 1898, which is an Act entitled, “An act to amend and re-enact Section 2548 of the Revised Statutes, regulating the fees and salary of the Custodian of Notarial records for the Parish of Orleans, and providing the mode and manner of paying said salary.
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ACT NO. 64. AN ACT To regulate the carrying on of business under an assumed or fictitious name and to provide penalties for the violation thereof.
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ACT No. 82. AN ACT To amend and Re-enact Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, and 11 of Act 145 of 1916, entitled, “An Act to carry into effect Article 229 of the Constitution of 1898, as amended at the election in November, 1910, by levying an annual license tax upon all persons, firms, corporations or associations of persons engaged in the business of severing natural products from the soil, as timber, turpentine, and minerals, including oil, gas, sulphur and salt; and prescribing the method of collecting the license; requiring all those engaged in the severance of, and dealing in, such products to make reports of their business; to provide for the distribution of funds arising from this Act: to provide for their expenditure under the direction of certain Boards herein created; to provide penalties; and to repeal all laws in conflict here with :’’
Approved: July 3, 1918
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ACT No. 156. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 2546 of the Revised Statutes. regulating the appointment and qualification and duration of office of the Custodian of Notarial Records for the Parish of Orleans.
Approved: July 9, 1918.
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ACT No. 160. . AN ACT To provide for a form of municipal government for cities in the State of Louisiana, having a population of five thousand or over, the City of New Orleans excepted, to be known as the Commission-Manager form, to make provisions for the adoption of the same; to make the violations of certain provisions in same a misdemeanor, and to provide a penalty therefor; to incorporate and re-incorporate municipalities under the form of government herein provided, define boundaries, grant and prescribe municipal power and functions and provide for the administration thereof; and to repeal all laws inconsistent there with.
Approved: July 10, 1918.
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ACT No. 179. AN ACT To regulate the bringing of certain suits, and the service of civil process by sheriffs and constables throughout the State, including notices of seizure, notices to appoint appraisers, demands for bonds of indemnity, and all other papers prepared and issued by Sheriffs or Constables, and to repeal all laws in conflict therewith, and all laws on the same subject matter.
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ACT No. 192. AN ACT Relative to the authenticity of acts passed before any Notary Public in the United States and commissioned officers of the Army and Navy of the United States serving in foreign countries.
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ACT NO. 256. AN ACT Providing for the reception in evidence of all deeds and other act under private signature, heretofore acknowledge before any Ambassador, Minister, Consul, or other officer in a foreign country, or a Notary Public of any one of the United States of the Union, Insular Possessions, Territories of the United States, District of Columbia, or a Commissioner for the State of Louisiana in any one of said States or territories, and for the repeal of all laws in conflict herewith.
Approved: July 11, 1918.
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ACT No. 260. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 1 of Act No. 156 of the General Assembly for the year 1912, entitled, “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.”