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ACT No. 9. AN ACT To empower the Governor to grant leaves of absence and to provide procedure for procuring such leaves and the giving of new bonds at the expiration of such leaves of all Notaries Public, who may be in the Military Service of the United States, and to protect Notaries Public now in military service from the loss of their commissions due to absence from the State, and to repeal all laws in conflict herewith.
Approved by the Governor: July 2, 1942.
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ACT No. 37. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 1 of Act 259 of 1940, entitled: "An Act To provide that no member of Congress or person holding or exercising any office or position or employment of profit under the United States or under any foreign power shall be eligible to be a member of the Legislature of Louisiana or shall hold or exercise any office or position or employment of profit under the State of Louisiana; tj prohibit persons holding or exercising any office, position or employment of profit in one of the three departments of government of the State of Louisiana from holding or exercising any office, position or employment of profit in that department or in any other department or in any parish, municipality, or Board, Commission or subdivision of the State; to make certain exceptions and to provide punishment for the violation thereof".
Approved by the Governor: July 7, 1942.
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ACT No. 91. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Act 271 of the Legislature of Louisiana of 1940, entitled: "An Act conferring the right of Fa unmarried mother whether over or under the age of twenty-one years who has given birth to an illegitimate child or children, legally to surrender the care, custody and control of said illegitimate child or children to institutions or social agencies approved by the State Department of Public Welfare; prescribing the manner of legally surrendering the care, custody and control of said illegimate child or children, and conferring the right on said institutions and social agencies, approved by the State Department of Public Welfare to which the care, custody and control of said illegitimate child or children has been surrendered, to place said child or children for adoption and to act in said adoption proceedings as the legal custodian of said child or children; requiring judicial authority for such surrender of any child by an unmarried mother under the age of twenty-one years and repealing all laws in conflict herewith," and to amend the title to said Act.
Approved by the Governor: July 5, 1942.
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ACT No. 178. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Sections 10, 16, 21, 26, and 42 of Act 172 of 1940 entitled, "An Act to create and establish a Classified Civil Service, based upon the merit system of personnel administration, to administer, control and regulate employment in the service of the State of Louisiana; to create and establish a State Department of Civil Service, a Director of Personnel in said Department, and a State Civil Service Commission; to prescribe the method of selection, appointment and removal of said Director and members of said Commission; to define and prescribe the duties, powers and authority of said Commission, said Director, and other agencies of said State; to define the Classified Service and the Unclassified Service; to regulate and control employees in the . . .
Approved by the Governor: July 10, 1942.
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ACT No. 187. AN ACT To regulate the revocability of donations between spouses; to provide how the right to revoke any such donation, now or hereafter existing, may be given up; and to repeal Article No. 1749 of the Revised Civil Code and all other laws inconsistent herewith.
Approved by the Governor: July 11, 1942.
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ACT No. 221. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 4 (as amended by Act 31 of 1924) of Act 138 of 1898, entitled; "An Act abolishing the offices of Justices of the Peace and Constables in Wards 3 and 10 of Ouachita Parish, and creating in their stead the 'City Court of the City of Monroe', consisting of a Judge and a Marshal, and defining their qualifications, powers, jurisdiction and term of office; providing for their salaries and fees and place of office, and method of executing process"; and repealing all laws and parts of laws inconsistent or in conflict herewith, and especially Section 4 of Act No. 31 of 1924.
Approved by the Governor: July 10, 1942.
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ACT No. 230. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Sections 4 and 5 of Act No. 42 of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, for the year 1890, as amended and re-enacted by Act No. 138 of 1896, as amended and re-enacted by Act No. 187 of 1902, as amended and re-enacted by Act No. 239 of 1916, and as amended and re-enacted by Act No. 157 of 1920, as amended and re-enacted by Act No. 47 of 1924, as amended and re-enacted by Act No. 40 of 1926, as amended and re-enacted by Act No. 118 of 1928, as amended and re-enacted by Act No. 13 of the Extra Session of 1928, entitled: "An Act relative to Notaries public of the Parish of Orleans, and regulating their appointment, bond, qualifications, duties and obligations, providing for the testing of said bonds and pre- scribing certain penalites," and to repeal all laws in conflict herewith.
Approved by the Governor: July 12, 1942
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ACT No. 265. AN ACT To create a State Service Commissioner, to fix his duties and compensation and to make an appropriation to carry out the purposes of this measure.
Approved by the Governor: July 12, 1942.
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ACT No. 288. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Act 183 of 1924 (amended by Act 15 of the Second Extraordinary Session of 1935, Act 336 of 1936 and Act 227 of 1938) entitled, as amended, "An Act to fix the compensation of the Clerks of District Courts and Ex-Officio Recorders throughout the State, the Parishes of Orleans, Tensas, Madison, Red River, Plaquemines, Caddo and East Feliciana excepted; to provide for deputies, clerical and other assistants and defraying expenses; to provide for the disposition of the surplus receipts, if any, of the Clerks of District Courts' office; to provide penalties for the violation of this Act; and to repeal all laws contrary to, or in-conflict with, this Act."
Approved by the Governor: July 12, 1942.
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ACT No. 307. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 1 of Act 116 of 1938, entitled: "An Act to regulate the issuance of tax, paving and other local improvement assessment research certificates by tax and assessment collectors of municipal corporations in this State, having a population of over three hundred thousand inhabitants; to require such certificates to be annexed to all public acts involving the sale, transfer, donation, partition, or other conveyance of real estate located in said municipal corporations; to provide penalties for the violations of this Act; and to repeal all laws in conflict herewith."
Approved by the Governor: July 13, 1942.
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ACT No. 331. AN ACT To provide a salary of not less nor more than $5,000.00 per annum, for the Clerk of Court and Ex-Officio Recorder of Mortgages and Register of Conveyances, Parish of Jefferson; to authorize the fixing of clerical salaries and expenses for conducting the office; and to authorize the Clerk of Court to expend any surplus for typewriters, stationery, furniture, fixtures and equipment, including files, cabinets, etc., except permanent records such as mortgage and conveyance books, index books, and the binding of notarial acts and documents, which shall be provided by the Police Jury of the Parish of Jefferson, all subject to the approval of the District Judge; and repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith.
Approved by the Governor: July 15, 1942.
