AN ACT To amend Act No. 159 of 1912, and to amend and re-enact Section 16 (as amended by Act 187 of the Regular Session of 1924, as amended by Act 240 of 1932) of said Act, entitled: "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 the 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 candidates for municipal officers in the said 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 herewith," by incorporating therein an additional Section making the bed waters, and both banks of Bayou St. John from a point arrived at by projecting City Park Avenue where it intersects Carrollton Avenue across said Bayou to the opposite bank thereof to the mouth of said Bayou at Lake Pontchartrain, placing same under the control, management, and jurisdiction of the New Orleans City Park Improvement Association, as agent of the State of Louisiana, and making unlawful certain trespasses upon appropriation of and obstructions to the bed, waters, and banks of said bayou.
