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A Brief History of the Orleans Criminal District Court: 1873

1873

No. 26.]                      AN ACT
Punishing extortion in office by the public officers of the State of Louisiana, of parishes, judicial and other districts, and of cities and towns incorporated or having governments authorized by law.

No. 41.]                     AN ACT
Declaring it a crime to usurp a public office and providing the punishment for such offense; providing that if any public officer shall adhere to or recognize any usuper, his office shall be forfeited and considered abandoned, and directing and regulating legal proceedings to have such abandonment and forfeiture declared; authorizing the Governor to declare such forfeiture ana abandonment in certain cases, and to remove such officers and to fill the vacancies so made, by appointment.

1873 Act 26

1873 Act 41