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A Brief History of the Orleans Criminal District Court: 1902

1902

Act No. 103.)       AN ACT
To amend and re-enact Act No. 137 of 1890, approved July 10th, 1890, entitled, "An act making it a crime to willfully and feloniously cut, pull down, burn, destroy, kill or deaden, carry or float away any tree, wood or timber growing or lying on the land of another, or lying in the water on the land of another, or to cause the same to be done without the consent of the owner, and fixing a penalty therefor;" and to make the cutting deadening, carrying or floating away any tree or timber growing on the lands of another, or taken from the lands of another without the consent of the owner for the purpose of selling, or manufacturing the same into timber, without first having the boundary lines around the land upon which said timber is situated, established and plainly marked by a competent surveyor, evidence of the willful and felonious intent within the meaning of this Act; and also to make it a crime for any one willfully and knowingly to purchase timber in single sticks, cribs, blocks or rafts, in any lake, bayou stream or river in this State, or in the woods or delivered at any saw-mill, or other point in this State, unpaid for without exacting from the seller a written affidavit that such timber has been paid for, or has been cut from the lands of the seller around which the line has been established; and making the failure to exact such affidavit from the seller evidence of the willful and felonious intent within the meaning of this Act, and to fix the punishment for said crime.

Act No. 107.)        AN ACT
To grade misdemeanors and minor offenses against the State, and to fix the minimum and maximum penalties therefor, in accordance with the direction to the General Assembly contained in Article 155 of the Constitution.  

1902 Act 103

1902 Act 107