Agents and been given, as hereinbefore provided, and who shall become chargeable upon any city, town or parish, in such manner as they shall deem proper; and after such provision shall have been made by such Commissioners, such city, town or parish shall not be entitled to claim any further indemnity for the support and maintenance of such person. 6. [SEC. 1726.] The said Commissioners are authorized to employ an Assistant Agent and such Clerks and servants as they shall deem necessary for the purposes aforesaid, and to pay a reasonable compensation for their services out of the moneys aforesaid; provided, that the salary of the Assistant Agent shall not exceed two thousand dollars per annum, and that the salaries of the Clerks shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars per annum. 7. [SEC. 1727.] The said Commissioners shall annually, on or Annual report. before the first day of February in each year, report to the General Assembly the amount of moneys received under the provisions of this act during the preceding year, and the manner in which the same has been appropriated particularly. Vacancies. Recovery of penalties. not to make contracts with the Commission 8. [SEC. 1728.] In case of a vacancy in the said Board of Commissioners, the same shall be filled by an appointment, to be made by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The person so appointed shall hold his office for the remainder of the term of the person in whose place he shall have been appointed. The said Commissioners shall in all cases be residents of the city of New Orleans. 9. [SEC. 1729.] The penalties and forfeitures, prescribed by this act, may be sued for and recovered with costs of suit, by and in the name of said Commissioners of Immigration, in any court having cognizance thereof, and, when recovered, shall be applied to the purposes specified in this act. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, before or after suit brought, to compound for any of the said penalties or forfeitures upon such terms as they shall think proper. 10. [SEC. 1730.] The Commissioners of Immigration shall serve Commissioners without pay, and shall annually make and return to the General Assembly, with their annual report, an affidavit, in and by which they shall, respectively, swear or affirm, each for himself, to the correctness of said report, and that he has not, directly or indirectly, been interested in the business of boarding immigrants, in the transportation of any immigrant passengers through any portion of the interior of this country, or had made or received, directly or indirectly, any gain, profit or advantage by or through the purchase of supplies, the granting of any contract or contracts herein, or licenses, privilege or privileges, or the employment of any officer, servant or agent, mechanic, laborer, or other person, in the business under the control of said Commissioners; provided, that nothing in this act shall prevent the Commissioner appointed by the Board to act as General Agent of the Commission, from being paid such a salary for his services as shall be stipulated by the said Board; provided further, that the said salary shall not exceed the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. bonds. 11. [SEC. 1731.] If any person, for whom a bond shall have been given, as aforesaid, shall, within five years from the date of Actions on such bond, become chargeable upon any city, town or parish of this State, or upon the Commissioners of Immigration, the said Commissioners may bring an action on such bond in the name of the people of this State, and shall be entitled to recover on such bond, from time to time, so much money, not in the whole exceeding the penalty of such bond, exclusive of costs, as shall be sufficient to defray the expenses incurred by any such city town or parish, or the said Commissioners, for the maintenance and support of the person for whom such bond was given, as aforesaid. tribution of ceased immi grants. 12. [SEC. 1732.] Whenever any alien immigrant, whose personal property shall not exceed the value of twenty-five dollars, shall die Care and dison the passage to the port of New Orleans, or in any hospital or property of deother establishment under the charge of the Commissioners, and in all cases in which minor children of alien passengers shall become orphans by their parents or last surviving parent dying, the personal property which such alien immigrant, or such parent or parents may have had with them, shall be taken in charge by the Commissioners of Immigration, to be by them appropriated for the sole benefit of the next of kin of such alien immigrant or of said orphan children; and said Commissioners shall give, in their annual report to the Legislature, a minute description of all cases in which property shall come into their possession by virtue of this section, and the disposition made of the same, unless it shall appear that there are other persons entitled by will or otherwise to such property or distributive share thereof. Whenever it shall so appear, the portion only, to which the next of kin or said minor orphans would be legally entitled, shall be transferred to them or applied to their use, and the remainder shall be received, held and distributed to the parties severally entitled thereto, in the same manner and with the same authority, as by law provided in respect to the Public Administrator of the city of New Orleans, except that the said Commis published. Commissioners to make contracts, etc. sioners are hereby authorized to distribute the same after a notice for creditors to appear and put in their claims within one week from the publication of the said notice. The said notice shall be published once in one of the daily papers of the city of New Orleans. 13. [SEC. 1733.] It shall be the duty of the Commissioners of Statistics to be Immigration to collect and have published, in English, French and German, and such other languages as they may think proper, statistical information setting forth the aims of the Commission, and the advantages of soil, climate and productions, which Louisiana presents to the enterprising immigrant; to assist any and all immigrants from foreign countries who may desire to settle in Louisiana, by giving counsel and information in making contracts for public means of transportation, to bring to the port of New Orleans, at the lowest rates of passage possible, such immigrants as may elect to come to said port, and to make arrangements with steamboats, railroads, and other public means of transportation, to convey immigrants who may elect to settle in Louisiana, to their place of destination in a comfortable manner and at the least expense possible; to use every effort to inform, advise and assist immigrants; to visit and examine all vessels landing at the port of New Orleans, which Register of im- have immigrants on board, and to make a register of such immigrants, showing names, ages, places of birth, sex, profession, trade, destination, which register shall be filed in their office; to make a Annual report. report, annually, to the General Assembly of the State, of the number of immigrants who have arrived, with a tabular statement showing ages, places of birth, sex, trade, profession and destination of all immigrants who may have arrived during the year at the port of New Orleans, together with such information and recommendations as in their opinion may promote immigration to the State of Louisiana, together with a full statement of the expenses and operations of the Commission; provided, nothing in this section shall be so construed as to make the State liable for the passage money of any immigrant coming into this State or going into the interior. migrants. Immigrant Care of immigrants. 14. [SEC. 1734.] It shall be the duty of the Commissioners of Immigration to establish an Immigrant Depot, in which, upon their landing, immigrants may receive shelter, and of which said Commissioners shall have entire control; to license suitable boarding house keepers in New Orleans, who shall agree to board and entertain immigrants at a rate of compensation to be fixed by them; to establish such regulations as may protect the immigrant from fraud and imposition by designing persons, especially in exchanging money and in the purchase of tickets for transportation into the interior of this State or to other States; and to receive, investigate and cause to be redressed all claims for damages by foreign immigrant passengers on account of insufficient accommodation, bad or insufficient food and harsh treatment on shipboard, and they shall have power to seize any vessel against which such claims shall be brought, and hold it until such claims for damages may be decided by the proper court. tion of statistics formation. 15. [SEC. 1735.] It shall be the duty of the Commissioners of Immigration to cause the preparation of a map of the State, showing Annual publicathe usual features of a geographical map, geological formations, for general inisothermal lines and zones of the leading staples and most important agricultural products; they shall annually collect and annually publish a volume of such statistics of the agricultural, mineral and geological products, commerce, climatology, health, schools, charitable institutions, railroads, canals, finances, social relations, crimes, etc., of this State, as they, the said Commissioners, may deem best suited to inform the people of this and of other States of the resources of Louisiana, and contribute thereby to the growth and prosperity of the State. 16. [SEC. 1736.] It shall be the duty of the Commissioners of Immigration to establish a Labor Exchange in a convenient locality, Labor Exchange and in connection with the Immigrant Depot, which shall be open and free of charge to all persons wishing situations, and to all residents in this State wishing laborers; provided, that said employers and laborers comply with the proper rules and regulations prescribed, by the Commissioners of Immigration, for the management of said Labor Exchange. statements of 17. [SEC. 1737.] The Commissioners of Immigration shall aid, so far as possible, both immigrants and such persons residing in this Homesteads and State as wish to avail themselves of the homestead act, to procure lands. homes in the country thereby; also to assist in the sale and purchase of lands, by furnishing blanks to land owners, to be filled with a correct statement as to the location, size, value, title, price, incumbrances, etc., of the tract to be sold, and which, when sworn to by the seller, and attested by the Recorder of the parish in which said tract is situated, shall be kept on file at the office of the Commissioners of Immigration, open at all business hours to all parties wishing to inspect or copy the same, free of cost and all charges whatsoever. ART. 95. The power of impeachment shall be vested in the House Impeachment. of Representatives. triable by the Senate. ART. 96. Impeachments of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Impeachments Attorney General, Secretary of State, Auditor of Public Accounts State Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Education, and of the Judges of the inferior courts, Justices of the Peace excepted, shall be tried by the Senate. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, or the senior Associate Judge thereof, shall preside during the trial of such impeachments. Impeachments of the Judges of the Supreme Court shall be tried by the Senate. When sitting as a court of impeachment, the Senators shall be upon oath or affirmation, and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the Senators present. Chief Justice or Senior Associate Justic: to pre side. Senators to be upon oath or affirmation. ments. ART. 97. Judgments in cases of impeachment shall extend only Extent of judg to removal from office and disqualification from holding any office of honor, trust or profit in the State; but the convicted parties shall, nevertheless, be subject to indictment, trial and punishment according to law. 1855-370. 1. [SEC. 1738.] Whenever any person shall wish to accuse a Memorial to be public officer before the Legislature, he shall address the House of Legislature. Representatives a memorial, containing a brief exposition of the presented the |