1856-86. furnished to te Governor, t What time. Number of coes to be printed. SEC. 2611. The several heads of departments herein before enumerated, and the Directors and Lessees of the Louisiana PenitenReports to be tiary, the Directors of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum, of the Insane Asylum, of the Charity Hospital, of the Board of Health and of the Joint Stock Companies in which the State may be interested, shall be required to furnish the Governor with their respective reports, annually, at least ten days previous to the meeting of the General Assembly, and they shall cause said reports to be printed in pamphlet form at the expense of the State by the State Printer. The following number of copies of such reports respectively, shall be printed for the use of the Senate and House of Representatives, viz: Report of the Secretary of State, five hundred copies; report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, fifteen hundred copies; report of the Superintendent of Public Education, one thousand copies; report of the Register of the Land Office, five hundred copies; report of the State Librarian, five hundred copies; report of the Board of Public Works, eight hundred copies; report of the Warden or Lessee or Directors of the Louisiana Penitentiary, five hundred copies; report of the Adjutant and Inspector General, five hundred copies; report of the Attorney General, five hundred copies; report of the Directors of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum, two hundred and fifty copies; report of the Directors of the Insane Asylum, five hundred copies; report of the Directors of the Board of Health, five hundred copies; report of the Directors of the Joint Stock Companies in which the State is interested, five hundred copies. SEC. 2612. The aforementioned reports and all other reports Reports not to ordered by the Senate or House of Representatives, to be printed in pamphlet form, shall not be published in the State paper. be printed in the State paper. Messages and reports, LOW printed. 1861-152. Officers to sub SEC. 2613. All executive messages communicated, and the reports of the various State departments and of all standing and special committees of either branch of the General Assembly, and the documents accompanying the same, shall be printed and bound in a separate volume, in the manner and form prescribed for the printing and publishing the journals, and shall be designated "Documents of the Legislature, 18-," and there shall be two thousand volumes of the same delivered with the journals. SEC. 2614. The various State officers are hereby required to mic statement of submit to the General Assembly a detailed statement of their their expenses expenses, giving each item with the proper vouchers, within the first week of its annual session. to the Assembly. 1865-132. SEC. 2615. In case of vacancy in the office of Lieutenant Vacan y in the Governor, the Senate shall elect a President who shall be Lieutenant tenant Governor Governor. offi e o Lieu Succe s'on in in the offices of SEO. 2616. If the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor and case of vacancy President of the Senate, shall become vacant by death or otherwise, Governor, Lieu- the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be Governor; and tenant G. vern the Senate at their first meeting, shall elect a President who shall be Lieutenant Governor. an President of the Se ate. Duty o G ver. norr spect ng SEC. 2617. In all cases when the law shall direct any appointappointments to ment to be made by the Governor and Senate, within a limited, be ma tey bim time, a nomination for such appointment shall be laid before the within a limited Senate at least six days before the expiration of said time. and the Se ate time. SEC. 2618. The Private Secretary of the Governor shall receive Salary of priate a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, to be paid Governor. quarterly on his own warrant. secretary to SEC. 2619. The flag of the United States, from sunrise to sunset, shall wave over the public departments and institutions of the State 1868-43. on all public occasions, over the State House during the sessions of The United the General Assembly, and over the court houses in the several displayed. parishes during the sessions of the courts. States flag to be SEC. 2620. The several public officers respectively, shall enforce and execute, or cause to be enforced and executed, the provisions Duties of public of the foregoing section. officers. charging more SEC. 2621. If any officer shall demand or collect any other or greater fees than are particularly and specially herein set forth, 1861-156. he shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and on Penalty for conviction thereof, be condemned to pay a fine of not less than one than the fees hundred dollars, nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, and allowed by law. to be liable to be dismissed from office, and it shall be the duty of the judge of the court, on the complaint of any person aggrieved, to summon the officer complained of to appear before him in open court, by a rule, after ten days' notice, to show cause why the penalties of this section should not be enforced. The fines and forfeitures collected under this act are in the city of New Orleans to be for the use and benefit of the Charity Hospital, and in the other parishes to be paid over to the parish treasurer of the respective parishes of the State, and it shall be the duty of the district attorney to collect and pay over the same. officers of the SEC. 2622. Each officer and member of the Metropolitan Police force shall hold office respectively during good behavior, and shall 1860-92 be liable to removal from office of membership of the said police Qualifications of force only after written charges shall have been preferred against Metropolitan him according to the rules and regulations of the board of commis- Police sioners; but no person shall ever be appointed to office or membership of the said police force who is not a citizen of the United States and this State, or who has ever been convicted of crime, or who is disqualified by the fourteenth article of the constitution of the United States, or by the terms of article ninety-nine of the constitution of this State. OYER. 1826-168-2 Art. 175, C. P. pray for oyer of or note, when SEC. 2623. So much of article one hundred and seventy-five as Ame dment. requires the original of an act or note under private signature to be If defendant annexed to the petition, is repealed; Provided, That if the defendant the private act pray a view or oyer of the document declared upon, the court shall not a nexed to order the same to be filed within a reasonable delay, and in default the petition, the of the plaintiff's complying with the order, his petition shall be filed within dismissed. court to order it reasonable time. PARISHES. 1955-35. Bondaries, how fixed and determined. Boundarics, how fixed and deter- Land divided by parish line as- in 2627 parish of owner... .2633 .2634 ....2636 a parish...... 2631 porary levees...... Penalty for failure to work on levees when notified ....2637 Compensation for work on levees..2636 ...... SEC. 2624. Whenever the police jury of any parish shall pass an ordinance for ascertaining and fixing the boundary lines of any parish adjoining thereto, and shall appoint a time and place for commencing the running thereof, and shall duly serve the president of the police jury of said adjoining parish with a copy of the ordinance, with notice of the time and place for commencing the running thereof, six months previous to the time so fixed, then the parish surveyors of said parishes, or such surveyors as may be appointed for that purpose, shall proceed to the running and marking of said boundary line, and in case the parish surveyor of either parish shall fail to attend at the time and place appointed, then the other parish surveyor, after waiting two entire days, shall proceed to the running and marking of the said adjoining boundary line. SEC. 2625. Whenever a boundary line shall have been run and Returns, how to marked as above prescribed, due returns thereof shall be made to the presidents of the police juries of both the said parishes, who shall cause them to be carefully filed and preserved in the office of the recorder. be preserved. Compensation of surveyors. SEC. 2626. Each of the surveyors shall receive, as full compensation for the running and marking of said lines, five dollars per day, and shall be paid for all reasonable expenses, by the treasurer of the parish interested. SEC. 2627. If any parish surveyor shall neglect to perform any Penalty for neg of the duties herein prescribed, he shall, on conviction thereof, suffer a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, and imprisonment not exceeding ten days. lect. 1969-69. Decree in case of judgment against a parish. On judgments heretofore rendered, SEC. 2628. Hereafter whenever a judgment for money is rendered by any court of competent jurisdiction against a parish of this State, the judge who shall render the judgment shall in the same decree order the boar of assessors or parish officers whose duty it is to assess taxes, forthwith to assess a parish tax at a sufficient rate per cent. upon the assessment roll of the current year to pay and satisfy caid judgment, with interest and costs. SEC. 2629. Whenever any judgment for money has heretofore been rendered by any court of competent jurisdiction against a parish, the judge shall, on motion, order forthwith the board of assessors or parish officers whose duty it is to assess taxes, to assess the tax as provided in the two thousand six hundred and twentyeighth section of this act. SEC. 2630. In such decree or judgment the judge shall provide that immediately upon the assessment of the tax by the assessors of Collection of tax the parish, the State collector or tax collector shall proceed forth- under such with to collect said tax in the same manner that parish taxes are now collected, and the proceeds shall constitute a special fund, out of which said judgment, interest and costs shall be paid, and shall not be diverted to any other purpose, provided sufficient proof be furnished to the judge that there are no funds in the parish treasury to satisfy said judgment. SEC. 2631. The fines and forfeitures collected for violation of the criminal laws of the State, and which have been required by law to 1855-9. be paid into the State treasury, shall belong to and be paid into the Fines and for. treasury of the parish in which they may be collected, and in New paid to the parOrleans into the treasury of the city. This section shall not be so construed as to affect in any manner the process for collecting fines and forfeitures. feitures to be ishes. parish line as SEC. 2632. When the line between two parishes divides a tract 1869-143. of land or plantation, it shall be assessed in the parish where the Land dived by occupant resides; if unoccupied, each part shall be assessed in the Fessed in parish parish in which it lies. of occupant. e ty asse sed in SEC. 2633. Every person shall be assessed in the parish where he resides when the assessment is made for personal or movable estate, Personal prop including all personal estate in his possession or under his control parish of owner. as tutor, curator, executor, agent or other representative or fiduciary, unless such personal or movable estate be attached to and upon a plantation, in which case it shall be assessed in the parish where the plantation or land may be. SEC. 2634. The property, real or personal, of all incorporated companies liable to taxation, except capital stock, shall be assessed Property of corin the parish in which it may be, in the same manner as that of individuals. porations. SEC. 2635. The capital stock, not invested in real estate, of every incorporated company, liable to taxation, shall be assessed in the Capital sock of parish where the principal office or place for transacting the financial corporations. concerns of the company shall be, or if the company have no such office, then in the parish where the operations of the company shall be carried on, or its agents shall keep their place of business. shall construct SEC. 2636. The police juries of the several parishes subject to overflow are hereby authorized and required to have temporary 1868-271. levees made in their respective parishes, and for this purpose they Police juries are hereby empowered to call out all citizens subject to road duty to temporary work on such levees; Provided, That they shall not require more than six days' work on any or all such levees from each or any of said citizens. levees. ure to work on SEC. 2637. Any citizen subject to road duty, who shall be regularly summoned and notified in accordance to the regulations pre- Penalty for fallscribed by the police jury to work on such levees, and who shall levees when fail to work on the levees provided for in the two thousand six hun- notified. dred and thirty-sixth section of this act, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two dollars per day for every day he shall fail so to work, to be recovered before any justice of the peace having jurisdiction of levees. the case, which fine, when so recovered, shall be paid into the parish treasury, and be used in paying the wages of laborers on such levees. SEC. 2638. Each citizen required to work on the levees, as is proCompensation vided by this act, shall be allowed one dollar per day for each day's for work on the work, and receive rations; and each laborer shall be entitled to a certificate from the police jury of the amount due him, which certificate is to be paid by the parishes in which the levees are built, when in funds. 1956-161. Offices of the parish treas. urers, where kept. Peralty in case of neglect or refusal. 1855-354. SEC. 2639. The parish treasurers throughout this State, except of the parish of Jefferson, be and they are hereby required to keep their offices at the seat of justice of their respective parishes. SEC. 2640. Any parish treasurer neglecting or refusing to comply with the foregoing section, shall be subject to pay a fine of not less than one one hundred dollars, nor more than three hundred dollars, recoverable before any court of competent jurisdiction, at the discretion of the court, to be added to the school fund of said parish. SEC. 2641. It shall be the duty of the parish treasurer to receive Duties of parish and keep the money of the parish, to disburse the same agreeably to law, and take receipts therefor; and he shall keep regular accounts treasurer. |