1859-167. Fictitious

SEC. 2668. Hereafter no person shall transact business in the name of a partner not interested in his firm, and when the designation "and Company" or "& Co.," is used, it shall represent an in partnerships. actual partner or partners.

names abolished

Penalty for offending.

SEC. 2669. Any person offending against the provisions of the foregoing section, shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, recoverable before any court of competent jurisdiction.

1855-339.

Who are includdesignation of peddlers and hawkers.

ed under the

Peddlers and hawkers bound

SEC. 2670. Under the designation of peddlers and hawkers shall be included all persons who travel about the country with goods, wares and merchandise, for sale or barter, whether on foot, on horseback, or in a wagon or other conveyance; or in any craft on the water courses of this State, or who shall receive in payment for freight either produce, goods, wares or merchandise, or any or all of these articles, with intent to, or who shall actually barter, sell or exchange the same in any way.

The provisions of this section shall not be so construed as to extend to any person employed, bona fide, in the selling on board any boat or water craft, the produce or manufactures of any of the United States, when such produce or manufactures alone are sold; nor to those persons who only sell in the country the produce of their own plantations.

SEC. 2671. All peddlers and hawkers shall be bound to exhibit to exhibit their their license, when thereto required, to any freeholder of this State.

license.

1869-146-S. 3. Peddlers.

SEC. 2672. Peddlers shall be classed as follows, to wit:

When peddling or carrying goods, wares, merchandise or groceries for sale, through this State, in a boat or water craft, the first class shall pay one hundred dollars as license; when traveling with more than two horses, the second class shall pay the sum of twenty-five

dollars as license; when traveling with two horses, the third class shall pay the sum of twenty dollars as license; when traveling with one horse, the fourth class shall pay the sum of ten dollars as license; when traveling on foot, the fifth class shall pay the sum of five dollars as license.

Pension of one

SEC. 2673. Each veteran of the years eighteen hundred and fourteen and eighteen hundred and fifteen, residing in the State of 1868-196. Louisiana, or their widows, shall be entitled to an annual pension of hundred and one hundred and fifty dollars, payable quarterly out of the State fifty dollars. treasury, out of any moneys therein, not otherwise appropriated.

pensions,

SEC. 2674. Any person who has heretofore, by any act of the General Assembly of this State, been accorded a pension for services Description of rendered the State or the United States in the year A. D. eighteen those entitled to hundred and fourteen and A. D. eighteen hundred and fifteen, and known as veterans of those years, or their widows, shall be entitled to the benefit of this act; and the amount appropriated by this act as a pension for such persons shall be paid on their own warrant, when the signature to such warrant is attested by a certificate of the clerk of the court of the parish in which such pensioner resides, that he saw the pensioner sign the warrant, and that he is the person he represents himself to be, which warrant shall be accompanied by the affidavit of the pensioner that he is the person to whom the law has heretofore awarded a pension, which law, by its date and number of the act, shall be referred to in said affidavit.

SEC. 2675. Every person shall be entitled to the benefit of this act who shall make oath that he was regularly in the military service statement of the United States or of this State in the year A. D. eighteen under oath. hundred and fourteen, and A. D. eighteen hundred and fifteen, and in that capacity, at the siege of New Orleans, in December, A. D. eighteen hundred and fourteen, and January, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifteen, and is now residing in this State; who shall state in such affidavit the company, regiment, or other army divisions of which he was a member at that time, and that he was honorably discharged afterwards from the service; and, in addition, such person shall have either evidence of his having been in the military service of the country, as above reviewed, and of his honorable discharge, or the evidence of two credible witnesses who have been acquainted with Testimony of him for at least ten years, that he has borne the reputation of having been a veteran of eighteen hundred and fourteen and eighteen hundred and fifteen, as above defined, and the certificate of the clerk

two witnesses,

of the district court of the parish of his residence to the credibility of the applicant and his witnesses; and the pension provided by this act shall, on the presentation of such evidence as is required by this section, be paid on the warrant of the pensioner.

SEC. 2676. The pension provided by this act shall take effect and commence from the first day of September, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

1861-113.

Affidavit to be

taken before any person may practice medicine in this State.

Justice of the peace to furnish

a certificate of

SEC. 2677. No person shall be allowed to practice medicine as a means of livelihood in any of its departments in the State of Louisiana, without first making affidavit, before a duly qualified justice of the peace in the parish wherein he resides, of his having received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from a regularly incorporated medical institution in America or Europe, and designating its name and locality.

SEC. 2678. The justice of the peace, before whom the said affithe person mak- davit is made, be required to furnish to the person making it, a ing this affidavit certificate of the fact, and also to transmit a copy of the affidavit to the fact and to the parish recorder, who shall record the same in a book to be kept transmit a copy for that purpose, for which services the aforesaid officers shall each the parish be entitled to one dollar.

of the same to

recorder.

lating this act.

SEC. 2679. Any practitioner failing to comply with the requirePenalty for vio- ment of section twenty-six hundred and seventy-seven of this act, shall not be permitted to collect any fees or charges for services rendered by legal process, and moreover shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars for each and every violation thereof, said sum or sum be collected by indictment or information, as in other cases provided by law.

Disposition of

the fines so incurred.

SEC. 2680. One-half of the fines imposed under this act shall be paid to the prosecutor, and the remainder into the parish treasury.

apply to persons

SEC. 2681. The provisions of this act relative to physicians shall This act not to not apply to persons who have been practicing medicine for the who have been space of ten years in this State, without diplomas, nor to female practicing for practitioners of midwifery as such.

ten years, etc.

Licenses on pro

SEC. 2682. There shall be levied and collected an annual amount 1869-146. as a license-from each and every person pursuing any profession fessions and or occupation, not herein provided for, thirty dollars.

occupations.

SEC. 2683. No physician, surgeon, midwife, lawyer or other professional person, except teachers, shall practice in this State, Professional unless he or she has first taken out a license in accordance with this persons prac ticing withcut law. No physician, surgeon, midwife, lawyer or other professional License. person, teachers excepted, shall be allowed to collect a claim for professional services, unless he or she can exhibit a license in accordance with this law; a failure to exhibit such license, when called for, shall entitle the defendant to a nonsuit. Each lawyer before practicing in any court of this State, shall have his license under this law recorded in a minute book, kept by the clerk of such court for that purpose; and no judge, justice of the peace, or recorder shall allow any lawyer to practice in his court until this law is complied with. Any judge, justice or recorder, violating the provisions of this act, relative to physicians shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars, to be recovered before a district court, to be sued for by the district attorney or Attorney General-one-half to go to the informer, and the prosecuting attorney to receive a fee of fifty dollars on conviction in each case.

SEC. 2684. The administration of the University of Louisiana 1855-417. shall have the right of conferring under their common seal, on any Power to confer person whom they may think worthy thereof, all literary honors, and literary honors degrees known and usually granted by any university or college in the United States or elsewhere.

The degree of Bachelor at Law, and Doctor of Medicine, granted by them, shall authorize the person on whom it is conferred to practice law, physic and surgery in this State.

and degrees.

Degree of Bachelor at Law and

Doctor of Medicine to conier

right of practicing law or

SEC. 2685. All diplomas granted by them, shall be signed by the medicine. president of the University, the chairman of the board, and the Diplomas, how professors of the departments in which the student may have signed. graduated; and by such other officers of the University as may be provided for by the laws of the University. In the medical depart- Number of proment there shall never be less than seven professors, which number fessors in medishall be increased only at the suggestion and recommendation of the faculty of that department.

cal department.

1865-162.

RELATIVE TO PILOTS.

SEC. 2686. No person shall hereafter be appointed a pilot unless he be a lawful voter of the State of Louisiana, and be recommended Qualification of to the Governor by the board of examiners as being duly qualified as a branch pilot of the port for which he applies.

pilots.

Boards of oxaminers.

SEC. 2687. Two boards of examiners shall be appointed by the Governor every two years, to be composed of three persons each, to be selected from the branch pilots. One of said boards shall be for the port of New Orleans and the other for the Atchafalaya bay and river. The Governor shall have power to fill vacancies.

SEC. 2688. Every branch pilot, before he takes upon himself the execution of his duty, shall give bond to the Governor of the State, given by pilots. with two sufficient securities, in the sum of one thousand dollars, to

Bond to be