posed of. it shall be the duty of said justice of the peace to commit said accused to the parish prison to be detained therein until discharged by due course of law. SEC. 2725. All fines and forfeitures arising from the administraFines, how dis- tion of the penal clauses of this act, so far as it relates to pilots, after deducting the fees of district attorney, be paid into the treasury of the parish where the offense may be committed, for the use and benefit of said parish. SECTION. Police jury of each parish to appoint a district attorney pro lempore...... ....2760 SECTION. Suits in which police juries and District Attorney pro tempore to act mon council.. Bonds of officers, how approved...2764 Securities Parish judge may act in place of recorder or clerk.. .2763 .2765 .2766 .2768 .2769 .2770 ..2772 Sureties must be residents of the .2775 2776 .2778 ......2786 .2798 ..2789 SEC. 2726. The police juries of the several parishes of this State (the parishes of Orleans and Jefferson excepted) shall have the power, by consent of a majority of all the members composing each wards. 1829-38-1. police jury, to establish police jury wards, and to change the boundaries of those now existing in their respective parishes. SEC. 2727. The members of the police juries of the several Qualifications of parishes throughout the State, hereafter to be elected, shall possess the same qualifications as members of the House of Representatives. police juries. 1829-38-2. SEC. 2728. The persons who shall be allowed to vote for members Qualifications of of the police jury shall possess the same qualifications as electors for members of the General Assembly. voters. 1341-42-2 SEC. 2729. Elections for police Jurors shall be held in all the Elections, when parishes on the first Monday of May. held. SEC. 2730. The members of the police jury shall be elected for two years, and shall be divided by lot into two classes, so that the Term of ofico. said jury shall henceforth be renewed every year by one-half. 1813-156-4. 1830-130-4, Meetings. 1811-184-4. Extra meetings. 1850-24-1. Clerks to call SEC. 2731. They shall have the power to fix the periods of their respective regular meetings, and to meet at any other times which they may deem necessary. SEC. 2732. The president of the several police juries shall be obliged to call a meeting of the police jury whenever he shall be thereto required by twelve inhabitants, freeholders. SEC. 2733. The clerks of the district courts of the different parishes of this State are empowered to convene the police juries of meetings when their respective parishes whenever there is a vacancy in the office of president, in the same manner and for the reasons that the president could himself do. there is no president. 1818-74-7. SEC. 2734. Notice to members shall be necessary only in cases of Notice of meet- special meetings. ing, whon necessary. 1847-82-3. To elect a president. 1817-81-1. SEC. 2735. The police juries shall, at such times as they may think proper, elect a president from their own body, to serve for one year. SEC. 2736. The duties heretofore imposed on the parish judges by the laws of this State, in connection with police juries, shall hereDuties of p:est after be performed by the president of said police juries, if not otherwise provided for by law. den 4. vacancies. SEC. 2737. It shall be the duty of the president to order elections 1847-82-2 and to fill all vacancies that may exist in said police juries, giving at Elections to all least ten days' notice of such election by having written or printed notices posted at three several places in the ward where said election may be ordered; and in parishes where official newspapers are published, besides the notice above directed to be given, publication thereof shall be made in said newspaper, twice in ten days; said election shall be conducted according to the existing laws regulating elections. Notices, how given. 1817-82-7. President may resign 1824-131-2. President pro tem. 1818-72-5. Pay of police jurors. SEC. 2738. The president, when desirous of resigning his seat as a member or president, shall tender his resignation to the police jury. SEC. 2739. Whenever the president does not attend, the juries are authorized and required to appoint a president pro tempore, from amongst themselves, who shall have all the powers and perform all the duties required by law of the president. SEC. 2740. The members of police juries shall be entitled to two dollars per day for every day they are actually employed in the service of their respective parishes at meetings of the police jury, to be paid out of the funds of the several parishes on warrant of the president of the jury. SEC. 2741. Whenever the president shall fail or neglect to perform president neg. any of the duties imposed on him by law, without a reasonable 1818—72—3. excuse, he shall forfeit and pay for each failure as aforesaid, the sum Penalty for of one hundred dollars into the treasury of his parish, to be recov- fecting mis auty. ered by motion before the parish court by the district attorney pro tempore, three days' notice of which motion shall be given said president; and it is hereby made the duty of the district attorneys pro tempore throughout the State diligently to inquire whether the said Duty of district president shall have performed his duties, and proceed as the cause may require. at.orneys. SEC. 2742. Whenever any member of any police jury, on being duly notified, shall fail to attend at any meeting, or who, having 1918-72—2. attended, shall absent himself from said meeting previous to the Penalty for legal separation thereof, without reasonable excuse, shall forfeit and failing to attend. pay to the treasury of his parish the sum of thirty dollars. THEIR POWERS, DUTIES, ETC. Police jurors Fowers and duties. SEC. 2743. The police juries shall have power to make all such 1813-158-5. regulations as they may deem expedient: First-For their own government. Second-As to the proportion and direction, the making and Roads, bridges, repairing of the roads, bridges, causeways, dikes, levees and other levees, etc. highways. Clerring the Third-For the clearing of the banks of the Mississippi river and of other navigable streams, for the purpose of securing a free banks of rivers. passage for boats and other small crafts, and for the tow lines of the same. Fourth-As to the form and height of inclosures or fences, when- Fances ever they may think proper to require the proprietors to inclose any ground. Cattle. Fifth-To pass all ordinances and regulations which they shall deem necessary in relation to the marking, the sale, destruction of 1825-64-3. cattle in general, and especially of wild cattle, which are not marked; and also of horses and mules; and to take any measures concerning the police of cattle in general, in all the cases not provided for by law; to fix the time in which cattle may be suffered to rove in the parishes of this State, where that custom prevails, so that such roving may not be detrimental to the crops; to determine what animals shall not be suffered to rove, and in what cases they may lawfully be killed. Sixth-To regulate the police of taverns and houses of public 1842-440-11. entertainment, and shops for retailing liquors in their 'respective Police of tav parishes; and to impose whatever parish tax they may see fit on all e.ns, etc. keepers of billiard tables and grog shops, and on all hawkers, Tax on peddlers peddlers and trading boats. 1813-168-5. Seventh-To determine the quantum of fines against all such as Fines. shall transgress their regulations. Eighth-To lay such taxes as they may judge necessary to defray Taxes. the expenses of their respective parishes. Ninth-The police juries of the several parishes of the State (the parish of Orleans excepted), shall have the exclusive privilege of establishing ferries and toll bridges within their respective limits; of fixing the rates of ferriage and toll to be charged thereon, and of generally regulating the police of the same. This privilege shall not extend to any ferries or bridges already established, until the 1855--367. f rowers. I police juries relative to ferries, etc. estab ishi. g Treasurer. Officers. expiration of their charters; nor to any ferries or bridges within the control of municipal corporations; and said police juries shall have the right to lease the ferries within their respective parishes for any number of years, not to exceed five; and the lessees of said ferries shall give bond and security annually, payable to the president of the police jury, in such sum as may be required, for the faithful performance of their duties as public ferrymen. into Tenth-To appoint a treasurer for the parish. Eleventh-To appoint all officers necessary to carry cxecution the parish regulations, and to remove them from office. Twelfth-To provide for the support of the poor and necessitous Taxation for he within their respective parishes by taxation or otherwise. 1852-143-1. poor. 1813-160-6. 0814-46 Thirteenth-To cause to be opened in any town, suburb, or other place divided into house lots, or when a point of land on the Natural drains. Mississippi or other water course shall be divided among several proprietors, such ancient natural drains as have been obstructed by the owners of the adjacent lands, and to prescribe the mode to be observed in that respect; to cause any water course which is not navigable to be filled up for the purpose of carrying the public highways over the same; provided that no injury be thereby occasioned to the neighboring inhabitants; and whenever, on application made by more than twelve inhabitants of a town, suburb, or other place divided into house lots, or when a point of land on the Mississippi or other water course shall be divided among several proprietors, it shall be found necessary to dig one or more common draining ditches, the said juries shall have power to ordain that the said ditches be dug at the expense of the owners of the lots, and that the expense be borne by a contribution among the owners, to be levied in such manner as the jury shall prescribe; saving to individuals or persons aggrieved the right of complaining for the making or opening of such natural or artificial drainings when unnecessary or hurtful to them. 1825-62-1. Tresp'sses by huu.ers. 1827-36-6. Bridg 8 and turnpike loads. 1835-162--5. Qua antine regulations. 1817-156-3. Fourteenth-To adopt such regulations as they may think necessary, to prevent and punish trespasses committed by hunters in closes or lands fenced in; Provided, however, That the fines imposed by the said police juries for such offenses, shall, in no case, be less than five dollars, nor more than fifty dollars. Fifteenth-To grant permission and to determine the rate of toll to be demanded by persons desiring to build a bridge, or make a turnpike road; Provided, That in no case whatever the police jury shall grant the right of toll for more than ten years. Sixteenth-To enact ordinances and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of the United States, nor of this State, to protect their respective parishes against the introduction of all and every kind of contagious or epidemical disease. Seventeenth-To sue any person for whose account levees, roads, etc., may have been made or repaired at the expense of the parish, To-ue for work and to obtain the reimbursement of said amount, by privilege on the land subject to the said works. done. 1829-54-1. Eighteenth-To appoint parish syndics, and overseers of roads and levees, at any regular meeting, by a majority of the votes roads and levees present, and whether a quorum be in attendance or not. Oversees f 1827 104-54. Nineteenth-To lease to the bidder for the shortest time, not exceeding ten years, any tract of land within the limits of their Tense school respective parishes, given by the General Government to the State for the use of schools, and upon which a levee shall be necessary, lands. |