INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT FUND.

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SEC. 3021. A fund shall be created, to be denominated "The Internal Improvement Fund," to be applied exclusively to the purposes of rendering navigable and uniting by canals the principal provement fund water courses, and of more intimately connecting by public high- created. ways the different parts of the State.

SEC. 3022. This fund shall consist of the unexpended balance in

funds shall con

the treasury, together with all that may hereafter be received from of what the sail the proceeds of the public lands granted to this State by act of Congress, approved September the fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one.

ROAD AND LEVEE FUND.

Road and levee

what it shall

SEC. 3023. The unexpended balance, together with all that may 1855-487. hereafter be received from the five per centum of the net proceeds of the sales of the public lands of the United States in this State, fund created; of appropriated by the fifth section of an Act of Congress, approved consist. February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eleven, for roads and levees, is set apart for that purpose, to be called "Road and Levee How said fund Fund," to be expended for the sole purpose of making roads and shall be applied. levees.. SEC. 3024. Whenever the State hands shall be employed in what expenses making or opening any road, or constructing any levee, all the are to be paid expenses for the time being, while therein employed, shall be charged and levee fund. to the Road and Levee Fund.

out of the road

LEVEES.

SEC. 3025. If any person shall erect any work in front of the levee, on the banks of the Mississippi, out of the limits of New 1830-118-6. Orleans, either by making a new levee, building houses, sheds, dikes, Works outside or keys, so as to impede its navigation, or to encroach on that part be removed. of the bank reserved by law for the use of the public, or for roads used for tracking, whether said works or buildings be only commenced or completed, without having applied to the police jury and obtained from them permission, the said works shall be destroyed, or removed, if susceptible thereof, to such a distance from the river, as may be required by the ordinance of the police jury; in either case, at the expense of the owner.

may pro ect

SEC. 3026. The owners of plantations and other lands are hereby 1852-192-1. authorized and empowered to surround the same with levees, to Owners of lands protect them from inundations; but the natural drains and servitudes themselves by shall not be obstructed to the injury of any adjoining plantations or levees. lands.

SEC. 3027. Any person who shall cut or otherwise damage or destroy any levee, erected for the purpose of protecting plantations 1852-192-2 or lands from inundation, shall, on conviction thereof, be subject to Penalty for damimprisonment in the parish prison, for a period not less than thirty aging levees, days, nor more than six months, and shall further be liable by civil action, for all damages which may be sustained by the owner of the plantation or land so leveed or to any other person who may be damaged by such wrongful act.

18 3-259-1. The two preced

SEC. 3028. The provisions of the two preceding sections shall not ing sections not apply to the parishes of Concordia, Tensas, Madison and Carroll.

to apply to cer tain parishes.

1868-271. Police uries

shall construct temporary levees.

ure to work on levees when

notified.

SEC. 3029. The police juries of the several parishes subject to overflow are hereby authorized and required to have temporary levees made in their respective parishes, and for this purpose they are hereby empowered to call out all citizens subject to road duty to 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.

SEC. 3030. Any citizen subject to road duty, who shall be regPenalty for fail- ularly summoned and notified in accordance to the regulations prescribed by the police jury to work on such levees, and who shall fail to work on the levees provided for in section 3029 of this act, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two dollars per day for every day he shall fail to work, to be recovered before any justice of the peace having jurisdiction of 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.

lovees.

SEC. 3031. Each citizen required to work on the levees, as is Compensation provided by this act, shall be allowed one dollar per day for each for work on the day's 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.

Quarantine es

SEC. 3032. There shall be a quarantine established below the city 185-471. of New Orleans, on the river Mississippi, at a distance not less than tablished. seventy-five miles by the river from the city.

Board of Health to locate quarantine g ond, receive tra sfor

SEC. 3033. The Board of Health is hereby authorized to locate the quarantine ground, receive the transfer of the necessary land in the name of the State, and to draw upon the Treasurer of the State for the necessary amount, out of the fund appropriated under this act; and draw for Provided, The consent of the Governor of the State is given to said purchase.

amount apprc

priated.

Proviso.

Board of Health,

SEC. 3034. There shall be a Board of Health, composed of nine competent citizens of the State, to be elected as follows: Three by how composed the Council of New Orleans, on joint ballot, and six to be appointed and chosen. by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

Oath.

The said members shall be selected with reference to their known zeal in favor of a quarantine system. All the members of the board Term of office. shall be commissioned by the Governor, for the term of one year, after having filed and subscribed in the office of the Secretary of State, the usual oath of office, and an oath well and truly to enforce and comply with the provisions of an act entitled "An Act to establish quarantine for the protection of the State," and in case of neglecting or failing to comply with the above required oath, within ten days after their appointment or election, their office shall be considered vacated.

SEC. 3035. The Board of Health shall meet once a month from Meeting of the the first of November to the first of June, and once a week from the Board of Health first of June to the first of November, and as often as they may

deem necessary.

izing.

dent.

SEC. 3036. The Board of Health shall meet and organize on the Time of meet third Monday in April, and elect out of their own number a pres- ing and organident, whose duty it shall be to reside in New Orleans and superintend the different quarantine stations of the State, and it shall be his duty Duties of presi to visit them as often as the board of health shall deem necessary. He shall have the power to issue, during the adjournment, to constables or sheriffs all orders and warrants provided by the provisions of this act, and shall report to the Attorney General all violations of the same. It shall be his duty to lay before the board at each meeting the business to be transacted, and a book in which he shall

His removal.

His salary.

Quorum.

Secretary and treasurer.

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Powers of the
Board of Health

1855-471.

Quarantine sta tion at the Rigo

lets and on the Atchalalaya.

enter copies of all letters written by him, orders and warrants issued, and a detail of all his acts.

He shall present at each meeting all communications forwarded to him, and a report of the resident physicians and treasurers, and perform all duties as shall be assigned to him by the Board of Health. He shall only be removed by impeachment, and shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars a year.

SEC. 3037. Four members of said board shall form a quorum; Provided, however, That no contract for building shall be entered into without the consent of a majority of the board.

SEC. 3038. The Board of Health shall have power to appoint a secretary, who shall act as treasurer, who shall furnish security in a sum of ten thousand dollars.

It shall be his duty to keep a minute of the proceedings of the board, and all vouchers and expenditures made by authority of said board.

SEC. 3039. The Board of Health of the State of Louisiana shall authorize the resident physician of the Quarantine Station to employ an assistant physician whose salary shall be two thousand dollars a year. The Board of Health shall have power to employ nurses and assistants to attend the sick, and such other persons as may be required to carry out proper quarantine duties, and to fix their compensation, also to make all needful rules and regulations for the maintenance of quarantine, and to impose fines not exceeding five hundred dollars for contravention of established rules; the Board of Health shall have power to remove, or cause to be removed, any substance which they may deem detrimental to the health of New Orleans, and the Street Commissioner shall execute their orders whenever not in conflict with the ordinances of the city or the laws ⚫of the State; to pass sanitary ordinances for the city, provided such are approved by the Council, and published as city ordinances; to define the duties of officers appointed by them, to issue warrants to any constable, police officer, or sheriff, in the State; to issue their warrant to the sheriff of the city of New Orleans, or of any parish, where any vessel may be, to have such vessel, if they deem it necessary for the protection of health, removed to the Quarantine Station. The fees of said officer shall be paid by the Board of Health. The Board of Health shall have power to extend the period of quarantine, should it be deemed necessary by them.

SEC. 3040. There shall be a quarantine station at some point on the Rigolets, and another on the Atchafalaya river, two miles below "Pilots' Station," at the mouth of the Wax bayou. The Board of Health is hereby empowered, and it shall be their duty, to locate them agreeably to the provisions of this section, but the provisions of this act shall only apply to the station at the Rigolets from the day of the issuing of the proclamation of the Governor, as provided by section 3049, declaring any port on the lake shore or on the Gulf of Mexico to be an infected place, and shall remain in full force until suspended by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the Board of Health.

The provissions of this act shall apply to and be enforced at the quarantine station on the Atchafalaya river from the first of May to the first of November of each year; and also when the Governor shall have issued his proclamation, as provided by section 3049, and in such a case shall remain in full force until suspended by a resolution voted for by two-thirds of the members of the Board of Health.

There shall be no permanent building erected at Pilots' Station, on the Atchafalaya river, but the Board of Health shall use as a hospital for the reception of the sick, hulls and cabins of steamboats. The Board of Health shall employ an officer, whose duty it shall be, and who is hereby empowered, to require from captains of vessels, steamboats or crafts, having passed the station at the Rigolets, or on the Atchafalaya river, the permit of the resident physician.

SEC. 3041. The Board of Health shall appoint a resident physician for each of the two quarantine stations, on the Rigolets and on the Atchafalaya, and such other persons as may be necessary; provided their salary shall run only during such time as they shall thus be employed, and shall in no case exceed, for the time they shall have been thus employed, the salary of the same officers at the quarantine station, for the same space of time, on the Mississippi.

resident physi

appointed and

SEC. 3042. The resident physician at the quarantine station on the Mississippi river shall receive an annual salary of five thousand 1958-187. dollars ($5000) and shall be appointed by the Governor of the Salary of the State, with the consent of the Senate, and shall be removable at cian. the will of the Governor. It shall be the duty of the resident Physician, how physician, or his assistant, to visit and inspect every vessel entering removed. Duties of physi. the port of New Orleans through the Mississippi river. Vessels cian, free from disease, not in a foul condition, and not from an infected district (which shall be decided upon by the resident physician), shall be furnished with a certificate of health, and allowed to proceed to the city. The resident physician shall require for every certificate thus furnished, the following fees: Every sailing vessel of one Fees, thousand tons or over shall pay thirty dollars ($30); every ship of one thousand tons or less shall pay twenty dollars ($20); every bark shall pay fifteen dollars ($15); every brig shall pay ten dollars ($10); every schooner shall pay seven dollars and fifty cents ($7 50); every steamboat (towboats excepted) shall pay five dollars ($5); every steamship from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, or Texas, shall pay ten dollars ($10); every steamship from other ports shall pay twenty dollars ($20). The resident physician shall return to the secretary of the Board of Health a weekly list of all vessels Weekly return inspected by him, as well as all fees collected by him, which shall Health. form a fund for the support of quarantine.

to the Board of

SEC. 3043. All vessels in a foul condition, or vessels whose crews or passengers are suffering or have suffered while on the voyage, from Duty of physi contagious, pestilential, or infectious diseases, shall be detained by Ca the resident physician at the quarantine station, such time, not less than ten days, as may be deemed by him necessary. The resident physician shall have power, at his discretion, to grant permits to persons acclimated and healthy, to proceed to the city. He shall have power to compel the captains of vessels to land their sick at quarantine, and to employ such means of purification of the vessels as may be directed by the Board of Health, and require the captain or owners of said vessel to defray the cost of purification. The captain or owners of vessels shall pay five dollars for such sick person landed, nor shall a permit be issued until the payment of the same to the resident physician, which money shall be appropriated to hospital expenses.

Fee.