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An Act to organize a Volunteer Company in the City of Natchitoches. 1821 8 (1821)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0098 and id is 1 raw text is: (8) of Militia from the nineteenth regiment to New-Orleans, by the order of the late Governor Claiborne, in the year eighteen hundred -and thirteen. Approved December 26th, 1820. AN ACT to Reimburse to the Parish of Concordia money they have ad. vanced to D. W. Backer for services rendered by him as Teacher in the Public School in said Parish. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatires of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That the Treasurer of the State be, and he hereby is authorised and direct- ed to pay to the Police jury of Parish of Concordia, the sum of one hundred and twenty five dollars on account of their having paid on to D. W. Backer, for teaching in the Public School of thut arish, fromn the first day of February to the thirtieth day of April of the year eiahteen hundred and nineteen ; and that the Treasu- rer of State carrv the said sum to the debit of said Parish for money appropriated by law, and not paid for the year eighteen hundred and eighteen; aud that the same be paid upon the war- rant of the Parish Judge, or President of the Police jury of said Pat ish. Approved Jannary 9th, 1821. AN ACT to organize % Volunteer Company in the City of Natchitoches. Commy of Sfc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives volunteer i.obe of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That as Natehi,.todw soon as twenty-five citizens of the Town of Natchitoches shall be willing to be organized into a Company of Volunteers, they shall elect their Officers and shall transmit a certificate of said elections to the Governor, who shall commission said Officers; provided, however, that the number of men, composing said Company, shall never be less than twenty nor more than forty. SEc. 2. .And be it further enacted, That whenever the services of said Company shall be required to go in pursuit of runaway Slaves, ayta cnranP it shall be the duty of the Commanding Officer to order out such a i F.1ftway detatchment as he shall deem sufficient; and each Officer and qaied i r- Private thus employed in the pursuit of said slaves, shall receive a compensation of two dollars per day, which sum shall be paid by the owner or owners of the said Slave or Slaves. SEc. 3. And be it further enacted, That said Company shall be known by the name of the Natchitoches Troop of Cavalry; and shall be subject to all the laws relative to the several Volun- teer Companies of this state. Approved January 9th, I1821.

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