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An Act to amend the several Acts relative to Patrols. 1821 10 (1821)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0099 and id is 1 raw text is: (10) AN ACT to amend the several Acts relative to Patrols. Considering the inconveniences resulting from the powers grant- ed to the Militia and Police juries to establish Patriots for the Police of Slaves, nce jurie SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives a d tipesto of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That the aIsheri It ol, Police juries (all the incorporated Cities and Towns within this 1hr We~ Police of SlRe.. State excepted) shall alone have the right of organizing and estab- lishing Patrols for the Police of Slaves in their -espective Parishes, and of making the necessary regulations on that subject. Patrosautho. SEC. 2. .qnd be it further enacted, That the Patrols ordered by riedtoenteron the Police juries shall have the right to enter on all plantations to te plantations. visit the negro-huts. Peonityaainst SEC. S. And be it further enacted, That any inhabitant, his t ose who shall overseer or his representative who shall prevent, or forcibly oppose iteve*t Patros the said Patrols, when they shall proceed to visit the negro-huts, Vorn visiting ne- gro haue. shall, on conviction thereof, be condemned to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor be less than twenty dollars, to be recover- ed, on information before any Court of competent jurisdiction, for the use of the Parish. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws contrary to the present act, be and they are hereby repealed. Approved January 9th, 1821. AN ACT to authorise the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House'of Representatives to draw certain sums of money, therein men. tioned. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That the Pre- sident of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representa- tives shall be and they are hereby authorised respectively to draw on the Treasury any sum not exceeding three hundred dollars, to defray the contingent expences of their respective houses. .Approved January 9th, 1821. AN ACT according the rights-of majority to minors therein mentioned, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That Mathew Bowles, Aphia Jones, and Mathew Jones (alias Mathew. Colli- man) all Minors of the Parish of Rapides, be and they are hereby authorised, from this day forward, to administer their estates by themselves and to do all and singular the civil acts which are or may be done by the persons who have attained the age of majority prescribed by law. Approved January 9th, 1821.

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