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An Act to authorise the Treasurer of the State to subscribe five hundred shares on the part of the State, to the capital stock of the Barataria and Lafourche Canal Company, and for other purposes 1835 149 (1835)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0181 and id is 1 raw text is: 149 An Act To authoriso the Treasurer of the State to subscribe live hundred shareS on the part of the State, to the capital stock of the Barataria and Lafourche Canal Company, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representativev of the Statc of Louisiana, in General Assembly %kato treasur- convened, That the Treasurer of the State be, and he is hereby or authorised authorized and directed to subscribo onl the part of the State f'or to subscribe, five hundred shares of the capital stock in the Baraturia and Lafourche Canal Company. Board of In- SErCT. 2. Be it further enacted, I*c. That the board of ternal im- Internal improvements he, and they are hereby authorized and provenients authorised to directed to employ one third of all the slavcs that now bolong to employ slaves the State or that may be hereafter bought for the State, except ofthe Stateon !lie said canal. those which have been or may le hereafter directed to be pur- chased for eecuting specific works, until thc Barntariia and La- fourche Canal is completed, at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, for each iman slave so employed, until the whole amount of the subscription of the State shall be paid. Proviso. Provided, however, that due regard shall be paid to every just claim which other objects of Internal Improvement may have upon this source of' Internal Improvement, (viz. slave labour) which may be directed by the Legislature within the first Con- gressional District. Appropriation SEc'r. 3. Be itfurthe'er enacted, d'c. That the board of In- ofthe labor of ternal Improvements, be, and are hereby authorized and direct- tie slaves al- lotted to the ed to appropriate so much of the labor of the slaves allotted to the it. Congres- first Congressional District, as may in their opinion honecensary sional district. to accomplish in two years all the improvements wiich have been recommended by the Civil Engincor, at both mouths of the bayou Lafourche, directing first their labor on that end of the bayou nearest the sea. SECT. 4. Be it further enacted, 4e. That so much of aaynet Eau the labor of'said allotted slaves to the first Congressional District, flue. shall he appropriated to the opening of bayou PEau Blouc, fr*om Fields' Like, to tide water; and from the head of Fields' Lake, all the bayous filling therein, back of the right hank in descend- ing the bayou Lafourche to Thibodeauxville, in such a manner Cs

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