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An Act to prevent the carrying away of slaves, and for other purposes. 1839 118 (1839)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0215 and id is 1 raw text is: 11s in the languagce in which it has been passed; and when any of the said resolutions, ordinances or regulations shall have been posted up as aforesaid, the parish judge Duty of par. shall certify on said book the day on which the same ish judge. shall have been promulgated, and the said certificate shall be the best evidence of the promulgation of said resolutions, regulations or ordinances, and the judge aforesaid shall deliver true copies of said certificate, which shall have full credit in all courts of justice. SECT. 14. Be it furiher enacted, &c., That the po- Fine imposed lice jury of the parish of St. Bernard are authorized to pass regulations to punish, by fine not to exceed three hundred dollars at any one time, any person who shall and be guilty of violating or breaking, refusing or neglecting to comply with any order given under the authority of any rule, regulation or ordinance that may be passed by hov recovered the said police jury; and that the same may be recovered by suit brought in the name of the police jury of the parish, before the parish court, for the benefit of the par- ish of St. Bernard. SECT. 15. Be it further enacted, &c., That from and President of after the passage of this act, the parishjudges of the par- police jury of sh.es Madison and ishes of Madison and Carroll shall cease to be ex-officio Carroll. presidents of the police jury; and the police juries of the said parishes shall be and they are hereby required to elect a president from their own body. Approved, March 18th, 1839. No. 45.-AN ACT to prevent the carrying away of slave3, and for other purposes. SEcTIoN 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, in gen- eral assembly convened, That it shall be the duty of all persons who shall hereafter carry on the business of shipping of seamen pursuant to the provisions of the Bond given present act, previously to their engaging in the same, to by shipping give bond with two good securities, freeholders of said mnasters. parish, payable to the governor and his successors in of- fice, in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned as follows :-that he the said shipping master and his sureties shall be liable, in solido, for the price and value of any slave or slaves who may have been regularly shipped by the said shipping master and carried out of

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