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An Act for the relief of Jean Baptiste Hardy, free man of color. 1845 59 (1845)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0283 and id is 1 raw text is: li9 No. 99-AN ACT for the relief of Jean Daptiste 1lardy, free ran of co lrt Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the6t e of Louisiana in General Assembly convened ; That the annual pension of fifteen dollars per month allowed by an act approved, March fourteenth. eighteen hundred and thirty-six. to Jean Baptiste Hardy, free man of color, eighty years old, and ex-Captain of the Battalion of Militia, compo- sed of men of color, who served the State in the campaign of eighteen hundred and fourteen and eighteen hundred and fifieen, be increased to the sum of twenty-five dollars per month; which pension shall be paid to him on his warrant by the State Treisurer. (Signed) A BOtUDOUSQUIE, Speaker ortho House of Representatives. (Signed) PELIX GARCIA, Presidentothe Senate. A1pproved, March 10t1, 1945. (Signed) A. MOUTON. Governor of the State of Louislana. No, 100-AN ACT to anend thotharter of the Now OrIvans Gas Light and Banking Company. Whereas the Stockholders of the New Orleans Gas Light and Bauking Company have by their memorial petitioned to he permitted to surren- der so much of their Charter as grants to them the privilege of Ban king SECT. 1. Be it therefore enacted ty thejSenate and louse qf Representatives Act repealed.qfthe State ofLouisiana, in General Assembly convened; That snid surren- der is accepted, and that so much of the act approved the first day of April eighteen hundred and thirty-five, incorporating said NewOrleans Gas Light and Banking Company, and of all supplementary acts as au- thorize the said Company to carry on the business of Banking, is repealed. Provieo. Provided -that all the debtors of the branches of the said Bank, fur- nishing good and sufficient security, shall have for the first two years the privilego of renewing their notes or other obligations, or delay ing the payment there6f, by the payment e tch year, of ten per centum upon the whole amount due by them exclusive of intnro-t, and after that period, on the payment of fifteen per centum annually, exclusive of interest upon the whole amount until the entire debts are paid and extinguished; pro- vided the place ofpayment shall not be changed without the consentofthe debtor, and that the debtor shall not be required to give security out of the parish from which any branch may be withdrawn. SEctr. 2. Be it further enacted, 4-c., That so much of said act 'And of all others, in relation thereto, as authorizes said Company to mnke and vend Gas within the city of New Orleans, and its faubourgs, with all the rights Limitation. and priviLges thereby granted, subject to all the clauses and conditions, thereto annexed, he continued in force, under the name and title of the New Orleans Gas Light Company, until the first day of April one thous- and eight hundred and seventy-five, at which period all the corporate pri- rroviso. vileges of the said Company shall expire; and provided the said Gas Light Company, shall never raise the price of Gas above six dollars per one thousand cubic feet, and sliall give tip the right of extending its ope- rations beyond the corporate limits of the three Municipalities of the city of New Orleans, and provided further that all the privileges conferred in the thirty-fifth section of the original act dated the first day; of April eighteen hundred and thirty-five Ie. repealed.

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