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An Act to authorize the Treasurer of the State to sell the slaves Mary, Carmelite and their children. 1845 73 (1845)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0286 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 126.-AN ACT to authorize the Treasurer of the State to sell the slaves Mary, Carmelite and their children. Be it enacted by the Senate and liouse of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened ; That the State Treasurer in conformity with the recommendations by him made in his annual re- port of eighteen hundred and forty-five, he and is hereby authorized to sell at auction, after a public advertisement to that effect for twenty days, in two of the newspapers in the City of New Orleans, the slave Mary and her child John, four years old, and Carmelite twenty-five years old, with her child ten months old, upon the following terms, to wit : on a credit of six months, and on condition that the purchaser or purchasers shall furnish notes endorsed to the satisfaction of the Treasurer of the State, with mortgage on the slaves sold, to secure the payment of said notes ; Provided that the Treasurer will, on behalf of the State, guarati- tee nothing but the title to said slaves. (Suend) A. lOUnoJSQU1I-. Speaker of the Houso of Itepresentative3. (sieneed) FELIX GARIA, President of the Senate. A~pproved March 10th, 1845. (ztgned) A. MOUTON, Governor of the Sta:e o!fLouiciana. No. 17-AN ACT to provide for the publication of the decisions of the Supreme Court. St:cr. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives qf the State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened; That the Treasurer of the Stato be authorized to contract with Merritt M. Robinson individu- Trenoarer nu- ally, for two years from the 26th March 1845, to report ad publish the de- oeao P',cisions of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, on the same terms as are pro- lishing deci* vided, with reference to said Robinson and E. Johns & Company by the Court. act passed March 26th 1S42, entitled an Act to provide for the publica- tion ofilte decisions of the Supreme Court. SCr. 2. Be it father enacted, &ce., That from anl after the 26th day of March 18 17, the reports of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, shall be prepared and published by a Reporter to be named and appointed by the Gnvernor to Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Seuate; which nom- nPIjnnt t ro inaion and appointment may be made at any timte not more than two months befire the expiration of'the term of the Reporter for the time be- ing, to take effect at such expiration, except in case or the death or remo- val of any Reporter, when the said oflice may be forthwith filled by said Governor. Siec. 3. Be it /urther enacted, S-c., That in order to define the duties, Act of March contract, emoluments and responsibility of said Reporter, all the provisions *6, 154, tade of the stid act of 26th March 1842, are reenacted except the second sec- purtter~tio tion of said act, and also except so far as the same are inconsistent here- with, and shall continue in force as a permanent law, to piovide for the reporting of the decisions of the Supreme Court, until by express enact- ment, amended, miodilied, or repealed. SeCr. 4. Be it jrther enacted, c., That if the said MT. M. Robinson, or any future Reporter as provided by this act, shall not have furnished tutipe or Re- his bonds as provided by said act of 26th Matrch 1842, within twenty days porter. Sc. from the 26th Matrch 1845, in the case of s tid M. M. Robinson, and f:im the (late of his appointment by the Covernior, in case of any other Report- ell, the Governor on the certificate of the State Treaurer of' such ftilure to furnish hond, shall declare such Reportership vacant, and make a new uppointment. And said Governor may at any time remove said Reporter upon the written request of a majority of the Judges of the Supreme Court, and the said (G overnor may without such rcquecst make stlch romo- 7 3

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