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No. 28.] RESOLUTION.
Resolved, 'by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of
Louisiana, in General Assembly convened: That the State Engineer be,
tie stat En- and lie is hereby, instructed to make a survey of Calcasieu river, and
gineer concern- report, at as early a day as practicable, what it would cost, in labor or
river. money, to clear the same of obstructions to its navigation, and what would
be the public utility of said work.
[Sigied] PRESTON W. FARRAR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
[Signed] TRASIMON LANDRY,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate.
Approved March 2, 1848.
[Signed] ISAAC JOHNSON,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
No: 29.] RESOLUTION.
Be it resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State
of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened: That the Governor be re-
pierre sooI . quested to deliver to the Honorable Pierre Soul6 his credentials as Sena-
tor cloct fion the State of Louisiana, to the Congress of the United
States.
[Signed) PRESTON W. FARRAR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
[Signed] THOMAS C. PORTER,
President pro tem. of the Senate,
Approved 1\arch 3, 1848.
[Signed) ISAAC JONIISOY,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
No. 30.] AN ACT
For the relief of James L. Mayfield.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State
of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened: That the Treasurer of the
0noo appropri- State be, and lie is hereby, authorized and required to pay, on the warrant
to Ja of the Auditor of Public Accounts, to James L. Mayfield, the sum of five
L b e for hundred dollars, in full payment for services rendered and monies ex-
pended by him, in bringing back to the State the slave Isaac, who, at a
special term of the parishl court in and for the parish of Carroll, held in
the month of August, eighteen hundred and forty-four, was convicted of the
crime of murder, and sentenced to be hung, and who broke jail and fled
from justice before the day of execution.
[Signed] PRESTON W. FARRAR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
[Signed] THOMAS C. PORTER,
President pro tempore of the Senate.
Approved March 3, 1848.
[Signed] ISAAC JOHNSON,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsla0318&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)