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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0319 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 31.] RESOLUTION.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Slate of
Touisiana, in General Assembly convened : That the Engineer be, and he
eS ngi- is hereby, requested. to examine the work done under his predecessors,
noa concr- betveen Lake Pearl and bayou des Glaize, also the work on bayou Rouge,
Ing lake Pearl, t
bay o des in the parish of Avoyolles, and report to the Legislature as soon as practi-
Mlaine and .
bayou Rloagc. cable, whether anything, and, if any, what is necessary to perfect said
[Signed] PRESTON W. FARRAR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signedl THOMAS C. PORTER,
Prosident pro teni. of the Senate.
Approved March 3, 18.S.
[Signed] ISAAC JIOHNSON,
overuor of the State of Louisiaiia
No. 32.] AN ACT
Tro amend the scronld. fourth, fifth, eighth, fourteenth and sixteenth sections of an act
entitled, An act to incorporate the town of Donaldsonville, npproved April twenty.:
second, eighteen hundred and forty-six.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Represculative.
of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened: That the second
section of an act entitled, An act to incorporate the town of Donaldson-
ville, be so amended as to read as fhllows:
SECTIoN 2D. B6 it rTher enacted, etc.: That to carry out file foregoing
powers, the municipal government of said town shall be vested in a mayor
and six trustees, to be elected in the manner following : the said town
and sl shall be divided into three wards, the first extending from the middle of
tustees. Houmas street to the middle of Bayou Lafourche ; the secoid fioi tile
ivision Into middle of Houmas street to the line formerly separating the towns of
wards. Donaldsonvillo and Unionville; and tle third firom the said line to the
church lands, All the inhabitants of said town who have resided therein
during twelve months immediately preceding such election, and are quali-
funcatins fled to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall, on the second
Monday of April in each year, between the hours of tell, ante-meridian,
Modeof yet- and four, post-roridian, at such place as may for that purpose be designated,
ing proceed to elect by ballot, and a plurality of votes, a mayor, six trustees
Term of ofnice. and a town constable, who shall hold their offices for and during the tolnn
of one year thereafter, and until their successors are duly elected and
Election ora qualified. The mayor and constable shall be elected by the vote of the
town constable qualified voters of the whole town, and the trustees (two for each ward)
shall be chosen from the residents of each ward, and elected by the quali-
fled voters of each ward respectively. No one shall be eligible as mayor,
Qualifications trustee or constablo, unless a male white citizon of the United States, over
of tho mayor, the age of twenty-one years, and of actual residence in said town during
trustees and 0 rcdig.i
town constable t1lv01 Consecutive months immediately preceding t11 election.
Sre. 2. Be itfurther enacted, c/c.: That the fourth section of the afore-
said act be so amended as to read as follows: I
SECTION 4Tr. Bc it furlher enuc/ed, c.: That tile mayor and trustees
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