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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0344 and id is 1 raw text is: ferriage and toll to be charged thereon, and of generally regulating
the police of the same: Provided, however, that this privilege shall
Manner of lt- not extend to any ferries or bridges already established, until the ex-
un out ferries. piration of their charters, nor to any ferries or bridges within the con-
trol of municipal corporations: Provided, further, that no police jury
shall have the right to license ferries for a longer period than one year
at one time.
Adverts or Sec. 2. Be itfurther enacted, 4-c., That it shall be the right of the po-
the lame. r ce jury to have the letting of all ferries advertised thirty days, in each
ward of the respective parish, and that they shall be let at the court-
house in said parish, by the president of the police jury, to the highest
bidder for the same: Provided, however, that whenever there is a
newspaper published in any parish in this State, such advertisement
shall be published in such newspaper.
See. 3. Be it further enacted, 4-c., That where steam is used to pro-
pel the ferry boats, the police jury shall then have the right to lease
lyfa.ivceas for the term of five years.
may be granted PRESTON W. FARRAR,
Speaker of the House of Repretentatives.
J. B. PLAUCHE,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate.
Approved 6th March, 1850.
JOSEPH WALKER,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
No. 56.] AN ACT
To amend certain sections of an act relative to the building of levees in the parish of Ten-
sas, and to create a special fund for levee purposes, and enforce the collection of the Esn.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa.
tives of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That
Building of lev- the third section of an Act entitled an Act relative to the building of
ees in the parish levees in the parish of Tensas, and to create a special fund for levee
orremsas. purposes, approved the 16th day of March, eighteen hundred and for-
ty-eight, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows: See. 3. Be
it further enacted, &c., That said police Jury shall annually appoint
in each levee ward, two commissioners, whose duty it shall be to act
Appointmentn of in conjunction with the inspector, in laying off new levees in their re-
two commission-
ers in each levee Spective wards, and assist said inspector at other times when he may
ward, deem it necessary, or in case of absence or resignation on the part of
Their duties. the inspector, they shall perform all the duties belonging to the inspec-
tor until a successor be appointed, or until said inspector shall return
Their tath o to the performance of his duties; and before entering upon their du-
ties said commissioners shall take and subscribe an oath to faithfully
perform all duties incumbent upon them as levee commissioners, and
Their compensa- shall receive as compensation two dollars per day for each day they
tion. may act in accordance with the provisions of this act, to be paid out
of the levee funds, when they shall have rendered their accounts cer-
tified by said inspector. And in case any commissioners appointed
Commissioners shall refuse to serve or neglect to perform the duties required by this
to be fised for
the on-perform- act, when called upon by the inspector, he or they shall be fined in
aee of their du- the sum of fifty dollars, to be recoverable in the name of the police ju.
t. ry before any competent tribunal in the parish of Tensas.
See 2. Be itfurther enacted, That the fifth section of the above](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsla0344&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)