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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0350 and id is 1 raw text is: shall retuin all die nauiei upoln the jury list into the jury box and
commence a new drawing; said drawings to be made according to
the manner prescribed by existing laws.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, 4-c., That if the name of any per-
Doftts of the son has been drawn from the box and such person has been excused
lier fr wih re- from serving or neglected to serve upon the jury for which he was
nour on .nfe summoned ; the sheriWf shall replace the name of such person in the
July li.t. jurv box subject to be drawn with the other names in said box.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, dc., That the jurors in the first
Comiensation to district court in criminal cases shall receive one dollar and fifty cents
jurorr. a day, while performing jury duty.
E. W. MOISE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
J. B. PLAUCHE,
Lieutenrnt Governor and President of the Senate.
Approvel 18th March, 1850.
JOSEPH WALKER,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
No. 190.] AN ACT
Relative to the corporation, police, and Lovernment of the town of Shreveport.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly Convened, That
Incorporion of all the tract or portion of land situated in the parish of Caddo, on the
Slieport south-west bank of Red river, laid off and divided into lots by the
Shreveport company, and known as the reservation made by the
Caddo indians to Larkin Edwards, consisting of six hundred and forty
acres more or less, shall continue to be designated and known as the
Its limits. town of Shreveport, and that all free white inhabitants of the said
town of Shreveport, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by
IRyor aRnd trus- the name and style of the Mayor and Trustees of the town of Shreve-
tees of the town port and by that name they and their successors, shall be henceforth
of Sbrevepurt. sucso,
known in law, shall be capable of sueing and being sued, defending
and being defended, impleading and being impleaded, in all courts
and places wihatsoever and in any and all manner of causes and
actions, shall be capable of acquiring, receiving, holding, farming,
Municipal pow- leasing or conveying any property real or personal, of making any
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Scorporation compromise, arbitration or transaction in regard thereto; shall have
of shreveport. authority to adopt a common seal, and the same at their pleasure to
change or alter; to erect such public works and buildings for the use
and advantage of said town as they may find expedient; to give bonds
and receive bonds, which shall be as effectual in law as other bonds
Taxes are not to given under the laws of this State; and, also, to lay and collect, annu-
excee ally, a direct tax on real estate, which tax shall be assessed on the
thousand olars. freeholders, householders, landholders, and slaveholders, and on slaves
hired in the limits of the corporation, not to exceed in any one year,
two thou-and dollars, for the improvement, comfort and well regula-
ting of the said town: Provided, that if that sum be found insufficient
Taxs aforesaid for the objects and purposes of said town, it shall be lawful for the
my be Increas2d mayor to call a meeting of the voters of said town by giving at least
ir o a he % jr- ten days notice in a newspaper published in said town, of such meet-
of Vaid Iowu. ing, specitying the place of meeting and object thereof; and the said
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