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a full set of books to which clerk's offices are entitled by law, or so
many thereof as may be in the State library: Provided there be dup.
licate copies of the same in the State library.
E. W. MOISE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
J. B. PLAUCHE,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate.
Approved 19th March, 1850.
JOSEPH WALKER,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
No. 193.] RESOLUTION.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That the State
Engineer is hereby authorized and directed to examine the lands below
Lockport in the parish of Lafourche Interior, and if he is of opinion
Instructions to after a careful examination, that outlets can be made for the bayou
The State Engi
neer in relation Lafourche, on the left side of said bayou without injury to the sur-
from baou rounding country, then he is hereby directed to make two outlets, for
Lafourche. the waters of said bayou, on the left side of said bayou, for the pur-
pose of protecting the inhabitants of said bayou from inundation:
Provided, the proprietors of said lands upon which said outlets shall
be made shall allow the same to be made without any cost to the State,
for the land through which said outlets shall be cut; and provided it
does not interfere with any other works heretofore ordered.
E. W. MOISE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
J. B. PLAUCHE,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate.
Approved 19th March, 1850.
JOSEPH WALKER,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
No. 194.] AN ACT
To provide for the assessment and collection of taxes in this State.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That
Assessors of in every parish of the State, except the parishes of Orleans and Jef-
taxes in the
country parishes. ferson, there shall be elected by the qualified voters of each parish,
one assessor of taxes in and for said parish.
Assessor. in the Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, djc., There shall be elected in like
city of Larayette manner, one assessor in and for the city of Lafayette, by the qualified
end the parish o
Jefferson. voters therein, and an other assessor for all other parts of the parish
of Jefferson, by the qualified voters thereof.
See. 3. Be it further enacted, 4-c., For the city of New Orleans
there shall be elected by the qualified voters thereof, three assessors of
taxes in and for said city. The assessors of the city of New Orleans
city of New Or- shall, on the first Monday of January next after their election, proceed
)gan.. to procure an office in a central part of the city of New Orleans, and
shall constitute themselves into a board of assessors of the city of
Their duties. New Orleans; they shall proceed to apportion the duties of assessing
the property of persons within the limits of said parish among them-
selves so as to make the duties as nearly equal as may be.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsla0351&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)