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before any court of competent jurisdiction, besides the tax which sucl
person or corporation may be liable.
Penalty for pursu. SEa. 5. Be it further enacted, 4-c., That no person or corpora-
ing any of the trade, . .I I I
iIons u r n. tion, after the passage of this Act, shall be licensed or permitted to
purse, carry on, follow or practicealy of the trades, professions or
n o oes t e ylg r ,~ p ufn t oo o r a n y
final numnt reu. - occupations herein-before enumerated, who shall be indebted to this
ta In for the State, for the tax or license or commissions levied by this or other x-
Tax. isting laws upon such trades, professions or occupations, and who shall
have refused or neglooted to pay the sano after final judgment has
been rendered against him therefor, under a penalty of not less than
five hundred, nor more than one- thousand dollars, to be collected in
the manner pointed out in the preceding sections of this Article.
to thign tist ma Sua. (. Be it fierther enacted, &-c., That nothing in this Act
In 1852for taxes nd shall be so construedI as to chnage in any manuer the assessment rolls
licensei due 11ls. made in the yeor eighteen lundved and lifty-two, for taxes and licenses
duo and payable.Jubbeyear eighteent-undred and fifty-three-.
.L WARWRN MOISE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WV. WT. FARMER,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate.
Approved, April 30th, 1853.
P. o. IIEBERT,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy.
ANRunw S. HEinoN,
Secretary of State..
No. 328.] AN ACT
To reolomn and drain the Swmp and Overfllowbd Tms4 dounted to tho State of
Louisiana by not of Congress, entitled An Act. to aid tihe Stato of Ionmisinna in).
drining the Swpmmit Iands therOin, uppr'oved lMarch tle eonmd, no thousand
Light hundred and forty-nino.
ScoIN 1. Be it enacted by the Senate an(l House of Repre-
seitatives of the Slate of Lowuisiana, in Gencral Assembly c on-
Stato divided into vened, That the State shall be divided into three Lvoee and Draining
three Levee and
]rnining Ditricts. Distrlcts.
Districts. Sma. 2. Be it further enacted, 4-c., That all that part of the
State south of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and cast of the
Mississippi river, shall constitute the First District; all that part bouth
of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and west of the Mississippi
river, shall constitute the Second District; and all that part of the
State north of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and west of the
Mississippi river, including the parishes of Avoyclles and R1apides,
shall constitute the 'hird District.
Swamp Tand Com- SuE. 8. Br it frthr enacter, C., That the Governor shall
m1sIoertoie aptoiho ar each district; cIch commissioner shall be
poinited by the (toy- appoint at conimissionerfreah(isrc
ormr. a resident of the district for which he is appointed. The threo coin-
missioners shall constitute and be called by the nanio of the Swamp
Thertermofoice. Land Conunissioners. The commissioners shall hold their oflice for
the term of two years, and until their successors shall be clialified,
unless superceded by the Board of Public Works provided by theo
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