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No. 215.] AN ACT
To provide compensation to owners of slaves condemned to death or the Peniten-
tiary, by the State.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House oJ Repre-
sentatives of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly con-
,lahve senten ton vened, That all slaves sentenced to death or perpetual imprisonment,
ment for life, to be or when sentence of death may have been commuted to perpetual im-
paidforbytheState. prisonment, in virtue of existing laws. excepting such slaves as are
taken in actual rebellion, shall be paid for out of the public treasury;
% of the appraised provided the sum paid for each slave shall not exceed two-thirds of the
value shall be paid for
said slaves. appraised value of said slave, provided the appraisement does not
Maximum of ap- exceed the sum of $750. Said slave to be appraised under oath by
'pralsesnent, and bythJut '-D 2
'wrm mande y the Justice of the Peace and by the Jury who shall have found said
slave guilty; and the Auditor of Public Accounts, when the appraise-
ment of any such slave or slaves, made as required by law, shall be
Formalities required made known to him, shall issue his warrant in favor of the owner of
from pe sons claimn
payment for laves any slave who may have been or shall be convicted of a capital crime,
-convicted on proof of the execution of such slave, or the delivery of said slave
into the State Penitentiary, which proof shall be made to appear by
the return of the officer charged with the execution of the judgment
of the Court convicting such slave. The warrant of owners thus
issued shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated.
Repealing of all Acts. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, 4c., That all laws or parts of laws
conflicting with this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
JNO. M. SANDIDGE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT C. WICKLIFFE,
President pro. tem. of the Senate.
Approved, March 16th, 1854.
P. 0. HEBERT,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy.
ANDREW S. HERRON,
Secretary of State.
No. 216.1 AN ACT
To purchase additional copies of the Civil Code and Code of Practice, compiled by
Thomas Gibbs Morgan, and also of the Louisiana Reports.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly con-
Additional copies of vened, That upon the delivery to the Secretary of State, of two hun-
the Codes and Mlsi
ana Reports to be dred and fifty perfect copies each of the Civil Code and Code of
purchased. Practice, compiled by Thomas Gibbs Morgan, and also two hundred
and fifty perfect copies of the Louisiana Reports, it shall be the duty
of the Treasurer of the Stte to pay to J. B. Steele or his assigns,
How paid for. four dollars per volume for said Codes and said Reports; but no pay-
ments are to be made until the entire works are completed and de-
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