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No. 149.] AN ACT
To amend the third section of an Act entitled An Act relative to Divorce, approved
March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fiftyfilve.
SEcuro- 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa.
Time when di* tives of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened, That
pated In cer- the third section of an Act entitled an Act relative to Divorce,
ta cases. approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred aiid lifty-five, be so
amended and reOnacted, as to read as follows: That except in the
cases where the husband or wife may have been senteced to an in-
famous punishment or convicted of adultery, no divorce shall be
granted, unless a judgment of separation frot Led and board shall
have been rendered between the parties and one year shall have cx-
pired from the date of the judgment bf seperation from bed and
board, aid no reconciliation shall have taken place ; in the cases
excepted above, a judgment of divorce may be grauted in the same
decree which pronounced the separation of bed and board.
When tis Act Sc. 2. le it further enacted, Itc., That this Act shall take effect
take-i effect.
from and after its passage.
WM. W. PUGII,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
C. I. MOUTON,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the Seiate.
Approved March 16th, 1857,
ROBERT C. WICKLIFFE,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy,
ANDREW S. HEIRON,
Secretary of State.
No. 150.] AN ACT
To repent the second section of an Act entitled An Act relative to Patrols, naproved
Marclh (htieenth, eighteen hundred and fifty live, as farm the panm is applicable to the
!parishes of St. John the lianitist, St, James, Caddo, Io Stto, Sabine, Natchitoches,
St. Laudry, Lafayette, Russier, Claiborne, Winn and Bienville.
SEcTIO.v 1. Be it enacteod by the Senate and House rf Representa-
second section lives of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened, That
of Act relativet theseI*
Srr repMealed, the second section of an Act entitled An Act relative to Patrols,
.farassmar- approved March fiftecnth, eighteen hundred and lifty live, which
aein parisies. reads thus: That the Patrols ordered by the Police Juries shall not
have thf. right to enter plaintations to visit the negro huts, unless
the owner or agent, if present Ott the plantitioni, shall be notified of
the presence of the Patrol, iii order that he may accompaniy them
should he wish to do Ho; be aid the. same is hereby repealed so far
as it is applicable to the parishes of St. John the Baptist, St. James,
Caddo, Do Soto, Sabine, Natchituches, St. Landry, Latayette, Bossier,
Claiborne, Wiin and Bienville.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsla0443&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)