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An Act in relation to Slaves detained in any of the Police Jails of the Municipalities of New Orleans. 1845 77 (1845)

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tied to the benefit of this act, shall have until the first day of January
eighteen hundred and forty-six, to make payment for said lands; provided
that lie, she, or they, make the proof required by this act, within four months
after the passage of the same.
SECT. 4. Be itfurther enacted, 4-., That it shall be the duty of the Gov-
ernor of the State to issue patents to said settlers for their lands, on the
payment of such purchase money.
SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, 4., That if any person or persons
shall swear falsely in :proving the settlement of himself or herself, or-any
other person, lie, she, or they so swearing, shall be deemed guilty of wilful
and corrupt perjury.
(Signod)          A. BOt'DOUSQUIE, Speaker qf the House of RtprescntatiTeE.
(Signed)          FELIX GARCIA, President of the Senate.
Approved, March 7th, 185.
(Signed)                A. MOUTON, Governor or the State of Louisiana.
No. 134-AN ACT in relation to Slaves detained in any of tho Police Jails of the Mu-
nicipalities of New Orleans.
SEcT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 1te
State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened ; That it shall be the du-
ty oftho Keepers of the Police Jails of the three Minicipalitics of New
Orleans, to advcrtise in French and English in the State paper and inl the
oflicial Gazette of the Municipality in which said jail is situated, once a
week, during three consecutive months, such slave or slavos, whose owners
are utnknowi, or reside out of the State of Louisiana, as nlow or may here-
after he detained in their respective jails and whether arrested within the
parish of Orleans or brought thither from any of the jails of this State.
Stct. 2. Be it further enacted, S-c., That in case the owners of said
slave or slaves should not claim them at the expiration of the above threo
months, it shall he the duty of the Council of the Municipality in whose
jail said slave or slaves may be detained, to cause the same to be s)old, at
auction for whatever they will bring for cash after thirty days advertise-
ment in the above mentioned official Gazettes.
SerT. 3. And be it fkrther enacted, 4-., That all laws contrary to or
difTerent from the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repeal-
od; provided that no slave can be sold unless he has been twelve months
held in imprisonment.
(Signel)          A. BOUDOTSQUIE, Speaker ofthe Houle of Hopredentatives.
(Ci n.d)          FELIX GARCIA, President of the Senate.
.ippioed Mlarch 101Ih, 181.
(Ji~iiu) d  1A. MOUTO N, Governor of the State of Louisiana.
No. 135.-AN ACT to alter ihe boundary line between the parishes of CIldo and
Do Soto, and for other purposes.
SEcT 1. Re it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the State <f Louisiana, in General Assembly convened; Thot so much
of the parish of Cuddo, as lies south and west ofthe Bayou Pierre River
and Cypress Bayou, be annexed to, and forti patt of the parish
rerritory on* of De Soto  according to the following named    houndary   line,
So,   to   that is to say ; the line dividing the two parishes shall booin in the
Bayou Pierre River, where the boundary line of the two parishes now
crosses it, thence it shall run tip the said river to the mouth of Wallace
Lake, thence up said Lake to the mouth of Cypress Bayou, thence op
said Bayou to the motih of Kechi Bavon, aid thene ip sa i  Bayot
to the boundary linit as now cstabli!;hcd.

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