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Audeizakon are hereby empowered, when it may be found necessary, to levy., a speci.-
21i0 16 ' Mo fled tax lant exceeding.one-half of the annual State tax, from year to year,
tho parishes of oa the lands in their respective parishes, lying between the Bayous La.
:a , ofourcho and Terrebonno, from the Canal of the Lafourehe and Terrebonne
Wrine. Navigation Company, above, to the Canal of Mooney on the Bayou La.
Jevy 4 specified
Tax, ap-fourche, and to the lower plantation of Hubert Bellenger, on the Bayou
plied to tho- Terrebonne, below- the revenue arising from which tax shall be appro.
ain public priated to keeping open the Bayou. l'Eau Bleue, and the various other
wrishes. bayous and canals which it may be found necessary to open or keep open
for the purpose of reclaiming or freeing firom liability to inundation, the
lands situated between the two said bayous above designated.
Two commis- SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, 4-c., That each of the aforesaid police
eitdtoboabujuries shall have power to appoint, in the manner hereinafter provided, two
aforesaid police commissioners to direct the expenditures of the money set apart for this
res t object, in such manner as may seem to them most advantageous; which
re of the me-commissioners shall be vested with such powers as the said police juries
ah to be ta- may bestow, and shall take an oath for the liithful performance of the
ke ionad duties assigned them:
Under what Src. 3. Be it further enacted, 4-., That should the amount raised
.hctbreasta in the first year or few thereafter, prove insufficient to commence effecthial
tad may be operations, then the aforesaid police juries may at their option suffer the
.dste1 so-fund to accumulate from year to year, until a sufficient amount shall have
accrued to -arry out the desired objects.
Timeforwhich SEc. 4. Be it further enacted, 4-c., That each of the aforesaid police
com isi- juries, in appointing the two commissioners aforesaid, shall appoint in the
appointed. first instance, one to serve for one year, and the other to serve for two
years, and thereafter one in each and every year, who shall serve until
their successors shall have been appointed and sworn into office, or until
the office shall be abolished by the said police juries.
[Signed] PRESTON W. FARRAR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
[Signed] TRASIMON LANDRY,
Lieutenant.Governor and President of the Senate.
Approved 28th April, 1847.
[Signed] ISAAC JOHNSON,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
No. 173.) AN ACT
Granting certain powers to the policajury of the parish of Terrobonne.
SEcTIzoN 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representakes
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