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DOLLARS. CT*
State Engineer Por salary of the State Engineer, and incidental expenses of
and incidental his department, twelve thousand, five hundred dollars .. 12500 00
expenses.
Sergeant-at- To the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, for taking care of the
Snoate. Senate Chambers and Rooms, during the recess, three
hundred and sixty dollars, in conformity to the third sec.
tion of an act approved March nineteenth, eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-seven (1837) ...................... 360.00
[Signed] PRESTON W. FARRAR,
Speaker of the House of Representative .
[Signed] TRASIMON LANDRY,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate.
Approved March 16, 1848. .
[SigniedJ ISAAC JOHNSON,
Governor of the, State of Louisiana.
No. 75.] AN ACT
'To give to the police jury of tle parish of Carroll full power over the regulation, eon-
struction and repairs of roads and levees in said parish ; to give the undertaker of
work donie oi levees and roads a lien in certain cases, and to repeal all laws on
[his subject now in force in said parish.
SECTION 1. Be it cnacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives
construclion of the State of Louisiana, in General Asscnbly convened: That the police
leveep ancury of the parish of Carroll shall have full power to pass all ordinances
roads in the that they may deem necessary and expedient, relative to the construction
parish of Car- . .
You. and repair of roads and levees throughout said parish; to appoint as many
roe of the overseers of roads and levee inspectors, as they may deem necessary to
%hereto relat- carry these ordinances into effect, and to impose such fines and penalties
Ing. for a violation of their ordinances as they may deem necessary to their
strict enforcement, such fines to be recovered by indictments on informa.
tion, before any competent court.
.rotce jury SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, etc.: That the police jury of the said
aithorized to parish shall have power to pass such ordinances as they may deem ne.
call as mnany
hands as ne- cessary, as to calling out the hands to stop any breach that may
cessilcy to slt ap0 t )Cadt
saie hap n to be made in the levee in time of high water, and to prescribe
levees. the duties of the levee inspector in such cases, and to fix the amount to be
inspetor,eand paid to the owners of negroes called to work on the levee.
amnount to t0
p~aid for the
hands called. 1 SEC. S. e itefurther enacted, etc.: That the said polico jury shall have
erthe pow- the power to pass such ordinances as may be deemed necessary, as to the
use Jury. manner in which notice shall be given to non-residents of the State or
parish, and to residents, of the work to be done on their levees or roads,
and the time within which the said work is to be completed.
Inwhat cases SEC. 4. Be it furt/ir eiacted, 4'c.: That in case any work ordered to
the vork lobe be done by the levee inspector, in pursuance of any ordinance of said
(loe to levees
and roads shalt police jury, shall not be commenced in the time specified, it shall be the
have to e ad- duty of the levee inspector to adjudicate. the work to be done to the lowest
bidder, on giving fifteen days notice of such work, with such a description
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