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No.7. AN ACT
Toregulate and define the fees to be paid by owners of runaway slaves for the taking
up and confinement of the same, etc.t
SeCTroN 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives
aof the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened: That every
pysor taitog-person taking up a runaway slave shall immediately convey the same
r unawaybefore the nearest justice of the peace, who shall either commit said slave
eutyorJustleesto the parish prison or send him to the owner, employer or overseer, if
of t' known, whoshall pay the person taking up the rates hereafter specified,
ronawpysiaves to wit: For taking up slave in the woods, six dollars; for taking up on the
Ratesoremu-road or plantation, three dollars; for mileage in all cases, going and re-
peration for
the taking up turning, ten cents per mile; for magistrates committing, one dollar; for
1 vewwayjailor receiving and placing in confinement, one dollar; for feedini slave
ateso while confined, twenty-five cents per day; for magistrate for receiving
herI, proof of ownership, one dollar; for delivery to owner by jailor, filly Cents.
SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, etc.: That the jailor shall have every
Dnty of th stlave by him placed in confinement as a runaway, advertized in the near-
Jaler. .est newspaper three times, making the advertisement as brief as possible,
. AdveruIng so as to give a full description of the slave confined, with his name, the
siaves in con.name ot the owner and place of residence, it known, or as given by
lneAti*t said slave; and that on the owner's payment of the same the jailor shall
produce the printer's receipt for the paymant of the adertisement, or the
paper with advertisement contained therein.
SEC. 8. Be it firther enacted, etc.: That all expenses incurred by the
nl' or ibenjailor, except feeding slave, shall be made item by item, and such expen-
,sp be sworn to asltl
by the jauor. ses being confined to what is absolutely necessary for the preservation
of the runaway slave from sickness or death, and that said bill of items
No fees doe shall be sworn to by the jailor, and the said oath shall be in writing
av Ireedn csigned and attached to said bill so rendered; provided, that if said slave
lbor ntswn be put to work in the public works, or otherwise, the owner shall not pay
exacted fromp anything for the feeding of said slaves, but that their labor shall compen-
*hem. sate for thp samte.
Src. 5. Be it further enacted, Neo.: That the rates above specified,
Application orand no others, shall bo charged for (he taking up, confinement, etc., of run.
this law.
)epeal ar.er- RWay slaveS, and this law shall also apply to all incorporated towns and
n laws, cities, and that all laws or parts of letws contrary to this section he, and
are hereby repealed.
[Signed] -PRESTON W. FARRAR,
Spenher of the House of Representativeu.
[Signed] TRASIMON LANDRY,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senpte.
Approvod March 16, 1848.
[Signed] ISAAC JOHNSON,
Covertor of the State of Louisiany.
No. 238] AN ACT
To improve the navigation of Bayou Btif.
SaCTION 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives
.of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened: That there shall
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