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WhentisActtakes - SEC. 11. - BC it further enacted, 4-c., That this Act shall take
efrect. effect from and after its passage,
JOHN I1. SANDIDGE,
Speaker of the House of1.Representatives.
ROBERT' C.. WICKLIFFE,
President of the Senate.
Approved, February 20th, 1855.
P. 0. HEBERT,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy,
ANDREW S. Trox,
Secretary of State.
No. 8.] AN ACT
In relation to the Fee Bill.
Scriox 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
setatives of the S/ate of Louisiana in General Assembl Con-
sumoanewedtose.vened, That hereafter the Shieriff of the different parishes of the
run for Inintenance State shall be allowed thirty-seven and a half cents a day for the
of pisoners. maintenance of every prisoner confined in the prison of the parish of
which he is Sheriff, except runaway slaves
Repeal of till laws Sc. 2: Be it further enacted, <bc., That pl laws or parts of
contrary to this Act. laws contrary to this Act be and the saume are hereby repealed.
JOHN M. 8ANDIDGE,
Speaker 'of t4he louse of Representatives.
ROBERT C'. WICKLIFFE,
President of the Senate.
Approved, February 26th, 1855.
P. O.* IIEBEIT,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy,
ANDREW S.clEaON,
Secretary of State.
No. 9.j AN ACT
For the relief of larried Womon,
SECTION 1. le it, eice(i by the Senate and House of .Repre.
sentatives of the State of Louisium in Geneal As enbly con-
Privileges granted VenC(1, That whenever a marriage shall have been contracted in this
tormarried women in State, and the husband, after such marriage, shall remove or shall
certain cases. liave removed to a foreign country with his said wife, if said husband
shall behave or have behaved towards his wife in said foreign country
in such a manner as would entitle her, under our laws, to demand a
separation of bad, board, or a separation of property, it shall be law-
fiul for her, on returning to the domicil where her marriage was con-
tracted, to institute a suit there against her said husband for the pur-
poses above mentioned, in the same manner as it they where still
rower of tle court doniciliated in said place, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
to appoint an Attor- In such cases an Attorney shall be appointed by the Court to repre-
y o re tue sent the absent defendant; the plaintiff shall be entitled to all the
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