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Land office at Winsborough abolished.

suspend the issuance of the patent in the name of the State for said second entry.

Act 1866, p 50.

SEC. 2985. The offices of the State surveyor-general and of register and receiver of the branch land office at Winnsborough, Louisiana, are abrogated, and the records and duties thereof transferred to and devolved upon the register of the State land office. Act 1866, p. 48,

PUBLIC PRINTING.

Section 2986 to section 3005 are repealed.

See Act 1870, p. 35, No. 6-rates of printing; Act 1876, p. 146, No. 91– judical advertisements; Act 1877, S., p. 62, No. 49-regulating public and judicial printing; Con. 1879, art. 42-contract system; Act 1881, Ex. S., p. 20, No. 6—creating a printing board and regulating public printing.

PUBLIC WORKS.

Board- how appointed.

Con. 1879, art. 213-216; Act 1882, p. 58, No. 46--State house; Act 1882, p. 65, No. 56-levee and drainage fund; Act 1882, p. 95, No. 73-distribution of levee fund; Act 1882, p. 103, No. 82-adulteration of food and drugs; Act 1882, p. 113, No. 91-new basin canal; Act 1882, p. 151, No. 99-assistant engineer; Act 1882, p. 156, No. 104-levees, rice flumes, police jury; Act 1882, p. 165, No. 115-small-pox; Act 1880, p. 172, No. 127; Act 1880, p. 112, No. 88, sec. 8, 13-levees; Act 1879, p. 51, No. 33-board of State engineers and levees; Act, 1878, Ex. S, p. 218, No. 5- board of State engineers and levees; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 72, No. 46-levees, board; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 191, No. 121-levees; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 213. No. 140-construction and repair of levees; Act 1877, p. 210, No. 139-Louisiana levee company and levees; Act 1876, p. 120, No. 18-levee district; Act 1874. p. 95, No. 56- Louisiana levee company; Act 1873, p. 83, No. 43- Louisiana levee company; Act 1871, p. 39, No. 7-board of State engineers; Act 1871, p. 29, No. 4-Louisiana levee company; Act 1870, p. 63, No. 32-levee bonds.

BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.

SEC. 3006. There shall be and is hereby created a board of public works, to consist of five commissioners, one from each internal improvement district; one to go out of office annually; the first board to draw lots, and to hold office for five years or until their successors in office are appointed and qualified. They shall be appointed by the governor of the State, by and with the advice and

consent of the scnate. Said commissioners shall be citizens and Qualifications and compensaqualified electors of the State and district, respectively, for which tion. they may be appointed, each of whom shall receive a salary of two hundred dollars per month, and be entitled to mileage at the rate of fifteen cents per mile while traveling on business of the board, the same to be paid on his warrant out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and who shall, previous to entering upon their duties, give each a bond and solvent security in the sum of ten thousand dollars, approved by the governor and deposited in the office of the secretary of State.

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SEC. 3007. As soon as possible after said commissioners are qualified they shall assemble in the city of New Orleans (a majority in all First meeting and organizacases being necessary to constitute a quorum), and organize themselves tion. into a board, to be designated a "board of public works" for the State of Louisiana, and shall choose one of their members president. They shall meet in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, in open session, every three months, unless called together oftener by the president of the board; and shall keep minutes of their proceedings and accounts of all their expenditures, and shall adopt such rules, regulations and bylaws as they deem necessary, not inconsistent with this act.

Src. 3008. The first district shall comprise all that portion of the First district. State east of the Mississippi river.

SEC. 3009. The second district shall comprise all that portion of the State between the rivers Mississippi and Atchafalaya, and from the northern line of the parish of Pointe Coupée to the gulf of Mexico.

Second district

SEC. 3010. The third district shall comprise all that portion of the State bounded on the north by the parishes of Sabine, Natchitoches Third district. and Red River, on the east by the rivers Red and Atchafalaya, on the south by the gulf of Mexico, and on the west by the Texas State line.

SEC. 3011. The fourth district shall comprise the parishes of Caddo, Bossier, DeSoto, Claiborne, Bienville, Sabine, Natchitoches, Winn, Catahoula, and those portions of the parishes of Rapides and Avoyelles lying north of Red river.

SEC. 3012. The fifth district shall consist of the parishes of Union Morehouse, Jackson, Carroll, Madison, Tensas, Concordia, Ouachita, Franklin and Caldwell.

Fourth district..

Fifth district.

of engineers.

SEC. 3013. The board shall appoint one engineer for each district. The one appointed for the district in which the parish of Orleans, left Appointment bank, is situated, shall act as chief engineer, under the direction of the board. The chief engineer shall receive a salary at the rate of five Chief engineer.. thousand dollars per annum, payable quarterly on the warrant of the Salaries.

es, and their compensation.

commissioner of his district, approved by the president of the board, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and each of the other engineers shall receive a salary at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum, and fifteen cents per mile for all distances traveled, necessarily, in the discharge of their duties, payable on the warrants of the commissioners of their respective districts, approved by the president of the board, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 3014. The board shall appoint a secretary and such other emOther employ ployés as are necessary to carry out the intent of this act, who shall receive such salary as the board may fix and determine, not to exceed two hundred dollars per month, payable upon the warrant of the president, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Surveying, building and repairing lev

ees.

SEC. 3015. It shall be the duty of the board to cause all proper surveys to be made from levees and other public works, and all levees to be built and repaired; to protect as far as possible the swamp lands from overflow, and to do all other public works as may be designated by the general assembly; the whole work to be done under such regulations as the board may from time to time adopt; the work in each district to be done under the supervfsion of the commissioner for said district; and to this end said board shall have power to enter upon and expropriate the lands necessary to carry out the intent and object of this act. All construction and repair of levees shall be let Contract let to by contract to the lowest responsible bidder, and no contract shall be awarded unless approved by a majority of the board. The contractors shall furnish good and sufficient security for the faithful perform. ance of their contracts, subject to the approval of the board.

lowest bidder.

SEC. 3016. All contracts shall be advertised at least twenty days Advertisement. before being let, and sealed proposals invited, such advertisements to be made in the newspapers designated for the publication of legal notices in New Orleans and the district in which the work is to be done. D. sec. 3005.

Commissioners

shall not be in

SEC, 3017. No commissioners of said board shall have any pecuniterested in con- ary interest, directly or indirectly, in any contract or other work let out

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SEC. 3018. Said board, upon the convening of the general assembly Annual report. in each year, shall make a full and detailed report of all their transactions, accompanied with an estimate of expenses required for the building and maintenance of the levees and other public works for the current and ensuing year.

SEC. 3019. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to molest, Prohibiting the breaking of the break or injure in any manner any gates, locks or dams on the public

public works.

works belonging to the State of Louisiana, or to any parish or corpor- gates. etc., on ation of the said State.

Act 1861, p. 192.

SEC. 3020. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this act shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months in the parish jail, or both, at the discretion of the court.

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT FUND.

Penalty.

Internal im

fund created.

SEC. 3021. A fund shall be created, to be denominated “the internal improvement fund," to be applied exclusively to the purposes of ren- provement dering navigable and uniting by canals the principal water courses, and of more intimately connecting by public highways the different parts of the State.

Act 1855, p. 487.

said fund

SEC. 3022. This fund shall consist of the unexpended balance in the treasury, together with all that may hereafter be received from Of what the the proceeds of the public lands granted to this State by act of con- shall consist. gress, approved September the fourth, eighteen hundred and forty

one.

ROAD AND LEVEE FUND.

Road and levee

of what it shall

SEC. 3023. The unexpended balance, tegether with all that may hereafter be received from the five per centum of the net proceeds of the fund created; sales of the public lands of the United States in this State, appropri- consist. ated by the ifth section of an act of congress, approved February How said fund sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eloven, for roads and levees, is set shall be applied apart for that purpose, to be called “road and levee fund,” to be expended for the sole purpose of making roads and levees.

Act 1855, p. 487.

SEC. 3024. Whenever the State hands shall be employed in making What expenses are to be paid or opening any road or constructing any levee, all the expenses for out of the road the time being while there employed shall be charged to the road and levee fund.

LEVEES.

and levee fund.

Works outside

be removed.

SEC. 3025. If any person shall erect any work in front of the levee, on the banks of the Mississippi, out of the limits of New Orleans, of the levee to either by making a new levee, building houses, sheds, dikes or keys, so as to impede its navigation or to encroach on that part of the bank reserved by law for the use of the public, or for roads used for tracking, whether said works or buildings be only commenced or completed, without having applied to the police jury and obtained from

Owners of lands

may protect themselves by levees.

Penalty for damaging levees.

The two pre

ceding sections

them permission, the said works shall be destroyed or removed, if susceptible thereof, to such a distance from the river as may be required by the ordinance of the police jury; in either case, at the expense of the owner.

Act 1830, p. 118, sec. 6.

SEC. 3026. The owners of plantations and other lands are hereby authorized and empowered to surround the same with levees to protect them from inundations. But the natural drains and servitudes shall not be obstructed to the injury of any adjoining plantations or lands.

Act 1852, p. 192, sec. 1.

SEC. 3026. Any person who shall cut or otherwise damage or destroy any levee erected for the purpose of protecting plantations or lands from inundation, shall, on conviction thereof, be subject to imprisonment in the parish prison for a period not less than thirty days nor more than six months; and shall further be liable by civil action for all damages which may be sustained by the owner of the plantation or land so levied, or to any other person who may be damaged by such wrongful act.

D. sec. 925-927; Act 1852, p. 192, sec. 2.

SEC. 3028. The provisions of the two preceding sections shall not certain parish. apply to the parishes of Concordia, Tensas, Madison and Carroll.

not to apply to

es.

Police juries shall construct temporary levees.

Provided.

Penalty for failure to work

on levees when notified.

Act 1853, p. 259, sec. 1.

SEC. 3029. The police juries of the several parishes subject to overflow are hereby authorized and required to have temporary levees made in their respective parishes, and for this purpose they are hereby empowered to call out all citizens subject to road duty to work on such levees; provided, that they shall not require more than six days' work on any and all such levees from each or any of said citizens.

D. sec. 2636, 2756; Act 1868, p. 271.

SEC. 3030. Any citizen subject to road duty who shall be regularly summoned and notified in accordance to the regulations prescribed by the police jury to work on such levees, and who shall fail to work on the levees provided for in section three thousand and twenty-nine of this act, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two dollars per day for every day he shall fail to work, to be recovered before any justice of the peace having jurisdiction of the case, which fine, when so recovered, shall be paid into the parish treasury, and be used in paying the wages of laborers on such levees.

D. sec. 2637, 2757.

SEC. 3031. Each citizen required to work on the levees, as is pro

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