New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-11
xorAR1Es PUBLIC IN NEW ORLEANS.


passed at the late session of the Legislature has been
officially promulgated in the State gazette
SECTION Be enacted By The Senate and House Rrssen
from and alter the Of Nay eighteen
the offices Of each and notary public @
hereby, declared to be vacsted = ..., ,v !
and with the consent Of the Senate less than forty
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consigned records Of the notary or oares dead resigned
sso Be farther snacte e That all parts of
contrary the provisions OF this act be- and the same are
We see nothing in the foregoing act to approve,
and much to condemn. In ITSELF it may not perhaps
be obnoxious to unqualified and sweeping censure
but when taken in connection with many other acts
Of special and oppressive legislation aimed directly
at the parish of Orleans some of which were success
full and others unsuccessful the anin,us which die
tated its adoption becomes dsagreeable and repusve
to the last degree.
Why should the Legislature concern itself particu-
larry about Notaries Public in the parish of Orleans
ries Public in the other parishes Of the State? We
should like to know the reason for the distinction
thus made. There ought to be some reason or else
the law is not good law, fit to receive the sane
ton of grave deliberatve bodies. Are the Notaries
of New Orleans more worthy legislative attention
than the Notaries of the rural parishes Or are the
Notares of the rural parishes capable and mmacu-
late that they need no extra legislation, while their
1rof hoo tho IF
eign authority to bring them up with round turn
in order to keep them straight? These questions
that must be answered. fully and to the point before
legitimate argument in favor of the above law be
entered upon. 1t strikes unsophisticated under
standing that the trainers of the foregoing law will be
ashamed of it before the lapse of many years. Why
The Legislature was Democratic and the Governors
of the State, in whom the power OF appointing No.
tares is vested have been Democratic since the
adoption Of the new Constitution /! Democratic
Governors and officials generalIyand to their credit
be it spoken-are not nhe habit Of forgetting their
political friends when they have it in their power to
reward their services with offices and enouments
q They do not kick aside the ladder by which they
mounted to power, as almost invariably the
with the old Wing party, and which obtained to de-
structive extent with the American party. In this
simple TACT is TO be 1ound one Oh tne great secrets
their almost uniform success; and we publish it fol
i the benefit of those whom it may concern, without
/ charging anything for the information.
Democratic Governors having appointed all the
Notaries that now hold office in this city, what was
the use, the policy the common of vacating
all notarial Offices the LIST of May next? We are
unable to frame even imagine affirmative reply
1t SENS to US that Democratic Legislature by this
action, cast serious reflections upon the udicousness
of the selections of Governors Walker, Hebert and
/ Wcklife-all true and approved.Democrats and most
excellent gentlemen.
Now when the general vacation takes place on the
LIST of May, we predict Gov Wicklife will reappon,
majority of the notares holding office We do moi
see how he can do otherwise. A large majority o
them coincide with him in political feeling, and so fa
as we know, all are faithful and trustworthy officers
If the Governor does as we confident he WILL til,
seessness and absurdty of the law will become glar
ingly apparent.
A just law in reference to Notaries Public nigh
have been passed by the Legislature and should hay
been passed by the Legislature. The number of Nc
taries need not have been limited. The bushes
: should have been thrown open to universal compel
ton among those who could give undoubted bond an
security for the faithful prompt and honest perform
. ance of their duties. On this point the law shout
have been comprehensive and stringent sufficient
to amply protect the rights of those having notara
business to transact-and there the Legislature shout
have left the matter. We go in for free trade an
open competition in all legitimate business.