New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-04-07
Ath @rltans 9aiIp Grrstsnt.
LIST OF ACTS,
Passed by the Legislature of 1855.


The following LIST contains all the acts passed at
the present session Of the Legislature, which have
been signed by The Governor and are now in the Office
Of the Secretary Of State:
No J.. An act u provide for the payment Of ON.
eral Assembly.
No. q To amend and re-enact 1903, q, g and '7th
sections OF an act to amend act entitled an act 10
consolidate the city Of New Orleans and provide for
March 18th. 1857. -PP'~'S~
No. y An act relating TO seizures In certain cases
NO. T. An act granting to the United States the
use OF 80 much land necessary for the CONSTRUCTION
" warehouses At Quarantine Station on the Mtssis
sPpl river below New Orleans with water front ana
pIteee q tne wharf now built or hereafter TO be
Duit az sand station and cedng to the United state
jurisdiction over the site Of such warehopses
NO. 5. An act for relief OF F.. N. Dawson Sheriff
Of the Parish of Madison. 1' '"e '
20. o. JOINT resolution instTucting our Senators
and requesting our Representatives In Congrsss ~
use their influence for the establishment ~ d.IIs
mail between New Orleans and the town Of Frank.
lin.
No. Z. An act relative to Justices Of the Peace in
the parish Of Rapides
No s. An act to repeal the latter clause Of an act
entitled an act to amend the 18th section Of an act 10
incorporate the town of Alexandria, approved March
10Th, 1867.
No 9. An act to authorize VIM. T. ]. Goodman and
Elizabeth Goodman to adopt Mary Guillelmine San
dra.
No 10. An aot to provide for an additional Justice
Tor the Police Jury Ward, No. IL, Of the parish oil
No. ii. An act to enancipate Mrs. Rebecca Cole.
man Dunn Laidlaw, wife Of John LaidIaw, of the
city OF New Orleans, from the disabilities Of
minority.
No. II. An act to emancipate Maria Laura Thibe-
Of Terrebonne. f~'-'
No. 10. An act to repeal an act entitled an act To
authorize the Police Jury Of the parish OF Jefferson
to open roads through private property approved
March 18th, 1857.
Ne a. An act to authorize Mrs. Widow Lauaux.
OF the city Of New Orleans to accept the tutorshp
OF her niece Amelia Rixner.
No. 10 Joint resolution requesting the Governor to
forward the Governor of Texas copy OF an act to
improve the navigation of the Sabine river: an
proved March 10TH 1857.
No. l6. An act to amend the 9th section of an act
relative to the State Treasurer.
NO. IT. An act TO provide for deficiencies in the
contingent fund Of the General Assemble for the vea
1857. -.
No. Is. An act enumerating and fixing the cases in
which actions may be instituted against other partie
in other parishes than those Of their domcil in add
ton TO those already provided for by law and prov
dng the manner in which said parties may be cited
No. 10. An act to nancipate Layene NJ, Bisland
of the parish of Pointe Coupee.
No. 20 An act to amend the 9Th section of an act
relative to public works and improvements in the
18th, 1856.
No. 81 An act relative to the uries in the parishes
OF ST. John the Baptist, st. James and Ascension.
No.'22 An act TO change the time of holding the
sessions OF the Second Judicial District Court in and
for the parishes of Plaquemine and St. Bernard.
No. 23 An act requiring the Auditor of Public
Accounts TO obtain from the severA Parish Recorders
OF the state certificate for the sixteenth sections OF
the Public School lands sold in their respective par.
ishes since 1916. r
No. "a An act to emancipate Jean AdoIphe Du-
martait.
No. 20. An act authorizing the Surveyors of the
parish oil Claiborne to appoint one Assistant or DE
No. %. An act to emancipate Zerniah McWborter
minor, and wife of Jesse P. McWhorter, of East
Baton Rouge. q
No. %. An act for the relief of the succession of
the late Alexandra Gordon.
No. 49, To emancipate Eupheme Elfer. of the mar.
ish of St John the Baptist
No 80, An act to change the name Of Elias Comic.
rowitz to Elias Wolf.
No, 81. joint resolution relative to the establish
Shreveport.
No. 80. An act to change the name Of Aroostine
Ricketts,, daughter of James B. Ricketts,.
No.33 An act to repeal an act entitled an act, ex-
emptng the inhabitants of the parish of St. Martin
from the obligation of complying with the provisions
OF an act entitled act to provide further and more
eectuay for the police Of the public roads in this
State, approved April IL, 1857.
No. %. 10 repeal the tnlrd section OF an act en-
titled an act to establish ferry across the Mermen-
tow river, approved llth March, 1856.
NO. 80. 10 enable the Mayor and Trustees of the
town OF Houma to levee a tax not exceeding $500.
No. SO. An act to provide for an appeal to the
Supreme Court OF the contested election case for
Sheriff of St. Tammany.
No. 81. An act TO emancipate John II. Hamter, of
the parish of Bossier
No, 3s. Joint resolution authorizing the appropri-
Tighe, for gas.
No. 80. An act to provide for the election of State
Assessors and State Tax Collectors ia certain cases
within that portion of the parish of Orleans situated
on the right bank of the Mississippi river
No. 40. An act to emancipate jesse Winston
Harris, minor of the parish OF st. Mary.
No Al. An act for the relief of F. F. Folger and
Company.
No. AZ. An act to emancipate Albert H. Leonard
a minor of the parish of Caddo.
No, 43. An act TO emancipate Caroline Eupenia
Henderson of the parish of East Baton Rouge.
No. "A. An act to emancipate F. S. Henderson of
the parish of East Baton Rouge.
No. As. An act to authorize the corporation of the
city OF Baton Rouge to issue their bonds for twenty
years in lieu of their subscription to the Baton
Rouge, Crosse Tete and 0pelousas Railroad Com.
pany.
No. 46. An act to appropriate sl2 900 to complete
the Snag and Dredging boat, David A. Randall for
Bayou Lafourche.
No. AZ. An act for the relief of G. W. Coffin a Co.
No. As. An act supplementary to an act entitled an
act in relation to certain debts of this State approved
March 10, 1857.
No, 40. Joint resolutions instructing our Senators
and requesting our Representatives in Congress- TO use
their influence for the establishment OF Marine Hos
pital in the town OF Berwick in the parish of St.
Mary.
No. so. Joint resolution asking Congress to grant
to State of Louisiana all the public lands therein for
internal Improvement purposes.
No 81. Joint resolution in relation to distractions
in Che Amite, Tangapaho and Blood rivers.
No. 50. An act to amend the ll5th section of an
act relative to crimes and offences.
No. 3d. An act for the relief of Mrs. Ann Niche.
No. So An act to regulate the terms of Court in
the Eleventh Judicial District
No. So. An act to emancpate Miss Harriet L. Har-
re minor, of the parish of East Feliciana
No. Sc. An act TO authorize the State Engineer to
parish of West Feliciana.
No. 81. An act to improve the navigation of the
Calcasieu river
No. So. An act for the relief of John Carmerfa. of
the parish of East Baton Rouge.
No. SO. An act to repeal the fourth section of an
act entitled act relative to Sheriff sales and wrts
of e. Ia, approved March 10th, 1855, as far as the
same applies to the parish of Assumption.
No. CO. Joint resolution requiring a survey of
Bayou Cutoff.
No. 81, An act to amend and re-enact the eleventh
section of an act entitled act relative to District
Counts, approved March 18th, 1855.
NO. 81. An act granting to the principal of the
Marksyile High School, in the parish of Ayoyelles,
the privilege OF comforting literary honors and degrees
upon the students and pupils therein taught.
No. 63. An act to dispose of the road and leyee
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