Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-05-05

remove the SAID boat 1Or a perlOu mol
exceeding two months: Provided, that
in the mean time he shall provide good
and sufficient means for crossing all
passengers, Wagons, carriages, and
bnggies, that may desire to cross.
Sec. 6. All laws contrary to the pro
visions of this Act, are hereby repealed
An Act to amend an Act entitled an
Act relative to District Courts, approved
March Is, 1855.
Sec. l. Be it enacted, &c. That the
first section Of the act entitled an act
relative to District Courts, approved
March Is, 1855, shall be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
That there shall be elected in and for
each Judicial District of the State, (the
First Judicial District exccpted), by the
qualified voters thereof, n Judge for
the term of four years, who shall re.
ceive a salary of four thousand dollars
per annum, payable quarterly on his
own warrant.
Sec. 2. The fifth section of said act
shall be amended and re-enacted SO as
to read as follows:
That the State shall be divided into
thirteen Judicial Districts, composed Of
the following parishes:
LIST District. The city and parish of
New Orleans.
I'd District. Jefferson, Plaquemines,
and St. Bernard.
Sd District. St. Martini St. Mary, Ter
rebonne, and Lafourche.
4th District. Assumption, Ascension,
St. James, St. John the Baptist, and St.
Charles.
5th District. East Baton Rouge, East
Feliciana, and Iberville.
9th District. St. Helena, Washington,
Livingston, and St. Tammany.
9TH District. Avoyelles, PoiDte Cou-
pee, West Baton Rouge, and West Fe-
~liciana.
9Th District. C~alcasicu, St. Landry,
Lafayette, and Vermillion.
9th District. Natchitoches, Vim, Sa-
bine, and Rapides.
10th District. Bossier, Caddo, and De
Soto.
18th District. Union, Jackson, Clai-
borne, and Bienville.
18th District. M~orchouse, Ouachita,
Caldwell, Catahoula, and Franklin.
18th District. Carroll, Madison, Ten
sas, and Concordia.
Sec. 3. All laws contrary to the pro-
visions of this act are hereby repealed.
Az Act for the relief Of purchasers of
sixteenth lots or section fronting Oh
streams, where the same have been &C
quireh by sale according to law and in
goodfaith.
Whereas, By a late construction OF
the laws in relation to the sixteenth sec
ton of townships reserved for school
purposes, by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office at Washington, the
lots or sections sixteenth fronting on
streams, and not occupying the regular
position assigned them according to the
rules and regulations required in the
subdivision of townships into sections,
are not considered and cannot be treated
as school lands, but are considered the
PlCpCilJ VI IhC CHlttu EldtcS, utllcSS
they come within the provisions of the
grant to the State of swamp lands, and
are then the property of the State; and
whereas, a number of said lots or sec
tions sixteenth have been disposed of
by sale according to law to purchasers
in good faith; therefore,
Be it enacted, &C., That wherever or
whenever any of said lots or sections
shall, or have enured to the State under
the grant of swamp lands by the acts of
Congress of eighteen hundred and forty
nine and eighteen hundred and fifty, the
title thereby acquired shall ennre to the
benefit of such persons as now hold the
said lots, by sale and in good faith as
aforesaid, and the titles of such persons
are hereby confirmed and ratified to the
extent of the interest of the State in
said lots or sections.