New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-27

bureau of immigration, or his agent duly
appointed; and no scales or weights shall be
used for such purpose but such as have been
inspected and sealed by the city inspector OF OF
weights; and every such establishment shall
have posted in conspicuous place and man
ner at its place of business, in the English,
German, Dutch, French and WEIGH languages,
list of prices or rates of fair for the passage
of immigrant passengers, and the pr1ee per
hundred pounds for transportation OF ther
luggage to the principal places to when the
proprietors thereof undertake to convey such
| passengers, and shall also deliver a copy OF
| such list to the chief OF bureau OF mmigra-
t;nn or to his agent, in any city where such
agency shall be established and any person
or company who shall charge or receive, or
| allow to be charged or received by any person
| in his or their employment q greater amount
than is specified in said list of prices, or who
shall defraud any immigrant in the weight of
his or her baggage, or who shall receive money
from any immigrant or immigrants for the
passage or for the transportation of their lug
gage, and shall refuse or neglect to issue to
the person or persons paying their fare, or for
the transportation Of their luggage, ticket
which shall state the time and place of such
issue, the number of persons SO paying, the
distance in miles to the place to which fare is
received, the amount so received, the number
of pounds of baggage and the. price per hun
bred pounds for its transportation, which said
ticket shall be signed by the person or persons
in whose names the establishment is conducted,
and if more than one person is interested IN
the concern as partner, then the full name
of all the persons SO interested in said con-
| Germ shall be printed Or written on the 1cket
orwho shall issue any such ticket directed TO an
agent, without first having made arrangements
with some responsible person or persons 10
act as his, her or their agent OF conslgnee' ac-
cordinr to the terms of the agreement, as SET
| forth in the ticket, or who shall III any way
| fail or neglect to fulfil any contract Tor the
passage of any immigrant, q ior inc lrals-
portation Of any luggage, made Win an llnh Il
grant, or who shall issue to any person plank
receipts, signed by him OF them' OF VINO shaii
permit his, her or their name or names to be
Tnsed by any other person or persons In said
business of booking immigrant passengers and
thei, luggage, or taking money for their fare
OF transportation Of their luggage, SHALL
together with all other persons concerned IN
the violation of these provisions, be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon con-
yiction be punished by confinement in the
city OF parish prison not less than SIX nor
more than twelve months and any person OF
company receiving money as aforesaid for the
passage of immigrants, or for the transporta-
ton Of their luggage, without such office and
license, OF who shall refuse admission as afore-
said to such office or place of weighing lug
gage, during the time of transacting business
therein, or who shall neglect Or refuse
to furnish a copy thereof as aforesaid,
or who shall make any arrangement
or engagement with any immigrant
for his passage OF transportation, or any
runner OF agent connected with or employed
by such forwarding establishment, make such
agreement OF arrangement without delivering
1,ripfaI rad I'm
the language Of the country to which said I'M
migrant may belong) of prices or rates OF fare
which will be charged every immigrant for his
passage or for transportation OF his baggage
or effects to the principal places on the route
which he, the said immigrant, is about to
travel, OF every such keeper, or owner OF
owners, or runner or runners connected there
with, or any licensed immigrant run
ner OF runners, shall be deemed guilty
conviction, be punished by imprison-
ment in the parish Jail for q period not less
than three nor more than six months. Licenses
under this section may be revoked for cause,
and no person shall be licensed under this
section who is not of good moral character and
d citizen Of the United States
Sec g. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
no person holding office underline government
of the United States, or Of this State, or of
any Of its cities, or who shall be in the employ
ment of the bureau of immigration shall
solicit custom for any transportation line, or
shall be interested in any way, directly or
indirectly, in the forwarding Of immigrants,
under penalty of not less than one hundred
dollars, and not exceeding three hundred dol
lars to be sued for in the name of the State,
by the district attorney or attorney general,
and which money, when collected, shall be
paid into the State treasury.
SEC 7. Be it further enacted, etc., That
the penalties and forfeitures prescribed by
this act, except as hereinbefore otherwise pro-
vided, shall be sued for and collected in the
name Of the State, and applied in the same
manner specified in the foregoing section.
SEC. s. Be it further enacted, etc, That
the chief of bureau Of immigration shall annu-
ally make and return to the legislature, with
his annual report an affidavit, in and by which
be shall swear or affirm to the correctness of
such report, and that he hath not directly or
indirectly been interested in the business of
boarding immigrants, in the transportation of
any immigrant passengers through any portion
of the interior Of this country, or had made
or received, directly or indirectly, any gain,
profit Or advantage, by Or through the pur-
chase Of supplies, the granting Of any con-
tract or contracts herein, or license, privilege
or privileges, or the employment of any officer,
servant Or agent, mechanic, laborer or other
person in the business under the control of
said chief of bureau.
SEC. g. Be it further enacted. ETC.. That
no person Or persons who keep coffeehouse
or lager beer saloon, or who keep for sale in
any quantity any Intoxicating liquors or lager
beer, shall obtain license for keeping an i'm
migrant boarding house, as provided in the
first section Of this act. nor shall any such
boarding house be kept in building any por-
ton of which is occupied for the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors or lager beer.
SEC. TO- Be it further enacted, etc., That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
{Signed) J. B. ELAN,
Speaker pro tenn. of the House of Representa-
tives
(signed1 ALBERT VOORHEES,,
lieutenant Governor and President of the
Approved March 81, 1866.
(Signed) J. MADISON WELLS,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
\ ]. IL HARDY,
Secretary of State.
LOIS DE LA LOUISIANA.
No. 1911
PoURvoyANr A La PROTECTION DIES IMMIGRANTs
DAMS L'ETAr DE LA LOUISIANA