The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-23
mo. Ill

AN ACT TO AMEND AND REENACr THE FIRST SEC
TIoS OF AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT RELATIVE TO
BONDS OF STATE AND PARISH OFFICERS, APPROVED
MARCH II, 1855.
SECTION 1. Be IL enacted by He Senate and
House of Representatives of the state of LolIiSi-
ana in General Assembly coRUened, That the
first section of an act entitled act relative to
bonds of State and parish officers, approved
March II, 1855, be amended and re enacted 30 as
to read as follows:
That all bonds given by the tsx-collectors Of
the State, and by persons charged with the col
lection Of the parish taxes, and by all public of
fcers, whether State or parish Except the treas
urer Of the State, auditor of public accounts,
parish recorders and clerks of the district courts)
who by existing laws or those to be hereafter
enacted, may be required to give bonds, shall,
when the securities given on such bonds reside in
the parish wnere the Ufnccr Is 10 exercise his
office, be accepted by the parish recorder, the
clerk of the court and the president of the police
Jury of the parish for which such officers have
been elected or appointed and in which the Sc
curities reside.
That if the securities on such bonds reside out
of the parish for which such officer was elected or
appointed, such bond shall be approved by the
parish recorder, the clerk of the court, and the
president Of the police jury of the parish in which
such securities reside. .--
That in either of the above cases, IL either the
parish recorder clerk of the court, or president of
the police jury should be absent from the parish
or unable TO act, then the parish judge Of the
the judge of the district court of the district in
which such security may reside, shall act in place
of such absent officer.
That when the securities on any such bonds re-
side in the city of New Orleans, such bonds shall
be approved by the recorder of the district where
the security resides, and the recorder of mort
cages Of the parish Of Orleans, and in that part OF
the parish Of Orleans lying on the right bank OF
the Mississippi river, by the justice Of the peace
for that district and three members of the police
Jury, to be designated by the president thereof I;
said bonds in all cases to be executed within
thirty days from the date of the commission and
before entering into the discharge of the duties OF
the Office.
That all such persons required to give bonds
as State or parish officers above provided for
shall be required TO furnish security residing in
any parish In the State.
that ali such bonds shall be authenticated by
the attestation Of two witnesses and the sigma
ture OF the recorder of the parish in which the
securities reside, and shall be marked in sepa-
rate book kept for that purpose, and also be re-
gistered in the mortgage book OF Judicial mort.
4. cages of the parish where the officer giving the
bond exercises his office.
That bonds when registered as above provided
shall operate from and after the date of the regis
try as mortgage upon ell the real estate of the
principal obligar therein. in the parish where he
exercises his Office The bonds of all State Off
GERS 10 be made payable to the governor of the
State. and those of the parish officers to the pre-
sident of the Police Jury of the parish.
That if it becomes necessary to enforce the
collection OF any of the bonds that may be taken
under and in pursuance to this act, and the secu
rites reside out Of the parish in which the officer
exercises the duties Of his Office, the court of the
parish in which the officer exercises or may have
exercised the duties of the Office for which the
bond was given shall have jurisdiction over the
securities, 1t matters not In what parish they may
reside. That each and every security on any of
the bonds provided in this act shall make oath
that he has property over and above his liabilities
sufficient to respond to the amount for which he
obligates himself in said bond.
SEC. 2. Be IL further enacted ETC., That this act
take effect from and after the passage thereof.
(Signed) CHAs. w. LOWELL,
|; Speaker of the House of Representatives
(Signed) OSCAR j. Dunn,
Lieutenant Governor and President OF the Senate.
: Approved August l, lS6s. !
. (SiRned) II. G. WARMOTH,
Governor Of the State OF Louisiana.
. A true copy
, GEO. e. BovEE,
Secretary of State.