The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-10-17
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March IL, 1866. |
Sec. /. Be it enacted by the |
Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the State of Louisiana in
General Assembly convened, That
the first section of an act entitled
an act relative to bonds of State
and Parish officers, approved
March II, 1856, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
That all bonds given by the tax
collectors of the State, and by
persons charged with the collec-
ton of the parish taxes, and by
all public officers, whether State
OF parish Except the treasurer OF
the State, auditor of public ac-
counts, parish recorders, and clerks
of the district courts) who by ex-
listing laws or those to be hereaf-
ter enacted, may be required to
give bonds, shall, when the secu-
rites gwen on such bonds reside
in the parish where the officer is
to 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 cleo
ted or appointed and in which
the securities 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 ap-
proved by the parish recorder, the
clerk of the court, and the presi-
dent Of the police jury of the par
ish in which such securities reside.
That in either of the above cases
if 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 parish in
which the security may reside, or
the Judge of the district court of
the district in which such securi-
ty may reside, shall act in place
of such absent officer.
That when the securities on
any such bonds reside 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 dis
trict, and three members of the
police jury, to be designated by
the president thereof; said bonds
in all cases to be executed within
thirty days from date of the com
mission 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 as above provided for shall
be required to furnish security
residing in any parish in the State
That all such bonds shall bt
authenticated by the attestatior
of two witnesses and the signature
of the recorder of the parish il
which the securities reside, AMI
shall be marked in a separate bool
kept for that purpose, and ais
beregistered in the mortgage bool
of Judicial mortgages of the parisl
where the officer giving the bone
exercises his Office.
That bonds when registered a
above provided shall operate from
and after the date of the registr,
as a mortgage upon all the rea
estate of the principal obliga
therein, in the parish where b
exercises his Office. The bond
ofall State officers to be mad
payable to the governor of th
State, and those of the paris
officers to the president of tn
Police Jury of the parish.
That if it becomes necessary
enforce the collection of any {
the bonds that may be, taken III
der and in pursuance to this ac
and the securities reside out {
the parish in which the Office
exercises the duties of his off1c
the court of the parish in whic
the officer exercises or may ha1
exercised the duties of the offiC
for which the bond was given sha
have jurisdiction over the secul
ties, it matters not in what paris
they may reside. That each an
every security on any of the bono
provided in this act shall NAL
oath that he has property ov,
and above his liabilities sufficiel
to respond to the amount for whiC
he obligates himself in said bon
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etC
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