New Orleans Republican., 1868-08-02
ACT
mo. IT.

To amend and re-enact the First Section oi
an act entitled An Act Relative to Bonds
of State and Parish Officers, approved
| March IL, 1855.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives 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, 1866, be amend.
ed 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 collection of the parish taxes, and by
all public officers, whether State CT parish
| Except the Treasurer of the State, Auditor
OF Public Accounts, Parish Recorders, and
| Clerks of the District Courts), who by ex-
| isting 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 where the officer is to exercise
his Office, lbe accepted by the Parish Re-
corder, 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 securities re.
side.
That if the securities on such bonds re
side 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 Sc
curities 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 alb
sent 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
security may reside, shall act in place of
such absent officer.
That urhn bn
bonds reside in the city of New Orleans.
such bonds shall be approved by the Re.
corder of the district where the security re-
sides, and the Recorder of Mortgages 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; 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 as above
provided tor shall be required to furnish
security residing in any parish in the State.
That all such bonds shall be authenti-
Gated by the attestation Of two witnesses
and the signature of the Recorder Of the
parish in which the securities reside. and
shaI be marked in separate book kept for
that purpose and also be registered in the
mortgage book of judicial mortgages of the
parish where the officer giving the bond ex.
ercises his office.
That bonds when registered as above pro.
vlded shall operate from and after the date
OF the registry as mortgage upon all the
real estate OF the principal obligor therein
ln the parish where he exercises his office, |
fhe bonds OF all State officers to be made
payable to the Governor of the State, and
those OF the parish officers to the President |
Of the Police Jury of the parish.
That If it becomes necessary to enforce |
lhe collection Of any of the bonds that may |
be taken under and in pursuance to this |
act, and the securities reside out of the |
parish in which the officer exercises the |
iuties of his office, the court of the parish |
n which the officer exercises or NAV
1aVe exercised the duties of the |
hall have Jurisdiction over the securities. |
matters not in what parish they may re. |
lde. That each and every security on any
'f the bonds provided in this act shall make
'ath that he has property over and above
lis liabilities sufficient to respond to the
mount for which he obligates himself in
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etc.. That
ms act take effect from after the passage
hereof
(Signed) CHAS. W. LOWELL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) OSCAR J. DUNN,
lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved August l, 1868.
(Signed) II. G. WARMOTH,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
GEO. E. BOVEE,
Secretary of State.