New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-26
No. 4.
AN ACT
Secretary of State.

To amend and re enact an act entitled San
act 20 repeal all laws and arts OF laws Gre
ating draining districts in certain portions
OF the parishes of Orleans and Jefferson,
and providing the mode and means for
draining the same, and to provide for the
disposition Of the property belonging to
the said draining districts, and for collect
ing the taxes for draining proposes, and
he manner the funds so derived are TO be
appropriated to aid in the construction Of
the New Orleans and Ship Island Canal"
passed March second, one thousand eigh.
hundred and siXty-nine.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House Of. Representatives of the State OF
Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
That the above entitled act Is hereby
amendedITand re-eDacted so as 10 read as
follows: That the first, second and third
draining districts, created by the act -ap
proved March eighteenth, one thousand
eight hundred and ffty.eight, are hereby
consolidated, and all offices created thereby
are abolished, aud the property and affairs
of said draining districts, consisting OF and
including all canals, dredge boats, draining
machines, engines, buildings, real estate,
maps, plans, tableauX, books, moneys, cred
it's, deeds, mortgages and all other evidences
of title to real estate, and all assessments Of
taxes pertaining to the business OF drainage,
shall be turned over by the commissioners
of the said draining districts to the New Or
leans and Ship Island Canal Company,
which said company is hereby invested with
all the rights, powers and privileges con-
ferred on said board Of draining districts by
said act of March eighteenth, one thousand
eight hundred and tifty-eight, and the acts
amendatory and supplement- al thereto; and
when said company shall have executed
bond as hereinafter provided, the commits
sioners of said draining districts are hereby
required to make q full exhibit to said COM
nf III thl.ir and trapSactiOn9
and to make full settlement with said COM
bany. and to turn over to Said company all
the property and rights belonging to said
draining districts, and on failure or refu-
sal to comply with the provisions OF this act,
on the part of said Drainage Commissioners,
said company shall have power to compel
settlement on the part OF said Drainage
Commissioners, and to recover and possess
themselves of all property and rights re-
CURED to be turned over 10 them by the
provisions of this act.
SEC, g. Be il further enacted, ETC.. That
the president of said company shall give
bond in the sum of seventy-tive thousand
dollars. with good and solvent security. to
be approved by the Governor, conditional
for the faithful discharge of the trust here
OF reposed in said company in relation TO
the property and business pertaining to
drainage.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
IL SDal4 De Inc uuby Vi Sdtu W edhO
possession Of all the property required to be
turned over to them by section one OF this
act, and to retain and preserve the same, to
settle and adjust all the accounts or
the Commissioner OF the sDrainlng DIS
tricts aforesaid, and to assess ana
and collect all taxes which have not been
assessed or collected under the provisions OF
said act, approved March eighteen, one
thousand eight hundred and ifty-eight, and
for the purposes of said assessments and
collection of taxes the provisions Of the acts
now in force shall be and remain in full
force until said assessments are completed.
That said company shall deposit all moneys
collected or received by them for drainage
purposes with the State Treasurer as soon as
the same shall come into their possession,
and the State Treasurer shall not use or per.
NIT to be used the moneys SO deposited
with him for any purposes other than as
hereinafter specified.
Sec. A. Be it further enacted, etc., That
the taxes due for drainage purposes shall
remain a first mortgage and privilege upon
the lands upon which they are assessed, or
may hereafter be assessed, and their collec-
ton shall be enforced by. said company by
the legal means and remedies now
in force, or such as may hereafter
be provided. Said company shall as
roon as practicable make out statement in
duplicate, of the taxes assessed on the lands
in said draining districts, and upon the lands
hereinafter included in said draining dis
tricts. which have not been collected, and
lodge copy of the same with the State Au
ditor and copy with the State Treasurer,
and said company shall be entitled to re-