The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-08-16

damuS; provided, that SAID Judge may !
in his discretion. appoint a special |
commissioner with full power to do
and perform such matter or thing, and
to comply with the requirments of such
provision of this act, and the actious
and proceedings of said commissioner
in the premises shall have the same
validity and force as if they had been
done and performed by said officer.
Sec. ?. Be it further enacted, etc,
That section one of act No. q of the
sessions of the General Assembly of
1871, and entitled IAN act ratifying
and confirming a contract between the
Louisiana Levee Company and the
State of louisiana" said act being in
words as follows, viz:
Section l. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the State of Louisiana in General
Assembly convened, That all the pro-
visions of a contract entered into be-
tween the Louisiana Levee Company,
party of the first part, and the Govern
or of the State of Louisiana, party, of
the second part, are hereby accepted,
ratified and confirmed, the aforesaid
contract being in terms as follows, to
wit:
United States of America, State of
Louisiana, city of New Orleans.-Be-
fore me, Pierre Charles Cuvellier, no
tary public in and for the city and
parish of Orleans, duly commissioned
and sworn in the presence of the wit
nessess hereinafter named and under
signed. personally came and appered;
NJ. A. Bryson, John n. Bofnger, j. s.
Clark, Jonn J. Anderson: George F.
Sherman, F. Y. Barbot. A. G. Brice,
Charles T. Howard, John A. Morris,
\. ID. Banks. II. G. MiIlaudon, F. e..
Remick, NJ. A. Southworth, II. T. Bur
CESS, Durant da Ponte and Michael
Hahn, herein representing the Louisi
ana Levee Company, Il body corporate,
established under the laws of this
State by an act dated the eleventh of
February, 1871, in this office. the said
Louisiana Levee Company being the
party hereto of the first part, and
Henry Clay Warmoth, Governor of the
State of Louisiana, in his said capaci-
ty, party hereto of the second part, who
severally declared as follows:
Whereas bill has passed both
houses of the General Assembly of the
State of Louisiana, under the title of
AN act relative to the Louisiana
Leyee Company, corporation organ
lied under the general laws of this
State, constituting it a body polite
and corporate. with certain powers,
privileges and franchises, and con-
tracing with said corporation" etc,
which said bill is now before the Gov
ernor of said State for his approval,
and whereas said parties of the first
part will be required to accept the
terms, conditions and stipulations OF
said act of the General Assembly after
it becomes law, before the same will
become binding OH the said parties Of
said part, and whereas certain modifi-
cations of and additions to said act anC
contract are advisable and have beer
agreed upon between the parties there
to of the first and second parts, and il
is desirable that such modification:
and additions be clearly defined anl
stipulated between the parties afore,
aaid before the bill or act aforesaid
shall become a law, with view tha
after the said act is signed and is &C
cepted by the the parties of the frs
part, the said notifications and addi
tions shall be embodied in an act o
the General mbly. to aid in doing
which the parties hereto of the frs
and of the second parts and each sub
scriber individually shall give hi
earnest aid, with the understandin;
that should, for any cause whatever
the bill embodying said modification
and additions fail to become a law
nevertheless theIparties of this &C
agree and bind themselves that sal
notifications and additions as stipula
J ted and set forth ia this act shall b
forever obligatory and binding upo
the said parties of the first part. unles
released therefrom by the said party @
the second part; therefore the following
> are stipulated and agreed to as tn
notifications and additions hereinbe
fore mentioned and referred to, viz:
Frist-The commission of engineer
= TO be appointed under the authority G
; article one, section two, of the afnre
said act of the General Assembly, sha
be required to limit the amount of tn
levees to be constructed, as require
by their report, so that they shall nc
exceed fifteen million cubic yards, nc
, the total amount collected for the cor
: struotion fund ever exceed nine hun
: bred thousand dollars annually.
Second-Article three of the secon
{ section of said act shall be so constrU
ed that no greater rights or privilege
shall be granted TO said company, part
of the first part, empowering them I
take private property for the purpose
r of the right of way and the construc
| ton or extension of levees than hay
| been exercised by the State, parish {
| municipal authorities heretofore f,