The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-21

| belong TO or accrue TO Stlu cOInpdHJ III lLo
purchase OF public or other stock, or in any
| other moneyed transactions not inconsistent
| with the constitution and laws of this State,
| or of the United States, for the sole benefit
| of said company.
Sec. IA. Be it further enacted, etc, That
| the said company can be sued i'll this State
/ only in the district courts of the parishes in
which its railroad is constructed subject to
\ the appellate Jurisdiction of the Supreme
| Court and in such manner and form only
4 as corporations of this State can be sued;
and service of process in any action against
| the said company can be made only by ser
vice of the same upon either the president,
| secretary, treasurer, or any OF the directors
/ of said company, or upon an agent or agents
! of the company resident in this State and
| designated by the directors OF this company
| to receive such service.
Sec. Is. Be it further enatcted, ETC., That
! if any person or persons will or shall w1lfully
| do or cause to be done any act or acts what
ever, whereby any buildings, construction OF
| work of said company, or any engine, ma
! chine or structure, or any matter or thing
| appertaining to the same shall be stopped,
| INSTRUCTED, impaired, weakened, injured or
| destroyed, the person SO offending shall be
| deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall
| forfeit and pay to the said company double
the amount of damages sustained by reason
| of such offenses or injury. to be recorded III
| by action of debt; and such offender shall
| also be subject to Indictment, and shall be,
! on conviction, sentenced to imprisonment at
| the discretion OF the court, for a period not
exceeding eighteen months.
| Sec 16. Be it further enacted ETC., That
the said company, its officers or employees,
shall not in any case be liable for any debts
contracted or liabilities incurred by any
person or persons who shall contract with it
to construct any portion of its road, its
buildings or appurtenanees, or Its rolling
stock, or to furnish any materials or labor to
be used for such construction, or for its
maintenance and operation, nor shall said
| company, its officers or employees, in any
case be liable for any injury to person or
property, or loss of life, which shall be
caused by any act or omission of any person
or persons so contracting with it, or OF any
of Ills OF their employees or agents. But the
said company may, at its option, at all times
when moneys shall become due to any con-
tractor or contractors, for the construction
of any portion of its railroad, or of any per
manent structure or structures upon the line
thereof or connected Herewith retain out
of such moneys sufficient amount to pay
in full any sum or sums then due to any en-
ploye or any of the employees whom 1t shall
elect to pay, of such contractor or contract
ors, for labor performed upon such work, or
TO any person or persons for materials FUR
nished to any such contractor or contractors
to be used in the performance OF his or their
contract or contracts, and may pay the same
to such employee or employees person or per-
sons !. and when so made, such payment shall
be legal discharge TO the amount thereof
OF the Indebtedness of said company to such
contractor or contractors; provided, how
ever, that such payment shall be made with
in ninety days after such money shall be-
come due from said company, and if not so
made, such contractor or contractors shall
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same. No assignment, mortgage or other
act of any such contractor or contractors,
made or done, either before or after such
moneys shall so have become due to him or
them, shall be OF any validity to interfere
with or prevent the retaining and payment
of any such sum or sums of money, or de-
prive such payment of the legal effect here
inabove declared. And no attachment, ex-
ecution, trustee process, garnlShment, in
junction, order, notice or legal proceeding
made, obtained, issued or taken IN behalf of
any party or parties whomsoeyer shall create
u lien upon, or bind, or hinder, or stay the
payment of any moneys due or to become
due from the said company to any person OF
persons, corporation or corporations whom.
soever or whatsoever, for any services rem
dered, labor performed or materials or sup
plies furnished for the construction, mainte
nance or operation of the railroad of said
| company. or for rolling stock sold and de-
| livered. bargained aud sold or agreed to be
constructed and delivered, land damages
assessed, appraised, or agreed to be paid,
| balance or balances due to any connecting
railroad or transportation line for freight or
passage moneys received, or full or part
performance of any job or contract for the
construction of the railroad of said company,
| or any part thereof, or any structure or
structures, or fencing upon the line thereof,
| but all payments on any such account or ac-
counts may be made by said company, at
| its option, free from any legal obstruction or
hindrance, directly TO the party or parties
with whom said company shall have had
! dealings out of which such payments shall
have become due.
Sec. H. Be it further enacted, etc, That
| any careless handling and unnecessary
| throwing of trunks or baggage belonging to
passengers by any employees of said company,
! whereby any damage is done, shall be paid
| by said company, and the employees thus of
| eution and on conviction shall suffer fine
and imprisonment, at the discretion of the
/ court.
| See. Is. Be it further enacted, etc, That
/ the said company, its officers or employees
| shall not incur any liability for the loss or
detention of, or injury to baggage or freight,
| or for injury to the person. or loss of life, oe-
curing upon any railroad or other line of
| transportation not owned or occupied and
| operated by said company, by the sale of
| through tickets for passage; or by the Civ
| ing of through freight receipts for property
| to be transported over the whole or any
| part of its own railroad and connecting
| railroad or railroads or line or lines of trans
/ portation not owned or occupied and oper-
ated by it, unless it shall be so expressly
/ agreed in writing by the said company,
| through its agents expressly authorized by
| the directors of said company to make such
| special agreements, and then only in such
cases and to such extent as shall be in writ
| ing so expressly agreed.
i Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
all State, parish, city, municipal and other
| taxes, of every name and nature; whatso-
| ever, upon the capital stock and property,
| real and personal, of said company, liable to
| taxation in this State, shall be assessed upon
the value ofsuch capital stock and property,
| to be ascertained in the manner prescribed
| by law, only the usual forms Of law, by com,
putting the proportion which the lineal
| length of constructed railroad of said com
pany, lying within snch political division
shall bear to the whole lineal length of con
structed railroad of said company within