New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-02
AN ACT

Providing for the payment of the sheriff OF
person appointed to take charge of per
sons arrested in other States or Tern
tories who are charged with committing
crimes in this State, and for which the
Governor has made requisition.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
| of Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
That whenever demand has been made
| BY the executive of this State on the execu-
| tive of any other State or Territory for the
| arrest of any person as fugitive from JUS
| tice for crime committed in this State, &C.
| cording to the authority vested in the ex.
| ecutive of the States by the constitution
| and laws Of the United States, it shall be
the duty of the sheriff of the parish in
which the crime is charged to have been
committed to present such demand to the
executive of the State or Territory on whom
| it may be made, or the executive of this
State may appoint some suitable person to
present such demand, and when the execu
tive of such State or Territory, on which
such demand has been made, shall have
caused such fugitive from Justice to be ar
rested and secured, said sheriff or such per-
son appointed by the executive of this State
to receive such fugitive from justice shall
four walls Of the jail of the parish in which
he is charged to have committed the offense.
to the sheriff of such parish unless it be the
sheriff himself who receives the prisoner,
who shall keep him confined in Jail until
delivered according to law. That all the
actual expenses incurred by the sheriff or
other person appointed by the executive to
receive and convey fugitive from justice
as provided by law and this act, together
with five dollars per day for all necessary
time employed in such service, shall be paid
by the parish in which the ofense is charged
to have been committed; that no part of
said expenses and per diem shall be
paid unless such fugitive is actually
received and conveyed to and con-
fined in the Jail of the parish in
which the crime is charged to have been
committee, or unless such fugitive has been
discharged OF admitted to bail by some COM
vided further, an explicit bill Of each item
Of such expenses, with the receipt thereof,
if receipt can be obtained, includ-
ing the fees and charges of making
the arrest in the State to which such fugi-
tive had fed, must be made out, together
with the number of days such sheriff or
party has been actually employed in such
service, which shall be sworn to as being
correct in every item; which bill shall be
and after having the same carefully exam
ined, and they shall find the same correct,
they shall allow the same and provide for
it's payment; but if they should fail or re-
fuse to allow such amount, then the claim
ant shall have the right to sue the parish
therefor, and the case may, if demanded
by either party, be tried by q jury.
Sec. 3 Be it further enacted, etc., That
in all cases in which the district attorny or
district attorney pro temp0re shall have
reason to believe that q person charged with
q crime committed in their district or par
ish, and has fed into any other State or
Territory, it shall be his duty to obtain a
from the Governor of this State
for his apprehension and delivery on the |
Governor Of any other State or Territory to
which such criminal may have fed, and to |
deliver such requisition to the sheriff, who |
shall proceed to cause the same to be exc
cuted according to law; any failure or re-
fusal of the sheriff to comply with the re-
luirements of this section shall be considered |
. contempt of the court, and shall upon be- |
ing brought to the attention of the court BY |
any person, subject such sheriff to be pun
shed as for q contempt of court
(Sgned) CHARLES w. LOWELL,
Speaker Of the House of Representative |
(Signed) C. C. ANTOINE,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the |
Approved March %, 1874.
(Signed) WILLIAM P. KELLOGG,
Governor Of the State OF Louisiana.
A true copy:
p. G. DEsLoNDB,
Secretary of State.