New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-26

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of not less than five hundred dollars and by
imprisonment for not less than thirty days
or beth, at the discretion. of tho court, and
in addition thereto such official shall be
liable in Q civil suit for damages to the
Board of Metropolitan Police, or to any
person or persons interested in any loan OF
loans negotiated or made as hereinbefOre
provided who shall suffer damage thereby.
SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, etc., That
Orleans, or by any city or parish of the
Metropolitan Police District, for police
purposes for the year 1875, shall be paid by
such city or parish to the treasurer of the
Board of Metropolitan Police, and to no
other person.
SEC 10. Be it further enacted, etc., That
the treasurer OF the Board of Metropolitan
Police shall deposit all funds received by
him for or on account of the Board of
Metropolitan Police daily in some chartered
bank, to be designated by the Board Of
Metropolitan Police. Such bank shall keep
an account with the Board of Metropolitan
Police, and all moneys deposited by the
treasurer shall be placed to the credit of
such account.
Sec. IL. Be it further enacted, etc., That
the Administrator Of Finance of the city of
NoW OIloduo, anu tHo CIoaSuI0r Oh o8cn
city or parish Of the metropolitan Police
District, shall ON or before l2 NJ, ON the
Saturday of each week, pay over to the
treasurer of the Board of Metropolitan
Police all sums collected by him during
that week. for or on account of the tax
levied for police purposes, and nothing in
section one of this act shall be 80 construed
as to conflict with the provisions of this
section.
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az compensation for the services Of the
metropolitan Police to the State of Louis
lana the sum of one hundred and thirty-fv
Thousand dollars be and the same is hereby
appropriated, out of any money in the State
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the
Metropolitan Police Board, to be used for
the purpose of paying the pay rolls and
expenses of the said Metropolitan Police
force. now due and unpaid for the months
Of October, November and December, 1874.
Sec. Ii Be 1t further enacted, etc., That
Immediately upon the passage of this act
the Auditor of Public Accounts shall, upon
the order of the president and treasurer Of
the Metropolitan Police Board, issue war
rants for the amount of said appropriation
upon the Treasurer of the State, In such
sums as the Board of Metropolitan Police
direct, and the receipt of said president and
treasurer of the Metropolitan Police Board
warrants shall be thereupon paid, after
being by said president and treasurer in
dorsed, to the members of the police force
for the unpaid salaries and bills for the
months Of October, November and Decem-
Der, 1874.
SEC. IA. Be it further enacted, etc., That
the officers and members of the MetrOpOli-
tan Police force detailed permanently with
the Board of Health, as provided for by act
w IA Of ho Avtv 0onsS0v Of 0270 M
March 16, 1870, shall be paid by the city of I
New Orleans in the same manner as the
sanitary inspectors of the Board of Health
are paid, and that the officers and members
of the Metropolitan Police force detailed to
each of the municipal police courts, in &C.
cordance with the provisions of act No. IS,
approved May II, 1873. shall be paid by the
city of New Orleans in the same manner as !
the salaries of the judges and clerks of said
eourts are paid.
SEC. Is. Be it further enacted, etc., That
the salaries Of the members and officers of
the police force shall be the same as are
now prescribed by law, except as herein
otherwise provided.
Sec. l6. Be it further enacted. etc, That
so much of section four of act No. 80 of the
session OF 1874, approved February &C. 1874,
as relates to the election and power and
duties of fiscal agent of the Board of
Metropolitan Police, be and the same is
hereby repealed. The treasurer of the
Board of Metropolitan Police shall be the
fiscal agent of the board.
Sec IL. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
the attorney OF the Board of Metropolitan
Police shall receive salary of three thou
sand dollars per annum, payable quarterly
upon his own warrant By the treasurer Of
the Board of Metropolitan Police, out of
auy moneys in the treasury of said board.
SEC. IS. Be it further enacted. etc., That
all that remainder Of the tax levied by the
city OF New Orleans and each other city and
parish of the Metropolitan District for
police purposes, that shall remain deiin-
quent and unpaid after the len of the
fiscal agent of said board for that year on
the same for loans made, shall have been
satisfied and discharged, shall be paid by
the said cities and parishes to the State
treasury, to reimburse the advance made
by the State to the Board of Metropolitan
Police by this act
SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, etc., That
all laws or part Of laws contrary to or in
conflict with this act, be and the same are
hereby repealed, and that this act shall
take effect from and after its passage.
(Signed) MICHAEL HAHN,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
lSigned) G. C. ANTOINE,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved March "a, 1875.
(Signed) WILLIAM p. KELLOGG,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
"A true copy:
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