The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-04-06

StS thS PARISH VI NsllSttuS eNCeDS-
ed, are hereby limited and fixed at fiji
ty per centum of the fees and costs as
are now paid by existing law, and the
parochial authorities are hereby prohib-
tied from increasing the fees and costs
in criminal proceedings as now fixed by
law.
SEC. 3. BE il ,fiuTher enacted, etc.,
That this act shall in no manner affect
the right of these officers to charge and
collect all fees as now fixed by existing
laws, from defendants in all criminal
proceedings and trials where the de-
PENDANTS are decreed to pay the same
under judgment or sentence of the court.
nor shall this act affect the right of the
sheriffs to charge and collect, from
their respective parishes, the fees and
expenses as now fixed by law for carry
ing prisoners to the Penitentiary; nor
for executing prisoners condemned to
capital punishment, nor for finding and
maintaining prisoners in the parish
jaiis and costs and actual expenses in
CURED i'll pursuing and arresting crim-
inals.
SEC. t. BE it .tt'yIher enacted, etc.,
That in preliminary criminal trials for
commitment witnesses shall not be al
lowed any fees, per diem or mileage :;
that no witness fees shall be allowed for
attendance before Grand Juries, and in
no criminal trial or proceedings shall
witnesses living within five miles of
the courthouse or place where the court
is held be entitled to fees Of mileage
and per diem.
SEC. .. BE il fiHIhcy' enacted, etc.
Fhatall officers making charges for fees
and costs against the parish shall still
DC required to prcsentspcciic and item
lied accounts duly approved under
existing laws.
SEC. 6. BE it further enacted, etc.,
That this act shall take effect from and
after its passage, and that all laws in
conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
(SigneU LOUIS BUSH,
Speaker Of the House of Repre-
sentatives.
(Signed) LOUIS A. WILTZ,
Lieutenant Governor and President of
the Senate.
Approved March 2l, 1877.
(SjgneD FRANCIS II. NICHOLS,
a true copy:
WILL A. STRONG,
Secretary ofState.
No. 80. AN ACT
To limit the appropriations and eXpen-
corporations; to prohibit the issue
of warrants by their officers: to per-
NIT police juries to make certain
contracts, and prescribing certain
penalties.
SECTION l. Be IL enacted b.p tie Sen
ate 0'.d House Of Representatives, Of The
State Of Louisiana, IN General assembly
conre,1ed, That no police jury of any
parish, nor any municipal corporation
in this State, shall make any appropri-
alton Of money for any year which APP
preparation separately,or together with
any other appropriation or appropriate
tons ofthc same year, shall be in ex-
cess of the actual revenue of said parish
pr municipal corporation for that year.
SEC. =. BE il FURTHER c7aucteti, etc.,
That no police jury o; any parish nor
municipal corporation in this State
shalt approve amy claim or make any
expenditure which, shall separately, or
together with other claims approved or
expenditures made, be in excess Of the
actual revenues of that year.
SEC. ). BE it .fi12i,c,. ciauciet1. etc.,
That the revenues of the several parish
Is and municipal corporations Of this
State, Of each year, shall be devoted to
the expenditures of that year; ;,yOridcH,
that any surplus of said revenues may
be applied to the payment of the in
of former years.
SEC. 4. Re II ft2Ihs2. enacted, etc.,
That the police jurics Of the several par
isheS in this State may and are
hereby authorized and empowered to
contract for fixed and determined sums
of money with those officers who re-
ceiNe in compensation for services un-
der existing laws, fees, commissions or
mileage from said parishes; p,'orit,cd,
the compensation allowed shall not OK
coed fifty per ccntum of the fees allow
ed by the laws OF the State.
SEC. >. BE it .jinflc,' t3t,cteI, etc.,
That no (eVidcnce of indebtedness orr
warrant for the payment Of money
shall, after the first day of October,
eighteen hundred and scvcnty-sevcn, be
issued by any officer Of any parish or
municipal corporation in this State, ex-
ccpt against money actually in the trea-
5urN of said parish or municipal corpor-
alton. Any person violating the pro-
visions Of this section shall, on convic-
ton, be punished by imprisonment or
fine, or both, ut the discretion of the
court; l1TOriTe1, that this section shall
not apply to the certificates issued to
jurors and witnesses for their services