The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-06

the management Of the business affairs and
enterprises OF corporations
Sec. B. Be il further enacted etc, That the
Louisiana Land Reclamation Company Is
hereby authorized to enter upon certain lands
belonging to the State Of Louisiana, and in
the parishes of Saint Mary and Terrebonne,
lying and being north Of township line mum
Der nineteen 49,, range east, to the Missls-
eippi River bounded by the Bayous Atchafa-
laya on the west the Bayous Buauf and Black
on the north, the Bayou De Large on the
east being in the townships number sixteen
uG), seventeen an and eighteen nsl, ranges
thirteen n3, fourteen (lA. fifteen il5l sixteen
lG) and seventeen 10, in the southeastern
district of Louisiana, west OF the Mississippi
River; and to open and construct MAINTAIN,
regulate and navigate canals. leveeS. dykes
and other works for The protection and recla-
nation of said lands from tidal overtlows;
and all of said lands within said limits, now
belonging to the State Of Louisiana, OF COM
ing hereafter into Its possession and control,
are hereby appropriated and granted to the
aforesaid company upon the stipulation aud
conditions expressed in this act.
SEQ. 4. BE Z further enacted, etc. That when
ever within three (3) years from the passage
Of this act the aforesaid company shall have
constructed levees, dykes and canals 50 as to
prevent the ordinary tidal overflow from Gov
ering with water any portion or portions OF
said lands, amounting in the aggregate to ten
thousand 100000 acres of lands now subject to
tidal overflow, and evidence Of three repua-
bic witnesses Of the same being accomplished
shall be furnished TO the Governor of this
State the patents shall be issued to the afore-
said company by the proper authorities OF the
claimed and protected, and for all the lands
now belonging or [shall hereafter belong to
the State, and mentioned. appropriated and
granted in the third t3d) section of this
as may be demanded by the said Louis
lana Land Reclamation Company, and the
Register of the Land Office is hereby
authorized and ordered to issue the patents,
az aforesaid; and the Register Of the Land
Office of this State is hereby ordered to with
draw from sale TO or entry BY any other party
or parties. for the period Of three years from
the passage of this act, all the lands mem
toned in section three (3) Of this act: and If
the right TO said lands shall be duly acquired
by the said Louisiana Land Reclamation
Company in accordance with this act. within
the said three years, the issue of the patents
for all or any Of said lands shall be held
thenceforward subject to the demands of said
company; provided, that il at any time after
the titles to these lands have been vested in
the company, it should appear that patents
have issued upon false representation to the
Governor. then. 50 much of said lands as have
not been reclaimed under the provisions Of
this act shall revert to the State
Sec. 8. BE ii further enacted, etc, That the
aforesaid company be and is hereby author
lied to apply all the conditions Of article five
t5) OF the section two 2 OF this act to the lands
appropriated and granted TO them in this act,
as mentioned in section three 81 Of this aet
pfortded. that the said company shall have
reclaimed and protected from usual tidal over
flow the aforementioned quantity of ten thou
sand 100000 acres of land within three 90
years from the passage of this act otherwise
the grants, appropriations, donations and all
the rights and privileges granted to them in
this act shall be and become null and void.
SEC 8. BE it further enacted, That the COM
pany hereby created shall have no right to
dispose of the franchises hereby created until
the redemption of the land herein referred to.
and this charter shall be always subject to
the exercise Of the right of eminent domain.
SEC 7. Be II further enacted, That all laws
and parts of laws conflicting with this act be
and the same are hereby repealed and that
this act take effect from and after Its passage.
(Signed) LOUIS BUSH.
Speaker of the House of Representatives
(Signed) LOUIS A. WILTZ,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
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