The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-02
OFFICIAL.
LAWS or THE STATE or LOUISIANA
PUBLISHED by AUTHORITY.
REGULAR SESSION. 1875.

| No. AL AN ACT
10 amend and re-onnct an act entitled AN
act granting corporate privileges to tho in
hahitahts OF tho city Of Baton Rouge, In tho
parish OF East Baton Rouge. and To pro.
vide for the government of the affairs
thereof. and to repeal IN act entitled an
act to amend tho several acts relative to
the police and government Of the city of
Baton Rouge, approved April 2, 1889, and
to repeal M act 10 provide for the govern
proved March =, 1856, and to amend and
re-enSg't act No, ia, appS,vrd March Al.
1874, and TO repeal ali actSS, conflict with
@ this act and upon the same subject matter.
Sr' "9 ., OF he " " q g han
ista,a, IN General Assembly conrenrd, That
Rouge within tho following dcscn,ed limits.
| to wit, commencing ut y point OH tho MitS1gis-
sippi River (the property of the United States
! running duo Gust a distance Of forty arpcnts
back In n straight limo perpendicular TO tho
river, thence running due south to tho upper
limo of the boundary Of the property for
McCullen, thence duo west to the Mis-
sissipp River, mand bounded wcste yn,y
tho Mississippi River. shall constitute
the CITY Of Baton Rouge and all tho in
htSitants thereof shall be n body corporate to
bsknown as the city esaton Rouge, and by
that name. they, and their successors. shall
be- known IN law, aud shall be capable of
suing and bent0sued, and Of prescribing and
dof@ldlng In all courts and In all actions and
matters whatever. and Gall have II common
plcasurS and by the samtVn name ting shall be
capahlt~@f hoaing and conveying any estate,
real or personal, for the use OF saN corpora
ton under tho restrictions and limitations
herein set forth and upon the FIRST organLtzn1
he vested with all powers. rights, privileges
and immunttics incident to 4 municipal cor
prraation necessary to the prolSr COY government y
SEC. .. BE IL further enacted, ETC.. That until
shc third Monday in ApNl, 1875, the government
of tkc city of Baton Rouge shall relts ain as Mt
presSnt constituted vested int he officers, the
present incumbents exercising their powers
by virtue of act No. ILL., approved March 3ist,
1874, of the General Assembly of the State OF
Louisiana at the session Of the year 1874
That FROM and after the third Monday in
April, 1878. and until the third Mo@ay in
April, 1879, the government of the said city
and the administration Of its affairs shall be
vested in a Mayor, two administrators, to
rection and six counciimeS, et9o Of whom, to-
gether with the snid administrators are at
present incumbents and exercising their func-
tions by virtue OF the aforesaid act No. la,
approved March 81, 1874. That on the first
ton for Mayor and Administrator oOlm-
provements and Commerce., and two
councilmen for O each ward, and
every two years thereafter. Tha0 on the
first Monday in April, 1879, there shall be- an
for an Administrator OF Police and Correction
and two counclmen for each ward, and every
two years thereafter; said Mayor and Ad-
illustrators, when elected, shall be elected at
large and the cc%ncilmen by their respective
wards by the qualified voters pf the city Of