The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-11

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for rice fumes, roads and machinery, and
| to provide means for the payment Of the
| expenses attending this work, and TO pro-
| vide penalties and punlshments for the
| for violations Of pareehiai ordinances
| made In conformity with this act.
SECTION /. Be 1t enacted By The General As
| senbtu OF the State Of Louisiana, That the
police iuries of the several paris ICES OF this
State are hereby invested with the manage
| ment and control OF all completed public
levees of this State, which may require public
care for protaction and preservation, and
they are hereby authorized and required TO
| make such laws as may be necessary and
proper for their repair, preservation and pro-
| lection, and to regulate the manner In which
| the same may be cut for rice fumes or other
purposes.
EEg. a. Be IL further enacted etc, That police
juries shall divide their respective parishes
| into levse wards or districts. and appoint
overseers therefor, and until such time, when
said division can be made, the road wards as
at present laid out shall constitute levee
wards, and the road overseers shall act as levee
| overseers. That 1t ehall be the duty OF the
| said levee overseers, on the approach OF high
water In each year. TO cause all openings and
cuts In the levees TO be repaired and filled up,
at the expense OF those persons who may
have made same, and In default Of payment
| from said parties to be paid by the parish |;
! and to have filled up and repaired, all cuts,
holes, and washings In the levee, ct the expense
| Of the parish; and 1t shall also be his duty to
kill all hogs running at large upon public
leveeS.
SEQ Q. Be IL further enacted. etc, That, In
case OF danger of erevasse In any ward, the
overseer Of said ward shall call out all per-
SONS liable to road duty. 10 work when re-
uufed on the levees of their wards: that any
person subject to road duty who shall fall to
work on any public levee, as provided In the
preceding seetion, or under any regulation of
any police jury of this State shall he prose-
euted before any court OF competent jurisdic-
ton, and, on conviction, shall be lined two
dollars per day for every day that he may
have failed so TO work, and In default of pay
ment OF said fine, shall be imprisoned In the
parish Jail not to exceed ten days; provided
that no person shall be required TO labor more
than twelve days In any one season
SEU 4. Be it further enacted ETC., That the
overseer of levees of the ward where there
may be danger of break In the levee shall
have the right to call on the overseets Of any
adjoining wards for assistance: and it shall
be the duty of these overseers to notify those
persons subject TO road duty living within
these wards, to proceed to the designated
point to work as provided In section 3 of this
act. That all persons who may work on
levees, In accordance with the provisions OF
sutton Uf this act shall receive frnm the
parish the sum of one dollar per day for
every day he may work, and one dollar for
every night; and the levee overseer shall be
entitled likewise to two dollars per day.
SEQ. D. he % TtHbHeT eftuGteu. ETC., InhE Gn9
Board of State Engineers shall, Immediately
after the passage of this act, cause to be pre-
pared plans for rice fumes, suitable to differ
ent dimensions OF leveee, accompanied by
proper specifications for their construction,
and the same shall be ready, at any time, to
be furnished when required, as hereinafter
provided; and no Humes ehall be permitted
TO be built except In conformity with said
plans and specifications nor shall any person
be permitted to insert In any public levee
has Emf m EiU
trict or parish, any fumes or piping TO be
used Tor flushing rice fields or other pur-
poses, unless upon written application of the
owner OF the land he shall have obtained the
consent OF the police jury where the levee may
be located, to permit him TO make and use
said tlume or piping.
SEe g. Be q further enacted, etc, That In
addition to the conditions prescribed La the
preceding section, the party applying for per-
mission to cut the ievee and insert therein
fumes or piping, shall pay previously, into
the parish treasury, an annual license on each
and every hume or piping used for the culti-
vation OF crop, q sum not to exceed the rate
OF two dollars and fifty cents for every per-
pendicular foot Of levee cut, counting from
The bottom OF the ditch or hume to the crown
Of the levee; and this license shall equally
apply to rice fumes already In use at the
passage OF this act, and the same shall be due
and payable between the first day OF May and
the first day Of October. annually; and should
any person fall to pay said license by that
latter date, he shall forfeit his right to the
said hume, and the same shall be closed at
his expense.
SEC. I. Be it further enacted. etc, That this
| annual license shall bear as q first lien and
privilege upon the crops OF the year raised
upon the plantation to be benefited, and shall
be collected by the tax collector, Without any
judicial proceeding or process whatsoever,
by seizure OF property OF the person owing
said license, and shall be sold, Without APP
praisement, at times and places usual In
sheriff Sales at any time aztec the first OF
May. annually; and no person owing this
license shall be considered as released from
the payment thereof by reason of forfeiture
OF same as provided In section 6.
SEC. 8. Be 10 further enacted, etc. That
any person who shall cut any levee, In this
State, made and kept up under the authority
Of the State or any parrish or levee district, Ia
violation OF the provisions Of this act, for the
purpose Of placing therein fumes for the Gull
ture OF rice or other purposes, shall be deemed
guilty OF q crime against the State, and on con-
viction thereof, before any court OF competent
jurisdiction, shall be punished by imprison-
ment, with or without hard labor, for q term
not to exceed twelve months and not less
than one month, and fined In sum not to
exceed five hundred dollars; and 1t shalt be
the duty of the levee overseer, inspector,
president and members OF the police jury,
and all other parochal officers, to give In
formation to the proper authorities OF the
violations OF this act
money paid into the parish treasury for
licenses for rice fumes, and for fines aris-
ing from convictions, as provided In the pre-
ceding section, shall be set aside aud used
exclusively In taking out old and abandoned
fumes and restoring the original condition
Of the levee, and for expenses OF superintend-
ence and administration.
SEC. 10. Be IL further enacted, ETC., That
In any parish, where there may be- rice humes,
the Board of State Engineers is hereby au-
thorized to appoint o competent person to be
levee inspector for said parish. whose duty 1t
shall be to inspect the condition of all rice
fumes and other cuts In the levee, as we'll as
the general condition OF the levee Itself, and
to report same to said board. He shall also
superintend the construction OF all new rice
fumes, and other cuts, to made In any levee,
and see that the work Is executed according
to the plans, specifications and directions fur
nished to him by the Board OF State Engi-
neers. For all such services said inspector
shall receive, as a compensation, one-half OF
ali sums annually collected from fiume IL
censes, payable on the certificate OF the Chief
State Engineer, that faithful services have
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