The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-03-06
LAWS OF 1880.

The following Legislative enact
ments have received the Governors
signature since our last report:
No. IL. "An act to provide for
the payment Of the salaries Or the
Clerks Of the city courts Of the city Of
New Orleans, and their deputies and
assistants.7
No. 10. 6 An act to amend and re-
enact section 692 Of the Revised Stat
utes.D Authorizing railroad com
panies to issue and negotiate bonds
secured by mortgage upon the com
pany's property, the provisions Of the
act to extend to all bonds issued since
October l, 1879.
No. ia. IAN act to amend and re-
enact article 2N Of the Code Of Prac-
tice..n The amended section reads as
follows:
A creditor may have his debtor arres-
ted when such debtor is about leaving
the State, at the very moment Of institu-
ting his action, while it is pending, ~
every stage of the prosecution, and even
after appeal. And in all cases where at
tachments, arrests, representation and
provisional seizures are demandable, the
plaintiff, his agent or attorney having
made affidavit and given bond in con
for1nity to law, and having filed the
same in court, and obtained the order Of
the Judge for the issuance Of the writ, it
shall lie the duty Of the Clerk to issue
forthwith the same without any petition
being then presented; but the usual petit
ton shall be filed on the day succeeding
that on which the said process shall
have issued except i'll cases where q
Sunday or legal holiday shall be the
succeeding day; then on the day next
succeeding such day Of public rest; and
the Sheriff shall proceed Immediately to
execute said process according to law.
No. Is. IAN act to further regulate
the trial Of appeals il the Supreme
Court Of the State Of Louisiana" This
act provides that
All cases for divorce or separation
from bed and board, all cases for the re-
cOvery Of wages, salary Or compensation
for personal and professional services,
shall be tried on the summary docket Of
the Supreme Court, and be called and
tried az other summary cases.
No. is. IAN act establishing the
term Of office Of Judges Of the Courts
Of Appeal after the expiration Of the
term Of Office fixed by the constitn-
ton" This act supplies an omission
il the new constitution to which ref
erance was made by the CHIEF sew
eral weeks ago. The term Of service
is fixed at eight years.
No. II. "An act to amend and re-
enact article PAS Of The Code Of Prac-
tice." The amended article reads as
follows:
A creditor, his agent or attorney in
fact, praying such attachment, must,
besides, annex to his petition his obliga-
ton III favor Of the Clerk of the court be
fore which the writ issues, for sum
equal to that which he claims, with the
surety Of one good and solvent person,
residing within the jurisdiction Of the
court to which the petition is presented,
as security for the payment Of such dam
ages as the defendant may recover
against him in case it should be decided
that the attachment was wrongfully OBJ
tanned.
No. Is. can act to amend aud re-
enact act No Is Of the General As
sembly Of 1877, passed at it's extra
session." Section | Of the new act
provides
That the receiving or delivery in the
night time, Or between sunset and sun
rise, Of any nnginned Or seed cotton, or
cotton in the lint, unbaled, and other
farm products sold, exchanged, bar
gained for, bartered, or in any other
same is hereby constituted . misde,nean-
or. And prorided further, that the pas
sage Of this act shall not operate as bar
to the prosecution or punishment Of any
offense against said act No. 18, commit
ted prior to the promulgation Of this act
Section 2 reads thus:
That whoever shall i'll the night time.
or between sunset or sunrise, deliver or
receive any unginned or seed cotton, or
lint cotton, unbaled, and other farm
products, which has been sold, ex-
changed, bargained for, bartered or il
any other manner disposed Of, shall, Oh
conviction, be punished by fine or i'm
prisonment Or both, at the discretion Of
the court; provided, this act shall not
affect the right OF any proprietor or
owner Of any plantation or premises to
deliver to and receive from the laborers
thereon, seed or lint cotton and other
farm products, between sunset or sun
rise. Or marketmen and market gar
deners, regularly engaged in their re-
spective vocatiOns, to receive and deliv-
er farm, orchard and garden produce,
nor the customers who deal with them
III the same.
No. 10. Concurrent resolution
asking for an appropriation BY Con-
gress for the purpose Of dredging aud
removing instructions to navigation
from the mouth of the Calcasien river
where it empties into the Gulf Of
Mexico, in the parish Of Cameron, to
Phillips Bluff, on the Calcasieu river,
in Calcasieu parish, State Of Lonisi-
ana, and the mouth Of the Mermen-
teau river"
No. 20. can act to prevent the
aduiteration Of articles used as food !;
to prevent sale Of unwholesome and
tainted provisions, the slaughtering
Of cattle, etc, for food when in an
unhealthy condition, and to prevent
the landing Of diseased animals within
certain prescribed limits" The title
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