The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-06-12
PARISH OF ASCENSION, !
Courthouse, MAY Is, 1880.

Courthouse, May Is, 1880. 5
No. ). New Serics.l
AN ORDINANCE to carry into effect Act
No. is OF the General Assembly of 1880,
approved March 20, 1880.
SEC. L. WHEREAS, The General Assem-
bly, has enacted the following law, towit:
No 4o] AN ACT VIZ
Ordering and requiring parish or municipal
corporations i'll the State to receive FOR
taxes or licenses due any parish or mu-
nicipal corporation prior to January |,
1879, all valid warrants, scrip or evil
tlences Of Indebtedness of said parish or
&iunicipal corporations
SECTION !. BE it enacted by the General
assembly IF the State If Louisiana, That ali
parish or municipal corporations III this
State shall receive for I'LL taxes and licenses
due said parish or municipal corporations
prior to January !, 1879, all valid warrants.
scrip or evidences Of Indebtedness OF said
parish OF municipal corporations, except
judgments without any discrimination as
to What years said warrants, scrip or evil
lences Of Indebtedness shall have been
issued prOcidcd, that all valid metropolitan
police warrants or scrip for the ye;lls 1874,
1873 and 1876 shall be receivable only for
that portion OF the tax levied for the metro
politan police fund and no other, without
any discrimination as to the year in which
Sdll warrants were lSSuCu OI=StLu NdAeS
levied and that all school certificates
issued, according to law, by any school
board shall be receivable for any taxes due
any parish or municipality only for that
portion of the school tax due to said parish
or municipality. The true intent or mean
ing Of this act being to allow the delinquent
tax payers to pay their Indebtedness OF any
year with any kind of valid obligations
issued emitted by any such parish or
municipal corporation i'll this State. with
the restrictions above provided. without
any discrimination as to the year in which
said warrants scrip or other evidences OF
Indebtedness We're issued or the debt con
tracted prorided however, that no warrant,
scrip OF other evidence of indebtedness of
any parochial or municipal corporation
shall be receivable for any tax or license
unless the same shall, after the passage of
this act, have first been examined, by the
police jury Of the parish or the municipal
authority of the town or city owing the
Indebtedness, and found valid, and indorsed
by them as such and it shall be the duty
OF said police jures and municipal authori-
ties throughout the State, to pass on the
validity Of said scrip and other evidences
of Indebtedness Immediately upon the pre-
seutation of the same to them !; paorided, no
right to plead prescription shall hereby be
waived and proridcd further. that all war
rants and certificates condemned by the
police jury or municipal corporation shall
be so stamped.
SEC. ,. BE it further enacted, ETC., That
all laws or parts of laws contrary to the
provisions Of this act are hereby repealed.
r. n. OGDEN,
Speaker OF the House Of Rep1esy natives
s. D. McENERY,
Lieutenant Governor and President Of the
Senate.
Approved March %, 1880
LOUIS A. WILTZ,
Governor OF the State OF Louisiana.
true copy:
OSCAR ARROYO.
Assistant Secretary of State.
SEC. 3. Belt further ordained, That all Or
dinances, resolutions or regulations of the
Police Jury i'll conflict herewith be and the
same are hereby repealed
Adopted by the Police Jury of the parish
of Ascension, May 10, 1890.
leas-Dutfel, Rodriguez. klopman, Han
son, Braud, Gibson, harmon, Blouin.
r. I. HANSON,
President.
A true copy:
K. PROSPER LANDRY. Secretary