The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-05-15

| President.
A true copy:
| r. PROSPER LANDRY, Secretary.
PARISH OF ASCENSION,
| Courthouse, May Is, 1880.
No. ). New Series
AN ORDINANCE to carry into effect Ac
| No. 40 Ut the General Assembly UT 1880
approved March %, 1880.
SEC l. WHEREAS, The General Assem-
BY has enacted the following law, to-wit
No. 49, AN ACT
Ordering aud requiring parish or municipa
corporations i'll the State to receive fo
taxes or licenses due any parish or m,l
ncipal corporation prior to January /
1879, all valid warrants, scrip or cvi
dences Of indebtedness of said parish OF
municipal corporations
SECTION |. Be it enacted by he Genera
assembly Of The State Of Lonistauu, That al
parish or municipal corporations in tiis
State shall receive for all taxes and licenses
due said parish or municipal corporations
prior to January |, 1879. all valid warrants,
scrip or evidences ut indie btettnesss of said
parish or municipal corporations, except
judgments, without any discrimination us
TO what years said warrants, scrip or evil
dences Of Indebtedness shall have been
issued proridcd, that all valid metropolitan
police warrants Or scrip for the years 1874,
1875 and 1876 shall be receivable only for
that portion OF the tax levied for the metro
pclititn police fund and no other, without
any discrimination as to the year in which
said warrants were issued or said taxes
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
~ m pff Il
or municipality. The true intent or mean
ing OF this act being to allow the delinquent
tax payers to pay their Indebtedness vi any
year with any kind of valid obligations
issued or emitted by any such parish or
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
were issued or the debt CON
tracted proridcd however, that no warrant
scrip or other evidence Of indebtedness Of
my parochal or municipal corporation
shall be receivable for any tax or license
unless the snnlc SHALL utter 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
ami found valid, and Endorsed
BY them as such, and it shall be the duty
IF said police juries and municipal authori-
lies throughout the State, to pass on the
validity Of said scrip and other evidences
u Indebtedness immediately upon the pre-
'entation OF the same to them prtpitlet1 no
light to plead prescription shall hereby be
waived; and procided further. that all war
ANTS and certificates condemned by the
,ollce jury or municipal corporation shall
ne so stamped.
Sec. .. BE it further enacted, etc., That
I'll laws or parts ofolaws contrary to the
provisions OF this act are hereby repealed
X. N. OGDEN,
Speaker of the House Of Rcp,es ntatives.
s. D. McENERY,
lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved March 60, 1880.
LOUIS A. WILT,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
true copy:
OSCAR ARROYd.
Assistant Secretary of State
Now, therefore, in order to carry out the
PROVISIONS Of said law.
BE it o'nlnined by The Police Jury of the
Nrish Of dsce,tsio,a, That all warrants,
crip.and other evidences of indebtedness,
except Judgments Of the parish Of Ascen
ion which are made receivable for all |
licenses and taxes due said parish prior to
be lst OF january, 1879, under the provisions |
aid Act No. 40 slall before the same are |
e submitted to a special committee of the |
'olice Jury composed of the folio !. 1neR-
crs: Il. L. Hanson. Ben Gibson r. Klvp-
IAN. Aud it shall be the duty of said |
ommittee to examine said warrants, scrip |
nd evidences of Indebtedness and il the
.rne be found valid aud not prescribed in-
orse them as "valid !" with date and sigma
ares of said commiftee. II the said war
ants, scrip or other evidences of indebted
ess he found invalid or prescribed, after
ncli examination. tlien said committee shall
ldorse them with their signatures ICON
emned, invalid. cor prescribe" as the
sse may be. The said committee shall
eep correct lists ofzall of said warrants.
"trip and certificates OF Indebtedness and
he names OF the persons presenting same.
ne list to contain she valid" ;u,d the
,rtitcatcs OF indebtedness. In order to en-
bic SAID committee to perform the duties
nrein imposed, said committee shall give
nhllc notice OF its sessions ut such time and
ace as sHld comlnitee can speedily and
'nveniently convene
SEC. :. he it further ordained. That the
AK Collector is hersby authorized to re-
i've for MI parish licenses and taxes due
lie parish OF Ascension. prior to January
It. 1879, all sucl, warrants scrip and other
'rt1ticatcs or evidences of indebtedness,
hlch are duly endorsed aud stamped
Talld by said committee as provided for
the preceding section.
SIC. s. he II turtle. ortlti,fed That all Or
nanccs, resolutions or regulations Of the
,ice Jury III conflict herewith be and the
me are hereby repealed.
Adopted by the Police Jury of the parish
Ascension, May 10. 1880.
leas-Dntfrl. Rodriguez. Klopman, Han
II, Braud, Gibson, harmon, Bloun.
Il. L. HANSON,
President.
4 true copy:
X. PROSPER LANDRY. Secretary.