The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-06-05

plication OF the owner of the land he shall
have obtained tile consent of the Police Jul
| ~ where the 1evee may be located, 60 per-
init him to make and use silid fillne or pip
ing.
i SEC. 6. Be 1t further. enacted, etc., That in
addition to the conditions prescribed in the
preceding section, the purity applying for
4 permission to cut the levee and insert there
IN hulnes or piping. shall pay previously,
into the parish treasury, an annual license
on each and every tlume OF piping used for
the cultivation of q crop, a sum not to OK
coed the rate Of two dollars and fifty cents
for every perpendicular foot of levee cut,
counting from the bottom of the ditch or
fiume to the crown Of the levee; and this
liccnse shall equally apply to rice fumes
already i'll use at the passage of this act
and the same shall be due and payable be-
tween the first day Of May and first day Of
October, annually; and should any person
fail 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. Z. Re 1t further enacted, etc, That
this annual license shall bear rs a 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 appraiselnent at times and places
usual III Sheriff sales, at any time after the
first OF May, annually; and no person owing
this license shall be considered as released
from the payment thereof by reason of for
feiture OF same, as provided in section 6.
SEC. 8. BE 1t further enacted, etc., That
any person who shall cut any levee, in this
State. made andkept up under the authority
OF the State or parish or levcc district,
in violation OF the provisions OF this act, for
the purpose OF placing therein fumes for
the culture OF rice or other purposes, shall
be deemed guilty Of crime against the
State, and on conviction thereof, before any
court of compe tent jurisdiction, shall be
punished by imprisonment, with or without
hard labor for Il term not to exceed twelve
months and not less than one month, and
fined i'll IL sum not to exceed five hundred
dollars; and it shall be the duty Of the levee
orerseer, inspector, president and members
of the Police Jury, and all other parocllial
officers, to give information to the proper
authorities Of the violation of this act.
SEC. 9. BE 1t further enacted, etc, That all
money paid into the parish treasury for
licenses for rice fumes, and for fines arising
from convictions, as provided i'll the preced-
ing section, shall be set aside and used ex-
clusively i'll taking out old and abandoned
fumes and restoring the original condition
OF the leyee, and for expenses OF supcrin-
tendence and administration.
SEC. 10. BE 1t further enacted, etc., That
in any parish, where there may be rice
fumes, the Board Of State Engineers is here
by authorized to appoint a competent per-
son to be levee inspector for said parish,
whose duty it shall lie to inspect the condi-
ton OF all rice fumes and other cuts i'll the
levee, as we'll as the general condition Of the
leyee itself, and to report same to said board
| lie shall also superlntenu the construction
of all new rice fumes and other cuts to be
made in any levee. and see that the work is
executed according to the plans, speci1ica-
Il
Board of State Engineers. For all such
services said inspector shall receive, as Il
compensation, one-half Of all sums annually
collected from fume licenses, payable On
the certificate OF the Chief State Engineer,
that faithful services have been rendered.
SEC. IL. BE 1t further enacted, etc., That
| nothing III this act shall be SO construed as
to give any individual !. proprietary right
i'll any public levee Of the State, by the act
| Of his paying q license for any privilege
herein granted and if the Board of Engi-
neers or Police jury. at any time. should
condemn as unsafe any such opening in the
levee, the license for the same shall be re-
voked on the return to the party of the full
amount OF the license which may have been
paid for such privilege, and said authorities
! may, at any time, when any ftume shall be-
come unsafe from decay of material or other
cause, require the person using it to have
! same taken up and replaced in Il secure and
|
| quie all parties to drain OF from the foot
Of the levee, on the land side, the water that
may accumulate there flowing from the
| fumes that they may use; and should any
danger arise from neglect of this provision,
it shall work u forfeiture Of their license.
SEC. IL. BE it further enacted, etc., That
it shall be lawful for any person in this
State, desiring to cut any public levee made
and kept up by the State, parish, special or
general leNcc district authority, for the pur-
| pose OF using the same lis a roadway for
travel or hauling or for the purpose OF plac-
ing therein iron piping for the use of ma
chiuery; proriacd, that he shall have OBJ
tanned from the Police Jury OF the parish
where said leyce may be situated permission
to make said work: and have depositctin the
! p;lriShtreasury sufficient amount of money
to refill said cut, the said amount of deposit
to he asccrtained ut the rate Of twenty-five
cents per cubic yard of reflling to be made,
all OF which work shall be done under the
supervision OF the overseer of the levee
ward Or OF inspector of levees appointed bv
| the Board OF STATE Engineers, as provided
i'll section 10.
SEC. %. Be it further enacted etc., That
any person violating the provisions OF tile
preceding section by cutting any levee kept
mp ny pubic authority. us therein provided,
1 without previously complying with the pro-
visions OF this act, shall be prosecuted be-
fore any court OF competent jurisdiction,
and on conviction shall be sentenced to i'm
| prlson;nent IN the parish Jail for u term not
to exceed six months, and fined in a sum
not to exceed two hundred dollars
| SEC. Ia. Be 1t further enacted, ETC., That
any regulations not specially designated in
this act which may be necessary to carry
out fully the provisions of the same, shall
be made by the several Police Juries, acting
together with the BoaEd of State Engineers
Whenever a safe plan Of flushing rice fields
may be adopted, by the use of syphons or
otherwise, and the same be approved and
recommended by the Board OF State Engi-1
neers, it shall be the duty of the Police ju-
ries to give public notice to that effect prior
to the first day OF October OF any year, and
after that license shall issue QUIZ for said
new plan, and provisions shall be made to
take out the old structure and refill with
earth such open space. according to Girea-
tons which may be furnished by the Board
OF State Engineers
SEC. ID. Be it further enacted, etc., That,
whenever there may be danger of IL crevasse
IN public levee, or when one may already
exist requiring prompt assistance ON the
part OF the State authorities for the proven
ton or closing of the same it shall be law
Jul for the Governor to direct the Chief State
Engineer to proceed with said work. by the |
purchase of material and the employment
OF labor, without the torlnality and delay of !
contracting for the same in the usual man
ncr prescribed for the awarding of contracts. |
ana Tor the payment of the expenses thus /
incurred the Auditor of Publc Accounts I
shall draw his warrant upon the Treasurer. |
upon presentation to him Of an account of |
snch expenses, approved by the Governor
ana engineer III charge, which warrant shall
be payable out of the district fund of the
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