The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-08-23

That said Board OF Commissioners shall
have authority to levy annually 2 local a.,
sessment or forced contribution Of two and
a half cents on each and every acre OF land
witkln said district and sixty dollars per
mile of railroad lines within said district,
which shall be placed upon the assessment
, ~rollssof the respective parishes and parts OF
parishes Of said district and shall be collect
ed in the same name and paid into the
State Treasury as hsreinbefore provided Tor
the district levee tax of ten mills; and SAID
funds shall be put by the Treasurer to the
credit of said Atchafalaya Basin Ls.vee DIS
trict and shall be paid out as hereinabove
provided and provided that said assessment
aor forced contribution shall not be levied on
lands not %alluvial: That nothing in this act
contained shall deprive this district OF ITS
share Of the General Engineers Fund, and
that all taxes hereafter collected upon the
rolls of the fourth levee district as now e1
listing, shall be transferred to the credit OF
the Atchafalaya Basin Levee District, and
that all outstanding warrants against the
Fourth Levee District Funds shall be paid
from the funds of the Atchafalaya Basin
Leyee District.
SECTION 10. Be it further enacted. etc.
That in case said board shall deem the funds
heretofore provided for in this act made
quate to locate, construct and repair ievees
SO as to prevent disastrous floods, the said
board shall have authority to levy a special
assessment or forced contribution, not to ex-
coed twenty five cents per bale OF cotton,
twenty five cents per 900 lbs of sugar seven
and one-half cents per barrel of molasses,
one and one-quarter cents per sack OF rough
rice, and enc and one quarter cents on q
barrel of es .uients produced in said district
upon land subject to taxation under the pro
visions of this act and same shall be collect
ed by the sheriff of said parish. in part or
wholly within this district in such manner
and under such regulations as the board may
direct, but in all cases it shall be cOHected
before the produce is removed from the
respective parishes. Any person who shall
evade the payment OF this local assessmen.
shall be guilty OF a misdemeaner, and shaiion
conviction by any court Of competent 1uris-
diction be fned not less than ten nor more
than twenty dollars per bale OF cotton. or
thousand pounds of sugar., fifteen SACKS OF
rice or four barrels of esculent3 to the value
OF nifty dollars. on which said assessment
shall have been evaded said fine, after de
ductisn of twenty-five per cent for the Ice or
the district attorney shall be paid into the
State treasury to the credit Of the Atchafa-
laya Basin Levee District Fund.
SECTION IL. Be IL further enacted, etc.,
That in order to provide additional means
to carry out the purposes OF this act, and to
furnish resources to enable said board to as
sist in developing, establishing and com
pleting, q levee system in said district, all
lands now belonging or that may hereafter
braced within the limits of the levee district
as herein constituted shall be, and the saMo
are hereby given, granted, bargained, dona,
ted conveyed and delivered unto said Board
Of Levee Commissioners of the Atchafalaya
Basin Levee District whether said lands or
parts of lands originally. granted by
to this He State or whether said
lands have been or may hereafter be forfeit
ed to or bought in by Or fer, or sold to the
State, at tax sales for non paymen Of taxes
where the State has or may hereafter be-
come the owner of lands by or through tax
sales, conveyances thereof, shall only be
made to laid Board of Leyee Commissioners
after the period of redemption shall have ex-
pired provided however, that any and all
former owners of lands:which have been for
for non payment of taxes, may at any time
within the six months, next ensuing after
the date Of the passage OF this act redeem
said lands, or any of them, upon paying to
the Treasurer of the State all taxes, interests,
costs and penalties due thereon down to the
date of such redemption, but such redemp-
sales of lands by the State, and all and every
sum or sums OF money so received shall be
placed to the credit of the Atchafalaya Basin
Levee District. After the expiration OF said
ditor and the Register of the State Land /,
Office on behalf of and in the name of
the State, to convey to the said Board of
Levee Commissioners. by, proper instru-
ments of conveyance. the lands hereby
granted or intended to be granted and
conveyed to said board, whenever from
of the said Land ONCE, or either of them,
shall be requested to do SO by said Board of
Leyee Commissioners, or by tho president
said board shall cause c-onveyances to be
properly recorded in the recorders office of
the respective parishes wherein said lands
are or may be located, and when said con
veyances are so recorded, the title to said
land with the possession thereof, shall from
thenceforth vest absolutely in said Board
OF Levee Commissioners, its successors or
grantees; said lands shall be exempted from
taxation after being conveyed to and while
they remain in the possession or under the
control of said board. Said Board of Levee
Commissioners shall have the power and au-
thority to sell, mortgage, pledge or otherwise
dispose OF said lands in such manner and At
such times and for such prices as to said
board shall seem proper but all proceeds
derived therefrom shall be deposited in the
State Treasury to tho credit OF the Atchafa-
laya Basin Levee District: and shall be
drawn out only upon the warrants OF the
president OF said board, prOperl attested, as
provided in this act provided, that the tax
shall not be levied On produce raised on
lands not alluvial. |
S~ECTIoNl IL. Be l further enacted, ETC., That
for the purpose Of raising further addiri.n nal
funds fer said district, said board of com
missiOners are hereby authorized and en-
powered to issue bonds to the amount of one |
million dollars in such SUMS and denomina.
tons as said board may prescribe, not less |
than one hundred dollars each said bonds
shall be drawn payable to bearer, shall be
signed by the president OF the board official
ly, and attested by the signature of the sec
rotary and seal of said board Of commission
ers, and shall each have printed on the back |
the following |
This bond, principal and interest secured
by taxation and by the sale of public and State
lands" all of said bonds to become due in
twenty years, and payable in ten years. at the
option of the board of levee commissioners.
and they shall all bear interest at u rate not
to exceed six (6) per cent. from the date of
their issue. said interest to be evidenced by
coupons attached to said bonds. payable an
nually ut the Office of the State Treasurer, out
of the funds hereinafter provided.
SECTION ID. Be 1t further enacted. etc, |
That said board shall have the right to nego-
tiate said bonds at u rate of discount not to
exceed 10 ten per centum. or they shall have
the right to give said bonds in payment for
work done on levees erected for the protec-
ton of said levee district. on terms and
amounts to be agreed on with the contractor