The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-07-14

every fair minded person will admit
that the Police Jury could no, have
acted in any other manner without
violating the law which 1t has
sworn to obey.
Every member of the Police Jury
has taken the following oath:
sw IrE|p7 - .s;--, 81 do soLEMNLY
constitution and laws of the United States
and the CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF
THIS STATE; and that will faithfully
and impartially discharge and perform all
the duties incumbent on me As Police Juror
according to the best of my ability and un-
derstanding. So help me God.
The Gazette needs not speak upon
the sanctity of An oath. Any
rational being who is old enough to
know anything appreciates what it
10 to swear.
While reading the law which fol-
lows let the reader bear in mind
that the foregoing oath was SUBJ
scEibed to by every member of the
Police Jury. The law reads:
To authorize and require tie police juries of
the several parishes in this State, the
parish of Orleans excepted, to elect. q
parish printer for their respective par
i:hss; empowering them to designate
the Official journal for their respective
parishes; requiring them to cause to be
published in the Official journal all their
ofheiai proceedings; fixing the compen-
sation to be paid the parish printer, and
repeating all laws contrary to or incou-
sistent with this act
SECTION !. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana, That
at their first meeting on or after the first
At their first meeting in July, the police
juries throughout this State are AU-
THORIZED IT SHALL BE
1Sa9 pD, Duty TO ELECT a PAR
ishes who shall be the owner or representa-
tive of some established newspaper pub
lished in the parish, which has been in ex-
istence for period of one year next pre-
shall designate q newspaper published in the
parish. which paper shall be known as the
Official journal of the parish and he shall
publish IN such newspaper all the official
notices IS may be required by law to be
published by the police jury; provided, that
this act shall not affect any contract now in
existence, and provided further that upon
printing now in existence the police iurv
SHALL ELECT A PARISH PRINTER AS PRO-
vIDED FOR IN THIS ACT, and provided
further that this act shall not apply to any
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc.. that
the parish printer shall be entitled to de-
mand and the police jury of each parish
shall Sd, Pay to him quarterly, for publishing
official journal of the parish fifty cents per
square of one hundred words for the first
insertion and twenty-five (25) cents per
square for each subsequent insertion and for
SrNkNs l. T.
the police jury he shall charge and receive
the lowest current rates.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That all laws or parts of laws contrary to or
and the same are hereby repealed.
In order that no one be misreD
resented we have printed the oath
of the juror and the law on the SUBJ
ject.
The law says clearly that it SHAH
be the duty of the Police Jury to
elect parish printer, and in the
next paragraph fixes the compensa-
ton to be received by the printer
for his work. The parish printer
is an officer to be elected by the
Police Jury and his salary is fixed
by law. The salary is established
by the Legislative act and the
Police Jury has no more to- do with
It than with the salaries of the
clerk of court, the judge or district
attorney. The ds!y Of the Jury is
% elect parish printer. The
question of pay has already been
settled by the Legislature.
We submit that as men who
snow what an oath is and who
place proper Interpretation on the
,lain mandates of the law of the
State, the majority Of the Police
Jury acted wisely and conscien-
iously in electing parish printer
n accordance with the statute
printed in this column
The Gazette is confident that the
lction of the Jury In the printing