St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-02-20
FULL TEXT OF ACT TO
DIVIDE OLDST. AND
Tells Of How the Parish OF Evangeline is to be
Created, Organized, Its Officers Selected,
and Courthouse Located.

recorder OF the Parish or EVangellne
all petitions, answers, and ether do
euments and papers appertaining to.
suits wherein the defendants reside
in the parish Of its organization and
also a certified copy Of al orders
made in any suits which are entered
on the minutes Of the court; and the
fees allowed him for making a copy.
of said minutes shall be ten cent for
every hundred words, and twenty
cents for each certificate, with seal
attached; the same to be charged as
costs in the case; and he shall also
transmit to the clerk of the District
Court of the Parish of Eyangeline all
criminal proceedings against persons
charged with ofenses alleged to have
been committed in said Parish Of
Evangeline, and he shall also transmit
to the clerk Of the District Court for
the Parish of Evangeline all petitions,
orders, bonds and other papers relat-
ing to SUGGESTIONS heretofore opened
in the said Parish of St. Landry,
which may be unsettled and in course
of administration when the deceased
resided in that portion Of the Parish
Of st. Landry now embraced in the
limits Of the territory Of the Parish
Of Evangeline by this Act; and he
shall transmit also to the clerk of the
District Court Of the Parish Of Evan
geline all papers relating to the
tutorship Of minors where they, or a
majority Of them, resided in the Par
ish of EYangeline, that all matters
civil and criminal SO transferred shall
be proceeded within said Parish Of
Evangeline, as if they had originated
therein.
Section 6. Be it further enacted,
etc. That as soon as possible after
the organization Of the Parish Of
EvangeIine, it shall be the duty Of
the clerk Of the District Court, and
ex-oficio recorder Of the Parish of
st. Landry, to make a true and cor
rect transcript, in a welLbound book
or books, to be furnished by the po-
lice jury Of the Parish Of Evangeline,
in order Of dates as recorded in this
Office, after the adoption Of this Act,
Of all acts, mortgages and deeds and
title papers Of record in said Office,
relative to and affecting immovable
landed property situated within the
limits of the Parish of Evangeline,
accompanied by the certificate and
seal Of said clerk affixed at The end
Of each book; that when SO complet-
ed, the clerk Of the Parish Of ST
Landry shall Immediately transmit
said book or books OF the clerk Of
court of the Parish of Evangeline,
together with all the original acts,
deeds, mortgages and title papers on
file in his Office, from which said
transcript shall have been made, that
the fees allowed said clerk of the
Parish Of st. Landry for said tran.
script shall be six cents for every
one hundred words, and one dollar
H
for his certificate and seal in each
book; and that said fees and the
actual expenses incurred by said
clerk in the transmission Of papers
and documents to the Parish Of Evan.
geIine, shall be paid BY the treasurer
of the Parish Of Evangeline on the
warrant of the president Of the police
jury, when he is satisfied that The
services have been performed and
the fees legally charged, a specific
account Of which shall accompany
each warrant and be sworn to BY said
clerk as correct.
Section Z. Be Il further enacted,
etc, That no judgment, lien, privilege,
Or mortgage upon any property with
in the said Parish Of Eyangeline shall
lose the effect Of its inscription by
reason Of the creation Of the Parish
Of Evangeline by this Act, if the
same has been legally Inscribed in
the Parish Of st. Landry in such
manner as to bind such property at
the date of its inscription and which