Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-15
Proceedings
of Legislature

Levying tax TO raise $4,000, 900
for the Panama Exposition Company.
Increasing the salary of Mayor
Behrman to $4,000 a year,
Accepting en- the part of the
state the records of the survey gem
erals office.
Resolution authorizing the eugi-
neers to make Il survey of the lands
of the 3tchafalaya Basin to be af-
fected by the closing of the Atcha-
fahya River and Red River when
they join the Mississippi.
MemoraliZing Congress to remove
the dam at the mouth OF the Mer-
mentau River.
Authorizing the City of New Or
leans to operate Il recreation park.
ReorganizinE the Police Depart
ment of New Orleans.
To impose ore-fourth of one mill
road tax.
To create the Parish of Evange-
line.
To fix dates for judgments in
Court of Appeals TO become final.
Authorizing additional methods
for maintaining streets in the cities.
MemoraliZing Congress to make a
survey of the state far the purpose
of working out drainage plans.
Amending the Gay-Shattuck liquor
law so as To comply with the decis-
ion of the Supreme Court.
Amending act creating Board of
Liquidation of New Orleans so as
TO allow the board to place its ST.
100000 Of public Improvement bonds
In the banks that buy in these
bonds, making these banks the fiscal
agents of the city.
For the protection of fish.
Creating the Office of public ac-
countant.
To regulate the pilotage of New
Orleans.
To provide for the organization
Of new parishes.
To prohibit the transferring of ac-
counts TO persons of another state
with the view of suing on it.
Declaring vacant the attorneyshIp
of a board when the attorney of the
board cannot serve the state.
Limiting the term of officeholders.
Requiring transmission with rec
ords of advance deposits for costs in
ANIMAL 70 Of
Authorizing the issuance of certi-
icates for public improvements by
the city of New Orleans.
Authorizing the sale or lease Of
Oakley and Monticello plantations.
Authorizing the Board of Control
Of the State Penitentiary to mort
gage Angola plantation.
Abolishing the Crop Pest Commits
sion and transferring the work to
the Experiment Station and Agricul-
tural College.
Making death the penalty for
placing distractions on railroads.
Authorizing the appointment of a
state textbook committee to examine
textbooks of public schools.
Levying a tax upon persons en-
gagged i'm the business of money lend
ing.
Amending the act relative to spe-
cial elections for public improve
ments.
Exempt from privilege tax Con-
federate soldiers.
Amending the Juvenile Court act
as 1t applies to the country parishes.
Requiring the State Board of En-
glneers to assume control of the
state highways, creating a state high
way engineer
To protect diamond back terra
pins.
Providing standard measure for
the buying and selling of oysters in
New Orleans.
Amending the act creating a priv
ilege for all managers laborers en-
ployed in sawmills.
Amending act relative to the free
public schools.
Amending act 1873 of 1906, rela-
tive to the public schools.
Making schools of the state OBJ
serve Oct. IL. the date of the discov-
er, of America.
Providing for the execution or
criminals in the State Penitentiary
at Baton Rouge.
Making the stealing of a COW 4
felony.
Authorizing the governor to issue
quit claim to land in Livingston
Parish.
Providing for sale of lands by
Sheriff without obtaining certificate
OF mortgage, when records have
been destroyed.
Amending article Is of Constitu-
uon increasing the number of rep
resentativeS in the General Assem-
bly,.
Creating the Parish of Jefferson
pavis, out of Calcasieu.
Creating the Parish of Peauregard
out of Calcasicu.
Making an appropriation to pay
'he expenses of the state govern
ment-known as general approprla-
tion bill.
providing for the celebration on
april so, 1912, of the centennial ol
Loulsiana's admission to the Union
Making an appropriation to the