St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-07-28
SOME NEW BILLS
PASSED AT THE
EXTRASESSION
LEGISLATURE
The Dowry Act Amended
To Allow Farmers To
Borrow Money:
FARM LOAN BANK
NOW AVAILABLE.
Completion of Chef Men
teur Road Has Been !.
Provided For.

We are indebted to Representative
J. Monroe Simmons of st. Tammany
parish for the following bills passed
by the special session OF the Legis-
lature. The Dowry Act will be of
special interest to the farmers OF st.
Tammany parish, because it has been
so amneded as to give them the
Bank. The amendment has been
enclosed in brackets SO that 1t may
be distinguished in reading.
The Constabulary Bill Is simply
authorization for the establishment
of home guard of citizens who may
be with power to make arrests. ETC..
and will give home protection when
troops are withdrawn and assist Of
ficers of the law in maintaining or
der.
The extra session has completed
it's work and adjourned.
House Bill No. 26, by Mr. Alex
ander, An Act authorizing the High.
way Department Of the State x Lou
isiana to anticipate the revenuts. Of
certain specially dedicated fumes
es on motor vehicles, by the issuance
of certificates of Indebtedness secur-
ed by, and to be paid oat Ct, the
collection of said licenses so dedicat-
ed, creating between the holders Of
said certificates, the Highway De-
partment and the Treasury of the
State an irrevOcable contract to pro-
vide for the payment Of said ceI-
tificates out Of funds SD dedicated.
to provide for the sale 0. such GER
tificates, and to define the duties OF
the Highway Engineer anl of the
State Treasurer, Secretary of State
and Auditor in connection Herewith
and to provide for fiscal agent to
whom tn efunds shall be let for de-
posit, has been passed by the Legts-
lature at its special session.
BY its terms, all licenses, fines and
penalties collected in the parishes
of Orleans, Jefferson, st. Charles, st.
John the Baptist, Tangipahoa and
St. Tammany have been set apart
for the completion of the Chef Mem
teur Road in the parish of Orleans
and St. Tammany already begun and
contracted for and for the constrnc-
tion of such bridges as may be neces-
sary for road, and for the construc-
tiOn of a highway to extend from
| New Orleans parallel to the Illinois
Central Railroad to Hammcnd. The
State Highway Engineer is authoriz-
ed to anticipate these revenues and
to issue certificates Of Indebtedness
| thereon, negotiable, payable to bear
er, with semi-annual interest cOu-
pons, to be made payable from jan
uary !, 1920, and thereafter. with
5 per cent interest per annum.
| This will place Coving.on and. sli-
[dell on the line If the Jackson High
way, by way OF The RigOlets.
| Widows DOwry Act.
AN ACT
Entitled an act to amend and rs-
enact Article 1852 (3219) Of the
! Revised Civil Code of the State OF
Louisiana, relative to privileges
| and movables and immovables.
and repeating all contrary and in
! consistent laws.
/ Section l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State OF
Louisiana, That Articel 1857 (32lSD
of the Revised Civil Code OF the
State OF Louisiana be amended ana
re-enacted $50 as to>read as follows:
Art. 1852 (3219). The privileges
which extend alike to movables and
i 1immovables are the following:
Funeral charges.
| Judicial charges
Expenses OF last illness.
Wages Of servants.
The salaries of secretaries, clerks.
and other agents of that kind.
With regard to the wife's dover,
she has no privilege on the immov-
able property of her husband. nut 2
mere right OF mortgage, as is said
under the title: OF the marriage
contract, and of the Respective
Rights of the Parties in relation to
their property" Whenever the Wild
ow or minor children OF deceased
person shall be left IN necessitious
circumstances, and not possess IN
their own rights property to the
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