The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-10-19
SPECIAL SESSION, 1918.

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SPECIAL SESSION, 1918.
ACT NO. is.
House Bin No. 5. BY Mr.. Alexander.
AN ACT
To provide for the laying out, construc-
ton and maintenance of the Chef
Menteur and Hammond-New Orle-
ans State. Highways; to provide
revenue for carrying out the OBJ
iects and purposes of this Act; to
authorize the funding of said rev.
enue into bonds. notes or certifi-
Gates of indebtedness; to define the
duties of the Board of Liquidation
of the State Debt of the State of
Louisiana, the State Highway En-
gineer, the State Treasurer, the Sec
rotary of State and the State Audi
tor in connection herewith and to
provide for a fiscal agent to whom
the funds shall be let for deposit;
and an act whereas it is intended
to have this act ratified by an
amendment to the Constitution of
the State.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Gen.
eral Assembly of the State Of Louisi-
ana, That the Highway Engineer of the
State of Louisiana is hereby authorized
to let contracts for the construction
and completion of the Chef Menteur
Road, commencing at Peoples Avenue.
i'm the Parish of Orleans. and extending
to a place in the Parish of ST. Tam
many at the boundary line between the
States of Louisiana and Mississippi, OPP
posite. or nearly opposite, to Logtown,
in the state of Mississippi. which said
road has already been begun and con-
tracted for, and has been designated as
"a State Highway by the Highway De-
partment of the State of Louisiana; and
for the construction of all such bridges
as may be necessary for said road; and
for the construction and completion of
model State Highway, on such route
as the State Highway Department OF
| the state OF Louisiana has designated
| or may deem wise to designate. to ex-
| tend approximately parallel to the Illi-
nois Central Railroad from Hammond in
| to New Orleans, and in the construction
| of the necessary bridges upon said high
way: provided, that in the construction
OF the said Hammond-New Orleans
| Highway no natural drain shall in any
! way be in the least manner INSTRUCTED;
and provided further. that said Ham
nond-New Orleans Highway shall be
provided with culverts or other engineer
| ing outlet of passing the same volume
of water as is now passed or in the fu-
ture shall be passed by the culverts or
other engineering outlets in the roadbed
4 OF the Illinois Central Railroad parallel
to said Hammond New Orleans Highway.
| That before any such contract is let
| as herein provided, same shall be approx
ed by the Board of Liquidation of the
State Debt of the State of Louisiana.
| Section q Be it enacted, etc, That
| in order to provide funds for the con-
struction, completion and maintenance
#of the above mentioned. highways, the
Secretary of State from and after the
| first day of January. 1919, SHALL as soon
after collection as practicable, deposit
with the State Treasurer for the account
Of the Highway Department of the State
of Louisiana all motor vehicle licenses
collected under the provisions of Act
State of Louisiana for the year 1914. APP
proved July 2, 1914 from the Parishes
OF Jefferson, st. Charles, st. John the
BAPTIST. Tangipahoa. ST. Tammany and
Orleans, and the licenses so collected
shall be paid by the State Treasurer
| into a special fund to be known as state
Highway Fund No. 2, Chef Menteur and
Hammond New Orleans State High
1 ways" and in addition to the motor We
hlcle licenses paid into said Estate High
way Fund No 2, Chef Menteur and Ham
mond- New Orleans State Highways
from the Parishes aboye enumerated, the