Year: 1868

M a1 AN ACT !, Ia
K To amend and fe enact the First Section os
an act entitled An Act Relative to Bonds
of State and Parish officers, approved
March IL, 1856. .s
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
That the fret section of an act entitled an
act relative to bonds of State and parish
officers, approved March IL, 1855, be amend.
ed and re-enacted SO as to read as follows
That all bonds given by the tax collectors
of the State, and by persons charged with
the collection of the parish taxes, and by
all public officers, whether State or parish
Except the Treasurer of the State, Auditor
of Public Accounts, Parish Recorders, and
Clerks of the District Courts), who by ex-
listing laws, or those to be hereafter enacted,
may be required to give bonds, shall, when
the securities given on such bonds reside in
the parish where the officer is to exercise
his office, be accepted by the Parish Re.
corder, the Clerk of the Court, and the
President of the Police Jury OF the parish
for which such officers have been elected or
appointed and i'll which the securities re.
side.


That If the securities on such bonds re.
side out of the parish for which such officer





be approved by the Parish Recorder, the
Clerk of the Court, and the President of the
Police Jury OF the parish in which such Sc.
curities reside,


That in either of the above cases, if either
the Parish Recorder, Clerk of the Court, or
President of the Police Jury should be alb.
sent from the parish or unable to act, then
the Parish Judge of the parish in which
the security may reside, or the Judge OF the
District Court OF the district in which snch
security may reside, shall act in place OF
such absent officer,


That when the securities on any such
bonds reside in the city of New Orleans,
such bonds shall be approved by the Re
corder of the district where the security re-
sides, and the Recorder of Mortgages of the
parish OF Orleans, and in that part of the
parish of Orleans lying on the right bank of
the Mississippi river by the Justice of the
Peace for that district, and three members
of the Police Jury, to be designated by the
President thereof; said bonds in all cases
to be executed within thirty days from the
date of the commission, and before entering
into the discharge Of the duties of the
office.


That all such persons required to give
bonds as State or parish officers as above
provided for shall be required to furnish
security residing in any parish in the state.
That all such bonds shall be authenticated
by the aItestation of two witnesses and the
signature of the Recorder of the parish in
which the securities reside, and shall be
marked In separate book kept for that
purpose, and also be registered in the mort.
gage book of judicial mortgages of the par
ish where the officer giving the bond exer-
cises his office.


That bonds when registered as above pro.
vlded shall operate from and after the date
OF the registry as mortgage upon all the
real estate of the principal obliger therein,
IN the parish where he exercises his office.
The bonds of all State officers to be made
payable to the Governor of the State, and
those of the parish officers to the President
of the Police Jury of the parish.


That If 1t becomes necessary to enforce the
collection Of any of the bonds that may be
taken under and in pursuance to this act,
and the securities reside out of the parish in
which the officer exercises the duties of his
office, the court of the parish in which the
officer exercises or may have exercised the
duties of the office for which the bond was
given shall have jurisdiction over the secu.
rites, it matters not in what parish they
may reside. That each and every security
on any of the bonds provided in this act
shall make oath that he has property over
and above his liabilities sufficient to respond
to the amount for which he oblIgates him
self in said bond.


SES' q DC ~ luItleE 6udCLeu, eIC., Inat
his act take effect from after the passage
thereof


(Signed) CHAS. W. LOWELL.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.


(Signed) OSCAR J. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the


Senate.


Approved August l, 1865.


(Signed) H. C. WARMOTH,


Governor of the State of Louisiana.
true copy:


GEO. E. BOVEE,


Secretary of State,