of two freeholders in the parish of Orleans, for the faithful performance of the duties that are imposed upon him by law. RECORDER OF MORTGAGES FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS. 1855-321. Mortgages to be SEC. 1674. The Governor shall nominate, and by and with the Recorder of advice and consent of the Senate, appoint a recorder of mortgages appointed by for the parish of Orleans, who shall hold his office for two years, this term of of and until his successor shall be duly appointed and qualified. SEC. 1675. He shall furnish to the Governor of the State his bond, with one or more securities, to the amount of forty thousand dollars, for the faithful execution of the duties required of him by law. "TO PROVIDE DEFICIENCIES IN THE PAYMENT OF INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. the Governor. fice. His bond. Treasurer to SEC. 1676. The Governor and Treasurer be and are hereby authorized, and it shall be their duty, to effect from time to time 1869-45. such loans of money as may be necessary to provide for any Governor and deficiency in the treasury, which deficiency would prevent the pay- effect loans to ment of accruing interest on the bonds of the State; Provided, the meetinterest on interest paid for such loan shall not exceed seven per cent. per annum, and that no commissions shall be allowed for procuring said loan. And it is further provided, That to secure such loans the Governor is authorized to issue and pledge a sufficient number of the bonds of the State, provided for by an act approved February twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, provided that such pledge shall not authorize or permit the sale of said bonds so pledged within one year from the date of said loan, nor at any time thereafter, except at public sale in the city of New Orleans, on public advertisement in the official journal of the State, and three other daily journals, for the period of at least sixty days, and provided that not less than fifty cents shall be borrowed for each dollar of bonds so pledged. And be it further provided, That the money realized from any loan authorized by this joint resolution shall be paid into the treasury of the State; and the Treasurer is hereby forbidden and prohibited from paying out such funds, except for the purpose of canceling the accruing coupons of interest of the bonds of the State; the full purpose and intent of this resolution being to protect and preserve the credit of the State. bonds of State. REPORTER. The Reporter to be appointed. How removed. SEC. 1677. The decisions of the Supreme Court shall be published by a reporter to be appointed by the Governor, on the recommenda- 1855–300. tions of the Supreme Court, for the term of four years. reporter shall be removable by the Governor, on the complaint of a majority of the judges of the court, for any neglect or misconduct. No person shall be appointed reporter who shall not, at the time of his appointment, be a citizen of the United States and of this State, and have been for three years duly licensed to practice law in this State. The term of the office of reporter shall expire on the thirty-first of December, 1854, and every four years thereafter. 1868-65. General Supervisor of Regispointed in each parish. REGISTRATION. SEC. 1678. The Governor of the State shall, at least two months previous to any general election, appoint in each parish of the State one supervisor of registration, to whom the clerk of the court shall tration to be ap deliver the books of registration delivered to him by the last supervisor of registration, and he shall receive the same and strike from them the names of the voters who have died or left the parish, or become ineligible for any legal cause, and add thereto the names of all those who have removed into the parish since the last registration, or who were not then registered, and those who have since come of age, and generally perfect the registration of the parish; and he shall close such registration nine days before the said general election, and furnish to the commissioners of election of each voting place or poll copies of the registered voters of their precinct, and within ten days after such general election such supervisor shall redeliver to the clerks of the courts the books of registration, with all the additions and amendments made thereto, as herein provided. 1856-206. Governor to Compensation to Secretary of State 1685 .1688 .1689 .1690 SEC. 1679. The Governor shall nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint five harbor masters, who shall constitute and be known as the Board of Harbor Masters, for the port of New Orleans, and whose term of office shall be two Term of office. years; Provided, however, That the Governor shall have the power to nominate harbor masters. nor to remove remove from office any of said harbor masters, upon satisfactory Power of Gover. proof made to him of negligence, incapacity or official misconduct. them, on proof, SEC. 1680. Each of said harbor masters shall give bond, payable Bond with secuto the Governor and his successors in office, with two sureties, in the rity to be given penal sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faith- by harbor masful performance of the duties required of him by law. for cause. ters. masters. SEC. 1681. Said harbor masters, under the rules and regulations to be established by the board, shall have authority to regulate and Duties and station all vessels in the stream of the river Mississippi, within the powers of har limits of the port of New Orleans, and at the levees thereof, and remove, from time to time, such vessels as are not employed in receiving and discharging their cargoes, to make room for such others as require to be more immediately accommodated, for the purpose of receiving or discharging their cargoes; and, as to the fact of any vessel being fairly and bona fide employed in receiving or discharging, the said harbor masters are constituted the sole judges. And further, the harbor masters shall have authority to determine how far and in what instances it is the duty of the master and others having charge of ships and vessels, to accommodate each other in their Penalty for respective situations; and if any master or other person shall oppose bor masters in or resist any harbor master in the execution of the duties of his the perform office, he shall, for each offense, forfeit and pay the penal sum of fifty duties. dollars, to be sued for by the treasurer of the Charity Hospital of the city of New Orleans, for the use of said hospital; Provided, however, Persons agThat if any person shall consider himself aggrieved by the decision action of a barof any individual harbor master, he shall be at liberty to appeal to appeal to the the board, and their concurrence shall be given thereto before such board. decision is carried into effect. opposing har ance of their grieved by the bor master, may ton each vessel river trade ex SEC. 1682. The Board of Harbor Masters shall have power to demand and receive from the commanders, owners, consignees, or 1864-30. either of them, of every vessel that may enter the port of New Three cents per Orleans and load, unload, or make fast to the levees, within the said will pay. limits, at the rate of three cents per ton, to be computed from the tonnage expressed in the register of said vessel respectively, and no more. This shall not extend to the chalands, flats, keelboats, steam- Bots in e boats or other vessels which are employed in the river trade, unless cepted. upon the application of the person having charge of such chaland, flat, keelboat, steamboat or other vessels so employed. The harbor masters shall interfere and adjust any difference respecting the Harbor master situation or position of such flat or boat, which difference the harbor cases, and to masters are authorized to hear and determine; in which case they receive $2 for may demand and receive from the party in default in the premises ment. the sum of two dollars for every difference so adjusted, and no n:ore. to decide all every adjust SEC. 1683. It shall also be the duty of the said harbor masters to 1856–206. superintend and enforce all laws of this State, and all laws of the Further duties city of New Orleans, for the preventing and removing of all of harbor mas nnisances whatsoever in or upon the levee of the city. ters. by harbor mas SEC. 1684. The said Board of Harbor Masters shall keep an office in a central part of the city, and may appoint such clerks and Office to be kept deputies as they think proper, but the deputies and clerks shall take ters. an oath to perform truly and faithfully the duties imposed on the Their clerks and harbor masters, and the said harbor masters shall be responsible for deputies. their acts. 1859-36. Qualificationg required for shipping masters. RELATIVE TO SHIPPING MASTERS. SEC. 1685. No person shall be authorized to exercise the functions, or to act as shipping master for any of the ports of this State, unless the same be a citizen of the United States, a duly qualified voter of the State and of the parish wherein he resides, and shall have received from the Secretary of State a license in due form to act as shipping master for any port of the State, upon his filing in the said Secretary's office a bond in favor of the Governor of the State in the sum of five thousand dollars, with two securities, to be approved of by the Board of Harbor Masters, or a majority thereof; and the to Secretary of Secretary of State shall be authorized to charge the sum of five dollars for every license so issued. License. Bond. Compensation State. sels for employ licensed shipping masters. SEC. 1686. The owner, master or agent of any vessel, steamer or Penalty against other sea going water craft, who shall employ any other person than masters of ves- a licensed shipping master, as provided in this act, for the shipment ing any one but of any seaman, steward, cook or other person employed on such vessel, steamer or other water craft, (other than office thereof,) such owner, master or agent shall, on conviction thereof, pay, in solido, a fine of five hundred dollars, recoverable before any court of competent jurisdiction, in the name and for the benefit of the Charity Hospital, with lien and privilege for the payment thereof, on such vessel, steamer or other sea going water craft. List of shipping masters to be posted up by harbor masters. SEC. 1687. The harbor masters of New Orleans shall keep posted up, in their central office, a list of the duly licensed shipping masters, containing only the names of such as shall have exhibited to said Board of Harbor Masters their license from the Secretary of State. SEC. 1688. Any person acting as a shipping master, or engaging Penalty for act the services of any seaman, steward, cook, or other person employed ing as shipping on board of any sea going vessel, without having first been duly licensed to that effect, shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to not less than three and not more than six months' imprisonment in the parish jail of the parish wherein said offense shall have been committed. master without license. 1855-471. SEC. 1689. It shall be the duty of the harbor masters, in their respective districts, to demand of the captain of every vessel arriving Duty of harbor from sea to New Orleans the permit of the resident physician, and to report to the secretary of the Board of Health all vessels having entered the port without such permit. masters. to inspection and quarantine. SEC. 1690. From the first of May to the first of November all Towboats liable towboats plying from the mouth of the river to New Orleans shall be liable to inspection and quarantine, and it shall be the duty of the different harbor masters to require from the captains of such towboats the certificate of the resident physician, as provided by this act relative to quarantine, which certificate shall not be granted before a detention of at least five days; provided, nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to apply to towboats plying between New Orleans and the Quarantine Ground, and no further. session. SEC. 1691. In addition to the property and effects now exempt from seizure and sale under execution, one hundred and sixty acres 1865-52-Extra of ground, and the buildings and improvements thereon occupied as Property exa residence, and bona fide owned by the debtor, having a family, or empt from mother, or father, or person or persons dependent on him for seizure and sale. support; also, one work horse, one wagon or cart, one yoke of oxen, two cows and calves, twenty-five head of hogs or one thousand pounds of bacon, or equivalent in pork, and, if a farmer, the necessary quantity of corn and fodder for the current year; Provided, That the property herein declared to be exempt from seizure and Value of propsale does not exceed in value two thousand dollars, and in case of erty not to exexcess, any sale thereof under execution shall be taken from the lot sand dollars. of ground and building herein mentioned, and not from the other property herein mentioned as being exempt from seizure and sale; And provided further, That no debtor shall be entitled to the exemption provided for in this section whose wife shall own, in her own right, and be in the actual enjoyment of property worth more than one thousand dollars. ceed two thou SEC. 1692. No property shall, by virtue of this act, be exempt from sale for non-payment of taxes or assessments levied pursuant to Property liable law, nor for debt contracted for the purchase price of said exempted for taxes and for property, nor for money due for rents, bearing a privilege on said property under existing laws. rents. one thousand SEC. 1693. Whenever the widow or minor children of a deceased person shall be left in necessitous circumstances, and not possess in 1852–171. their own right property to the amount of one thousand dollars, the Art. 3216, C. C. widow or the legal representatives of the children shall be entitled to A homestead of demand and receive from the succession of their deceased father or dollars secured husband a sum which, added to the amount of property owned by children in nethem or either of them in their own right, will make up the sum of cessitous cirone thousand dollars, and which said amount shall be paid in preference to all other debts, except those for the vendor's privilege and expenses incurred in selling the property. to widows and cumstances. SEC. 1694. The surviving widow shall have and enjoy th sufruct Widow to enjoy of the money so received from her deceased husband's succession the usu:ruct of during her widowhood; afterwards to vest in and belong to the ceived. children or other descendants of said deceased. the money re 1842-380. SEC. 1695. Besides the effects mentioned in the articles 644 and Rights of personal servitude, 647 of the Code of Practice, the sheriff shall in no case seize the etc. |