of the State department, the whole to be done and paid for according to existing laws.

Act 1868, p. 243.

to be stereo

Sec. 3002. The secretary of State is hereby authorized and instructed to cause to be stereotyped the laws and resolutions of Certain books each legislature, passed after the statutes of this State shall have typed. been newly revised, and also shall cause such revised statutes to be stereotyped. He shall cause to be stereotyped the fourteenth annual report of the supreme court decisions, and also the reports of the supreme court subsequent to the nineteenth annual report, and shall preserve the stereotype plates of such laws, statutes and reports in his office.

D. Sec. 2199, 3513. Act 1869, p. 126.

Sec. 3003. The secretary of State is hereby authorized to cause to be printed, and sell copies of all laws, statutes and re- Sale of books. ports, stereotype plates whereof are preserved in his office; Prorided, That such copies shall not be sold at less than fifteen per Provided. cent. over and above the cost of the same, without including the cost of stereotyping; the proceeds of such sales to constitute a fund for the purchase of books for the State library; and he shall have the power generally of exchanging books to meet the necessities of the library; Provided, That all printing required to be Provided. done by this act shall be done by the official journal of the State.

D. Sec. 2200, 3514.

names of elec

Sec. 3004. The names of the persons elected, presidential electors together with a copy of the returns from the several Publication of parishes, shall forthwith be published in the newspaper or news- tors chosen. papers in which the laws of the State may be directed to be pub

lished.

D. Sec. 2828. Act 1868, p. 245.

Sec. 3005. All contracts to be awarded by the board of public works, shall be advertised at least twenty days before being let, and sealed proposals invited, such advertisements to be made in the newspapers designated for the publication of legal notices in New Orleans and the district in which the work is to be done.

D. Sec. 3016. Act 1868, p. 82.

Advertise

ments.

51

PUBLIC WORKS.

Board-how appointed,

SECTION.
. 3006

SECTION.

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT FUND.

Qualifications and compensation, 3006 Internal improvement fund created, 3021
First meeting and organization, 3007 Of what the said funds shall consist, 302

First district,

Fifth district,

3013

Chief engineer,

3013

of the road and levee fund, .3024

LEVEES.

.

3017

. 3018

3029

gates, etc., on public works, Penalty,.

3019

when notified, . . . . . . . 3030 8020 Compensation for work on levees, 9031

appointed.

BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.

Sec. 3006. There shall be and is hereby created a board of Board-how public works, to consist of five commissioners, one from each internal improvement district; one to go out of office annually; the first board to draw lots, and to hold office for five years, or until their successors in office are appointed and qualified. They shall be appointed by the governor of the State, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. Said commissioners shall be citizens Qualifications and qualified electors of the State and district respectively, for and compensa which they may be appointed, each of whom shall receive a salary of two hundred dollars per month, and be entitled to mileage at the rate of fifteen cents per mile while traveling on business of the board, the same to be paid on his own warrant out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and who shall, previous to entering upon their duties, give each a bond

tion.

and solvent security in the sum of ten thousand dollars, approved by the governor and deposited in the office of the secretary of State.

D. Sec. 1590. Act 1868, p. 82.

and organiza

Sec. 3007. As soon as possible after said commissioners are qualified, they shall assemble in the city of New Orleans, a major- First meeting ity in all cases being necessary to constitute a quorum, and tion. organize themselves into a board to be designated a "Board of public works" for the State of Louisiana, and shall choose one of their members president. They shall meet in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, in open session, every three months, unless called together oftener by the president of the board, and shall keep minutes of their proceedings, and accounts of all their expenditures, and shall adopt such rules, regulations, and by-laws as they deem necessary, not inconsistent with this act.

Sec. 3008. The first district shall comprise all that portion of First district. the State east of the Mississippi river.

Sec. 3009. The second district shall comprise all that portion

trict.

of the State between the rivers Mississippi and Atchafalaya, and Second disfrom the northern line of the parish of Pointe Coupée to the Gulf of Mexico.

Sec. 3010. The third district shall comprise that portion of

the State bounded on the north by the parishes of Sabine, Natch- Third district. itoches and Red river, on the east by the rivers Red and Atchafalaya, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, and on the west by the Texas State line.

trict.

Sec. 3011. The fourth district shall comprise the parishes of Caddo, Bossier, DeSoto, Claiborne, Bienville, Sabine, Natchi- Fourth distoches, Winn, Catahoula, and those portions of the parishes of Rapides and Avoyelles lying north of Red river.

Sec. 3012. The fifth district shall consist of the parishes of Union, Morehouse, Jackson, Carroll, Madison, Tensas, Concordia, Fifth district. Ouachita, Franklin and Caldwell.

neer.

Sec. 3013. The board shall appoint one engineer for each dis- Appointment trict. The one appointed for the district in which the parish of of engineers. Orleans, left bank, is situated, shall act as chief engineer under the direction of the board. The chief engineer shall receive a Chief engisalary at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum, payable Salaries. quarterly on the warrant of the commissioner of his district, approved by the president of the board, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and each of the other engineers shall receive a salary at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum, and fifteen cents per mile for all distances traveled (necessarily) in the discharge of their duties, payable on the warrants of the commissioner of their respective districts, approved by the president of the board, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Sec. 3014. The board shall appoint a secretary and such other other ememployes as are necessary to carry out the intent of this act, who ployes, and shall receive such salary as the board may fix and determine, not sation.

their compen

Surveying,

repairing lev

ees.

to exceed two hundred dollars per month, payable upon the warrant of the president, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Sec. 3015. It shall be the duty of the board to cause all proper surveys to be made for levees and other public works, and all building and levees to be built and repaired; to protect as far as possible the swamp lands from overflow, and to do all other public works as may be designated by the general assembly, the whole work to be done under such regulations as the board may from time to time adopt; the work in each district, to be done under the supervision of the commissioner for said district, and to this end said board shall have power to enter upon and expropriate the lands necessary to carry out the intent and object of this act.

to lowest bidders.

All construction and repair of levees shall be let by contract to Contracts let the lowest responsible bidder, and no contract shall be awarded unless approved by a majority of the board. The contractors shall furnish good and sufficient security for the faithful perform ance of their contracts, subject to the approval of the board.

Advertisements.

Commissioners shall not be

Sec. 3016. All contracts shall be advertised at least twenty days before being let, and sealed proposals invited, such advertisements to be made in the newspapers designated for the publi cation of legal notices in New Orleans and the district in which the work is to be done.

D. Sec. 3005.

Sec. 3017. No commissioners of said board shall have any interested in pecuniary interest directly or indirectly in any contract or other work let out by said board.

contracts.

Sec. 3018. Said board, upon the convening of the general Annual report. assembly in each year, shall make a full and detailed report of all their transactions, accompanied with an estimate of expenses required for the building and maintenance of the levees and other public works, for the current and ensuing year.

Sec. 3019. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to Prohibiting molest, break or injure in any manner any gates, locks or dams the gates, etc., on the public works belonging to the State of Louisiana, or to any parish or corporation in said State.

the breaking of

on public works.

Penalty.

Internal im

prove.ment

fund created.

Act 1861, p. 192.

Sec. 3020. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this act, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dol lars, or imprisoned for not more than six months in the parish jail, or both, at the discretion of the court.

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT fund.

Sec. 3021. A fund shall be created, to be denominated "The internal improvement fund," to be applied exclusively to the purposes of rendering navigable and uniting by canals the principal water courses, and of more intimately connecting by public highways the different parts of the State.

Act 1855, p. 487.

Sec. 3022. This fund shall consist of the unexpended balance

said funds

in the treasury, together with all that may hereafter be received of what the from the proceeds of the public lands granted to this State by act shall consist. of Congress, approved September the fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one.

ROAD AND LEVEE FUND.

ee fund crea

shall consist.

Sec. 3023. The unexpended balance, together with all that may hereafter be received from the five per centum of the net pro- Road and levceeds of the sales of the public lands of the United States in this ted; of what it State, appropriated by the fifth section of an act of congress, approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eleven, for roads and levees, is set apart for that purpose, to be called "road How said fund and levee fund," to be expended for the sole purpose of making plied." roads and levees.

Act 1855, P. 487.

shall be ap

penses are to

Sec. 3024. Whenever the State hands shall be employed in What exmaking or opening any road, or constructing any levee, all the be paid out of expenses for the time being, while therein employed, shall charged to the road and levee fund.

LEVEES.

be the road and

levee fund.

of the levee to

Sec. 3025. If any person shall erect any work in front of the levee, on the banks of the Mississippi, out of the limits of New Works outside Orleans, either by making a new levee, building houses, sheds, be removed. dikes, or keys, so as to impede its navigation, or to encroach on that part of the bank reserved by law for the use of the public, or for roads used for tracking, whether said works or buildings be only commenced or completed, without having applied to the police jury and obtained from them permission, the said works shall be destroyed, or removed, if susceptible thereof, to such a distance from the river, as may be required by the ordinance of the police jury; in either case, at the expense of the owner. Act 1830, p. 118, § 6.

lands may pro

Sec. 3026. The owners of plantations and other lands are hereby authorized and empowered to surround the same with Owners of levees, to protect them from inundations; but the natural drains tect themand servitudes shall not be obstructed to the injury of any adjoin- selves by leving plantations or lands.

Act 1852, p. 192, § 1.

ees.

ees.

Sec. 3027. Any person who shall cut or otherwise damage or destroy any levee, erected for the purpose of protecting planta- Penalty for tions or lands from inundation, shall, on conviction thereof, be damaging levsubject to imprisonment in the parish prison, for a period not less than thirty days, nor more than six months, and shall further be liable by civil action, for all damages which may be sustained by the owner of the plantation or land so leveed or to any other person who may be damaged by such wrongful act.

D. Sec. 925-927. Act 1852, p. 192, § 2.