Reports and other docu Item 4.-For all reports, documents, or other matter in book or pamphlet form, in long primer type, twenty-four ems pica in width ments in octavo and forty-three in length, including head and foot lines, three dollars per page for one hundred copies, and fifty cents per page for each additional one hundred copies or fraction thereof. form. work. Item 5.-For all rule and figure work contained in any description Rule and figure of work performed by the State Printer, one dollar and fifty cents per thousand ems shall be allowed in addition to the other charges specified herein; and the State Printer shall embrace such charges in separate items in his accounts rendered to the proper auditing Blanks. Compensation for advertisemenis. Binding. Parochial and municipal advertisement. Proviso. officer. Item 6.-For all printed blanks, folio post size, whole sheet, twenty-eight dollars per ream; each additional half ream twelve dollars; if only a half ream or less be ordered, seventeen dollars and fifty cents shall be paid for it. For all blanks, cap size, twentytwo dollars per ream; for every additional half ream, ten dollars; if only a half ream or less is ordered, fifteen dollars shall be paid for it. For all blanks, letter size, fifteen dollars per ream, and eight dollars for each additional half ream; if a half ream or less is ordered, ten dollars shall be paid for it. Item 7.-For all matter published in the official journal in obedience to the provisions of this act, the State Printer shall be allowed one dollar per square for each insertion. A square shall consist of the space of ten lines solid agate. Item 8.-For all binding, octavo size, in calf, two dollars and fifty cents per volume; in sheep, one dollar and fifty cents; in muslin, seventy-five cents. SEC. 2996. In addition to the other duties herein imposed upon the State Printer, he shall be required to publish in his official journal all judicial advertisements required by law to be published in the parish of Orleans, including sheriffs' and constables' sales, notices of elections, succession notices, and all proceedings and orders of any court that may be ordered published in said parish, whether in the English or French language, or both. Also, all municipal advertisements of every description whatsoever of the corporation of the city of New Orleans, whether the same may be authorized by a law of the State, an ordinance of the Common Council, or by any officer or department of the city government. And any such publication or advertisement, whether parochial or municipal, shall be utterly null and void, unless so published in the official journal; Provided, That advertisements of the city of New Orleans may be published in one or more additional papers, whenever, in the opinion of the Common Council, the public interest may demand such additional publication. And the sheriff of the parish of Orleans is hereby authorized to insert notices of election in one or more papers in addition to the official journal. SEC. 2997. The State Printer shall render once in each month, Manner of ren to the Auditor of Public Accounts, a detailed statement of all the dering accounts. printing and advertising done for the State, for either House of the General Assembly, or any officer or department of the State government, and the said Auditor shall examine the same, and, if he find it to be correct, shall audit the said account, and draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the payment of the same. It shall be the duty of the State Printer, upon the payment of the printer's fee, to file in the clerk's office of the court having jurisdiction, his affidavit with a copy of any judicial advertisement ordered by said court to be published appended, together with his receipt for the payment of the printer's fees, paid by the party at whose instance or for whose benefit such advertisements shall have been made, to be collected as other costs, which affidavit shall give the dates of the paper in which the advertisement appeared, and be filed and recorded by the clerk as the legal evidence of the publication of the same, to be read, or a certified copy thereof, in all courts of law or equity; and no other evidence of such publication shall be required or allowed. The State Printer shall render once in each month to the Controller of New Orleans, a detailed statement of all advertising done for the corporation of New Orleans, or any department or officer thereof; and it shall be the duty of the said Controller to examine the same, and, if found correct, he shall immediately give his warrant on the City Treasurer in payment, and it shall not be necessary for any other officer or department of the city government to examine or approve said account. SEC. 2998. It shall be the duty of the State Printer to perform all printing of every description, for which the city of New Orleans Municipal printmay be chargeable at the rates fixed by section two thousand nine ing. hundred and ninety-five of this act, and he shall be paid therefor in the manner prescribed in the preceding section for the payment for municipal advertisements. SEC. 2999. The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of parishes. the House of Representatives, or a majority of them, shall also official papera select and contract with such other papers in the parish of Orleans far, the country as they may deem proper and necessary to publish either the laws of the State or the journals of the General Assembly, or both, at such rates as are provided by this act. under the law. SEC. 3000. In any of the parishes of this State other than the parish of Orleans, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Speaker, Duties imposed etc., or a majority of them, shall also select and contract with journals published in such parishes to publish either the laws of the State or the journals of the General Assembly, or both, as may be deemed necessary and proper, and also be and hereby are empowered to designate certain journals to perform and publish the parochial and judicial printing and advertising of. the parishes respectively in which such journals may be published. In case no paper is published in any parish in this State, such publication may be authorized to be made in a paper published near thereto. Such selection and contract shall be for the same period prescribed by section two thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven of this act. Each paper, so contracted with, shall be the official journal of the parish wherein it shall be published, and all parochial and judicial printing and advertising for or in said parish shall be done by and published in said journal, and after such selection and contract, and notice thereof to the police jury, clerk of court, and sheriff of said parish, every publication and advertisement in any other paper than the one so selected shall, during the term of such selection and contract, be null and void for any legal purpose. SEC. 3001. Hereafter the State Printer shall be required to print in pamphlet form one thousand copies of the acts of the General 1868-243. Assembly, two hundred and fifty copies of the journal of each House, etc., of Grn ral Printing of acts, and five hundred copies of each report of the several heads of the Assembly and State department, the whole to be done and paid for according to or departments. existing laws. report of heads 1869-126. be stereotyped SEC: 3002. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized and instructed to cause to be stereotyped the laws and resolutions of each Certain boks to Legislature, passed after the Statutes of this State shall have 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. Sale of books. SEC. 3003. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to cause to be printed, and sell copies of all laws, statutes and reports, stereotype plates whereof are preserved in his office; Provided, That such copies shall not be sold at less than fifteen per 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 ooks 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 done by this act shall be done by the official journal of the State. of SEC. 3001. The names of the persons elected, Presidential Electors together with a copy of the returns from the several parishes, shall forthwith be published in the newspaper or newspapers in which the names of Elec- laws of the State may be directed to be published. 1868 245. Publication of tors chosen. 1868-82. SEC. 3005. All contracts to be awarded by the Board of Public Works, shall be advertised at least twenty days before being let, and Advertisements. 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. PUBLIC WORKS. SECTION. Board-how appointed...........3006 Commissioners shall not be inter- SECTION. ested in contracts.... Annual report.. .3017 ..3018 pointed. and compensa SEC. 3006. There shall be and is hereby created a Board of Public Works, to consist of five commissioners, one from each 1868-82. internal improvement district; one to go out of office annually; the Board, how apfirst 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 and qualified electors of the State and district respectively, for which Qualifications they may be appointed, each of whom shall receive a salary of two tion. 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 and solvent security in the sum of ten thousand dollars, approved by the Governor and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State. and organiza tion. SEC. 3007. As soon as possible after said commissioners are qualified, they shall assemble in the city of New Orleans, a majority First meeting in all cases being necessary to constitute a quorum, and 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 of the State between the rivers Mississippi and Achafalaya, and from Second District, 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, Natchitoches Third District. 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. SEC. 3011. The Fourth District shall comprise the parishes of Caddo, Bossier, DeSoto, Claiborne, Bienville, Sabine, Natchitoches, Fourth District, 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, Ouachita, Franklin and Caldwell. Fifth District. engineers. Salaries. SEC. 3013. The board shall appoint one engineer for each district. Appointment of The one appointed for the district in which the parish of Orleans, left bank, is situated, shall act as chief engineer under the direction Chief engineer. of the board. The chief engineer shall receive a salary at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum, payable 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. pensation. SEC. 3014. The board shall appoint a secretary and such other Other employes employes as are necessary to carry out the intent of this act, who and their com- shall receive such salary as the board may fix and determine, not to exceed two hundrded dollars per month, payable upon the warrant of the president, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Surveying, building and repairing levees. 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 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. All construction and repair of levees shall be let by contract to Contracts let to the lowest responsible bidder, and no contract shall be awarded lowest bidders. unless approved by a majority of the board. The contractors shall furnish good and sufficient security for the faithful performance of their contracts, subject to the approval of the board. SEC. 3016. All contracts shall be advertised at least twenty days Advertisements. 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. Commissioners SEC. 3017. No commissioners of said board shall have any pecushall not be in- niary interest directly or indirectly in any contract or other work let out by said board. terested in con tracts. SEC. 3018. Said board, upon the convening of the General AsAnnual report. sembly 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. 1861-192. Prohibiting the SEC. 3019. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to molest, break or injure in any manner any gates, locks or dams on breaking of the the public works belonging to the State of Louisiana, or to any parish or corporation in said State. gates, etc., on public works. Penalty. SEC. 3020. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this act, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months in the parish jail, or both, at the discretion of the court. |