SEC. 1653. (Companies, battalions, etc., may be organized.) See D. 2309.

SEC. 1655.

SEC. 1656.

SEC. 1657.

SEC. 1658.

2314.

(Battalions.) See D. 2311.

(Regiments.) See D. 2312.

(Instruction, equipments, etc.) See D. 2313.

(Members exempt from other militia duties.) See D.

SEC. 1659. (Governor may dissolve for neglect of duty.) See D. 2315.

STATE INTEREST IN CORPORATIONS.

SEC. 1660.

(Vote of the stock owned by the State and city of New

Orleans.) See D. 695.

Act 1860, p. 183.

METROPOLITAN POLICE COMMISSIONERS.

SEC. 1661. (Appointment and removal of commissioners.) Repealed. D. sec. 2238; Act 1869, p. 22; Aet. 1877, Ex. S., p. 57, No. 35.

BOARD OF IMMIGRATION.

SEC. 1662. (Appointment of commissioners of immigration.) See D. 1721.

Act 1869, p. 106.

LAND OFFICE.

SEC. 1663. (Appointment of register; his salary, fees.) See D. 2917. Act 1855, p. 350; Act 1880, No. 75, p. 85.

SEC. 1664. (Oath of office; bond.) See D. 2918.

Act 1880, No. 75, p. 85.

COMMISSIONER OF DRAINAGE IN ORLEANS AND JEFFERSON. SEC. 1665. (Commissioners of drainage to be appointed.) Repealed. See supra Drainage; Act 1869, p. 49.

LIGHTS FOR LIGHTHOUSES.

SEC. 1666. (The executive authorized to transfer the title to and jurisdiction over certain property to the United States.) See D. 2948. Act 1855, p. 123.

SEC. 1667. (Executive authorized to transfer jurisdiction to the United States.) See D. 2949.

QUARANTINE.

SEC. 1668. (Board of health, how composed and chosen; term of office; oath.) See D. 3031.

Act 1855, p. 471; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 117, No. 80.

SEC. 1669. (Governor to appoint resident physician.) See D. 3042. Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 117, No. 80.

SEC. 1670. (Proclamation in certain cases to be issued by the gov ernor; effects thereof.) See D. 3049.

Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 117, No. 80.

SEC. 1671. (Penalty for not complying with certain quarantine regulations. See D. 3049.

Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 117, No. 8).

REGISTER OF CONVEYANCES FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS. SEC. 1672. (Register of conveyances to be appointed every fourth year.) See D. 3152.

Act 1855, p. 345.

SEC. 1673. (Register's bond.) See D. 3153.

RECORDER OF MORTGAGES FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS. SEC. 1674. (Recorder of mortgages to be appointed by the governor; his term of office.) See D. 3169.

Act 1855, p. 321; Act 1880, No. 66, p. 62.

SEC. 1675. (His bond.) See D. 3170.

Act 1880, No. 66, p. 62.

TO PROVIDE FOR DEFICIENCIES IN THE PAYMENT OF INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC DEBT.

SEC. 1676. (Governor and treasurer to effect loans to meet interest on bonds of State.) See D. 3793.

Act 1869, p. 45.

REPORTER.

SEC. 1677. (Reporter to be appointed.) See D. 3221.

Act 1855, p. 300; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 165, No. 100.

REGISTRATION.

SEC. 1678. (General supervisor of registration to be appointed in each parish.) Repealed.

D. sec. 3197; Act 1868, p. 65; Act 1874, No. 155; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 168,
No. 101.

HARBORMASTER.

Governor to nominate har

bormasters.

Term of office.

SEC. 1679. The governor shall nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint five harbormasters, who shall constitute and be known as the board of harbormasters for the port of New Orleans, and whose term of office shall be two years; proPower of gov. ernor to remove vided, however, that the governor shall have the power to remove them, on proof, for cause. from office any of said harbormasters, upon satisfactory proof made to him of negligence, incapacity or official misconduct.

Bond with secu

D. sec.

1639; Act 1856, p. 206; see masters and wardens.

SEC. 1680. Each of said harbormasters shall give bond, payable rity to be given to the governor and his successors in office, with two sureties, in the by harbormas. ters. penal sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties required of him by law.

Duties and

powers of harbormasters.

D. sec. 374, 1640.

SEC. 1681. Said harbormasters, under the rules and regulations to be established by the board, shall have authority to regulate and station all vessels in the stream of the river Mississippi, within the 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 maks 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 harbormasters are constituted the sole judges. And, further, the harbormasters 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 respective situations. And if any master or other person shall oppose or resist any harbormaster posing harbor in the execution of the duties of his office, he shall, for each offence, performance of forfeit and pay the penal sum of fifty 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, that if any person shall consider himself aggrieved by the decision of any individual harbormaster he shall be at liberty to appeal to the board, and their concurrence shall be given thereto before such decision is carried into effect. SEC. 1682. The board of harbormasters shall have power to demand Fees of harbor and receive from the commanders, owners, consignees, or either of them, of every vessel that may enter the port of New Orleans, and

Penalty for

op. masters in the

their duties.

Persons ag

grieved by the action of a harbormaster, may appeal to the board.

masters.

certain water

load, unload or make fast to the levees, within the said limits, at the rate of one and a-half cent 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, steamboats or Exemption of other vessels which are employed in the river trade, unless upon the craft. application of the person having charge of said chaland, flat, keelboat, steamboat or vessel so employed. The harbormaster shall interfere and adjust any difference respecting the situation or position of such Harbormasters flat or boat, which difference the harbormasters are authorized to to adjust differhear and determine; in which case they may demand and receive from to the situation and position of the party in default in the premises the sum of two dollars for every certain water difference so adjusted, and no more. (As reënacted by Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 4, No. 2.)

Act 1864, p. 30.

ences relative

craits.

Further duties

SEC. 1683. It shall also be the duty of the said harbormasters to superintend and enforce all laws of this State, and all laws of the city of harbormas of New Orleans; for the preventing and removing of all nuisances what- ters. soever in or upon the levee of the city.

Act 1856, p. 206.

by harbormasters.

SEC. 1684. The said board of harbormasters shall keep an office in Office to be kept a central part of the city, and may appoint such clerks and deputies as they think proper; but the deputies and clerks shall take an oath to perform truly and faithfully the duties imposed on the harbormasters, and deputies. and the said harbormasters shall be responsible for their acts.

RELATIVE TO SHIPPINGMASTERS.

Their clerks

SEC. 1685. No person shall be authorized to exercise the functions or to act as shippingmaster for any of the ports of this State, unless Qualifications the same be a citizen of the United States, a duly qualified voter of the required for shippingmasState and parish wherein he resides, and shall have received from the ters. secretary of the State a license in due form to act as shippingmaster License. for any port of the State, upon his filing in the said secretary's office

Compensation

a bond in favor of the governor of the State in the sum of five thou- Bond. sand dollars, with two securities, to be approved by the board of harbormasters or a majority thereof; and the secretaty of State shall to secretary of be authorized to charge the sum of five dollars for every license so issued.

D. sec. 3478; Act 1859, p. 36.

SEC. 1686. The owner, master or agent of any vessel, steamer or other sea-going water-craft, who shall employ any other person than a licensed shippingmaster, as provided in this act, for the shipment, of any seaman, steward, cook or other person, employed on such vessel, steamer or other water craft (other than officers thereof), such

State.

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.

SEC. 1687. The harbormasters of New Orleans shall keep posted List of shipping up in their central office a list of the duly licensed shippingmasters, posted up by containing only the names of such as shall have exhibited to said harbormasters. board of harbormasters their licenses from the secretary of State.

masters to be

Penalty for acting as ship pingmaster

without license.

SEC. 1688. Any person acting as a shippingmaster, or engaging the services of any seaman, steward, cook or any person employed 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 offence shall have been committed. SEC. 1689. (Duty of harbormasters.) See D. 3053.

Act 1855, p. 471.

SEC. 1690. (Towboats liable to inspection and quarantine.) See D. 3054.

See master and wardens, seamen and steamboats.

HOMESTEAD AND EXEMPTED
PROPERTY.

Property exempt from seizure and sale.

Value of prop

erty not to ex

ceed two thou

sand dollars.

SEC. 1691. In addition to the property and effects now exempt from seizure and sale under execution, one hundred and sixty acres of ground, and the buildings and improvements thereon occupied as a residence, and bona fide owned by the debtor, having a family, or mother, or father, or person or persons dependent on him for sup port; 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 sale does not exceed in value two thousand dollars, and, in case of excess, any sale thereof under execution shall be taken from the lot of ground and buildings herein mentioned, and not from the other property herein mentioned as being exempt from seizure and sale; and, provided further, that no