of the penal clauses of this act, so far as it relates to pilots, after de- Fines, how disposed of. ducting the fees of the district attorney, be paid into the treasury of the parish where the offence may be committed, for the use and benefit of said parish.

D. sec. 1070, 1508.

POLICE JURY.

See Con. 1879, art. 209, 45, 163, 248; Act 1870, p. 47, No. 24-limit to taxation; 1876, p. 45, No. 21- municipal subscriptions; 1877, Ex. S., p. 47, No. 30-powers and limitation; p. 7. No. 6-liability of parish; p. 110, No. 73— expenses of prisoners; p. 158, No. 95, sec. 103-105-limit parish taxes; p. 135, No. 96-assessment and taxation; p. 213, No. 140-board of engineers; Act 1880, p. 36, No. 37-appointment and term; p. 139, No. 111-courthouse; p. 42, No. 42-paupers; p. 45, No. 49-scrip for taxes; p. 103, No. 78-constitutional limit to taxation; p. 32, No. 31-changing limits, removing parish seats; p. 112, No. 88-levees; p. 53, No 55-fences, hedges, barbed wire, powers; p. 108, No. 81-election for special taxes; Act 1882, p. 53, No. 41public improvements; p. 109, No. 87-bridges and navigation; p. 112, No. 90-additional powers; p. 156, No. 104-levees and flumes; p. 177, No. 126 -special taxes, election; p. 46, No. 32—navigation.

ORGANIZATION.

Police jury

SEC. 2726. The police juries of the several parishes of this State (the parishes of Orleans and Jefferson excepted) shall have the power, by consent of a majority of all the members composing each police wards. jury, to establish police jury wards, and to change the boundaries of those now existing in their respective parishes.

Act 1847, p. 116, sec. 1; Act 1871, p. 216, No. 97; Act 1873, p. 54, No. 15; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 87, No. 57; Act 1882, p. 117, No. 94.

SEC. 2727. The members of the police juries of the several parishes Qualifications of throughout the State, hereafter to be elected, shall possess the same police juries. qualifications as members of the house of representatives.

Act 1829, p. 38, sec. 1.

SEC. 2728. The persons who shall be allowed to vote for members Qualifications of the police jury shall possess the same qualifications as electors for of voters. members of the general assembly.

Act 1829, p. 38, sec. 2.

SEC. 2729. Elections for police jurors shall be held in all the par- Elections, when ishes on the first Monday of May.

Act 1841, p. 42, sec. 2.

held.

SEC. 2730. The members of the police jury shall be elected for two Term of office. years, and shall be divided by lot into two classes, so that the said

jury shall henceforth be renewed every year by one-half.

Act 1813, p.. 156, sec. 4.

Meetings.

SEC. 2731. They shall have the power to fix the periods of their respective regular meetings, and to meet at any other times which they may deem necessary.

Act 1830, p. 130, sec. 4.

SEC. 2732. The president of the several police juries shall be obliged Extra meetings to call a meeting of the police jury whenever he shall be thereto required by twelve inhabitants, freeholders.

Clerks to call

Act 1911, p. 184, sec. 4.

SEC. 2733. The clerks of the district courts of the different parishes of this State are empowered to convene the police juries of their meetings when respective parishes, whenever there is a vacancy in the office of president, in the same manner and for the reasons that the president could himself do.

there is no

president.

Notice of meet

ing, when nec essary.

To elect a president.

ident.

Act 1850, p. 24, sec. 1.

SEC. 2734. Notice to members shall be necessary only in cases of special meetings.

Act 1818, p. 74, sec. 7.

SEC. 2735. The police juries shall at such times as they may think proper elect a president from their own body, to serve for one year. Act 1847, p. 82, sec. 3.

SEC. 2736. The duties heretofore imposed on the parish judges by Duties of pres- the laws of this State, in connection with police juries, shall hereafter be performed by the president of said police juries, if not otherwise provided for by law.

Elections to fill vacancies.

Notices, how given.

President may resign.

President pro tem.

Act 1817, p. 81, sec. 1.

SEC. 2737. It shall be the duty of the president to order elections to fill all vacancies that may exist in said police juries, giving at least ten days' notice of such election, by having written or printed notices posted at three several places in the ward where said election may be ordered; and in parishes where official newspapers are published, besides the notice above directed to be given, publication thereof shall be made in said newspaper twice in ten days. Said election shall be conducted according to the existing laws regulating elections. Act 1847, p. 82, sec. 2, 4.

SEC. 2738. The president, when desirous of resigning his seat as a member or president, shall tender his resignation to the police jury. Act 1847, p. 82, sec. 7.

SEC. 2739. Whenever the president does not attend the juries are authorized and required to appoint a president pro tempore from amongst themselves, who shall have all the powers and perform all the duties required by law of the president.

Act 1824, p. 134, sec. 2.

SEC. 2740. The members of police juries shall be entitled to two dollars per day for every day they are actually employed in the ser- Pay of police jurors. vice of their respective parishes at meetings of the police jury, to be paid out of the funds of the several parishes on warrant of the president of the jury.

Act 1818, p. 72, sec. 5.

SEC. 2741. Whenever the president shall fail or neglect to perform any of the duties imposed on him by law, without a reasonable exPenalty for cuse, he shall forfeit and pay for each failure as aforesaid the sum president neglecting his duty of one hundred dollars into the treasury of his parish, to be recovered by motion before the parish court by the district attorney pro tempore, three days' notice of which motion shall be given said president. And it is hereby made the duty of the district attorneys pro tempore Duty of district attorneys. throughout the State diligently to inquire whether the said president shall have performed his duties, and proceed as the cause may require.

D. sec. 1170; Act 1818, p. 72, sec. 3.

SEC. 2742. Whenever any member of any police jury, on being duly notified, shall fail to attend at any meeting, or who, having attended, Penalty for poshall absent himself from said meeting previous to the legal separa- lice jurors failing to attend. tion thereof, without reasonable excuse, shall forfeit and pay to the treasury of his parish the sum of thirty dollars.

Act 1818, p. 72, sec. 2.

THEIR POWERS, DUTIES, ETC.

SEC. 2743. The police juries shall have power to make all such Powers and regulations as they may deem expedient

First. For their own government.

duties.

Second. As to the proportion and direction, the making and re- Roads, bridges, pairing of the roads, bridges, causeways, dikes, levees and other levees, etc. highways.

Clearing the

Third. For the clearing of the banks of the Mississippi river and of other navigable streams, for the purpose of securing a free pas- banks of rivers. sage for boats and other small crafts, and for the tow lines of the same.

Fourth. As to the form and height of enclosures or fences whenever they may think proper to require the proprietors to enclose any ground.

Fifth. To pass all ordinances and regulations which they shall deem necessary in relation to the marking, the sale, destruction of cattle in general, and especially of wild cattle which are not marked; and also of horses and mules; and to take any measures concerning the police of cattle in general in all the cases not provided for by

Fences.

Cattle.

Police of taverns, etc.

Tax on peddlers.

Fines.

Taxes.

Powers of po

lice juries relative to estab lishing erries,

etc.

Treasurer.

Officers.

Taxation for the poor.

law; to fix the time in which cattle may be suffered to rove in the parishes of this State, where that custom prevails, so that such roving may not be detrimental to the crops; to determine what animals shall not be suffered to rove, and in what cases they may lawfully be killed.

Sixth. To regulate the police of taverns and houses of public entertainment, and shops for retailing liquors, in their respective parishes; and to impose whatever parish tax they may see fit on all keepers of billiard tables and grogshops, and on all hawkers, peddlers and trading boats.

Seventh. To determine the quantum of fines against all such as shall transgress their regulations.

Eighth. To lay such taxes as they may judge necessary to defray the expenses of their respective parishes.

Ninth. The police juries of the several parishes of the State (the parish of Orleans excepted) shall have the exclusive privilege of establishing ferries and toll bridges within their respective limits; of fixing the rates of ferriage and toll to be charged thereon, and of generally regulating the police of the same. This privilege shall not extend to any ferries or bridges already established until the expiration of their charters, nor to any ferries or bridges within the control of municipal corporations; and said police juries shall have the right to lease the ferries within their respective parishes for any number of years not to exceed five; and the lessees of said ferries shall give bond and security annually, payable to the president of the police jury, in such sum as may be required, for the faithful performance of their duties as public ferrymen.

D. sec. 1501.

Tenth. To appoint a treasurer for the parish.

Eleventh. To appoint all officers necessary to carry into execution the parish regulations, and to remove them from office.

Twelfth. To provide for the support of the poor and necessitous within their respective parishes by taxation or otherwise.

Thirteenth. To cause to be opened in any town, suburb or other Natural drains. place divided into house lots, or when a point of land on the Mississippi or other water course shall be divided among several proprietors, such ancient natural drains as have been obstructed by the owners of the adjacent lands, and to prescribe the mode to be observed in that respect; to cause any water course which is not navigable to be filled up for the purpose of carrying the public highways over the same, provided that no injury be thereby occasioned to the neighboring inhabitants; and whenever, on application made by more than twelve inhabitants of a town, suburb or other place divided

into house lots, or when a point of land on the Mississippi or other water course shall be divided among several proprietors, it shall be found necessary to dig one or more common draining ditches, the said juries shall have power to ordain that the said ditches be dug at the expense of the owners of the lots, and that the expense be borne by a contribution among the owners, to be levied in such manner as the jury shall prescribe; saving to individuals or persons aggrieved the right of complaining for the making or opening of such natural or artificial drainings when unnecessary or hurtful to them.

Trespasses by

Fourteenth. To adopt such regulations as they may think necessary to prevent and punish trespasses committed by hunters in closes hunters. or lands fenced in; provided, however, that the fines imposed by the said police juries for such offences shall in no case be less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars.

Bridges and

Fifteenth. To grant permission and to determine the rate of toll to be demanded by persons desiring to build a bridge or make a turn- turnpike roads. pike road; provided, that in no case whatever the police jury shall Provided. grant the right of toll for more than ten years.

Quarantine

Sixteenth. To enact ordinances and regulations not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of the United States nor of this State regulations. to protect their respective parishes against the introduction of all and every kind of contagious or epidemical disease.

To sue for

Seventeenth. To sue any person for whose account levees, roads, etc., may have been made or repaired at the expense of the parish, work done. and to obtain the reimbursement of said amount by privilege on the land subject to the said works.

Eighteenth. To appoint parish syndics and overseers of roads and Overseers of levees at any regular meeting by a majority of the votes present, and roads and levees whether a quorum be in attendance or not.

To lease school

Nineteenth. To lease to the bidder for the shortest time, not exceeding ten years, any tract of land within the limits of their respec- lands. tive parishes, given by the general government to the State for the use of schools, and upon which a levee shall be necessary, as well for its own protection as that of the adjoining lands from inundation; the only consideration of said lease to be the making and keeping in repair the necessary levee by the lessee for the whole term of his lease.

D. sec. 969, 1501, 2447, 2448, 2778, 2962, 3063; 24 A. 136; Act 1813, p. 158, sec. 5; Act 1825, p. 64, sec. 3; Act 1842, p. 440, sec. 11; Act 1813, p. 158, sec. 5; Act 1855, p. 367; Act 1852, p. 163, sec. 1; Act 1813, p. 160, sec. 6; Act 1814, p. 46; Act 1825, p. 62, sec. 1; Act 1827, p. 36, sec. 6; Act 1835, p. 162, sec. 5; Act 1817, p. 156, sec. 3; Act 1829, p. 54, sec. 1; Act 1827, p. 104, sec. 54; 34 A. 850. (See list of acts supra at sec. 2726.)

SEC. 2744. A vote of a majority of all the members elect of police