1855-130. Disorderly houses. Keepers of taverns, etc., harboring deserters from merchant vessels. 1859-106. Seamen's baggage, luggage, tools, etc., not liable to be retained for boarding and lodging. Amount recov modate therein, at the rate of fifty cents per annum for each lodger; provided, that no keeper of a boarding house, lodging house, hotel, inn or tavern shall pay less than ten dollars per annum; and provided further, that no keeper of a boarding house entertaining three or less boarders or lodgers shall be subject to pay any license. The proprietor of each boarding house, lodging house, hotel, inn or tavern, shall deliver, at the beginning of each year, to the Collector or Assessor of his or her parish or assessment district, a statement of the number of guests he or she is prepared to accommodate. Said statement to be made under oath before a Justice of the Peace, and to be filed by said Collector or Assessor. 8. [SEC. 1704.] Whoever shall be guilty of keeping any disorderly inn, tavern, ale house, tippling house, gaming house or brothel, shall suffer fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court, and the offender may likewise be adjudged to forfeit his license to keep a house of public resort or entertainment. 9. [SEC. 1705.] If the keeper of any tavern, lodging or boarding house, shall knowingly receive, harbor, lodge or conceal any deserter from any merchant vessel, he shall, on conviction, pay a fine of one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days. 10. [SEC. 3491.] No keeper of a public or lodging house for seamen in this State, shall withhold or detain any chest, bed or bedding, clothes, or tools, or other effects of any seaman, for debt alleged to be due by the seaman; and on examination any Magis trate may, by warrant, cause the detained property to be seized and delivered to the seaman. any 11. [SEC. 3492.] No keeper of a public or lodging house for seamen in this State shall, at any time, recover from a seaman any ing house debt exceeding one dollar, and no other person shall be entitled to recover, from any seaman, a debt exceeding one dollar, after he has signed articles to proceed to sea, until the voyage for which he shipped, is ended. keeper or other person. 1865-162. Public houses 12. [SEC. 2704.] No licenses shall be granted any person to keep a tavern, grog shop, billiard house or any house of public at Balize, how to entertainment at the Balize, South West Pass or any other station secure license for the same. for Pilots, nor within three miles of such station, unless the person applying for such license shall be recommended in writing by a majority of the Branch Pilots. Any person keeping any public house as aforesaid, at any of the places aforesaid, without a license, shall pay a fine of twenty-five dollars for each and every week such a house shall be kept, and, moreover, be obliged to shut up or remove such public house. Nothing in this section shall be so construed as to exonerate persons keeping public houses without licenses from the fines or other penalties decreed by the parish regulations. HUSBAND AND WIFE. 1. [SEC. 1720.] If any married person shall marry, the former husband or wife being alive, the one so offending shall, on convic- 1855–9. Bigamy. tion, pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be impris oned not exceeding two years. The provisions of this section shall not extend to any person whose husband or wife shall absent himself or herself from the other, for the space of five years, the one not knowing the other to be living within that time, nor to any person who shall be, at the time of such marriage, divorced by competent authority, nor to any person whose former marriage, by sentence of competent authority, shall have been declared void. 45 INDEX TO VOLUME 1. INTRODUCTORY MATTER- PAGE. Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the States... 9 Amendments to the Constitution of the United States..... Treaty between the United States of America and the French Republic... 19 23 27 30 31 45 67 89 113 ADMINISTRATOR-Continued. To administer in contested administrations, when and how long.. To administer vacant successions, how long.... To give bond.... Amount of.. Bond may be increased on application of creditor. Term of office.... Compensation and expenses In contestations, further compensation to be fixed by the Judge. ADVERTISEMENT- In the country parishes, who to designate the official journals.............. After notice to Police Jury and Clerk of District Court, publications and adver- Duty of Sheriffs and other officers to publish in the English language only.... Publication in supplements valid.................. In advertisements of sales title of suit to be inserted. Approval of printing and advertising bills. Warrant on treasury for the same.. Standard of measurement.. All conflicting acts repealed. When advertisements may be posted. At what places posted.. IN NEW ORLEANS. Parochial and municipal advertisements... Sheriff's and constable's sales, whether in French or English, or both.... When advertisements may be published in other journals in addition... State Printer to render to Auditor monthly accounts. 9 ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ 8 182 8 182 8 182 8 182 8 182 182 State Printer to file accounts for judicial printing, with accompanying affidavit, 9 182 Such affidavits evidence of publication...... 9 182 State Printer to render monthly accounts to Controller of city of New Orleans Execution and succession sales to be published in the German language... When court not in session on return day, when appellant may file record...... 885 185 |