SECTION 1. That in addition to the powers already granted by law, the Police Juries of the several parishes of the State, shall have the authority to pass such ordinances as they may deem proper for the preservation of wild game, and game fish, such as trout, bass, speckle perch, &c., in said parishes, and to prescribe time in which it may be taken or killed; and also to prevent idlers and vagrants and professional hunters from camping out or otherwise establishing themselves upon public or vacant lands, for the purpose of taking trapping or killing fish or game to sell; and to prescribe and enforce the penalty for any contravention of such ordinance.

SEC. 2. That when the Police Jury has passed an ordinance under this act, any violation of said ordinance is here declared to be a misdemeanor tryable before the District Court and punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25) dollars nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars or imprisonment in the parish jail not less than thirty (30) days nor more than sixty (60) days for each offence or both at the discretion of the court. This act to have effect immediately from and after its passage.

Act 30, E. S. 1877. Limit on power to contract debt, printed at p. 562, and note. Act 73, E. S. 1877. To fix compensation of sheriffs for keeping and maintaining prisoners, printed under title "Sheriffs."

Act 165, 1894. To refund certain sums to municipal corporations, printed at p. 577.

Act 37, 1890. Manner of paying fees of jurors and witnesses, printed at p. 108. Act 106, 1884. Prohibits sheriffs, clerks or Federal officers from holding any office of profit under police juries or school boards, printed at page 612.

Act 121, 1896. Protection of oyster industry, printed at p. 614.

See titles "Public Works," subtitle "Levees; " Parishes, "Elections," subtitle "Special Elections; ""Revenue," "Prisons."

Police jury can not exercise any powers other than those granted expressly or by necessary implication. State vs. Miller, 41 An. 55; Concordia vs. Railroad Co., 44 An. 615. Nor can they be enlarged beyond the limitations expressed in the Constitution. Zeigler vs. Thompson, 43 An. 1015. It may buy the property of a delinquent tax collector, at a sale under execution (Concordia vs. Berteron, 46 An. 356; 40 An. 756); and plead that certain acts were beyond the scope of its authority. Byrne vs. East Carroll, 45 An. 392.

Where a contractor who built a levee is to be paid therefor out of a certain fund created by a specially voted tax, he can not ignore those means and recover a judgment against the parish. Byrne vs. East Carroll, 45 An. 392.

A police jury is properly cited through its president. Richy vs. Police Jury, 46 An. 769. And for amounts within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, it may be sued in his court. State ex rel. Police Jury vs. Judge, 46 An. 118; 41 An. 403.

PRESCRIPTION.

2808. Contracts entered into, or judgment rendered between persons residing out of State, prescribed by the period of prescription of the place where the contract was entered into, or the judgment rendered. See R. C. C., Art. 3552.

2809. Informalities growing out of public sales prescribed by five years. See R. C. C., Art. 3543.

2810. Prescription as to Absentees.-The laws of prescription now existing, whereby absentees and non-residents of the State. are entitled to longer periods than persons present or residents in the State, before preseription can be acquired against them, are abolished; and hereafter absentees and non-residents of the State are to stand on the same footing, in relation to the laws of prescription, as persons present or residents of the State; Provided, That this section shall not apply to any prescription of one year or less (Act, 1848, p. 60).

R. C. C., Art. 3541.

2811. Prescription of open accounts, etc. See R. C. C., Art. 3538, amending Act 78, 1888, p. 86.

3540.

3547.

2812. Prescription of promissory notes. See R. C. C., Art.

2813. Prescription and removal of judgments. See R. C. C.

2814. Fixing period within which prosecution for certain crimes must be instituted. See Sec. 986.

2815. Against Redhibition.-All the suits for redhibitory defects of animals must be instituted within two months after the date of the sale thereof (Act 1828, p. 160).

R. C. C. 2535.

2816. In Favor of Sheriffs, etc.-The sheriffs and their securities shall be able to prescribe against their acts of misfeasance, nonfeasance, costs, offenses, and quasi-offenses, after the lapse of two years from the day of the omission or commission of the acts complained of.

2817. Privileges Against Ships, etc.-The term of prescription of privileges against ships, steamboats and other vessels, shall be six months (Act 160, 1858, p. 111).

2818 to 2821. When parol evidence is not admissible. See R. C. C., Art. 2278, Sec. 1, and Act 121, 1886, p. 219.

2822. Claims Against New Orleans.-All actions for the enforcement of any contract entered into with the corporation of the city of New Orleans for work and labor to be performed, and for the recovery of any damages alleged to have arisen in favor of the contractors for any breach thereof on the part of the said corporation, shall be prescribed if not instituted within one year after the expiration of the time within which such contract is required to be performed, or such damages are alleged to have arisen (Act 91, 1858, p. 64).

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS

ACTS OF CONGRESS.

The electors of the president and vice president shall be appointed in each State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November of the year in which they are to be appointed; provided, that each State may by law provide for the filling of any vacancy or vacancies which may occur in its college of electors when such college meets to give its electoral vote; and provided also, when any State shall have held an election for the purpose of choosing electors, and shall fail to make a choice on the day aforesaid, then the electors may be appointed on a subsequent day in such manner as the State shall by law provide.

U. S. Statutes, act approved January 23, 1845, Vol. 5, p. 721.

Except in case of an election of a president and vice president of the United States, prior to the ordinary period, as hereinafter specified, electors shall be appointed in each State for the election of president and vice president of the United States, within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday in December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday in December in every fourth year succeeding the last election, which electors shall be equal to the number of senators and representatives to which the several States may by law be entitled at the time when the president and vice president thus to be chosen, should come into office; provided, always, that where no apportionment of representatives shall have been made after any enumeration, at the time of choosing electors, then the number of electors shall be according to the existing apportionment of senators and representatives. U. S. Statutes, act approved March 1, 1792, Vol. 1, p. 239.

Electors shall meet and give their votes on the said first Wednesday in December, at such place in each State as shall be selected by the legislature thereof; and the electors in each State shall make and sign three certificates of all the votes by them given, and shall seal up the same, certifying on each that a list of the votes of such State for president and vice president is contained therein; and shall, by writing, under their hands, or under the hands of a majority of them, appoint a person to take charge of, and deliver to the president of the senate, at the seat of government, before the first Wednesday in January then next ensuing, one of the said certificates; and the said electors shall forthwith forward by the post office to the president of the Senate, at the seat of government, one other of the said certificates, and shall forthwith cause the other of the said certificates to be

delivered to the judge of that district in which the said electors shall assemble. Id.

The executive authority of each State shall cause three lists of the names of the electors of such State to be made and certified, and to be delivered to the electors on or before the first Wednesday in December, and the said electors shall annex one of the said lists to each of the lists of their votes. Id.

See U. S. Revised Statutes, Secs. 131 to 151.

February 3, 1887, Chap. 90; 24 Statutes at Large, p. 373.

2823. Time for holding elections, superseded by Constitution, Art. 191, and Act 137, 1896, Sec. 5. Printed at p. 356.

2824. Manner of Voting.—Every qualified voter in the State sball vote for Electors as follows: Two persons shall be selected from the State at large, and one person shall be chosen from each Congressional District in this State; and in case any ticket shall contain two or more names of persons residing in the same district (except the two chosen from the State at large), the first of such names only shall be considered as duly voted for (Act 193, 1868, p. 245).

2825. Qualification of Elector.-No person shall be considered a qualified Elector who is not a qualified voter in the district for which he is chosen, or in case of being selected for the State at large, then of some parish of the State.

2826. Examination of returns and ascertainment of result, superseded by Act 137, 1896, Sec. 24. Printed at p. 361.

See other provisions of act mentioned.

2827. Returns, How Preserved.-One of the returns from each parish, indorsed by the Governor, shall be placed on file and preserved among the archives of the Secretary of State.

2828. Publication of names of electors chosen, superseded. See Act 137, 1896, Sec. 5, printed at p. 356.

2829. Meeting of Electors.-The electors shall meet at the seat of government on the day appointed for their meeting by the act of Congress (the first Wednesday in December), and shall then and there proceed to execute the duties and services enjoined upon them by the constitution of the United States in the manner therein prescribed.

2830. Vacancies, How Filled.-If any one or more of the Electors chosen by the people shall fail from any cause whatever to attend at the appointed place, at the hour of 4 P. M. of the day prescribed for their meeting, it shall be the duty of the other electors immediately to proceed by ballot to supply such vacancy or vacancies.

2831. Compensation of Electors.-Each elector shall receive. the same daily compensation and allowance which at that time shall be allowed by law to members of the General Assembly, to be paid by the Treasurer of the State on warrants signed by the Governor. 2832. New Parishes. When a new parish shall be established it shall form a part of the district to which it belonged previous to its change of organization (Act 339, 1855, p. 482).

PRISONS.

2833. Sheriff is Keeper of Jail.-Each sheriff shall be the keeper of the public jail of his parish, and shall by all lawful means preserve the peace and apprehend all disturbers thereof, and other public offenders (Act 301, 1855, p. 366).

2834. Police Jury to Regulate Police of Jails.-The police juries in each and every parish of this State, and the Common Council of New Orleans, shall have power to pass such bylaws and regulations as they may deem expedient for the police and good government of the jails and public prisons in their parishes respectively (Act 1816, Sec. 1, p. 24).

2835. Physician for Jail.-A physician shall be annually appointed by the police jury in each and every parish, who shall attend such prisoners as are at the charge of the State whenever they are sick. His salary shall be fixed by the police jury (Act 1817, Sec. 3, p. 206).

2836. Food of Prisoners.-The sheriffs, Jailers, prison keepers and their deputies shall furnish to each and every prisoner the following per diem allowance of sound and wholesome provisions, to-wit: One pound of beef, or three-quarters of a pound of pork; one pound of wheaten bread; one pound of potatoes or one gill of rice, and at the rate of four quarts of vinegar and two quarts of salt to every one hundred rations (Act 1814, Sec. 2, 3, p. 38).

2837. Clothing of Prisoners. In addition to the nourishment allowed by law to such prisoners as are confined for crimes and misdemeanors, they shall, at the beginning of the winter season, be allowed each one blanket capot, one shirt, one pair of woolen trowsers and one pair of coarse shoes, and a shirt and a pair of trowsers of coarse linen for summer; and twelve and a half cents per day shall further be allowed to the keeper of the jail for each and every prisoner who is sick, in order that the said sick prisoners may be taken care of as their situation may require (Act 1817, Sec. 3, p. 206).