thorized to by the State, then, on application of the United States, through Executive autheir officer or agent, after acquiring title thereto, the said transter jurisexecutive is hereby authorized to transfer to the United States United States. exclusive jurisdiction of the same. QUARANTINE. Sec. 1668. There shall be a board of health, composed of diction to the health, how nine competent citizens of the State, to be selected as follows: Board of three by the council of New Orleans, on joint ballot, and six to composed and be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and con sent of the senate. The said members shall be selected with reference to their known zeal in favor of a quarantine system. All the members chosen. of the board shall be commissioned by the governor for the term Term of office. of one year, after having filed and subscribed in the office of the secretary of State an oath well and truly to enforce and Oath. comply with the provisions of an act entitled "An act to establish quarantine for the protection of the State," and in case of neglecting or failing to comply with the above required oath, within ten days after their appointment or election, their office shall be considered vacated. D. Sec. 3034. Act 1855, p. 471. appoint resi Sec. 1669. The resident physician of the quarantine ground Governor to shall receive a salary of five thousand dollars, and shall be ap- dent physician. pointed by the governor of the State, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and removable at pleasure. D. Sec. 3042. Proclamation in certain cas by the govern Sec. 1670. The governor of the State shall issue his proclamation, upon the advice of the board of health, declaring any Proces place where there shall be reason to believe a pestilential, con- es to be issued tagious or infectious disease exists, to be an infected place, or. stating the number of days a quarantine is to be performed. It shall be the duty of the resident physician to give timely notice to the board of health of the necessity of such proclamation. After such proclamation shall have been issued, all vessels arriving in the port of New Orleans, or at the Rigolets, or at Effects therethe Atchafalaya station, from such infected place, shall be subject to quarantine, and shall, together with their officers, crews, passengers and cargoes, be subject to all regulations passed by the board of health, or provided by this act. D. Sec. 3049. of. not complying regulations. Sec. 1671. Every master of a vessel subject to a quarantine or visitation, arriving in the port of New Orleans, who shall Penalty for refuse or neglect, either, first, to proceed with and anchor his with certain vessel at the place designated for quarantine at the time of his quarantine arrival; second, to submit his vessel, cargo and passengers to the examination of the physician, and to furnish all necessary information to enable that officer to determine what quarantine shall be fixed for his vessel; third, to remain with his vessel at Register of conveyances to be appoint the quarantine ground during the period assigned for her quarantine, and, while there, to comply with the directions and regulations prescribed by this act, or by the board of health, or with such directions prescribed for his vessel, crew, cargo and passengers, by the resident physician, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding twelve months, or by both, at the discretion of the court. D. Sec. 3049. REGISTER OF CONVEYANCES FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS. Sec. 1672. There shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, an officer with the ed every fourth title of register of conveyances for the parish of Orleans, whose appointment shall be renewed every fourth year. year. Register's bond. Recorder of D. Sec. 3152. Act 1855, p. 345. Sec. 1673. He shall furnish the governor of the State a bond, in a sum of fifteen thousand dollars, with good and sufficient security of two freeholders in the parish of Orleans, for the faithful performance of the duties that are imposed upon him by law. D. Sec. 3153, RECORDER OF MORTGAGES FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS. Sec. 1674. The governor shall nominate, and by and with mortgages to the advice and consent of the senate, appoint a recorder of be appointed by the govern- mortgages for the parish of Orleans, who shall hold his office for two years, and until his successor shall be duly appointed and qualified. or. His term of office. His bond. D. Sec. 3169. Act 1855, p. 321. Sec. 1675. He shall furnish to the governor of the State his bond, with one or more securities, to the amount of forty thousand dollars, for the faithful execution of the duties required of him by law. D. Sec. 3170. Governor and effect loans to treasurer to meet interest on bonds of State. Provided. TO PROVIDE DEFICIENCIES IN THE PAYMENT OF INTEREST OF Sec. 1676. The governor and treasurer be and are hereby authorized, and it shall be their duty, to effect from time to time such loans of money as may be necessary to provide for any deficiency in the treasury, which deficiency would prevent the payment of accruing interest on the bonds of the State; Provided, the interest paid for such loan shall not exceed seven per cent. per annum, and that no commissions shall be allowed for procuring said loan. And it is further provided, That to secure such loans the governor is authorized to issue and pledge a sufficient number of the bonds of the State, provided for by an act approved February twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, provided that such pledge shall not authorize or permit the sale of said bonds so pledged within one year from the date of said loan, nor at any time thereafter, except at public sale in the city of New Orleans, on public advertisement in the official journal of the State, and three other daily journals, for the period of at least sixty days, and provided that not less than fifty cents shall be borrowed for each dollar of bonds so pledged. And be it further provided, That the money realized from any loan authorized by this joint resolution shall be paid into the treasury of the State; and the treasurer is hereby forbidden and prohibited from paying out such funds, except for the purpose of canceling the accruing coupons of interest of the bonds of the State; the full purpose and intent of this resolution being to protect and preserve the credit of the State. D. Sec. 3798. Act 1869, p. 45. REPORTER. appointed. Sec. 1677. The decisions of the supreme court shall be published by a reporter to be appointed by the governor, on the Reporter to be recommendations of the supreme court, for the term of four years. The reporter shall be removable by the governor, on the How removed, complaint of a majority of the judges of the court, for any neglect or misconduct. No person shall be appointed reporter who shall not, at the time of his appointment, be a citizen of the United States and of this State, and have been for three years duly licensed to practice law in this State. The term of the office of reporter shall expire on the thirty-first of December, 1854, and ́every four years thereafter. D. Sec. 3221. Act 1855, p. 300. REGISTRATION. pervisor of be appointed Sec. 1678. The governor of the State shall, at least two months previous to any general election, appoint in each parish General suof the State one supervisor of registration, to whom the clerk registration to of the court shall deliver the books of registration delivered to in each parish. him by the last supervisor of registration, and he shall receive the same and strike from them the names of the voters who have died or left the parish, or become ineligible for any legal cause, and add thereto the names of all those who have removed into the parish since the last registration, or who were not then registered, and those who have since come of age, and generally perfect the registration of the parish; and he shall close such registration nine days before the said general election, and furnish to the commissioners of election of each voting place or poll copies of the registered voters of their precinct, and within ten days after such general election such supervisor shall redeliver to the clerks of the courts the books of registration, with all the additions and amendments made thereto, as herein provided, D. Sec. 3197. Act 1868, p. 65. Act 1874, No. 155. Governor to nominate har bor masters. Term of office. Power of gov ernor to re move them, on proof, for cause. curity Sec. 1679. The governor shall nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint five harbor masters, who shall constitute and be known as the board of harbor masters, for the port of New Orleans, and whose term of office shall be two years; Provided, however, That the governor shall have the power to remove from office any of said harbor masters, upon satisfactory proof made to him of negligence, incapacity or official misconduct. D. Sec. 1639. Act 1856, p. 206. Sec. 1680. Each of said harbor masters shall give bond, payBond with se- able to the governor and his successors in office, with two given by har- sureties, in the penal sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties required of him by law. bor masters. Duties and D. Sec. 374, 164. Sec. 1681. Said harbor masters, 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 Misbor masters. sissippi, 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 powers of har Penalty for bor masters in ance of their action of a may appeal to make 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 harbor masters are constituted the sole judges. And further, the harbor masters 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 harbor master in the execution of the duties of his office, he shall, for each offense, forfeit and pay the penal sum opposing harof fifty dollars, to be sued for by the treasurer of the charity the performhospital of the city of New Orleans, for the use of said hospital; duties. Provided, however, That if any person shall consider himself Persons agaggrieved by the decision of any individual harbor master, he grieved by the shall be at liberty to appeal to the board, and their concurrence harbor master, shall be given thereto before such decision is carried into effect. the board. Sec. 1682. The board of harbor masters shall have power to demand and receive from the commanders, owners, consignees, or either of them, of every vessel that may enter the port of New Orleans and load, unload, or make fast to the levees, within the said limits, at the rate of three cents per ton, to be Three cent computed from the tonnage expressed in the register of said vessel will pay. vessel respectively, and no more. This shall not extend to the chalands, flats, keelboats, steamboats or other vessels which Boats in the are employed in the river trade, unless upon the application of cepted. person having charge of such chaland, flat, keelboat, steamboat or other vessels so employed. The harbor masters shall interfere and adjust any difference respecting the situation or Harbor master position of such flat or boat, which difference the harbor mas- to decide all ters are authorized to hear and determine; in which case they receive two may demand and receive from the party in default in the prem- every adjustises the sum of two dollars for every difference so adjusted, and ment. the no more. Act 1864, p. 30. Sec. 1683. It shall also be the duty of the said harbor mas ton each river trade ex cases, and to dollars for ters to superintend and enforce all laws of this State, and all Further duties laws of the city of New Orleans, for the preventing and re- of harbor masmoving of all nuisances whatsoever in or upon the levee of the city. Act 1856, p. 206. ters. masters. Sec. 1684. The said board of harbor masters shall keep an office to be office in a central part of the city, and may appoint such clerks kept by harbor and deputies as they think proper, but the deputies and clerks shall take an oath to perform truly and faithfully the duties im- and deputies. posed on the harbor masters, and the said harbor masters shall be responsible for their acts. RELATIVE TO SHIPPING MASTERS. Sec. 1685. No person shall be authorized to exercise the functions, or to act as shipping master for any of the ports of Their clerks |