The two pre

ceding sections

Sec. 3028. The provisions of the two preceding sections shall

not to apply to not apply to the parishes of Concordia, Tensas, Madison and Car

certain parishes.

Police juries

shall construct temporary levees.

Provided.

Penalty for

failure to work

notified.

roll.

Act 1853, p. 259, § 1.

Sec. 3029. The police juries of the several parishes subject to overflow are hereby authorized and required to have temporary levees made in their respective parishes, and for this purpose they are hereby empowered to call out all citizens subject to road daty to work on such levees; Provided, That they shall not require more than six days' work on any or all such levees from each or any of said citizens.

D. Sec. 2636, 2756. Act 1868, p. 271.

reg

Sec. 3030. Any citizen subject to road duty, who shall be ularly summoned and notified in accordance to the regulations on levees when prescribed by the police jury to work on such levees, and who shall fail to work on the levees provided for in section 3029 of this act, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two dollars per day for every day he shall fail to work, to be recovered before any justice of the peace having jurisdiction of the case, which fine, when so recovered, shall be paid into the parish treasury, and be used in paying the wages of laborers on such levees.

for work on the levees.

D. Sec. 2687, 2757.

Sec. 3031. Each citizen required to work on the levees, as is Compensation provided by this act, shall be allowed one dollar per day for each day's work, and receive rations, and each laborer shall be entitled to a certificate from the police jury of the amount due him, which certificate is to be paid by the parishes in which the levees are built, when in funds.

D. Sec. 2638.

proclamation of quarantine, . . 3044 | Buildings at the Atchafalaya sta

Quarantine established.

Board of health to

tine ground,

Sec. 3032. There shall be a quarantine established below the city of New Orleans, on the river Mississippi, at a distance not less than seventy-five miles by the river from the city.

Act 1855, p. 471.

Sec. 3033. The board of health is hereby authorized to locate locate quaran- the quarantine ground, receive the transfer of the necessary land in receive trans- the name of the State, and to draw upon the treasurer of the State for the necessary amount, out of the fund appropriated under this appropriated. act; Provided, The consent of the governor of the State is given Proviso. to said purchase.

fer and draw for amount

Board of health, how

Sec. 3034. There shall be a board of health, composed of nine competent citizens of the State, to be elected as follows: Three composed and by the council of New Orleans, on joint ballot, and six to be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate.

chosen.

Oath.

The said members shall be selected with reference to their Term of office. known zeal in favor of a quarantine system. All the members of the board shall be commissioned by the governor, for the term of one year, after having filed and subscribed in the office of the secretary of State, the usual oath of office, and an oath well and truly to enforce and 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.

board of

D. Sec. 1668.

Sec. 3035. The board of health shall meet once a month from Meeting of the the first of November to the first of June, and once a week from the first of June to the first of November, and as often as they may deem necessary.

health.

and

Sec. 3036. The board of health shall meet and organize on the Time of meet- third Monday in April, and elect out of their own number a presizgn organ- ident, whose duty it shall be to reside in New Orleans and superDuties of pres- intend the different quarantine stations of the State, and it shall be his duty to visit them as often as the board of health shall deem necessary.

ident.

His salary.

Quorum.

He shall have the power to issue, during the adjournment, to constables or sheriffs all orders and warrants provided by the provisions of this act, and shall report to the attorney-general all violations of the same. It shall be his duty to lay before the board at each meeting the business to be transacted, and a book in which he shall enter copies of all letters written by him, orders and warrants issued, and a detail of all his acts.

He shall present at each meeting all communications forwarded to him, and a report of the resident physicians and treasurers, and perfom all duties as shall be assigned to him by the board of health. He shall only be removed by impeachment, and shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars a year.

Sec. 3037. Four members of said board shall form a quorum;

Provided, however, That no contract for building shall be entered Provided. into without the consent of a majority of the board.

Sec. 3038. The board of health shall have power to appoint a Secretary and secretary, who shall act as treasurer, who shall furnish security treasurer. in a sum of ten thousand dollars.

It shall be his duty to keep a minute of the proceedings of the board, and all vouchers and expenditures made by authority of

said board.

Sec. 3039. The board of health of the State of Louisiana shall authorize the resident physician of the quarantine station to employ Powers of the an assistant physician whose salary shall be two thousand dollars health. a year. The board of health shall have power to employ nurses and assistants to attend the sick, and such other persons as may be required to carry out proper quarantine duties, and to fix their compensation, also to make all needful rules and regulations for the maintenance of quarantine, and to impose fines not exceeding five hundred dollars for contravention of established rules; the board of health shall have power to remove, or cause to be removed, any substance which they may deem detrimental to the health of New Orleans, and the street commissioner shall execute their orders whenever not in conflict with the ordinances of the city or the laws of the State; to pass sanitary ordinances for the city, provided such are approved by the council, and published as city ordinances; to define the duties of officers appointed by them, to issue warrants to any constable, police officer, or sheriff, in the State; to issue their warrant to the sheriff of the city of New Orleans, or of any parish, where any vessel may be, to have such vessel, if they deem it necessary for the protection of health, removed to the quarantine station. The fees of said officer shall be paid by the board of health. The board of health shall have power to extend the period of quarantine, should it be deemed necessary by them.

Act 1858, p. 187.

station at the

on the Atcha

Sec. 3040. There shall be a quarantine station at some point on the Rigolets, and another on the Atchafalaya river, two miles Quarantine below"Pilots' Station," at the mouth of the Wax bayou. The Rigolets and board of health is hereby empowered, and it shall be their duty, falaya. to locate them agreeably to the provisions of this section, but the provisions of this act shall only apply to the station at the Rigolets from the day of the issuing of the proclamation of the governor, as provided by section 3049, declaring any port on the lake shore or on the Gulf of Mexico to be an infected place, and shall remain in full force until suspended by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the board of health.

The provisions of this act shall apply to and be enforced at the quarantine station on the Atchafalaya river from the first of May to the first of November of each year; and also when the governor shall have issued his proclamation, as provided by section 3049, and in such a case shall remain in full force until sus

sician.

and removed.

sician.

Fees.

pended by a resolution voted for by two-thirds of the members of the board of health.

There shall be no permanent building erected at Pilots' Station, on the Atchafalaya river, but the board of health shall use as a hospital for the reception of the sick, hulls and cabins of steamboats. The board of health shall employ an officer, whose duty it shall be, and who is hereby empowered, to require from captains of vessels, steamboats or crafts, having passed the station at the Rigolets, or on the Atchafalaya river, the permit of the resi dent physician.

Act 1855, p. 471.

Sec. 3041. The board of health shall appoint a resident physi cian for each of the two quarantine stations, on the Rigolets and on the Atchafalaya, and such other persons as may be necessary; provided their salary shall run only during such time as they shall thus be employed, and shall in no case exceed, for the time they shall have been thus employed, the salary of the same officers at the quarantine station, for the same space of time on the Mississippi.

Sec. 3042. The resident physician at the quarantine station on Salary of the the Mississippi river shall receive an annual salary of five thousand resident phy- dollars ($5,000) and shall be appointed by the governor of the Physician, State, with the consent of the senate, and shall be removable at how appointed the will of the governor. It shall be the duty of the resident Duties of phy- physician, or his assistant, to visit and inspect every vessel entering the port of New Orleans through the Mississippi river. Vessels free from disease, not in a foul condition, and not from an infected district (which shall be decided upon by the resident physician), shall be furnished with a certificate of health, and allowed to proceed to the city. The resident physician shall require for every certificate thus furnished, the following fees: Every sailing vessel of one thousand tons or over shall pay thirty dollars ($30); every ship of one thousand tons or less shall pay twenty dollars ($20); every bark shall pay fifteen dollars ($15); every brig shall pay ten dollars ($10); every schooner shall pay seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50); every steamboat (towboats excepted) shall pay five dollars ($5); every steamship from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, or Texas, shall pay ten dollars ($10); every steamship from other ports shall pay twenty dollars Weekly return ($20). The resident physician shall return to the secretary to the board of the board of health a weekly list of all vessels inspected by him, as well as all fees collected by him, which shall form a fund for the support of quarantine.

health.

ciau.

D. Sec. 1669. Act 1858, p. 187.

of

Sec. 3043. All vessels in a foul condition, or vessels whose Duty of physi- crews or passengers are suffering or have suffered while on the voyage, from contagious, pestilential, or infectious diseases, shall be detained by the resident physician at the quarantine station, such time not less than ten days, as may be deemed by him neeessary. The resident physician shall have power, at his discretion,