BOOK II.

TITLE 14.

Of offences affecting the public roads, &c.

TITLE 15. Of offences injurious to public health

TITLE 16. Of offences against morals -

TITLE 17.

Of offences which affect persons in the exercise of

their religion

TITLE 18.

Of offences affecting reputation

TITLE 19.

TITLE 20.

417

. 420

421

TITLE 21. Of offences against civil and political rights and

conditions

TITLE 22. Of offences affecting persons in their profession or

trade

TITLE 23. Of offences against private property

A CODE OF PROCEDURE.

INTRODUCTORY TITLE

- 453

Book I. Of the means of preventing offences; of suppressing those

which are continuous; and of employing the military in

aid of the civil power

TITLE 2. Of the proceedings subsequent to the commitment

or bail

- 501

- 512

TITLE 3. Of the mode of procedure in certain cases not im-

mediately connected with prosecutions

- 556

BOOK III. Containing the forms to be used in all the judicial proceed-

ings prescribed or authorized by this code

TITLE 1. Of the form to be used in the proceedings authorized

for the prevention of offences

TITLE 2. Of the form to be used in the proceedings authorized

for suppressing permanent offences

TITLE 3. Of the form to be used in the proceedings authorized

for calling for and employing military force . 576

Of the form to be used in the proceedings authorized

for prosecuting offences

A CODE OF EVIDENCE.

INTRODUCTORY TITLE

. 644

BOOK I. Of the nature of evidence and of its several kinds

A CODE OF REFORM AND PRISON DISCIPLINE.

INTRODUCTORY TITLE

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BOOK I. Places of confinement; of their construction and officers

TITLE 1. Of places of confinement

TITLE 2.

Of the officers and attendants of the several places

of confinement, and their several duties -

Book II. Of the treatment of the prisoners in the several places of

confinement

- 706

TITLE 1. Of the prisoners confined in the house of detention 706

TITLE 2. Of the treatment of the prisoners in the penitentiary 707

TITLE 3. Of the school of reform

714

TITLE 3. Of the officers of the house of refuge and industry,

and of their duties

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- 728

TITLE 4. Of the admission into the house of refuge, and of the

TITLE 7. Of the pecuniary concerns of the house of refuge

AN ACT

OF

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF LOUISIANA,

RELATIVE TO

THE CRIMINAL LAWS OF THAT STATE.

APPROVED 10 FEBRUARY 1820.

WHEREAS it is of primary importance, in every well regulated state, that the code of criminal law should be founded on one principle, viz. the prevention of crime; that all offences should be clearly and explicitly defined, in language generally understood; that punishments should be proportioned to offences; that the rules of evidence should be ascertained as applicable to each offence; that the mode of procedure should be simple, and the duty of magistrates, executive officers and individuals assisting them, should be pointed out by law and whereas the system of criminal law, by which this state is now governed, is defective in many, or all of the points above enumerated, therefore:

Section 1. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the state of Louisiana in general assembly convened, that a person learned in the law shall be appointed by the senate and house of representatives at this session, whose duty it shall be to prepare and present to the next general assembly, for its consideration, a code of criminal law in both the French and English languages, designating all criminal offences punishable by law; defining the same in clear and explicit terms; designating the punishment to be inflicted on each; laying down the rules of evidence on trials; directing the whole mode of procedure, and pointing out the duties of the judicial and executive officers in the. performance of their functions under it.

Section 2. And be it further enacted, that the person so to be chosen, shall receive for his services such compensation as shall be determined by the general assembly, at their next session, and that a sum of five hundred dollars shall be paid to him, on a warrant of the governor upon the state treasury, to enable him to procure such in

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formation and documents relative to the operation of the improvements in criminal jurisprudence, particularly of the penitentiary system in the different states, as he may deem useful to report to the general assembly in considering the project of a code: he shall account to the general assembly, in what manner the said five hundred dollars has been disposed of.