return the balance into the State treasury, as in cases of abandoned lands made and provided.

D. Sec. 3298.

taxes.

Sec. 3464. All real property sold under the provisions of this act relative to tax sales shall be redeemable by the owners or their Redemption of legally authorized agents within one year from the day of sale, Property for upon payment to the party purchasing at the State collector's or tax collector's sale of the amount of the purchase money, with fifty per cent. additional and all costs, after which time, if not redeemed, the tax collector or State collector of the parish in which the property is situated, shall, upon application of the purchaser of such property, send a detailed statement of the same to the auditor of public accounts, accurately describing all metes and boundaries, together with the amount of each tract, and the price paid, and the auditor shall thereupon issue a deed of sale, with a complete and full title, in the name of the State of Louisiana, to the purchaser, under the seal of his office; which deed shall vest the title completely and fully in the said purchaser, or his heirs, and shall be recognized by all courts of this State; for which services the auditor shall be entitled to the same fees as in the case of redemption of lands.

D. Sec. 252, 3299.

Sec. 3465. The State collector or tax collector shall demand

payment of all taxes assessed on companies, incorporated or not, Taxes on corfrom the president, secretary or agent, or other officers of such porations. companies, and if not paid, shall proceed to the collection thereof

in the same manner as in other cases.

D. Sec. 3301.

forfeited

Sec. 3466. The auditor shall, annually, on the first Monday in May, cause to be sold by the State collector or tax collector of the Annual sale of parish or district in which the forfeited lands may be situated, for lands. cash, to the highest bidder, all land forfeited to the State, which shall not have been redeemed within two years. The State collector or tax collector shall give thirty days' notice of all such sales by public auction in the official paper of the parish or district, when there is one; if not, then in some paper published in the parish or district, or where there is no newspaper, notice thereof to be posted up at the court-house of the parish. The money so collected shall be paid into the treasury in the same manner as

other taxes.

D. Sec. 259, 3312

SALVAGE.

Salvage allowed on cotton

saved.

are entitled to

Sec. 3467. Any person who shall recover, save and place upon the bank or land, any bale of cotton found floating in any of the waters of this State, and not in possession or under the actual control of the owner or carrier thereof, shall be entitled to demand and receive, from the owner, his agent, consignee or insurer, the sum of two dollars and fifty cents for each bale of cotton so recovered and saved from the water as aforesaid, and also the additional sum of fifty cents for each bale so saved, as aforesaid, which may have been shipped to the city of New Orleans, as hereinafter provided, previous to its being demanded by the owner, his agent, consignee or insurer.

Act 1855, p 467.

Sec. 3468. The master of the boat or vessel from which such What persons floating cotton may have been lost or thrown overboard, the shipclaim the cot- per, consignee and insurers of such cotton or any of them, shall ton on paying be entitled to demand and receive the possession of the same, the charges. after first paying the salvage fees as provided in the preceding

Duty of the

the cotton is not claimed.

section.

Sec. 3469. If the owner, his agent, or consignee, or insurer, should not demand such cotton from the salvor, within ten days salvor in case after it shall have been recovered from the water, then it shall be the duty of the salvor within the further term of ten days, to ship the same to the city of New Orleans; and the merchant there receiving the same, shall cause it to be advertised for five days in a newspaper published in that city, as cotton found, describing each bale by its original marks or brands, and if after the expiration of the said five days the owner, his agent, consignee or insurer shall not claim said cotton, it shall then be the duty of the mer chant to sell the same, and deposit the proceeds, after deducting the salvage fees, freight and charges, in the hands of the treasurer of the charity hospital, in the city of New Orleans, together with an account of said sale and charges; and the salvor failing to

ship such cotton, as directed herein, shall forfeit all right to demand and receive compensation for salvage.

liver cotton,

Sec. 3470. Any person who shall fail or refuse to surrender or deliver to the owner, his agent, consignee or insurer, any bale or Penalty for bales of cotton which may have been recovered or saved in the refusing to demanner herein before mentioned after the salvage fees shall have etc. been paid or tendered to him; and any person who shall secrete, convert to his own use, or sell, otherwise than allowed by this act, any bale or bales of cotton so saved by him from the water, or which may have been placed in his charge by the salvor, shall be deemed to be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and shall be confined at hard labor in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding one year.

D. Sec. 849.

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Public seal.

Secretary of

State to be

Sec. 3471. For the purpose of authenticating the acts of the government of the State of Louisiana, there shall be a public seal, with such device or inscription as the governor may direct. D. Sec. 3504. Act 1855, p. 340.

Sec. 3472. The secretary of State shall be keeper, and shall keeper there- affix the public seal to all official acts, the laws alone excepted.

of.

To what acts

he shall affix the seal.

D. Sec 3505.

Sec. 3473. Whenever the seal of the State shall be affixed to any instrument of writing other than civil and military commissions, to reprieves and pardons, or to proclamations issued by the Fees for affix- governor, it shall be lawful for the secretary of State to charge and receive, for his own benefit, one dollar for each and every impression thereof, to be paid by the party desiring the same.

ing the seal.

the several

courts.

D. Sec. 3506.

Sec. 3474. The clerks of the courts in each parish, except the Style of seal of parish of Orleans, shall obtain a seal, to be paid for by the parish, which shall contain a vignette of the State seal, with the words "Seal of the clerk of the parish of — which seal shall be used by the clerk of such parish to seal all papers issued by him requiring a seal.

The clerks of the supreme court and of the several courts in the parish of Orleans shall each have a seal of a similar device, designating the court for which the seal is to be used, with which all documents requiring a seal, issued from such court, shall be

sealed.

D. Sec. 485, 2021. Act 1868, p. 60.

Sec. 3475. The master of every vessel arriving from sea, at any port of this State, shall give to every person shipped on board such vessel, who shall be entitled to his discharge, or who shall be discharged there, a certificate in the following form: "A. B., one of the crew of the ship or vessel called the on her voyage from

of

charged.

to

in the year of

is hereby dis

C. D., commanding said vessel."

Act 1855, p. 358.

Certificate of discharge.