HAT LAW. Act 62, 1896, p. 95. AN ACT making it a misdemeanor for any owner, lessee, proprietor or manager of any Theater, hall, place, opera-house or building where theatrical or other performances are given and where an admission fee is charged, to permit any person or persons to wear, during the performance in such theatre, hall, opera-house or building, a hat, requiring such owner, lessee, proprietor or manager to provide a safe place to keep hats or head-gear, and to furnish an attendant therefor, and providing a penalty for violation of this act. SECTION 1. That any owner, lessee, proprietor or manager of any theatre, hall, place, opera-house or building where theatrical or other performances are given and where an admission fee is charged, who permits or suffers any person or persons during the performanee in such theatre, hall, place, opera-house or building where such performance is given to wear a hat or any kind of head gear, opera or evening bonnets excepted; provided the same shall not obstruct the view of persons sitting behind wearer of same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon be subjected to a fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars for each violation thereof, or imprisonment for not more thirty days, at the discretion of the court in whose jurisdiction the offence was committed. SEC. 2. That every such hat or head gear permitted to be worn in violation of the provisions of this act shall constitute a separate offence. SEC. 3. That every owner, lessee, proprietor or manager of any theatre, hall, place, opera-house or building where theatrical or other performances are given and an admission fee is charged shall provide a safe and proper place for the safe keeping of all hats or other head gear of any person or persons attending such performance, and shall also furnish an attendant at his, or their own expense, who shall take care of all hats or other head gear entrusted to him without expense to the person or persons attending such performance; and each violation of the section shall be punishable by fine or imprisonment as provided in Section 1, hereof. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Acts on various subjects contain clauses making the violation of those acts misdemeanors, etc., and providing penalties. See inter alia acts printed under following titles: Labor Laws, Acts 43, 1886; 59 and 60, 1892. Railroads, Acts 111, 1890; 177, 98, 1894; 39, 1882. Quarantine, Acts 123, 1890; 115, 1882; 81, 1886; and other acts. Costs and Fees, Act 136, 1880, Secs. 45 to 48. Public Works-For numerous acts relating to protection of levees. Revenue, Act 73, 1890, and other acts. Lotteries, Ferries, Police Jury, Sec. 277. Municipal Corporations, Acts 135, 1894; 135, 1896. Roads, Act 38, 1878. Officers, Act 18, 1884. Tutors, Act II, 1884. Charity Hospital, Act 9, 1877. Physicians, Act 32, 1880; 66, 1888; 32, 1894, and other acts printed under this title, relating to Practice of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry. CREWS OF VESSELS, STEAMBOATS, ETC. 934. Procuring Desertion of Crew, etc.-In addition to the crimes and offences enumerated in the act entitled "An act relative to crimes and offences," approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, it shall be and is hereby made a penal offence of any master or keeper of a boarding-house for seamen, any servant, agent or other person in his employ; any broker, shipping master or other person engaged in the business of procuring or furnishing seamen for vessels; or any person or persons whose object is to cause any person composing a part of the officers or crew of any ship, steamship, steamboat or other vessel within this State, without or against the will and consent of the master or other person in charge thereof; or for any of the above named persons having gone on board of any ship, steamship, steamboat or any other vessel, to cause any person composing a part of the officers or crew thereof to desert from or leave the same, without the consent of the master or other person in charge thereof; or to oppose or interfere with the execution of any command or authority of the master or officer in charge of such ship, steamship, steamboat or other vessel; or to refuse to leave the same when ordered to do so by the officer in charge thereof: any person or persons so offending shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not less than one month nor more than twelve months, or both, at the discretion of the court (Act 111, 1859, 87). 935. Where Offenders May Be Tried.-Any person or persons accused of any of the offences provided for in the preceding section. inay be arrested and tried in any parish of the State in which the ship, steamship, steamboat or other vessel on which such offence has been committed, may moor. 936. Master May Arrest Offenders.-Any master or person in charge of any ship, steamship, steamboat or other vessel, upon which the offences enumerated in the nine hundred and thirty-fourth section of this act may be committed, shall have power to seize and arrest any person or persons so offending, and take them before a magistrate to be dealt with according to the provisions of this act. 937. Permission to Bond Vessel, How Shown.-On the trial of any person under this act for having gone on board any ship, steamship, steamboat or other vessel, without permission first had and obtained from the proper officer, it shall be incumbent upon him to prove that he had received the permission required; in default of his proving this he shall be considered as having entered without permission, and be found guilty accordingly. 938. Summons and Examination of Witnesses, etc.-When the testimony of any master or officer of any ship, steamship, steamboat or other vessel, or if any transient person shall be deemed by a magistrate, before whom a prosecution has been commenced under this act, necessary to be used on the trial of the case before the district court, such magistrate shall have power, after five days' notice to the party accused, to summon and cause such witness to appear before the judge of the first district court of New Orleans, or before the district judge of any other parish in this State in which a prosecution may have been commenced under this act, to give evidence in the same manner as if examined in open court. The accused at the time of such examination shall be assigned counsel by the judge, if he have none, and shall have the right to cross-examine the witness. The evidence thus given shall be reduced to writing, and shall be signed by the witness, certified to and sealed up by the judge before whom it is taken, and shall be used on the trial of the case before the district court; provided, the magistrate before whom the prosecution was commenced shall make oath that the witness is not at the time of the trial within the jurisdiction of the court. 939. Harboring Seamen, etc.-In addition to the crimes and offences enumerated in the act entitled "An act relative to crimes and offences," approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fiftyfive, it shall be and is hereby made a penal offence for any person, either on shipboard or on shore, to harbor or secrete a seaman who shall have signed shipping articles to proceed on a voyage, or to inveigle or procure such seaman to desert or disregard the articles which he has signed. Any person or persons so offending shall, on conviction, be punished by fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the judge who tries the case-the fine not to exceed three hundred dollars and the imprisonment not to exceed three months. 940. When Search Warrants May Issue.-Any magistrate may, on complaint, on oath being made by the master of a vessel, or some person in his behalf, that a seaman or boy apprenticed has deserted from his vessel, and that he is harbored, secreted or detained, issue a warrant under his hand and seal to cause search to be made in any place wherein said seaman or boy apprentice may be harbored or secreted, and shall cause such seaman or apprentice, when found, to be delivered to the master of the vessel to which he belongs. 941. Copy of Shipping Articles Are Evidence.-On the trial of any person under the two preceding sections of this act, a copy of the articles of any vessel, authenticated by the affidavit of the captain, sworn to before any magistrate, shall be admissible in evidence to prove the act, that any seaman whose name appears subscribed thereto has actually signed said articles. 942. Employment of Persons Not Licensed, etc.-The owner, master or agent of any vessel, steamer or other sea-going watercraft, who shall employ any other person than a licensed shippingmaster, as provided in this act, for the shipment of any seaman, steward, cook or other person employed on such vessel, steamer or other water craft (other than officer thereof), such owner, master or agent shall, on conviction thereof, pay, in solido, a fine of five hundred dollars, recoverable before any court of competent jurisdiction, in the name of and for the benefit of the charity hospital, with lien end privilege for the payment thereof on such vessel, steamer or other sea-going water-craft. 943. Acting as Shipping Master Without License.-Any person acting as a shipping-master or engaging the services of any seaman, steward, cook or other person employed on board of any sea-going vessel, without having first been duly licensed to that effect, shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to not less than three and not more than six months' imprisonment in the parish jail of the parish wherein said offence shall have been committed. 944. Interfering, etc., with Crew, etc.-Any person or persons who may, by violence or threats or in any manner intimidate and prevent another from shipping upon any steamboat within this State, or who shall thus interfere with or prevent any person who is one of the crew of a steamboat from discharging his or her duty, or unlawfully interfere with any laborer who may be taking on board or discharging cargo from a steamboat within the State of Louisiana, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction before any justice of the peace of this State or recorder of the city of New Orleans, be fined not less than twenty dollars and costs of prosecution, and imprisonment not less than twenty days in the parish jail. 945. Employes of Vessels Leaving Before Expiration of Term of Service.-Any person who may ship upon a steamboat in the customary manner to do service on said boat, either by the month or voyage, in the capacity of an officer, engineer, pilot, clerk, mate, carpenter, cook, steward, cabin boy, watchman, fireman. deck hand or laborer, who may abandon the boat before having fulfilled his engagements, or who may refuse to do his duty in the capacity for which he shipped or engaged to perform, before the completion of the voyage or the term of his engagement, without lawful cause, shall, besides forfeiting all claims to the wages due for such service, be liable to the owner or owners of said steamer for any damages which they may sustain by said abandonment or refusal to do duty. 946, 947. Procuring desertion of crew, etc.-where offenders may be tried. See Secs. 934, 935. 948. Responsibility for Accidents in Certain Cases.-Any accident, except such as is impossible to be foreseen or avoided, that may happen to any steamboat, from racing, carrying higher steam than may be allowed by law, running into or foul of another boat, or that may occur whilst the captain, pilot or engineer is engaged in gambling or attending any game of chance or hazard, or whenever an accident happens from the boat being overloaded, the owner of the boat shall be responsible for all loss or damage, and shall be barred from the recovery of freight or insurance; and the officer violating the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than two thousand dollars, and imprisonment for not less than three months nor more than three years; and in the event of loss of life being the result of such accident, then said officers shall be adjudged guilty of manslaughter. 949. Shipping Gunpowder-Precautions.-When gunpowder is shipped on board of a steamboat it shall be stored away at as great a distance as possible from the furnace, and a written notification of the fact shall be placed in three conspicuous parts of the boat; and in the event of such notification not being so exhibited, then for any loss of property or life for which the powder may be deemed the cause, the owner and captain shall be liable to the penalty provided in the preceding section. 950. Shipping Gunpowder Without Notice.-Any person who shall ship or put on board, or cause to be shipped or put on board of any steamboat within this State, any gunpowder, without giving notice thereof, at the time of making the shipment, to the master or clerk of said boat, shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred dollars, which may be sued for and recovered by the owner, captain or clerk of said boat, for his own use and benefit; and in case of any loss of property in consequence of gunpowder being on board of said. boat, the shipper that shall have failed to give due notice as herein required, shall be liable therefor, or for any injury done to any person or to his family; and in the case of loss of life the person who shall have shipped the same without giving due notice thereof, shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of manslaughter. RESTRICTION ON EMPLOYMENT OF SAILORS. AN ACT to prohibit the unlawful employment of sailors at work upon the levees or banks of the rivers in this State, and to punish violations of this act. SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any captain, master or mate of any seagoing vessel, or for any stevedore, to employ sailors at any work on the levees in the State of Louisiana not strictly belonging to and included in regular sailor's duty, as defined and prescribed by the maritime law governing the employment and duty of sailors. SEC. 2. That any captain, master or mate of any seagoing vessel who shall thus unlawfully employ any sailor within the jurisdiction of this State, or who shall by threats, punishment or duress, force any sailor thus to be employed, shall for each offense on conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not less than |