New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-11

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amendment, it was lost.
Mr.. BenVenu moved to amend Section tst
striking out in the fourth line the word -" re-
denee," and in the fifth line the words or othe
wise,' and adding in lieu thereof or anv of /,
oil laws of the late United States and all white NAL
1t. of the age of2l years and over then resident ar
" being within the limits of the State and who al
IN willing now to take the oath Of allegiance"
|: MIR. Connolly moved to lay said amendment q
in the table, and Mr.. Bienvenu called for the vcs
~ - and nays, and the result was rs follows:
If Yeas: Messrs. Anderson, Barrow, Bermuda,
Bontord, Bonner, Briseoe, Burton, Bush, Butte,
Caldwell. Carr, Cook, Connolly, Conner of CONGO,
dia, Davidson of Livingstone eBlanc, Dorsey, Dui
: fel, Dupre, Elan, Elgee, Estlin, Fuselier, Fuoua
Gardere, Garrett, Gaudet, Gladden. Girard, Graves
e Gray, Griffin, Hodges, Hongsworth johnson
/ Kennedy, Kidd, Lagroue, LeBourgeois. Lewis o
Bienville, Lewis of Claiborne, Lewis of Orleans
} Manning, Marrero, Marks of Caddo, Marks of Or
} leans, Martin of Assumption, Martin of Carroll
Magee, McCollom, Mcfarland, McNeely. Miles
Michel, Miller, Moore, Norton, Olivier, Perkins of
Orleans, Peck, Pierson of Natchtoches, Pike
Polk, Pope Proyosty, Richardson, Roman, Rozier,
Scott of Claiborne, Scott of East Feliciana,
Semmes, Slawson, Smith, Smart, sompayrac Stew.
art, Swayze, Tappan, Taaferro, TAYLOR of St.
Landry, Texada, Thomasson, Todd, Towles, Tuck
err, Valentine, Verret, Walker, Williams of East
Baton Rouge, Williams of St. Helena. Wilkinson
Wilt and York-93.
Nays: Messrs. Bienvenu, Davidson of Sabine
Heron, O'Bryan, Patterson and Pierson of VIM
| e.
Consequently, Mr.. Bienvenus amendment was
laid on the table.
Mr. McCollom moved to amend the first section
by striking out in the fourth and fifth lines the
words by birth, residence, naturalization or
otherwise" which amendment was accented nv
the chairman of the committee, and became part
OF the original,
Mr.. Elan moved to reconsider the vote by which |
Mr.. Bienyenu's amendment had been laid on the
table, which motion was lost
On motion of Mr.. Kennedy, Section |, which
reads as follows, was adopted as amended:
AN oRDINANCE Concerning Citizenship:
we, the people OF Louisiana, in Convention as
sembled, do declare and ordain That all free white
persons embraced in the following classification
shall be deemed and considered and are hereby
declared to be citizens of Louisiana, viz:
s !. All persons who, at the date of the adoption
OF the ordnance of Secession viz: the twenty |
sixth day Of January, eighteen hundred and sixty
one were citizens of this State.
Section Ind being taken up, it was adopted
without objection, and reads as follows, viz:
2. Women of foreign BIRTH now married or who
may hereafter be married to citizens of this State
therein. A1''A'
The Sd Section being read, Mr.. Thomasson moved
@ amend it by striking ont the provisions in said
section. Which motion was lost. :
On motion of Mr.. Bonner the 80 Section was |
amended by inserting the word "son in the fifth
inc, between the words " mott and descend
Mr. TapDnn mn In ~.
er further report. Which was lost.
Mr.. Garrett moved to amend the said section nv
triking out, in the fourth line, the words, "or con.
option" Which was carried. And the said sec. a
on, as amended, was then adopted, and reads a. d
blows al
8. All persons now born or who may hereafter al
born out Of the limits and jurisdiction of thia C
tate, whose fathers WERE or shall be- at the time m
their birth, citizens of this State Provided "
)Wever, that the rights of citizenship shall mot 81
,scend to persons whose fathers never resided in E
is State. mn
Section 4th being taken up, Mr.. Heron moved CO
amend by inserting in the fourth line after The RI
ord - thereof the following words " or who tic
d arrived in the United States under the age If tic
years, and had continued their residence therein
live years before the date of the Ordinance of Sc
cession," which amendment was accepted hv de
e chairman as part of the section. co
Mr. Valentine moved to insert s'2l vears,, in ~,
cad of Is, which was lost, and the section nc
nended was adopted, and reads as follows: ~,
L. Persons of foreign birth who had, at the date to
secession aforesaid, declared their intention to
come citizens of the United States un0er tho gle
laws thereof, Or who had arrived in
United States under the age of eighteen wars to
d mad continued their residence therein for five VI"
ars before the date Of the Ordinance of Seces-
n, and who shall comply with the further re De
rements Of said laws, which for that purnose Ed
TO that extent are hereby adopted as laws of Co
qslana, with the exception, however, that the Get
Ii to be taken by the applicant shall he nf aiIa Dol
nee to the State of Louisiana bro
section 9TH being taken up, Mr.. Todd moved 70 I'm
end by striking out of the 9Th line the wards pUS
xty days" which motion prevailed. and the
ton, as amended, was adopted and read as fol. SEES
70: sou
Children Of persons specified in the precedino Fan
agraph, who shall be dwelling in this Stats s0ir
be under the age of twenty-one years when :,
If fathers shall be naturazed as provided in n
paragraph and shall, after attaining the ACE cid
majority, take the oath of allegiance to the pre-
c,,, ,.-, pre-
ecton 9Th being taken up, Mr. Todd moved to In ,
end by striking out all after the word aforesaid p
he 9th line, and insert in lieu thereof the follow. n
and also those who shall have come into the vent
&c reside since the date of secession aforesaid ag
shall have resided therein for the term of raft
I've months" qucl
:, I,;, , vent
r. BlenYenu moved to amend said section By dite
king out all from the word aforesaid " in the agr
line, to the word who,' in the 3rd line and M
ring the word "or," between the words cIar,
ay and "have," and by striking out, in the there
and 9th lines, the words " at any time within ST.
I've months prior to the date of secession aore stitu
; " and by striking out of the 9th and 18th mel
), the words within sixty days after a resi- com,
'e of twelve months therein" which amend NJ
t was lost. No.,
1 motion of Mr. Texada, the Convention then Can,
urned. 7,n,
j. 7. WHEAT Secretary. ,,inr,
lie late Duke of Brunswick used to relate the EstIi
wing anecdote, with great glee: On certain Gill,
sion, one of the heaviest Of German soldiers IT ~.
the duty OF mounting guard at OF the ducal ih'
ing seas and not TO perplex the poor old fell 8eols
with more ideas than he could conveniently dor
y, one single "notion" was with some difficulty Mae,
ned into his head, viz that he must "prespnt +,H