New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-15

line from twenty-five thousand dollars to fifty thou
sand dollars.
ohahge the appropriation for the payment OF
commissions to tax collectors to fifteen thousand
dollars.
Strike OUT the word " Treasurer's," in the two
hundred and eighty seventh line, and insert q An
ditor's" instead.
And the bill as amended was read n second
time, ordered to be engrossed, read n third time
and passed.
Mr.. Walker, chairman of the Committee IN
Finance, asked and obtained leave to report ont
of order on House bill No. 49, entitled
| An act to raise revenue to the State by means
of stamps and stamped paper, making appropra.
tons for the purposes of the act, etc., etc.
Reported fayorably, with amendments
PRIVATE CALENDAR.
Monday of each week being set apart for the
consideration of private and local bills, the fol-
lowing bills were taken up in their order and
acted upon as follows:
| No. 30-An act for the relief of Charles NJ Kerr,
late clerk of the district court in and for the par
ish of St. Mary
The unfavorable report of the Committee on the
Judiciary was adopted.
| No. 52-An act to amend an act entitled IAN
act to incorporate the college of Franklin, in the
parish of ST. Landry -
Read second and third time and passed.
No. 112-An act for the relief of James NJ Pin.
negar and John Mclean
Read second and third time and passed.
No. 136-An act for the relief of the sureties of
Lewis L. Morgan, deceased, late State tax col
lector of the parish Of st. Tammany
Laid over on account of the absence of Mr..
Richardson, who had introduced it.
No. 173-An act for the relief of s. L. Slack
The amendments reported by the Committee on
Claims were adopted, and the bill was read a
second and third time and passed.
No. 202-An act to provide for the relief of A.
N. Ogden of the parish of Rapides;
| Recommitted to the Committee on Claims.
No. 25l-An act relative to the ferry opposite
the court house in st. James parish.
The untavorabe report of the Committee OF
Parochla Affairs was adopted.
No. 255-An act to improve the navigation Of
Bayou Coneille
Referred to the Committee on Public Works
Lands and Leyees, with the amendment reported
by the Committee on Internal improvements
! No. 3O6-An act to exempt from taxation Ger
tain property used by the New Orleans School O.
Medicine for educational purposes;
Read second and third time and passed.
No 308-An act to authorize the Recorder o
Mortgages of the parish of Orleans to erase mort
cages resulting from the recording of bonds O
notaries public in said parish;
Second and third reading, and passed.
| No. 3l3-An act supplementary to an act to in
corporate the town of Vienna in the parish @:
Jackson;
Read a second and third time and passed, tht
title being amended by adding at the end thereo
the words approved March ., 1866"
| No. 3l4An act to provide for an election o
municipal officers in the town of Vernon, parish o
jackson;
Read second and third time and passed.
No. 27j-An act to amend an act regulating the
duties Of notaries without the city of New Or
leans;
The substitute reported by the Judiciary Com
mittee, entitled
An act to provide for supplying the loss of the
public records and other papers, burned or other
wise destroyed, in the parishes of Madison, Car
roll and Tensas;
Was adopted in lieu Of the original BILL was reat
a second and third time, and passed.
No. l53-An act relating to the inspection 0
scales, weights and measures, to be used in trad
or traffic, within the limits of the city of New Or
leans.
The unfavorable report of the Judiciary Com
mttee was adopted.
| No. l78-An act to repeal {" an act to compe
persons residing in the vicinity of Port Hudson
east Of the Mississippi river to keep their horses
mules neat cattle and other live stock, within en-
closures" approved December 20, 1866
| Laid over
| No. 226-An act for the relief of W. T. Hall:
The amendment of the Committee on Claims
changing the appropriation from $500 to $3.50, was
adopted, the rule requiring the House to resolve
itself into committee of the whole on an appro
priation being suspended; and the bill was read
second and third time and co ncurred in
| No 230-An act for the relief of W. H. C. King
g. Co;
Read second and third time and concurred in
the rule requiring the House to go into committee
of the whole being suspended.
No. 304-An act to establish an additional Justice
of the peace ward for the parish of st. Mary
| Read second and third time and concurred in
| No. 3l0-An actto authorize Mrs. Felicia Provost
wife of L. Gongis, to ALLEVIATE her dotal property;
| Read second time and referred to the Commit
tee on the Judiciary.
| NO. 329-An act for the relief of Mrs. widow A
Duflho. Jr;
Read second time and referred to the Commit
tee on the Judiciary.
No. 332-An act for the relief of the succession
of Juan Y. De Egana;
This bill was reported favorably from the Com
mittee on the Judiciary Mr.. Mutt, chairman, ou
of order, and was read second and third time
and passed.
No. 336-Senate bill, Gan act granting t,
George W. Hudspeth of ST. Landry, the right tc
keep and maintain ferry across the Atchafaays
river at Lyons plantation, etc." reported thi
morning for concurrence, was read second tim,
and referred to the Committee on Parochia
Affairs.
| REPORT OF A COMMITTEE.
Mr. Mutt, chairman pro tena., on behalf of tn
Committee on the Judiciary, reported on
No. 800, an act to provide for summary pro
ceedings in case of trespasses,
Favorably, with this amendment:
Strike out in second section "two" and inser
"tive' instead, and strike out in same section III
words ''said affidavit to be prina facie evidence
of the truth Of the facts therein stated"
An act supplemental to an act entitled an act t.
regulate the safe of property seized under an orde
of seizure and sale OR writ of te1l acias approve,
March 2, 1866,
| Was reported as n substitute for House hill No