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

Read second time, and referred to the Com
mltteo on Claims.
BY Mr.. Kent
Joint resolutions providing for the purchase and
gratuitous distribution of Spencer's English Gram
mar throughout the State;
Read a second time, and referred to the Com.
mittee on Public Education.
By Mr. Seaman
An act more effectually to punish the carrying OF
concealed weapons:
Read a second time, and referred to the Com
mittee on the Judiciary.
| By Mr.. Mcdonald
An act to authorize planters and farmers to
| furnish their freedmen and other employees with
articles of merchandise without mourning the pen
| alties of retail merchants;
| Read second time and referred to the Commit
tee on Judiciary.
SENATE BILL PASSED.
! On motion of Mr.. Moreand Senate bill No. 235
An act to amend the second section of an act to
| amend an act for the organization and govern.
ment of the State Seminary of Learning, established
near Alexandria, approved March Is. 1858. and
making an appropriation for the same, approved
| March T. 1850,
| Was taken up, read second and third time and
| concurred in.
| HOUSE BILL PASSED.
on motioh OF MIR. McEnery, House bill No. a.
An act relative to witnesses summoned before
| grand juries,
| Was taken up under suspension of the rules.
| On MOTION OF MIR. Snider the first section was
| amended by inserting after the word &c whatso.
ever,' in the last line the words for the perod
of one year after the session of said grand iury ),
and by adding at the end of the second section the
words provided that the provisions of this act
shall not prevent the witnesses from making dis.
closures of their evidence after the arrest of the
party accused -
And the bill as amended was read a second
and third time and passed.
| On motion of Mr.. Walker, bill
| No. T3-An act to raise revenue to the State
by means of stamps and stamped paper,''
| Was made the special order of the day for to-
morrow.
Mr. Montgomery presented report of the min
ority of the Committee on Amendments to the
Constitution.
| MESSAGES FROM THE SENATE.
i Messages were received from the Senate, through
O. Arroyo, Esq, asking the concurrence of the
House in
An act to amend the fifth section of an act en-
titled an act additional to ian act relative to
and regulating the collection of municipal taxes in
the city of New Orleans" approved March 18th
1853;
Also announcing that the President of the
Senate had signed House enrolled bills entitled
No. Am act to incorporate the town of Tan,
gipahoa:
No. G0-An act TO amend "an act relative to
district courts for the parish and city of New Or.
leans approved Goth March, 1865
No. G6-An act for the relief of purchasers OF
sixteenth sections
|. No. lO9--An act to organize the Supreme Court
and to fix the terms thereof:
No. lll-An act to provide for the election and
commission by the Governor of justice of the
i peace for the town Of Monroe, in the parish Of
Ouachita, and to define his powers;
No. dollhouse substitute to Senate bill entitled
an act to repeal an act approved 18th March, 1852
entitled act to amend an act relative to judicial
advertisements;
| No. 16G-An act to authorize L. TaQuino, wife OF
T. Taquino, to sell portion of her dotal prop.
erty;
No. 2Ol-An act fer the relief of A. B. HALEY;
No. 26i-An act to authorize the common cOun.
Gil Of the city of New Orleans to divide said city
into urban and rural parts, and to levy tax il
said portions for the purposes hereinafter SCI
forth;
No. 288-Joint resolution instructing the Attor
ney General to inquire into the constitutonality o
the act granting public lands to the Sabine River
and Vermillion Canal company;
And No. 305-An act relative to commissions o.
State tax collectors in certain cases.
Also requesting the signature of the Speaker tt
Senate enrolled bill entitled
An act for the relief of L. R. Marshall
| Mr.. Blackman moved suspension of the rules
to take up the militia bill.
The House refused to suspend.
Mr.. DeLabarre, chairman of Enrolling Commit
tee, reported as correctly enrolled House bill
No. 326:
An act to amend an act entitled "an act to con
solidate the city of New Orleans, and to provide
for its government and the administration of its
AFFAIRS etc.
Mr.. Montgomery moved and obtained suspen
sion of the rules, to take up Senate bill 1872, Gar
act relative to the publication of legal and judcia
advertisements in the parish of Orleans on its
second reading, and, pending the consideration o.
the bill, the House adjourned.
| THOS. L. MAXWELL,
Clerk of the House of Representatives
BUILDING MATERIAL.