New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-23

1ne Dill WAS considered engr0Ssed.
Under a suspension of the rules the bill
was read third time and finally adopted
with its title.
The following communications from the
Governor were read:
EXECUTIVE DEpARrlrExr,l
State Of Louisiana. !
New Orleans, october 20, 1893.
To the Honorable the President and Members of
I am instructed by his tExcellency, the
Governor, to inform the Senate that he
has approved and signed:
An act to authorize the compilation of
new and official map Of the Stale. ..
An act to repeal section one of an act en-
titled ian act to define more fully the pow
ers and duties of the Board of Registration
and Supervisors thereof, for the registration
OF the qualified voters of the State,n ap-
proved September 49, 1868. and to make
other provisions respecting the same.
F. G. REMICK,
Private Secretary.
EXECUTIVE DEpARrMEHr,
State of Louisiana,
New Orleans, October 10, 1865. }
To the Honorable the President and Members of the
Senate:
/ am instructed by his Excellency the
Governor to inform the Senate that he has
approved and signed:
An act relative to elections in the State of
Louisiana, and to enforce article lO3 of the
Constitution of the State, and
An act making appropriations for the gen.
eral expenses of the State for the unexpired
term of the year ending the thirty-first day
&c. REMICK,
Private Secretary.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
State of Louisiana,
New Orleans, October IS, 1863
N fBn Ia fhnt TAaak
Senate;
1 am instructed by his Excellency the
Governor to inform the Senate that he has
approved and signed:
An act to amend and re.enaet the thirty.
fourth section of an act entitled an act
relative to criminal proceedings, approved
March IA, 1856; and
An act providing for the free passage of
children attending free public schools over
all public ferries or roads over which the
State has complete control.
F. G. REMICK,
Private Secretary.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
State of Louisiana
New Orleans, October 20, 1868
To the Speaker and Members of the House OF
Representatives.
am instructed by his Excelency the
Governor to inform the House of Repre-.
sentatives that he has approved and signed:
sand dollars for the relief of the destitutieu
occasioRed by the late storm.
F. G.. REMICK,
Private Secretary.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.,
State of Louisiana.
New Orleans. October 90 1868.
To the Honorable the President and Members of the
Senate:
I am instructed by his EAcellency, the
Governor, to inform the Senate that he has
approved and signed:
Joint resolution relative to the adjourn
ment of the General Assembly.
F. @. REMICK,
Private Secretary.
Mr.. Bacon: 1 ask for a suspension of the
rules to introduce resolution.
Rules suspended and the following read ::
ReSolUed, That the Committee on Com
merCe and Manufactures be permitted to sit
after the adjournment of the General As
sembly for the purpose of making inquiries
into the means and measures best calculated
to draw the trade of the West and North, as
well as of foreign countries, to New Orleans,
to relieve our commerce from its hindrances
and burthens, to consider the subject of in
spection, to digest and prepare general
laws for the Incorporation of elevator and
other like companies, and to suggest what
ever may seem to them, after consultation
with men eminent in commerce and the
arts, best calculated to promote commerce
and manufactures in this State, to report
upon the same at the next session of the
General Assembly, and that they be per-
mitted to draw their per diem for such days
as they may sit and act in pursuance of
this resolution, their warrants to be issned
by the Warrant Clerk OF the Senate upon
the certificate of the chairman of the COM
mittee to such service.
Mr.. Bacon: move the adoption of the
resolution.
Adopted.
Mr.. Lynch: I ask for a suspension of the
rules to present favorable report upon
House bill No. 27S, an act for the relief Of
Victor Gerodias.
Rules suspended and the report received.
Mr.. Lynch: ask for a suspension of the
rules to take up the bill.
Rules suspended and the bill read.
The bill was considered engrossed.
Under further suspension of the rules
the bill was read third time and finally
adopted with its title.
Mr.. Campbell: ask for suspension of
rules to introduce resolution.
Rules suspended and the following read:
WHEREAS, By act of incorporation, an
proved October 5, 1868, the New Orleans
and Ship Island Canal Company are re-
qui ed to construct ship canal from the
mississippi river on the upper line of said
city, thence a distance of five mil es through
the corporate limits of said city to the |
Bayou Gentilly, thence to deep water at |
the Rigoietts, in the direction of Ship Is |
land; and
Whereas, Said canal will afford a water
front, as wharfage, equal in extent to that
Afforded by the river, and safer and more
desirable, as the canal will not be subject to
a strong current, or the frequent rise and
fall of the river; 1t will be more suitable for
docks, navy yards, warehouses, or any work
Of permanent structure, besides preventing
disasters to commerce during the frequent
storms that visit this port; steamboats,.
barges, etc., from the river can be locked
through into said canal, and steamships and
vessels OF large draft, when said canal is
tuly completed, have access from the sea,
thus obviating the low water on the bar at
the month of the river vessels can find a safe
harbor at the Ship or Chandelier Islands,
and will not require to be towed one half Of
she distance as now by the river, saving
lually; and
Whereas, Said canal, by connecting with
.he mississippi river at New Orleans and
Ship Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, and be-
ng required by said charter to be of large
dimensions suitable for the vast commerce
)f the Valley of the Mississippi. and also for.
.ign and coastwise commerce, it is there.
ore eminently work of national import.
lnce; therefore, be it
Resotued, That our Senators and Repre.
in Congress, be and are hereby
to ask the aid ofthe United States
Government for the completion of said
ANAL, in such form and manner, and in