New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-05
LOUISIANA GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE YESTERDAY.
Passage of Bills in the House.
RAPID PROGRESS OF LEGISLATION
SENATE.
Finy-Elsh,h Days Session.
FR1pAY, september I, ls6E

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President at twelve o'clock NJ.
The roll was called present, the follow
ing members:
Anderson, Bacon, Beares, Blackman,
Braughn, Campbell, Coupland, Darrall,
Day, Egan, Foute, FRANCOIS, Kelso, Lewis,
/ MOnette, OHara, Packard, Pinchback,
Poindexter, Pollard, Ray, Smith, Thompson,
4 stein--2S.
Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Mr.. Turner.
On motion of Mr.. Ray the reading of the
minutes was dispensed with.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Ray, from the Judiciary Committee,
reported as follows:
By substitute, Senate bill No. l07, an act
granting the exclusive right to William j.
Taylor and NJ. q. Conner, to erect platform
scales for weighing and to reduce the price
of weighing in the State.
Substitute for Senate joint resolution No.
100, to amend article 80 of the Constitution.
Substitute for Senate bill No. 1lS, an act
to limit and control the assessment Of par
ish and municipal taxes in this State.
Mr. Darrall, from the Committee on En-
rollments, reported as duly engrossed SEN
ate bill No. 154, an act to create the parish
of Richland.
Senate bill No. 1885, an act to amend and
re-enact articles 32l6, S239, and 324O of the
Civil Code of Louisiana.
Senate bill No. l53, an act to encourage
the settlement and cultivation of public
lands in the State.
Senate bill No. l57, an act to amend and
re-enact the thirty-fourth section of an act
entitled an act relative to criminal proceed
ings, approved March II, 1855.
Senate bill No. -, an act for the relief of
Mrs. Young Burke.
Mr.. O'Hara, from the Committee on
Claims, reported favorably upon Senate bill
No. SO, an act for the relief of S. E.
blanchard.
And unfavorably upon memorial from
H. D. MeGinnis, praying for relief, on the
grounds that the debt was contracted under
the so-called Confederate States.
Mr. Ray; ask for suspension of the
rules to introduce bill.
= Rules suspended.
Joint resolution to provide for the pay
ment of the mileage and per diem Of mem =
bers and clerks of committees who are re-
ouired to sit during the recess of the Legis-
| lature, was read.
t On further suspension of the rules the
bill WAS read second and third time, and
, finally adopted with its title.
Mr.. Smith: ! ask for suspension of the
rules to introduce bill.
Rules suspended.
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live stock and to prevent the sale of dis
eased meats, was read.
Mr.. Smith: ask Tor further suspension
, of the rules, to put the bill on It's second
reading.
Rules suspended and the bill read.
Mr.. Wilcox: I move TO refer the bill to the
Special Committee on Slaughter Houses.
! Mr.. O'Hara: move to lay the motion on
| the table.
, Mr.. Todd: call for the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered, re.
sulting:
Yeas Blackmau. Campbell, Francois
Lewis, Monette, 0'Hara, Pinchback, Smith
Williams, Wittgenstein-l0.
Nays Beares, Braughn, Darrall, Day
Egan, Kelso, Packard, Ray, Thompson
: Todd, Wilcox-ll.
The motion to lay on the table was lost.
Mr. Smith: move to substitute the Com
mittee on Health for the slaughterhousi
Committee.
Mr.. Todd: msve to lay the substitute ol
the table and call for the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered, result
ing:
Yeas: Beares, Blaekman, Braughn, Oar
S rail-, Day, Egan, Foute, Kelso, Monette
: Packard, Ray, Thompson, Todd, Wilcox
7 Williams, Wittgenstein-l6.
r Lewis, 0'Hara, Pinchback, Poindexter
: Smiths.
The substitute was laid on the table.
Mr.. Wilcox's motion to refer the bill t
the Committee on Slaughterhouses was ther
} adopted.
/, NOTICE OF BILL.
Mr.. O'Hara; give notice that on future
day l will introduce bill relative to tht
Louisiana Homestead Association.
The order of the day was called.
SPECIAL ORDER OF TIE DAY.
Senate bill No, 1Ss, an act for the relief oi
the parishes of Washington, st. Martin, Liv-
ingston, Rapides Terrebonne, Jefferson, st.
Tammany, Caddo, city of Jefferson, and par.
ish of St. Charles to pay warrants Nos. 1884,
Ss5, 3s7, $50, $780, 39l. 1872, 893, 423 and 429,
was read.
Mr.. o'Hara; ask that the bill be consid-
cred engrossed for a third reading.
Mr.. o'Hara: ask for a suspension of the
rules to put the bill on its third reading.
Rules suspended and the bill read third
time.
The bill was finally adopted with its title,
Senate bill No. 1s5, an act to amend an
act entitled an act entitled an act to take
the sense of the qualified voters of the par
ish of Winn as to the expedieney of remoV'
ing the seat of justice from the town Of
: Winfield to the town of Montgomery, and
, confirming the town of Winfield as the seat
of fjustice, was read.
Mr.. Ray: ask that the bill be considered
engrossed for a third reading.
The bill was considered engrossed.
On suspension of the rules the bill was
read third time and finally adopted with
its title.
Senate bill No. IS, an act for the relief o.
George s. Lacey. attorney-at-law. was read
Mr.. Ray; ask that the bill be engrossed
for third reading.
Adopted.
On suspension of the rules the bill was
read,a third time, and finally adopted with
its title.
The Clerk of the House of Representatives
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