New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-02


| House bill lat, an act to establish the fees
due witnesses who are duly subpenaed be.
fore the several Senate and House commit.
tees, WAS read.
Mr.. Ray: ! ask that the rules be sus-
pended for second reading Of the bill.
Rules suspended.
Mr.. Ray: move that the bin be referred
to the Finance Committee.
Adopted.
House bill No. 1853, an act entitled an act
to incorporate the town of townsville, in
Union parish, Louisiana.
Mr.. Ray: ask for suspension of the
rules to put the bill on its second reading.
Adopted.
Mr.. Ray: move that the bill be referred
to the Committee on Corporations.
Adopted.
The Chair announced Messrs. Ray anu
Braughn to compose the com tlittee to in
vestigate the action Of the first and second
Drainage Commissioners.
Mr.. Wittgenstein: ask for a suspension
of the rules to call up bill.
Rules suspended.
House bill No. 1G4, an act to provide for
certain appropriations, was read.
Mr.. Wittgenstein; 7 ask for a further sus-
pension Of the rules to put the bill on its
second reading.
Rules suspended. ...
On further suspension of the rules the
bill was read a third time and concurred in
with its title. .. .-E -....
The President: Mr.. Futch having REQUEST.
ed to be relieved from serving on the Com
mittee on Elections and Returns, appoint
Mr. Braughn to FIJI the vacancy.
Dir. Braughn: ask for suspension Of the
rules to introduce resolution.
Rules suspended. ...
Resolced, That the Hon. Edwin L. Jewell
be permitted to draw his per diem as q
| member of the Senate from the commence.
ment Of the session until the thrty-drst o.
August, inclusive, and that the Warrant
| Clerk be instructed and authorized to issue
a warrant in accordance with this resolu
ton.
Adopted.
ELLIS ON SECOND READING.
Senate bill No. G7, an act relative to at
| LdCHHltutS was Fca0.
Mr.. Ray move that the bill be consid
cred engrossed for third reading.
Adopted.
The bill was read third time on q further
suspension of the rules, and finally adopted
with its title.
Mr.. Wilcox ask for q suspension of the
rules to take up Senate bill No. 49,, an aci
to incorporate the New Orleans and Shir
Island Canal Company.
Rules suspended and the bill read.
Mr.. Wittgenstein: move that the bill b,
taken up section by section.
Adopted.
| The hrst section was read.
On motion of Mr.. Wilcox, the word "di
rectors" was substituted for the word elect
ors' in line ninety five.
Mr.. Lewis; move to postpone consid
Grafton of the bill until Monday, at one
o'clock, at which time it shall be made the
special order of the day.
Mr.. Wittgenstein: move to lay the mo
lion on the table.
The motion to lay on the table was lost.
Mr.. Lewiss motion to postpone until
Monday at one o'clock was then adopted.
The Clerk of the House OF Representative:
appeared with message from the House
announcing that that body had coneurred
in the following bills:
Senate joint resolution No. 10.
An act relative to the statue of Wash
ington.
Senate joint resolution No. Is, relative to
the office of Register of Conveyances of the
parish Of Orleans.
Senate bill No. AZ, an act granting the
right to provisional seizure in other cases
than those now allowed by law.
Senate bill No. &c. an act relative to the
inspection of weights and measures of that
portion of the parish of Orleans on the right
bank ofthe Mississippi river. .gsg
Senate bill No. rs, an act removing the
seat ofjustice of Madison parish from Rich
mond, Louisiana, to Delta, Louisiana; and
Senate joint resolution No. IS, ceding to
the United States Jurisdiction over lands in
the State of Louisiana set apart for national
cemeteries.
Senate joint resolution No. -, providing
for recess of the General Assembly from
the nineteenth Semptember to the ninteenth
October, 1885, was read.
Mr.. Wilcox: Imove that the resolution
be postponed indefinitely.
Ado pied. =-......8
Mr.. Thompson: ask for suspension of
the rules to Introduce bill:
Rules suspended.
An act supplementary to an act incorpo-
rating Amite City, in st. Helena parish.
Read twice, under suspension of the
rules, and referred to the Committee on Cor
porations and Parochial Affairs.
Mr. Ray: l ask for suspension of the
rules to take up bill.
Rules suspended.
House bill No. Is, an act to provide for
the collection of taxes in the city of New
Orleans, and to suspend the further issue of
the same, was read.
Mr.. Ray: l ask for a-suspension of the
rules to put the bill on its second reading.
Mr.. Campbell: move that the bill be
referred to special committee composed of
the city delegation.
Adopted.
Mr. Bacon: ask for suspension of the
rules to introduce bill.
Rules suspended.
An act to authorize the city of New Or
leans to procure the loan of money to meet
its current liabilities was read.
Mr. Ray: I move that the rules be sus.
pended and the bill read a second time.
Adopted.