New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-22
PROCEEDINGS
OF TIE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
JOURNAL OF THE SENATE.
seventy-second Days Session.

members:
Anderson, Bacon, Beares, Campbell. Dar.
rail-, Egan, Foute, Jewell, Kelso, Lewis,
Lynch, Ogden, Pinchback, Pollard, Ray,
Randall, Todd, Whitney. Williams, Wittgen-
stein-20.
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. Maistre.
On motion of Mr.. Ray, the reading of
the minutes was dispensed with.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Lynch, from the Finance Committee,
reported by substitute upon House bill No.
2l5, an act to provide means for the relief of
the State Treasury.
Favora5ly, with amendments, upon House
bill 1T6, an act to fix and determine the
salaries of the Board of Police Commission
ers of the city of New Orleans, establishing
Board of Police Commissioners for the
city of New Orleans, approved July 9, 1868,
And favorably upon House bill No. 40, an
act relating to State and parish tax collect.
ors.
Mr.. Smith, from the Committee on Elect
ions, reported progress.
Mr.. Darrall from the Committee on En-
rollment, reported the following bills duly
engrossed:
Senate joint resolution No. %; Senate
bills Nos. 11S and "a; and House bills Ncs
l25, l62 and IL.
MOTIONS.
Mr.. Smith: move to reconsider the vote
of yesterday, postponing indefinitely House
bill No. l9s, an act authorizing the Police
Jury of the parish of Jefferson to order the
construction of a shell road.
Mr. Todd: move to lay the motion on
the table.
Mr.. Smith: call for the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered, result
ing:
Yeas: Anderson, Bacon, Beares. Black.
man, Day, Todd aud Wlttgenstein-7.
Nays: Campbell, Darrall, Egan, Foute,
jewel, kelso, Lynch, Ofutt, Ogden,
O'Hara, Pinchback, Pollard, Randall. Raw,
Smith and Wittgenstein--l6.
The Senate refused to lay on the table.
The vote on the postponement of the bill
was reconsidered.
The Clerk of the House of Representatives
appeared with message from that body
and asked concurrence of the Senate in the
following:
House bill No. $50, an act for the relief of
A. E. Lockett.
No. 2l2, an act fixing the time and pre-
scribing the manner of holding general
elections for Representatives in Congress.
No. 5, an act relative to Notaries Public.
No. Ian act relative to removing obstruc
tions and wrecks from the Boguefalaya riv-
er, parish OF St. Tammauy.
No. o., an act to incorporate Hook and
Ladder Company in the town of Franklin,
parish of St. Mary
No. 50, an act relative to the division of
lands under legal sales.
No. l5s, an act to provide for the pay
ment of the interest and principal of State
bonds.
No. 203, an act for the relief of Charles
E. Fortier and Mrs. Hypolite Fortier.
No. POL an act for the relief of James C.
Kathman, late Chief of Bureau of Immigra.
ton.
No. 226, Joint resolution authorizing
of the General Assembly to in
vestigate the manner in which foreigners
are furnished with naturalization papers,
without declaring their intention of becom-
ing citizens.
No. 223, an act for the relief of the Afri-
can Methodist Episcopal Church of New
Orleans.
No. 225, an act for the relief of Alexander
Walker.
Joint resolution No. 2l7, rendering the
thanks of the General Assembly to Mr.. E.
Gotthiel for the able manner in which he
the State of Louisiana at the
late Exposition; and House bill No. 22I, pro.
v ding for the administration of tbs public
schools of the State, and House bill No. i54.
Also that the House had concurred in the
Senate bills
No. 81, an act providing for the appoint
nent of District Attorneys pro tempore who
shall be Parish Attorney, and defining his
iuty and powers and the mode of proceed
ng in criminal cases in the District and
Parish Courts, and providing for his salary
and fees. 1-.r
No. q, an act for tile relief of William !
Pearson, of Union parish, and Senate joint |
No. l6, relative to a joint com.
nittee consisting of the committee of each
iouse, be and they are hereby authorized to
7isit the Lunatic Asylum at Jackson, Louis.
ana, and the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at
3aton Rouge, and other charitable and pub.
ic institutions in the State, and Senate bill
No. "a, an act for the relief Of Pierre Soule,
With amendments.
The same also transmitted to the Senate a
ealed communication from the House.
MIR. Foute; 1 ask for suspension of the
ules to take up Senate bill No. lss, an act
o authorize the Police Jury of the parish of
eiferson to construct shell road.
Rules suspended and the bill read.
Mr. Todd: move to amend the title by
triking out the words 'shell road" and in.
eftiug the words "Nicolson pavement
Lost.
Mr. Bacon; | move to amend the title by
'ddlng the words "or Nicolson pavement,n
i the end Of the last line, and after shell
DAD, in the,body of the bill.
Adopted.
Considered enerossed.
Under Suspension of the rules the bill
lnAlly passed
The title was adopted as amended.
The order Of the day was called.
SPECIAL ORDER o. 4aE DAY.
J House eill No. 1871, an act providing for
he administration Of Public schools was
'ead.
The, bill was taken up section by section
The drst section wss read.
Mr. Pinchback; move to postpone Ar.
'iil and that il be made the special order