New Orleans Republican., 1868-09-11

the officers and employees of the General
Assembly, with an amendment.
House bill No. 147, an act to establish the
fees due witnesses who are duly subpenaed
before the several Senate and House com
mittees with amendments.
Substitute for House bill No. 10, an act
fixing the salaries OF the District Judges in
the State.
Mr.. Campbell, from the Committee on
Corporations, reported favorsbly upon
House bill No. 81, an act removing the seat
of justice of the parish Of Carroll from the
town of Floyd and fixing it at the village of
Elton in said parish, on the Mississippi
river; and Senate bill No. 1s9, an act to
authorize the city of Csrrollton to sell or
dispose of certain property.
Mr.. Todd; 1 ask for suspension of the
rules to take up Senate bill ls9, the bill lust
reported upon favorably by the Committee
on Corporation.
Rules suspended and the bill read and
considered engrossed.
On further suspension of the rules the
bill underwent its third reading and was
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Mr.. Packard: ] ask for suspension of
the rules to take up the following re-
solution:
Resolued, That the following be adopted
as one of the standing rules of the Senate,
to-wit: No member shall absent himself
| from the session of the Senate without the
leave OF the Senate first obtained, and in
case a less number than q quorum of the
Senate shall be found convened, they are
hereby authorized to send the Sergeant-at-
| Arms, or any other person or persons by
| them authorized for any and all absent
members as the majority Of such members
present shall agree, at the expense of such
| absent members respectively, unless such
| excuse for attendance shall be made as
| the Senate, when q quorum is convened,
shall judge sufficient, and in that case the
expense shall be paid as other expenses of
the Senate. And this rule shall apply as
well to the first convening Of the Senate at
the legal hour of meeting as to each day of
the session after the hour has arrived to
which the Senate stood adjourned.
Rules suspended and the resolution read.
Mr.. anderson: move to lay the motion
on the table. ....-. ...
Mr.. Packard: call for the yeas and nays
The yeas and nays were ordered, re.
sulting:
Yeas: Anderson, Bacon, Beares, ,Blackman,
Coupland. Day Egan. Kelso, Ogden, Pinch.
back, Smith, Todd, whitney, Williams-14.
Nays: Campbell, Darrall, Francois, Lewis,
o'Hara. Packard,i Pollard, Ray, Wittgen
stein-9.
The resolution was laid on the table.
NOTICES OF ELLIS.
BY Mr.. Pinchback: An act to regulate the
seizure Of property under heri facias and
other writs, and to exempt certain property
from seizure.
Mr.. Campbell: ask for suspension Of
the rules TO introduce petition of ]. Madi-
son Wells and wife asking for payment of
certain property destroyed by State and
Confederate States authorities in 1864.
Rules suspended and the petition read and
referred to the Committee on Claims.
By Mr.. Bacon: Notice Of resolution to
restore rule No. IS of the Senate.
Mr.. Smith: ask for suspension of the
rules to introduce bill.
Rules suspended
An act to amend an act entitled an act
relative to pilots, approved April 4, 1855.
Read twice under suspension of the rules,
and referred to the Committee on Commerce
and Manufactures.
ELLIS ACCORDING TO PREVIOUS NOTICE.
Mr.. 0'Hara introduced bill to create the
Louisiana Homestead Association.
The bill was read.
Mr.. OHara: ask for suspension of the
rules to put the bill on its second reading,
with view Of reference.
The Senate refused to suspend the rules.
Mr.. Wittgenstein: ask for a suspension
Of the rules to take up bill.
Rules suspended.
Senate SillNo. l62: An set authorizing the
Secretary of State to employ an Assistant
Secretary, a Clerk, and Messenger.
Mr.. Blsckman: move to strike out the
Clerk, all that relates to min and his salary.
Adopted.
Mr.. Blaekman: move 70 amend the bill
By making the salary twenty dollars per
month instead of fifty dollars.
Mr.. Wittgenstein: I move to amend by
substituting twenty-five dollars for twenty
dollars.
Mr.. Blackman: accept the amendment.
The amendment was adopted.
Mr.. Blackman: offer the following add :.
tional section, and move its adoption:
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, etc., That
the Secretary of State shall not receive any
extra compensation for the copying OF the
laws passed by the Legislature.
Adopted.
Mr.. Wittgenstein: move that the bill be
considered engrossed for third reading.
Adopted.