New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-12
. F. F. T o L A L.
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
OF THE SENATE.
Elghty-Niath Days Session.


the minutes was dispensed with.
SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY.
House bill No $50, an act relative TO mar
riages, was taken up section by section.
| The first section was read.
| Mr.. Campbell: move to amend by add
ing at the end of the section "and provided
that no marriage shall be ratified nor the
issue of such marriage legitimatised. by or
according to the provisions OF this act,
when there existed at the date of such
private or religious marriage, or at any time
since, any other legal impediment to the
marriage of the parties to the private or
religious marriage than that of race or
| color.n
| Adopted.
The section was adopted as amended.
| The second section was read and adopted
without amendment.
The third section was read.
| Mr.. Bacon: move that the bill be printed
and made the special order Of the day on
Tuesday next at one o'clock.
Adopted.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Ray, from the Judiciary Committee,
reported favorably upon House bill No. l34,
an act to regulate and define the duties,
and to stipulate the jurisdiction and emolu.
ments of Coronory and favorable majority
report upon House bill No. s, an act relative
to Notaries Public.
Mr.. Lynch, from the Finance Committee,
reported unfavorably upon Senate bill No.
2O2, an act for the relief of Rev. Benjamin
F. White, of 0pelousas, Louisiana.
Mr.. 0'Hara, from the Committee on
Claims, reported favcrably upon House bill
No. 201, an act for the relief of j. G. Kath-
man, late Chief of Bureau of immigration.
Mr.. Wittgenstein, from the Committee on
Enrolment, reported as duly enrolled Sen
ate Joint Resolution No. 27, ald as duly en-.
crossed Senate Joint Resolution No. -.
Mr.. Ray, from the Committee on Internal
Improvements, reported Senate bill No. 70,
an act creating a Board of Public Works
for the city of New Orleans and providing
for the appointment commissioners there
of, with the recommendation that the bill
be printed and referred to the Committee on
Internal Improvements and city charter
jointly.
Mr.. Ray: l ask for a suspension of the
rules to take up the report.
Rules suspended.
Mr.. Ray: I move the adoption of the
report.
Adopted.
Mr.. Lynch, from the Finance Committee,
in the matter of the memorial of police of.
ficers detailed at the Capitol, reported by
joint resolution appropriating $IOO to each
of the members of the police officers who
have attended in their official capacity the
session of the Legislature Of 1868.
RESOLUTIONS.
By Mr.. Todd:
Resoloed, That T. j. Bird, D. G. Montan
and II. F.. Babin, be allowed their per diem
and mileage as witnesses before the Com
mittee on Elections, in the case of George
W. Reagan contestiug the seat of II. H.
Day, and that the chairman of the Commit.
lee on Elections be and is hereby directed
to certify to the humber of days the above
named parties have attended before said
committee, and that the chairman of the
committee, on auditing and supervising ex.
penses, be and is hereby directed to approve
the same.
Mr.. Todd: move the adoption of the
resolution.
Adopted.
By Mr.. Bacon: ask for a suspension of
the rules to take up Senate joint resolution
No. 80, providing for the addition on the Joint
Committee to Examine the City Charter of
one member of each body of the General
Assembly from such municipal districts of
New Orleans as are not represented.
Rules suspended and the resolution read
Mr.. Bacon: move that it be considered
engrossed,
The resolution was considered engrossed,
Under further suspension of the rules
the resolution was read third time and
finally adopted with its title.
By Mr.. O'Hara;
Be il resolued, That Oscar, who has been
employed on the Committee on Claims and
Public Education, be allowed his pay as
porter Of those committees for one month.
Mr.. o'Hsra: move the adoption of the
resolution.
Lost by rising vote of 9 yeas, 10 nays.
Mr.. jerks: l ask for a suspension of the
rules to introduce bill.
Rules suspended.
An act 10 promote domestic tranquility |
and to relieve citizens OF the State liable to |
prosecution under existing law.
Read twice under suspension of the rules
and referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr.. Campbell; ask for a suspension of
the rules to introduce q bill, to be entitled
an act for the relief of the noncommissloned
officers and privates of the Sixth Louisiana
Infantry.
Rules suspended and the bill read.
Read twice under suspension of the rules
and referred to the Finance Committee.
Mr.. Bacon: ask for suspension of the
rules to introduce bill, to be entitled an
act relative to notarles.
Rules suspended, and the bill read twice.
Mr.. Bacon: i move that the bill be
printed.
Adopted.
Mr., Campbell: ask for suspension of
the rules to take up Senate bill No. 24l, an
act to form new parish to be called the par
ish Of Iberia. fis -t
Rules suspended and the bill read.
Mr.. Campbell: move TO amend by add.
ing the following sections