New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-08
following substitute for House bill No. 2sg.
ana recommended its passage. -
J. Il. MCVEAE,
9. RODNEY MAY,
P. L. DUFRESNE,
A. TUREAUD.

An Act to make State Notes, State Warrants
az any other redeemable State paper pay
aole Tor 81 Licenses. Taxes due the State,
| prior to the year 1865.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
anq house OF Represents of the State
oI Louisiana in General Assembly convened, z
4nat all taxes and licenses due the State of
LOUISIANA prior to the year 1865 shall be pay
aeLe atheI III s.ate Notes, State Warrants, or any
otaer reoeemable State paper. 4s-ses4
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted. etc. That
an licenses and taxes due the State ofLouis-
lana since tne year 1864, and that NAV here
s!ter become due, shall be payable in United
states National Currency; Provided that
al warrants issued by. the State Auditor
since the twenty second day of June. 1863
Tor the expenses of the State in any depart
ment, shall be receivable for all taxes and
| licenses. '--'-
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That
All laws or parts of laws in conflict with
this act be and the same are hereby re-
pealed. and that this act take effect from
and after its passage.
Bill reported by the majority of the Com
mittee on Ways and Means, recommending
its passage.
An Act to Regulate the Collection and Pay
| ment of Taxes.
| SECTION l. Be it enacted bv the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
| OF Louisiana in General Assembly convened
That all taxes and licenses due the State Of
Louisiana prior to the year 1865 shall be
| payable in State notes, State warrants, or
| any other reedeemable State paper.
| SIC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That
all licenses and taxes due the State OF Loui-
! slana since the year 1864, and that may
hereafter become due, shall be payable in
United States currency; Provided, That all
warrants issued by the Auditor of Public
Accounts since the twenty.second dav Of
January 1868, for the expenses of the State
IN any department shall be receivable for all
taxes and licenses
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, etc., That
the State Collectors, in settling their
accounts with. the State Treasurer,
shall be required to file with him
1t the time of their settlement an aft
davit setting forth the facts that they have
paid into the treasury the identical war
rants received by them, and that they have
not purchased or speculated in any manner.
directly or indirectly, in such warrants,
and that they received said warrants at
their face valuation.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, etc, That
the State Tax Collectors are hereby author
lied and directed to pay to the members and
employees of the General Assembly on pres
entation in person their warrants at their
lace value out Of any funds in their possess
sion, and that the State Treasurer is hereby
authorized and directed to receive said war
rants in settlement of accounts of State Tax
Collectors, upon said warrants being duly
lndorsed by the payer and affidavit being
made that they received said warrants from
members and employees OF the General As
semby.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, etc, That
the time for paying State taxes be and is
hereby extended for thirty days beyond
the time now allowed by law, during which
time State Tax Collectors are hereby author
lied and directed to receive and collect
taxes due the State without any additional
cost to taxpayers.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, ETC., That all
laws or parts of laws in conflict with this
act be and the same are hereby repealed and
that this act shall take effect from and after
its passage.
On motion of Mr.. Mevean, of Caddo, the
consideration of the above report aud bills
was postponed until tomorrow at one
o'clock.
Mr. Heidenhain, of Orleans, submitted
tine following minority report from the Com
mittee on Immigration, which was ordered
to be printed and considered at the same
time with the majority report.
COMMITTEE on IMMIGRATION
New Orleans, October I, 1858 y
To the Honorable Speaker and Members House Of
Your committee fully agrees with the
opinion expressed in the commencement OF
the report of the majority, dated October
fifth instant, and signed BY the Hon. Harry
Lott viz: that foreign immigration is q
matter OF the utmost importance to the
people of this Stater Such, however, were
not the views of the slavocracy before the
war who encouraged but one kind of i'm
migration-that of negroes from Africa,
Therefore the whole stream of white i1nmi.
grants was easily attracted toward the
North, while the Mississippi Valley re.
malned entirely neglected. Through the
abolition of slavery, radical change hav-
ing been effected in the relations between
labor and capital, no wonder that the Legis-
latures of 1865 and 1866 passed an act to
organize Bureau of Immigration, .
approved May H. 1866, by j. Madison
Wells, then Governor of the State of Louisi.
ana, and providing for the printing and
publishing of information in English,
! french, German, aud other languages as
well as for the appointment of agents, at
the rate OF i've hundred dollars per annum.
| in different foreign countries in order to
replace black hands with white hands.
This Bureau having absorbed, within the
snort time OF two years, not less than thirty
thousand dollars, has, under its present
system of management, showed itself radi-
cal tallure for different reasons:
| tlrstly-On account OF the so-called con.
tract system, by which immigrants were
bound TO work for their passage money or
the plantations, where they generally died
shortly after their arrival, and which system
was unanimously criticised and condemned
by the whole press of Europe.
Seeondly-On account of the discouraeing.
disturbed state of our country.
Thlrdly-For the want of suitable build
lngs,' giving temporary shelter to immi-
grants, and so competing against that
famous circustheatre called Castle Garden,
in New York
The principal features in the act intro
duced by the minority, and which is sub
mitted to your earnest attention, are nearly
analogous with those contained in the act
of 1866. There is but one important point
left out in both, and that is the cooperation
0fall the German societies siuce MANY wears
ago throughout the United States. In New
| York, the president OF the German Society
Is ex-otfeto member Of the permanent State
! Committee or Bureau Of Immigration; such
also should be the case here In Louisiana.
There are not less than fifty well organized
| German societies in the principal cities on
this continent, which are holding yearly
conventions, where all important points in
relation to immigration are freely debated.
| Inese societies are in continual correspond
enee with Europe, aud can powerfully as
sist our agents on that continent We must
try to compete against New York by Great
| ing New Orleans the principal port for
immigrants to Louisiana, Texas, Mis-
! souri,, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio.
| Wisconsin aud ali the Western States along
the banks of the tributaries OF our great
1 Mississippi river. Let us further change
the Bel eylle Foundry ofAigiers into a sntta-
BILE receptacle for immigrants arriving from
all parts OF the world.
With these views your minority. the
author OF the act aforesaid proposes the
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