The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-16
House OF MISREPRESENTATION.

House OF Representatives
Leave of absence. for four days, .grantsd D. NJ.
LANCE, 10. Rad.) Of East Baton Rouge, and to Mr..
Fonts. Of VIM, for fifteen days.
An act to exempt the giving Of bonds in certain
Injunction cases. Passed.
An act creating a recorders court in Shreve-
port. Referred to delegation from Cadio.
An act repeating the obnoxious sections Of the
supplementary registration bill. Passed.
An act relative to the trial Of contested election
cases. Passed.
House bill relative to marriages., concurred in
by Senate, with amendments. Amendments all
concurred in.
McNillen, Of Carroll, introduced q bill abolish.
ing the obnoxious features of the last enactment
relative to the weighing Of hay. memorial.
s Err II ss rse finally
passed by so to 10, and sent down to the Senate.
Lott, Of Rapides, e. RAD called up the special
order Of the day, which was the contested case OF
lafayette parish. The committee reported that
Michael Casey, the Radical contestant of Mr.. Ia.
dice's seat had not proved fraud, and therefore
recommended the confirming Of him in his seat.
Lott, from the committee, made minority report
stating that the frauds had been proved by Casey,
and therefore that Casey radical not elected)
should take the seat In place Of Mr.. JUDGE (Dem.
ocrat elected BY the people) The yeas and nays
were called upon the adoption Of the maj ority re-
port, and resulted yeas 80, nays 33-a tie vote.
The speaker voted aye, thus making the report to.
be adopted by one vote. ..-- rs
SENATE BILLS ON THEIR FIRST READING.
An act making State warrants and State notes
receivable for taxes for the years from 1850 to
1866, inclusive, and extending the time Of collect
ing taxes for 1857 to January l, 1863. Calendar.
joint resolution authorizing mayors to perform
the marriage ceremony. Calendar.
Joint resolution providing for the addition to the
special committee on the city charter of one mem
Calendar.
Joint resolution authorizing the governor to ap-
x~t.t 49, 1-l- A. 49,
convention, to meet in Baltimore the 9th proxi-
mo. Calendar.
Joint resolution appropriating 800 to each OF
the policemen now in charge of the Mechanics
means committee, reported that they had investi-
gated the case and recommended the passage of
the bill. The bill was read twice and sent to the
committee of the whole.
An act relative to parish courts. Read twice
and sent to judiciary committee.
Pratt, Of Claiborne. here announced that he had
just received telegram from Monroe, La, stating
that no boards of supervisors had been appointed
In the parishes of Bienville and Franklin, and in
troduced resolution providing for the appoint
ment of q committee of three to wait upon the
chairman of the board of registrars to inquire into
the reason of such neglect. The resolution was
rounced as the committee Pratt, OF Claiborne,
D. N: Lspge, East Baton Rouge, and Crawford, of
Franklin.
An act for the relief Of Huger & Jones' lessees
committee Of the whole.
An act relative to manner of transactng bust.
mess in the district courts of New Orleans. Csen-
dar.
An act allowing judges of the district courts
to try msndamuses In chambers during the recess
Of the courts. Calendar.
An act providing for the carrying into effect of
article l32 of the Constitution. Read twice and
sent to the judiciary committee.
An act providing for repairs to the state Peni-
Tertiary and ratifying the contract with Messrs.
Huger d Jones, the present lessees. Read twice
and cent to committee Of the whole.
Mcmillan, of Carroll, here introduced q reso-
luton providing for the payment of an extra
compensation Of $50 each to the pages of the
House. The resolution was adopted.
An act supplementary to the act Of incorpora-
ton Of the New Orleans News Association.
An act relative to the presidential electors and
prescribing their duties and pay. Read twice
and sent to the judiciary committee.
An act regulating sppraisements In certain
succession and division sales. Calendar.
An act forming the parish of Iberia. Calendar.
An act amending article 1880 of the Civil Code,
and repeating the law of 1867 relative 10 that ar
tice. Calendar.
An act postponipe indefinitely the taxes due the
State for the years from 1850 to 1865 inclusive.
Calendar.
An act giving to ]. B. Francois the exclusive
privilege for twenty years OF running ferry over
Bayou Teche, near st. kartinsville. Calendar.
Joint resolution providing for recess Of the
General Assembly from October 10th to Novem-
Der 10th. Judiciary committee.
An act for the relief of G. W. sizer. Commit
rec of the whole.
joint resolution providing for the appoint
ment of three members of the police jury Of the
parish of Jefferson, right bank. Judiciary COM
mittee. r-.
An act relative to receipt of warrants for taxes.
Ways and means committee.
An act approprsting $500 to the lions Travel.
ers' Church of Carrollton. Committee on chart
table institutions. 49,
An act appropriatng $500 to the First Baptist
Church of Assumption. Ways and means COM
mittee.
An act providing pensions for the "loyal indi.
vidusls who were hurt in the riot Of July, 1856.
Pensions committee.
An act making another change in the division
Of the State into congressional districts On mo-
ton OF McVean, Of Caddo, indefinitely post
poned.
An act for the Improvement of the Tangipahoa
river. Calendar. go
An act providing for the investigation into late
dis Dances in parishes of Caddo, BOssier and
st. Landry. Referred.
An act making the members of the board Of
public works elected by the General Assembly
instead Of appointed By the governor. Public
lands and levees.
Joint resolution allowing the peace and order
committee TO set during the recess of the General
Assembly. Crawford, of Franklin, moved to in.
definitely postpone. Lost.
Adjourned. .
TIE ARSENAL AFFAIR.-Last Wednesday night
the negroes at the Arsenal assembled in large
numbers, thoroughly armed, for the purpose, they
say OF repellinq an attack from the white men Of
this city. The chief Of the police and one of his