New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-06


First and Second Drainage Commissioners.
F. C. REMICK,
Private Secretary.
MESSAGES FROM THE SENATE.
The Secretary of the Senate was an.
nounced, asking concurrence in the follow
ing Senate bills:
Senate bills Nos. l57, 1873, 13s 1854, 1872.
The Secretary of the Senate further mott.
fed the House that the Senate had con.
CURED in the amendments to the registra.
ton bill No. 81.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
Senate bill No. IS being under considera-
ton, Mr.. Morey, of Ouachita in the chair.
Mr.. Reese, of Lafourche, moved to recon
slider the amendment in the Fourth District.
Carried.
Mr.. Reese, of Lafourche, offered the fol-
lowing amendment:
That the Fourth District shall consist of
the parishes of Caddo, Bossier, DeSoto,
Claiborne, Blenville, Sabine, Nachitoches,
VIM, Catahoula, Avoyelles and these por.
tons of the parish of Rapides lying north
of the Red river.
The amendment was adopted, and the Sec
ton as amended was adopted.
Section third, Fifth District was read.
Mr.. Reese, of Lafourche, offered the fol.
lowing amendment:
That the Fifth District shall consist of the
parishes of Union, Morehouse, Jackson,
Carroll, Madison, Tensas, Conccrdia, Qua
chita, Franklin, and Caldwell.
Mr.. Abbot and M. Garstkamp called
for the yeas and nays on the amendment,
which resulted as follows:
Yeas: Alexander, Antoine, Adolphe,
Brewster, Burrel, Calhoun, Carr, Crawford,
Dupart, Faulkner, Gair, Hill, Honore,
Holland. Hall, Leroy, Lott, Morris, Mahier,
McNiillen, Murrell, Melvin, Morey, May,
Page, Raymond, Reese, Sterrett, Taylor,
Tureaud, Cmphreys, Washington, William
G. Williams, H. Williams, D. ioung-39.
Nays; Abbot, Bergeron, Collins, Dema-
rest, Evans, Garstkamp, Haskell, Hanlon,
Heidenh9in, Kent, L'Hoste, McVean, Mo
rand Mathews, Noble, Pierce, Waters,
Iorke, Zoelly-l9.
The section as amended was adopted.
Section fourth was read. The amend.
ments proposed by the Committee were
adopted.
Mr.. Kent, of st. Helena, offered the fol-
lowing amendments:
Seventeenth line, after the word "Treas.
ury" insert belonging to the Levee and
Drainage Fund.-" twenty-nintl line, after the
word treasury insert belonging to the
Levee and Drainage Fund"
The amendments were laid on the table.
Mr.. Heidenhain, of Orleans, offered the
amendment:
Eleventh line, strike out five and insert
''three."
Laid on the table.
Dir. Page, of Jefferson, offered the follow
ing amendments:
Fourth line, strike out all from the
word engineer to the second "ther on the
ninth line; eleventh line, strike out five"
and insert "four;n eighteenth line, strike
out all after the word appropriated to the
word "and' in the twenty-frst line; twenty
'ourth line strike out the word ''their' and
insert Chs
The amendments were laid Oh the table.
Mr.. Garstkamp, of Jefferson, offered the
following amendment:
Strike out all after the word uannumr in
the twenty.hrst line to the word payable
in the twenty.ifth line.
Laid on the table.
Section fourth, as amended By the com.
nittee, was adopted.
Sections fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and
ninth were adopted without amendments.
The bill was adopted as a whole and or
1ered to be sent to the Senate as amended.
The Speaker resumed the chair.
ELLIS Of THEIR THIRD READING.
House bill No. 1874, entitled an act to
regulate and define the duties, and to stipu-
ate the jurisdiction and emoluments of
Coroner, was placed on its third reading
and final passage, adopted with its title and
to be sent to the Senate for concur
renee.
House bill No. $50, entitled an act relative
to marriage, was placed on its third read.
ing.
Mr.. Gray, of st. James, moved to post,
pone its consideration until Monday next.
Carried.
House bill No. 156, entitled an act to
regulate quarantine, was placed on its third
reading, final passage, adopted with its title,
and ordered to be sent to the Senate for con.
currence.
House bill No. l60, entitled an act for the
relief Of James L. Guthrie, State Tax Col
lector for the parish of Union, was placed
on its third reading.
On motion the bill was laid on the table.
House bill No. l72 entitled an act for the
relief of R. B. Love, Of Bienville, was placed
on its third reading and final passage,
adopted with its title, and ordered to be sent
to the Senate for concurrence.
House bill No. 17s, entitled an act to
amend an act relative to public printing,
was placed on its third reading and final
passage.
Mr.. Noble, Of Orleans, moved to amend
the title as follows;
An act to provide for the auditing Of the
claims of those journals selected for public
printing. and to amend the act relative to
public printing.
Mr.. Morey, Of ouaehita, moved to lay the
on the table.
Carried.
The bill was adopted with its title and
to be sent to the Senate for con,
currence.
SPECIAL ORDER OF rHR DAY.
House bill No. l9i being under consi.
Iteration, Mr.. McMillen, Of Carroll. moved
that the further consideration Of the bill be