New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-24

tatives appeared with the following message
from the House, regarding Senate bill No. %:
ION motion of Mr.. Carr, of Orleans,
respectfully returned with the information
that the House concurred, without amend
ments, and that the words, mot be compe.
| tent were not stricken out By the House,
neither the words nor to- in the eighteenth
line; and that the additional section was
(Signed) WILLIAM vIGERs,
Chief Clerk.
The same officer announced that the
House had concurred in the Senate bills:
No. l73, an act to amend and re-enact ar.
ticle SIS of the Civil Code.
No. l94, an act to repeal act No. 6S,
approved March 10, 1867, entitled an act
creating special Levee District in the par
ish of lberVille.
No. 1872, an act for the relief of Mrs.
Young Burke.
No. 154, an act to create the parish of
Richland and providing for the organizing
thereof.
No. 146, an act for the relief @ F. H.
Asitt.
No. lOj, an act for the reliot Of Robert j.
Caldwell.
No. l39, an act to amend and re-
enact articles 32l6, 1888, 32aO and
l5s, making an appropriation to carry into
effect the first, second and third sections of
an act entitled an act to provide for the
more etFectual assessment of lands belonging
to non-residents, approved March A. 1856
No. l66, an act for the relief Of certain tax
assessors.
No. ia. an act to amend and re-enact
article 1926 of the Civil Code.
No. A, an act to amend an act entitled
an act relative to District Attorneys, ap-
proved March 30, 1866.
No. 159, an act to amend an act entitled
an act to amend an act entitled an act to
provide for supplying the loss Of the public
records and other papers consumed by the
burning Of the Courthouse in the parish of
Claiborne on the sixth of November, 1919,
approved April %, 1858.
Senate Joint resolution No. II directing the
Board of Public Works to have examined
the canal leading from Napoleonville, parish
of Assumption, to Lake Verret, and to make
estimates for cleaning and repairing the
same.
No. 1876, an act to amend an act entitled
an act to take the sense of the qualified
voters of the parish of VIM as to the ex-
pediency of removing the seat of justice
from the town of WINFIELD to the town of
Montgomery, and confirming the town of
Winfield as the seat Of justice, and Senate
bill No. 167, an act defining more fully che
duties of sher ifs, etc.
Also, that the House had postponed in
definitely:
Senate bill No. 1913, an act authorizing the
collection of all back taxes due the city Of
Carrollton.
He also asked concurrence of the Senate
, in House joint resolution No. 234, provid-
: ing for recess of the General Assembly
! from and after October 2, 1865, until No
vember Z, 1868, at NJ.
, Action on Senate joint resolution No. 19C
: was resumed.
!. Mr.. Day; call for the yeas and nays OF
the motion to engross the bill.
The yeas and nays were ordered, resulting
Yeas: Anderson, Bacon, Beares, Black
man, Braughn, Day, Foute, Jewell, Lynch
, Otfutt, Ogden, O'Hara, Pinchback, Ray
1uOulpsOhJ "llCOA, HlbLBCu5LC1u-lts
! Nays: Campbell, Darrall, Lewis, Monette
i Poindexter, Pollard, Smith and Whitney-s
The bill was considered engrossed.
Mr.. Ray: l move that the bill be made tn
special order of the day on Wednesday next
The bill was made the special order o
e the day on Wednesday, on division, b.
. thirteen yeas, nine nays.
The Senate went into executive session
The executive session having been raised
Mr.. Lynch: 1 ask for suspension of tn
rules to take up bill.
Rules suspended.
4 Substitute for House bill No. 215, an act t
a provide means for the relief of the Stat
a treasury, was read.
!. The bill was taken up section by section
\ Mr.. Foute: move to strike ont the pre-
! amble.
:. Adopted.
q Sections from one to four inclusive wer
! read and adopted. l..-
Mr.. Ray: move to reconsider the vot
, on the adoption of the first section.
, The vote was reconsidered. F
Mr.. Lynch: move to strike out tn
words 'said bonds" in line ten, section one
, and to insert instead the following ''S1, $50
900 of bonds undisposed of, issued in sccorG
ance to the provisions of the act entitled
, an act to provide means for the constructio
. of levees, by the'issue of bonds of the Stat
for four millions of dollars and to provid
for the redemption of said bonds, approve
March 26, 1867.
The amendment was adopted
The section was adopted as amended. ID
Mr.. Ray: move that the bill be adopte
as whole. ~
a No quorum being present the Senate ai
e journed.
f CHAs. H. MERRITT
l Secretary of Senate.
In the Senate, Monday, September 81,
1868, House bill No. l9s-sn act relative tC
the construction of a shell road in the
parish of Jefferson being under considera
tion, motion was made to reconsider tht
vote of Saturday to indefinitely postpone it
Mr.. Smith This bill, as | am informed,
: meets the appreciation of every property
holder on the line of the proposed route.
Mr.. Todd: MIR. President, my colleague
says that he is informed that this bill meet;
e the appreciation OF every property holder on
the road. Now, the fact is that but very
few of the men who have signed the .peti
tion for It are property holders, and this
e road is only intended for the benefit of some
beer garden. Nobody, no property holders
. except these beergarden men want this
{ shell road, which is about the most expen
sive kind of u road that can be built. II