New Orleans Republican., 1868-10-14

Notary Public shall presume 10 demand and
collect any other or greater fees for his ser
vices as such than are prescribed or NAV be
prescribed by law, or who shall fail or
refuse to perform his duties and powers as a
notary as defined and set forth in this act
or who shall demand as a perquisite there.
TO that any other or greater fees shall be
Iaid to him for the same, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof, his Office from the date of such con.
viction, shall be deemed vacant, and he
shall be forever incapacitated from holding
or exercising the office of notary in this
State, and shall be decreed in addition, to
refund all and any such excessive fees or
charges as he may have received, and be
fined in sum not less than fifty nor more
than one hundred dollars, Mt the discretion
of the court before which he may be tried.
Adopted.
Section 27 was read.
Mr.. Campbell: l move to amend by sub
stituting the following for section twenty
seven:
Be it further enacted, etc., That the act
entitled an act relative to Notaries in New
Orleans, approved March IA, 1855, the act
entitled an act relative to Notaries Public,
approved March IA, 1866; the act entitled an
act relative TO Notaries Public in and for the
city and parish of New Orleans, approved
March IL, 1857; and the act entitled an act
to organize central Office of notarial re-
cords and to appoint custodian thereof,
approved March 2S, 1867, and all other
laws contrary to the provisions of this act
be and the same are hereby repealed.
Adopted.
Section twenty-eight, the last section was
read and adopted, after substituting the
word December for October
Mr.. Bacon: move to reconsider the vote
by which was adopted the first section.
Mr.. Futch was called to the chair by the
President.
Mr.. Campbell: move to lay Mr.. Bacon's
motion on the table.
Adopted.
Mr.. Campbell: l move that the bill bt
adopted as a whole.
Mr.. Braughn: call for the yeas and nays
The yeas and nays were ordered, result
ing:
Yeas: Antoine, Campbell, Coupland, Oar.
rail-, FRANCOIS, Kelso, Lynch, Monette
9Asra, 9dIaa,, Packard pU2 Pinchback, Poindexter
Nays: Bacon, Braughn, Day, Futch
Jewell, Ogden, Thompson, Todd, Wilcox-9
Mr.. Csmpbell: l move that the bill b,
considered engrossed for third reading.
Mr.. Todd: l move that consideration o
the bill be postponed until Saturday, wher
the bill shall be made the special order 0
the day Immediately after roll call.
Adopted by rising vote of l2 yeas, l,
nays.
The Clerk of the House of Representa-
tives appeared with message from tina
body, announcing that the House had con
CURED in Senate joint resolution No. 80
appropriating $4,000 for the relief of the de:
titution occasioned by the late storm, wit
an additional section.
The President resumed the chair.
Mr.. OHara: ask for suspension of tn
rules to take up Senate joint resolution
No. SO.
Rules suspended and the following add
tional section of the House read as follows
SEC. g. Be it further resolved, That saic
amount of $4,000 be distributed to destitut,
poor without distinction of race or color.
Mr.. O'Hara: move that the Senate con
cur in the adoption of the additional section
Adopted.
Mr.. Wilcox: ask for suspension of the
rules to take up House joint resolution No
2ll, joint resolution requiring the join
committee appointed to investigate the ac
Of 1867, creating the issue of 81, 600, 900 levet
bonds, to report within two days after tht
passage of this act.
Rules suspended and the bill read.
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over.
The bill lies over.
Mr.. O'Hara: ask for a suspension of the
rules to take up Senate bill No. 199-sub
stitute-an act perpetuating the charter
privileges of the Barataria Sni Lafourcht
Canal Company, changing its domicile, in
creasing its capital stock, and lending the
credit of the State to the same.
Rules suspended and the bill read.
Mr.. O'Hara: move that the bill be made
the special order of the day tomorrow, at
one o'clock P. NJ.
Adopted.
Mr.. Thompson: ask for suspension OF
the rules to take Senate bill No. 179, an act
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in the parish of st. Helena, approved March
| I, 1861.
Rules suspended and the bill read.
The bill was considered engrossed.
Under further suspension of the rules the
bill was read third time and finally adopt
ed with its title.
Mr.. Braughn; l ask for suspension o.
the rules to introduce bill to be entitled
an act for the protection of mechanics and
artisans.
Read twice under suspension of the rule.
and referred to the Judiciary Committee.
The Senate adjourned.
G. Fl. MERRITT,
Secretary of the Senate.
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