New Orleans Republican., 1868-08-06
THE LEGIsLATURE.
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By Mr.. E nard, of st. Mary:
House bill No. 109-
An act to prohibit the formation and con.
tinuance of military organizations, except
such as are established by law, and that
form part of the State Militia.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
That IL shall not be lawful, and all persons
ale hereby forbidden, to form or organize
military organizations of any kind what
soever for the purpose of drilling and exer-
csing in the manual of arms, or military
maDeuvres and exercises, either rs Infantry,
cavalry, or artillery except the same snail
be organized according to law, and are sub
ject to orders of the Governor or other
proper officer duly commissioned for that
purpose.
SEC 2. Be it further enacted, etc.. That
any person who forms or attempts to fOrm
any organization in violation OF section one
of this act shall be deemed guilty of felony.
aud upon conviction shall be liable tO not
less than one nor more than three years i'm
prisonment in the State peuitentiary.
SEC 8. Be it further enacted, etc, That
any ueTson vino shall join any organization
for the purpose of drilling and exercising III
violation of section one OF this act shall be
deemed guilty of msdemeanor and upon
conviction shall be liable to not les than
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ment.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That
all organizations not being part OF the
| State militia, having Captains, Lieutenants
or other officers, who shall drill and exer-
else the same as military companies, no
matter under what prctext or for what pur-
pose they may have been formed, shall be
deemed to be and are hereby declared to ex
lst in violation of law, and the persons
composing such organizations, shall &C
cording to circumstances, be liable to the
pains and penalties of sections two and
three ofthis act.
SIC s. b.. II further enacted, ETC., That
all organizations at present in existence, in
violation of section one of this act, shall be
disbaUded Immediately upon the passage Of
this act, and all persons belonging to such
organizations already formed, who shall
meet, drill or exercise in tany of the ma
neuvres peculiar to military organizations
after the passage of this act, shall upon con
viction be liable to imprisonment in the
penitentiary for not less than one nor morr
tnan three years.
SEC 6. Be it further enacted, etc., That
all acts and parts of acts contrary to the
provisions of this act, be and the same
are hereby repealed.
SEC. Z. Be it enacted, ETC., That this act
shall take effect from and after its passage.
Passed its first and second readings, and
W luC Oh Gullttlds
Under suspension of the rules the fol
lowing House bill passed its first and second
readings, two hundred copies ordered to be
printed, and made the older of the day in
Committee of the Whole for Monday, Au-
gust II;
House bill No. 1Os-
An act to provide for the refunding of the
State notes in State bonds bearing inter
est at the rate of five per centum per an
num- and also the State warrants previous
to 1868.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of Louisiana in General Assembly convened
That all issues of the State known a
State notes and State warrants previous to
the year 1868 be and the same are hereby
converted into Stute bonds bearing interest
at the rate of five per eentum per annum,
and made payable in ten or fifteen years
from their issue.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
all laws or parts Of laws contrary to the
provisions Of this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
Under a suspension OF the rules Mr.. Lee,
of st. Bernard, introduced the following
bill:
House bill No. liz, an act to amend an
act entitled an act to transfer all the causes
now pending before the courts of the State
under the constitution of 1854 10 the courts
created by the constitution of 1865.
Referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr.. Morey, of 0uachita, under a suspen-
sion of the rules, offered the following bills.
which passed their first and second read
ings, ,150 copies of each ordered to be printed,
and bills referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means, as follows:
House bill No. 10. an act to provide means
necessary for the relief of the treasury of
the State. a
House bill No. ii, an act levying a special |
tax to provide for the payment OF TIE past |
due interest on the bonds Of the State, out |
standing warrants, certificates of indebted. |
ness, and convention warrants.
UNPISIsHED BUSINESS.
House Bill No. 90 being under discussion,
MFR. Quincy, ofRapides, moved to lay the bill |
On the table subject to call.
Carried.
BILLS ON THEIR THIRD READING.
housS DHi NO. II. WAS placeQ on ltS JD1rd |
reading, final passage, and adopted by its
title and ordered to be sent to the Senate |
or concurrence.
House bill No. 25 was placed on its third
.eading.
kr. Noble, Of Orleans, moved to lay the |
,ill on the table.
Yeas and nays ordered, resulting as'fol-
ows: -
Yeas:. Bennett, Buckingham, De Grange,
Hanlon, Kent, Landers, McCullen, Noble, |
Waters, Zoeiiy--l0.
Nays: Abbot, Alexander, Antoine
Adolphe, Quincy, Deslonde, Devices, Dn- |
resne, Dupart, Evans, Esnard, Faulkner,
iarstkamp, Guidry, HILL Harper, Holland,
Isabelle, lie Blanc, Leroy, Morris, Mollere,
McMllen, Mcvean, Melvin, Morey, Morand,
Page, Raymond, Reese, Rey, Hall, 8terrett,
Iureaud, Walsh, Washington, Umphreys'
William G. Williams, II. Williams, Heiden-
There being no quorum voting, the
House, on motion Of Mr. Hanlon, of Or
cans, adjourned until tomorrow at twelve