New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-04

readings, final. passage, title adopted, and
notice ordered to be sent to the Senate.
Vi MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR.
The following messages were received:
EXECUTIVE DEPARrMEST.l
State of Louisiana. I
New Orleans. September 2, 1853
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House of Representatives:
transmit herewith for the consideration
of the General Assembly, the report Of
Edward Gottheil, Chief Commissioner and
General Agent from the State of Louisiana
to the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867,
made to the Governor and the General As
sembly, session 1865, clfn
A careful perusal of the report will show
the great difficulties Mr.. Gottheil has had
to contend with in the prosecution Of his
mission, the energy he has displayed in
looking after the interests of Louisiana, at
the Exposition, and the very important and
beneficial results obtained for the State,
would especially call the attention of your
honorable body TO the practical suggestions
contained in the report, in relation to i'm
migration and the Importance OF a geolo-
gical survey.
AS his mission has been attended with
great labor and expense, and thus far
without remuneration, and as Governor
Wells pledged the faith of the State that
his services should be properly remunerated,
as will appear by copy of an extract from
letter, contained in the report, would
respectfully recommend that an appropria-
ton be made in favor of Mr.. Gottheil, which
shall be suitable remuneration for the
expenses incurred, and for his faithful and
successful exertions in behalf of the State.
H. @. WARM@TH,
Governor of Louisiana.
Three hundred copies were ordered to be
printed in pamphlet form.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
State of Louisiana,
New Orleans. September 3, 1863.
To the Honorable Speaker of the House Of Repre-.
sentatiVes: -
I am instructed by his Eycellencv the
Governor to inform the House of Repre-.
sentatives that he has approved and signed !:
An act to amend an act entitled an act
to transfer all the causes now pending
before the courts of the State under the con.
stitution of one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-four to the courts created by the con-
stltution of one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.
An act to regulate the practice and the
dispatch of business in the District Courts
OF New Orleans, and
An act to provide for supplying the loss of
the public records and other papers con.
sumed by the burning of the Courthouse in
the parish of Vim during the month of
February, 1868.
F. G. REMICK,
Private Secretary.
Under suspension of the rules Mr.. Ster-
rett, of Caddo, offered the following Joint
resolution:
To provide for the relief of the INDECENT
sick in transitu at the city of Shreveport.
Passed its first and second readings, and
referred to tho Committee on Charitable
Institutions.
Mr.. Morey, of ouachita, called for the
special order of the day, Senate bill No. 81.
Mr.. Morey moved to strike out all after
the enacting clause of the first section, and
insert substitute for Senate bill No. 81,
adopted August 10, with the following add.
donal sections:
Sec. Is. Be it further enacted, etc., That
the registration of voters of this State shall
be closed nine days before the first Tuesday
after the first Monday of November, A. d.
1868; and it shall be the duty of the Super
vlsors OF Registration in every parish in this
State to make out and furnish certified
copies of the registered voters in each cleo
tion precinct and polling place of each par
ish, to the Commissioners of Election in
each precinct OF polling place, to be used at
the election or elections to be held in No.
vember, A. d. 1868, if any such are ordered
to be held, and at any subsequent election
until otherwise provided for; and the failure
OF the Supervisors to furnish such copies of
registered voters, shall be subject, each. of
such delinquent supervisors, to a fine of
not less than one hundred nor more than
five hundred dollars, to be recovered for the
use OF the parish in which the failure to
perform the duty occurred, to be sued for in
the name OF the parish; and it shall be the
duty of the District Attorney, pro tempore,
OF such parish, to institute any such suit
wherever any such delinquency shall be
brought to his knowledge by any member of
the Police Jury or Commissioners of the
Election, who ought to have been furnished
with the copies aforesaid, or is known to
himself, or that he has reasonable cause to
believe from other evidence to be true.
Sec. l6. Be it further enacted, etc., That
the Supervisors of Registration in each
parish of this State shall divide the
same into as many precincts, not to ex.
coed the number now established by law,
as to them may seem advisable, and direct
what number of polls or voting places shall
be established in each precinct, and to fix
the places of holding thereof, and to ap.
point Commissioners for each poll or voting
precinct. -feWes.t
SEC. II. Be it further enacted, etc., That
the Governor of the State shall, previous
to any general election, appoint in each
parish of the State one Supervisor of Reg
lstratlen, to whom The Clerks OF the Court
shall deliver the books of registration de-
livered to him by the last Supervisors of
and he shall receive the same
and strike from them the names of the
voters who have died or left the parish,
or become ineligible for any legal cause,
and to add thereto the names of all those
who have removed into the parish since
the last registration, or who were
not then registered and those who
have since come of age, and generally to
perfect the registration of the parish, and
they shall close such registration nine days
before the said general election and fur
nish to the Commissioners of Election of
each voting place or poll copies of the
registered voters of their precinct, and with
In ten days after such general election
such Registrars shall redeliver to the Clerks
OF the Courts the books of registration,
with all the additions and amendments
made thereto, as herein provided.
SEC. IL. Be it further enacted, etc., That
It shall be the duty of the Supervisors of
Election In every parish of this State, Eek.
cept the parish of Orleans) to appoint one
or more suitable persons to attend at each
voting poll, whose duty it shall be to con-
vey the box to receive the votes to the
place of holding the election, and to de-
liver the same to the Commissioners of
Election, and to attend the Commissioners
Of Election during the whole time ofholding
the election, and TO obey all legal orders Of
such Commissioners, in keeping order at
or near the polls, suppressing riots, or dis.
order of any kind, and to make all such ar.
rests as may. be ordered by the said Com
missioners. Any person who may resist or
oppose such. persons in the discharge of
their said duties, upon conviction thereof
shall be punished, as Is provided for resist