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

On motion of Mr.. Ray the reading of the
minutes was dispensed with.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Ray, from the Judiciary Committee,
reported as follows:
By substitute, Senate bill No. 107, ian act
granting the exclusive right to William j..
Taylor and M. q. Conner, to erect platform
scales for weighing and to reduce the price
of weighing in the State.
Substitute for Senate joint resolution No.
| 100, to amend article 80 of the Constitution.
Substitute for Senate bill No. lis, an act
to limit and control the assessment of par
ish and municipal taxes in this State.
Mr.. Darrall, from the Committee on En-
rollment, reported as duly engrossed Sen.
ate bill No. l54, an act to create the parish
| of Richland.
Senate bill No. 1885, an act to amend and
re-enact articles S216, 1899, and 324O of the
Civil Code of Louisiana.
Senate bill No. l53, an act to encourage
the settlement and cultivation of public
lands in the State.
Senate bill Nc. Isl, an act to amend and
re-enact the thirty-fourth section of an act
entitled an act relative to criminal proceed
ings, approved March II, 1855
Senate bill No. =, an act for the relief of
Mrs. Young Burke.
Nj. o'Hara, from the Committee on
Claims reported favorably upon Senate bill
No. SO, an act for the relief of S. L.
blanchard.
And unfavorably upon memorial and bill
from H. D. McGinnis, praying for relief, on
the ground that the debt was contracted
under the so-called Confederate States.
Mr.. Ray: ask for a suspension of the
rules to introduce bill.
Rules suspended.
Joint resolution to provide for the pay
ment of the mileage and per diem of mem
bers and clerks of committees who are re-
quired to sit during the recess of the Legis-
lature, was read.
On further suspension of the rules the
bill was read a second and third time and
finally adopted with its title.
Mr.. Smith: ask for a suspension of the
rules to introduce bill.
Rules suspended.
An act to provide for the inspection of
live stock and to prevent the sale of dis
eased meats, was read.
Mr.. Smith: ask tor further suspension
of the rules, to put the bill on its second
reading.
| Rules suspended and the bill read.
Mi. Wilcox: 1 move 10 refer the bill to the
Special Committee on Slaughter Houses.
Mr.. 0'Hara: move TO lay the motion on
the table.
Mr.. Todd: call for the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered, re-
sulting;
Yeas Blackman,. Campbell, FRANCOIS,
Lewis, Monette, 0'Hara, Pinchback, Smith,
Williams, Wittgenstein-l0.
Nays Beares, Braughn, Darrall, Day,
Egal kelso, Packard, Ray, Thompson,
Todd, WilcoX-ll.
The motion to lay on the table was lost.
Mr. Smith: move to substitute the Com
mittee on Health for the Slaughterhouse
Committee.
Mr.. Todd; move to lay the substitute OF
the table and call for the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered, result
ing:
Yeas: Beares, Blackman. Braughn, Oar.
rail. Day, Egan, Foute, Kelso, Monette,
Packard, Ray, Thompson Todd, Wilcox,
Williams, Wittgenstein-l6.
Nays: Campbell, COPELAND, Francois,
Lewis, O'Hara, Pinchback, Poindexter,
Smiths.
The substitute was laid on the table.
Mr., WilcoX's motion to refer the bill to
the Committee on Slaughterhouses was then
adopted.
NOTICE or BILL.
Mr.. O'Hara; give notice that on future
day l will introduce bill relative to the
Louisiana Homestead Association.
Tie order of the day was called.
SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY.
Senate bill No. 13s, an act for the relief OF
the parishes of Washington, st. Martin, I4iv-
ingston, Rapides, Terrebonne, Jefferson, st.
Tammany, Caddo, city of Jefferson, and par
ish of St. Charles, to pay warrants Nos. 3S4,
3s5, 3s7, 3s9, $50, 391, 1872, 1893, 423 and 429,
was read.
Mr. 0'Hara; move that the bill be consid.
cred engrossed for third reading.
Adopted.
Mr.. O'Hara: ask for a suspension of the
rules to put the bill on its third reading.
Rules suspended and the bill read thirt
time.
The bill was finally adopted with its title
Senate bill No. l35, an act to amend al
act entitled an act entitled an act to take
the sense of the qualified voters of the par.
ish of VIM as to the expediency of remov
ing 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, was read.
Mr.. Ray: ask that the bill be considered
engrossed for third reading.
The bill was considered engrossed.
On a suspension of the rules the bill was
read a third time and finally adopted with
its title.
Senate bill No. s., an act for the relief of
George S. Lacey. attorney.at-law, was read
Nj, Ray: 1 ask that the bill be engrosscd
for third reading.
Adopted.
On suspension of the rules the bill was
read third time, and finally adopted with
its title.
The Clerk of the House of Representatives
appeared with a message from the House,
and announced that that body had con.
CURED in Senate bill No. IFS, an act to en-
able the city of New Orleans to procure the
loan Of money to meet its current liabilities.
The same officer returned Senate bill No.
81, an act to provide for the registration of