New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-17

for his labor during the extra session, to be
Maid by the Warrant Clerk of the Senate,
in the same manner as the per diem OF
members.
Adopted.
Mr.. Smith, under suspension OF the
rules, introduced the following resolutonl:
Resolued That the following extra COM
pensation be allowed and appropriated out
of the contingent fund of the Senate, to be
Maid on the warrant of the chairman OF the
Committee of Contingent Expenses OF the
Senate, in favor OF the hereinafter named
employees, to wit: To the Assistant Sergeant
alarms, $3.50 to the Messenger, Sl5o 10
each Page. $50 to each Porter, Sl00 TO
the Doorkeeper, 500 to the Postmaster.
500 and that the sum Of two hunered ana
ten dollars (s21Ol be appropriated for extra
services performed by the clerk OF the COM
mittee on Corporation and Parocnlai
Affairs during the last regular session, ana
that the same be paid by the Warrant Clerk
pristion for the pay of members and en-
pleyes of the General Assembly.
Adopted.
Mr.. COPELAND, under suspension OF the
rules, introduced the following resolution:
WHEREAS. It is necessary that the &C
counts Of the Warrant Clerk, as well as the
accounts of the Committee on Auditing ana
Supervising the Accounts OF the Sena.e DC
examined therefore, be 1t
IsesoJced That the Committee on AUDIT
ING the Accounts of the Senate be authorized
TO sit tor thirty days after the adJournmens
of the General Assembly, for the purpose OF
making a thorough examination OF salo &C.
counts, and be authorized to report 81 the
the next session of the General Assembly.
Adopted.
Under a suspension of the rules Mr..
Braughn called up House bill No. l76,
s'For the relief of the Mechanics and Ag-
ricutural Fair Association of Louisiana"
(from first reading fle).
Which was read its first time.
The constitutionalrule was then suspend
ed by a four-ffths affirmative vote, and
the bill read second time.
The constitutional rule was further sus-
pended by four-ffths affirmative vote,
the bill read its third and last time, and
finally adopted with its title.
PRECEDENCE SPECIAL ORDER.
Senate bill No. 2O4, "To organize the
State Land Office" etc., returned from the
House concurred in with amendments.
Amendments as follows:
First-In section twenty-one, after the
words Surveyor General of the United
States" insert For the State Of Louis
lana"
Concurred IN.
Second amendment: In section twenty
two, after the last word, insert '''and this
appropriation shall be payable to the Reg
ister, upon his own warrant, to be issued
in accordance with such estimate as SHAH
be made by the United States Surveyor
General for the State of Louisiana, for
work to be done, as provided In secaon
| twenty-one Of this act"
| Concurred in.
PRECEDENCE SPECIAL ORDER.
House bill No. 234, ITO provide for the
payment of the floating debt of the State
by the issue and sale or exchange Of State
| bonds"
Which was read its first time.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by four-ffths affirmative vote,
the bill put on its second reading, and
referred to the Finance Committee.
Under a suspension of the rules intro
duced 'sAn act to provide for the transfer
of certain records from the parish Of JEFF
ferson and the parish of Orleans"
Which was read first time.
10 %bo,, G.
pended by four-ffths affirmative vote,
the bill read its second time, and ordered
engrossed for a third reading.
The constitutional rule was further sus-
pended by a four ffths affirmative vote,
the bill read its third and last time, and
finally adopted with its title.
Mr.. Lynch offered the following concur
rent resolution:
Be it resolved by the Senate, the
House of Representatives concurring
therein, That the Finance Committee
of the Senate, and the Committee OF
Ways and Means of the House OF Represen,,
, tatiyes, be and they are hereby authorized
to continue in session after the adjourn
ment of the Legislature, for period which
shall not exceed twenty days, for the pur'
. pose of ascertaining from the offices OF the
| State Treasurer and Auditor of Pubic Ac-
counts, the number Of bonds belonging 10
| the redemption of the State debt, TO Inc
: | free school fund and to the seminary Juno,
| ard to examine and count the certlhcatee
7 of Indebtedness known as Stat Q notes, issued
under act No. 5, of 1866, the number OF con
DOES in said offices we'll as any other evl
dences of indebtedness that have been satls'
,. fed and paid by the State, and which are II
| said offices. The whole of which shall pe
= | destroyed by said committees. A process
y | verbal of their deliberations shall be made
and signed by the chairmen of said commit
, tees, q duplicate thereof to be filed III tns
office of the Secretary OF state, and tns
> other to remain in the Office of the Stab
Treasurer, said committees to have all TN
powers heretofore conferred upon them, snt
that they and their respective clerks be en-.
q titled to their per diem during the time tne
- are so employed, to be paid upon the wax
rant of their respective chairmen.
j, Adopted.
J. Under suspension of the rules, MI
Egan called up House bill No. 27o, 40
=: the relief of Hodge Rabun, late Shern
and State Tax Collector for the parish
Bienville" from first reading file.
10 Which was read its first time.
The constitutional rule was then SUI
pended by four-ffths affirmative vos'
u the bill read it's second time.
The constitutional rule was further suf
nended BY four-ffths affirmative vos'
~ the bill read it's Third and last time, an