New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-16
Evening Session.

Evening Session.
SENATE CHAMBER, !
Monday Evening, March IA, 1870.
The Senate met pursuant to adjourn
ment at seven o'clock p. M.
Present: Hon. o. j. Dunn, Lieutenant
Governor and President of the Senate; and
| Messrs. Anderson, Antoine, Bacon, Beares,
Blackman, Braughn, Campbell, COPELAND,
Darrsll, Day, Egsn, Foute, Futch, jerks.
Jewell, KeIso, Lewis, Lynch, Monette,
Offutt, ogden, O'Hara, Packard, Pinchback,
Poindexter, Pollard. Raw, Smith, Thomp
son. Todd. Whitney, Wilcox, Williams,
Wittgenstein-3i.
Action on the Mississippi Valley Levee
bill.
The question pending at the time of ad-
journment was the adoption of Mr..
Campbelrs amendment to be added to
section nine.
Mr.. Campbell offered the following to
be added to his proviso offered to-day:
provided, further, That upon notification
of any such owner or producer, it shall be
the duty of the Tax Collector, within five
days thereafter, to go or send an authorized
agent to the plantation or place where the
crop or crops are stored, and assess such
crops without charge for such assessment,
or the Tax Collector may authorize the
planter or producer himself to weigh or
measure his crops, and his affidavit as to the
quantity Of such crops, shall be sufficient
voucher to the Tax Collector to release said
crops"
Adopted, and the section as amended
adopted.
Section ten was then read as section
eleven and adopted.
MIR. Poindexter offered the following,
which was read and adopted as section
twelve:
Sec u. Be it enacted, ETC., That the said
company shall make it's contracts between
March first and August first OF each year,
and shall construct its levees within such
time. except contracts necessary to be made
and executed for the stoppage of crevasses.
Sections eleven, twelve, thirteen and
fourteen were read as sections thirteen,
fourteen, fifteen and sixteen.
Mr.. Campbell moved to strike out in
the original section fourteen, line nine
teen, the word thirty" and insert words
''twenty-one.
Adopted.
Mr.. Campbell moved to strike out in
the original section eleven the words
Judge of the District Court of the par
ish." in lines twenty-eight and twenty
nine, and insert THE Governor
Adopted.
Mr.. Blackman offered the following, to
be inserted after the word "cash," in line
sixteen, original section twelve, "That
after advertisement, for fifteen days, in
any newspaper published in the parish, the
Tax Collector shall proceed to sell said
crops under seizure, which shall bring
two-thirds of its appraised value, and if it
will not sell at its first Offering for this
amount, then it shall be reoAered in ten
days, and sold to the highest bidder for
what it will bring"
Adopted.
Dir. Blackman moved to strike out in
the same section, line twenty, the words
"for ten days"
Adopted.
MIR. Blackman moved to strike out, in
same section, in line thirty -four, the words
without further notice." and insert the
following: "To give notice for thirty days
in newspaper published in the parish
where the land is situated, giving the
name of the delinquent and the amount Of
the taxes due on said lands. and = and to
strike out in line thirty-fve, the word
"April " and insert the word "June.'
Adopted