New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-20
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ton Company"
Mr.. Ray, from the Internal Improve.
ment Committee, reported without action
on the following bills:
Senate bill No. 234, s'For the improve
nent Of the navigation of Cane river, etc.
Also, on Senate bill No. lis, ''To pro-
vide for dredging out channel through the
bars in Lake Calcasieu," etc.
Mr.. Campbell, from the Committee on
Corporations and Parochial Affairs, re-
ported on the following bills:
Senate bill No. 2e4, ITO annex certain
portion of Orleans, right bank, to the par
ish of Plaquemines."
Also, on Senate bill No. 232, Granting
ferry privileges to Henry Henchert, Con-
rad Henchert and others" etc.
Mr.. Lewis, from the Committee on Char.
| liable Institutions, reported back without
action on House bill No. IS, "In reference
to insane asylums, cities of New Orleans
and Jefferson
Mr.. jerks, from the Committee on Fed
eral Relations, reported without action on
Senate joint resolution No. 80, ''Relative
to certain outrages committed on Ameri-
can citizens in the Island Of Cuba
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE.
HOUSE OF DIFFERENTIATION
Office hief Clerk.
New Orleans, March 10, 1870.
TIC the President and Members of the Senate:
l am directed to inform the Senate that
the House has concurred in the following
bills, viz:
Senate bill No. l04, .Relative to the regis.
try Of births and Deaths" etc.
Senate bill No. 81, ''Relatve to bonds
taken in cases of arrest, attachment" etc.
Senate bill No. 80, "An act. with amend
ments, for the relief of the taxpayers OF this
State" etc.
Senate bill No 1G. IAN act to provide for
using the records of the courts OF this State
in evidence
Senate bill No. 80, "An act to renew the
corporation OF the town of Farmerviile,n
etc.
Senate bill No. So, IAN act to incorporate
the Church Education Society,""
Senate bill No. 5, IAN act relative to mill.
tia"
That the House has indefinitely postponed
the following bills. viz:
Senate bill No. l73, can act to exempt
from taxation the New Orleans Methodist
Depository"
auctioneers."
To ask the concurrence of the Senate in
the following billie, viz:
House bill No. 169, can act relative to
the town OF POnchatOuiaN etc.
House bill No. 276, can act granting
ferry privileges to William Il. Finnegan,"
etc.
House bill No. 25G, can act for digging
canal from the Mississippi river to Lake
POntchartrain," etc.
the Senate to the following enrolled bill, viz:
"An act to incorporate the Louisiana
Dredging Company" etc.
To ask concurrence Of the Senate in the
following bills, viz:
House bill No. &c revenue billy.
House bill No. 1853, can act relative to the
Police Jury of the parish of Tensas.'
House bill No. 2S7, Joint resolution au.
thorizing the printing of 500 copies Of the
trial of Impeachment of G. M. Wickliffe."
WILLIAM VIGERS,
Chief Clerk House of Representatives.
L. House bill No. &c, "An act to provide q
to levy and collect taxes; to grant
and coiiect licenses; to provide for the
creation and geaaoYa, Of revenue officers"
etc., was taken up and read first time.
The constitutional rule was then sus- !
pended by four-flths affirmative vote, |
the bill put on its second reading, and re-
ferred to the Finance Committee.
PRECEDENCE SPECIAL ORDER.
House bill No. 237, s'An act making ap-
for the general expenses of
the State for the public and charitable in
stitutions, for the year ending the thirty
first day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy" was taken up aud
read item by item.
Items one, two, three, four, FIVE, six,
seven and eight were read and adopted.
Item nine was read.
Mr.. Lynch moved to strike out zone
hundred thousand dollars" and insert |
zone hundred and five thousand dollars"
Adopted, and the item as amended
adopted.
Item ten was read.
Mr.. Lynch moved to strike out zone
hundred and twelve thousand dollars" and
insert "one hundred and fifteen thousand
dollars"
Adopted, and the item as amended,
adopted.
Items eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nine
.een, twenty, twenty-one and twenty-five
were read and adopted.
Item twenty-three was read.
Mr.. Lynch moved to strike out the iten1
and insert the following in lieu thereof:
"For the salary of the third assistant clerk
in the Treasurer's Office, two thousand
dollars (s2O0O).'
Adopted.
Items twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty
six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty
nine, thirty, thirty.one, tbirty-two, thirty
three, thirty-tour and thirty-fve were
read.
Mr.. Lynch moved to strike out the afore-
said items, and insert the following in
lieu thereof: ''For the salary of the chief
clerk in the Auditors Office, twenty-five
hundred dollars (s2500).'
'For the salaries of eleven clerks in the
Auditors Office, at eighteen hundred dollars