New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-13
JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE.
Fifth. Day--Evening Session.

ment.
| Speaker Carr in the chair.
The -oll being called, the following
members answered to their names:
Speaker Carr and Messrs. Abbott, Buck
ingham, Beot, Brewster, Bnrrel, Bergeron,
Briout, Collins, Calhoun. Cuny, Crawford,
DeslOnde, Devices, Dufresne, Degrange, Du
part, Douglass, Evans, Faulkner, Gulgonet,
Gair, Garstkamp, Gray, Gsidry, Hill, Has
kell, Haulon, Hutchinson, Hail. Heiden.
hahn, Isabelle, Lowell, Leblanc, Leroy,
L'Hoste, Lott, Landers, Mollere, McCullen,
Mahier. McVean, Melvin, Morey, Mathews,
Noble, Pearoe, Page, Reese, Rey, Rengstortf,
Slmms, Sterrett Taylor, Tournoir, I'm
phreys. Walsh, Washington, Waters, Wilt,
d. Ioung-60.
Quorum present.
Thursdays journal was then approved.
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House of Representatives:
l am directed to inform the House of the
concurrence of the Senate in the following
House bill, viz:
No. 274, to incorporate the town of
Vidalia, etc.
Ne. 242, to provide for the removal of the
seat of justice of the parish of Carroll
No. 81, authorizing the assessment and
house in the parish of Rapides, etc.
No. 2O7, to facilitate commerce, etc.
No. H. annexing portion of the parish
of reDsas to Franklin parish, etc.
No. 229, for the relief of j o. Nixon.
No. go, relative to juries in the parish of
Jefferson.
No. 154, to amend and re enact an act to
repeal all laws and parts of laws creating
draining districts, etc.
FO. 1872, city charter, with amendments.
No. AZ, to regulate public education, etc.,
| with amendments.
Also. to sex concurrence in Senate bill
| No. 2S9 to amend an act to establish quar-
| antine, etc.
Also, to inform the House of the concur
renee of the Sen ite IN House bill No. 90, file
of 1869, to amend an act to establish a
Board of Flour Inspectors, etc., with an
amendment.
And to ask the signature of the Speaker
| to enrolled bill to be entitled an act to
amend and re-enact an act to amend an act
to consolidate the city of New Orleans, etc.
And to ask the concurrence of the House
in Senate bill No. 253, for the relief CT John
| Amrein.
No. 262, making an appropriation for
| mileage, per diem, ETC., OF members for the
| entire session, etc.
No. 242, to incorporate the Crescent City
B. P. BLANCHARD,
Assistant Secretary of the Senate.
House bill No. Al, an act relative " to
public education was taken up and
amendments of the Senate to the bill
read as follows:
SENATE AMENDMENTS To HOUSE BILL NO. AZ.
Substitute for section one, after the
enacting clause:
That the common schools of the State,
and such High and Normal Schools as may
be established and maintained by the State,
shall be under the management OF State
Board of Education, which shall consist of
the Superintendent of Public Education
and of six members, TO be appointed as is
hereinafter provided.
That section one of the House bill be sec
ton two.
In section two, in line twenty-one, to
strike out the word the " and insert the
word "each," and in lines twenty-seven and
twenty-eight to strike out all after the word
upon and insert the words "his own
warrant; y and that section two of thelHOuse
bill, so amended, be section three.
IN section three Of the House bill strike |
out all after the word constituted, !" in ninth
line, to the end of the section, and insert
'sshall hold one regular annual meeting in |
New Orleans at the office of the Superinten- |
dent OF Public Education, commencing the !
first Monday III January. The Superinten-
dent of Public Education may Call special |
meetings upon the written request of any
five members"
And that section three of the House bill |
so amended shall be section four.
In section four a. OF the House bill, in |
the ninth (9) line, after the word State
insert the words subject to the provisions
of this act"
And that section four az of the House
bill so amended shall be section five (5).
In section five 90 of the House bill, strike
out lines six, seven and eight, and insert the
words "subject to-"
And that this section 81, so amended, be
section six (6).
To correct the title of the Superintendent
of Public Education, wherever it may occur
so as to read uniformly and in accordance
with law, which is superintendent of Pub
lie Education"
That the following shall be section seven
Be it further enacted, etc., That the Di.
vision Superintendent shall, once in each
three months at such place as he may des- |
ignate in his decision, not to be a less num- |
Der than one for each two parishes, meet all
those who are DESTROYS Of passing an exam |
ination, and for the transaction of all other |
business within his jurisdiction, in some
suitable room at the seat of justice of the |
parish, or a. any other place, as occasi IN |
may require, aud shall notify the parish |
Judge OF the place Of meeting.
That the following shall be section eight: |
Be it further enacted, ETC., That the Di- |
vision Superintendent may revoke the Ger
tifcaie Ct any teacher in the parish for any |
reasons which would have justified the |
withholding thereof when the same was {
given. Aud the Board of School Directors, |
upon sufficient cause shown, may dismiss |
any teacher from any school in the district. |
That the following shall be section nine:
Be it further enacted etc., That on or be- |
fore the fifth day OF October in each year.
he shall make a report to the State Board of |
Education, containing a digest of the re- |
ports to him by the secretaries Of the Dis
trict Boards, and such other matters az he |
shall be directed to report by the said secre
tary, and such as he himself may think |
pertinent and material, and especially such
as will show the condition of the scho )ls un.
der his charge. He shall also suggest such |
improvements in the system as he may think /
judicous. He shall also, by the fifth day OF
October in each year, file with the Recorder
of the parish an abstract of
the number of youths between
the ages Of six and twenty-one years, resid-
ing in each ward and school district within
his parish.
Should he fail to make either of the repors
REQUIRED in the last section, he shall forfeit |
to the school fund of his district the sum of
fifty dollars, and shall, besides, be liable for |
all damages caused by such neglect.
That the following shall be section 10:
Be il further enacted, ETC., That he shall
at ali times conform to the instructions of
the State Board Of Education as to matters
within their Jurisdiction. He shall serve as
the organ of communication between the
State Board of Education and the Superin.
tendent of Public Education and District |