New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-15
Mr.. Todd, under suspension Of the

| SResoEued. That the Sergeant.at- is
| hereby authorized to employ Watchman OF
| the Senate chamber during the interval
between this and the next session, his SER
vices to be paid out of the contingent fund
on the warrant of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
Adopted.
Under a suspension of the rules MIR.
Wilcox called up from third reading file
House bill No. 32l Cile of 1859, " For
| the relief of William II. Hunt, Henry
Dibble and John B. Robinson"
Which was read its third and last time,
and finally adopted with its title.
| The special order was then taken up
Mississippi Valley Levee Company.
| Section one was then read and adopted.
Section two was read.
Mr.. Ray moved, after the word " out
| let's" in line fourteen, to insert " and such
in the State of Arkansas as may be ne
cessary to protect any part of the
State of Louisiana from overflow from the
waters of the Mississippi or Arkansas
rivers; provided, that the consent of the
State of Arkansas to the building of such
levees be first obtained"
Adopted.
Mr.. Campbell moved to strike out all
after the word 'less,' in line twenty-seven,
to and including the word ''less,' in line
twenty-nine.
Adopted. and the section, as amended,
adopted.
Section three was then read.
Mr.. Campbell moved to strike out all
after the word .'act.' in liue seven, and to
insert the following: "And for that pur-
pose it is hereby vested with all necessary
powers and powers of inspection, with the
necessary right of access to said levees,
and the said company is hereby charged
with the duty and responsibility and obi
CATION to maintain said levees in proper
condition, and for failure or neglect in the
performance of said duty, shall be respon-
sible in damages to the party injured
Provided, That any municipal corporation
or Police Jury shall have the right, after
due notice, to compel said company to
construct, repair or maintain any of said
levees. and in case of default, then the said
levees shall be built. repaired or main
tanned by said corporation or Police Jury
at the expense of said company; Provided,
further, That the said company shall make
to the Governor annually report OF its
operations during the current year.
Adopted and the section as amended
adopted.
Section four was then read.
Mr.. Campbell moved to strike out all
after the word 'slevees, in line six, to and
including the words eighteen hundred
and sixty-fve," in line nineteen.
Adopted and the section as amended
adopted.
| Section FIVE was read.
Mr.. Ray offered the following as SUD-
stitute for the section:
s.Be it further enacted, etc., That said
company shall be liable in damages to
any person or corporation Injured in con-
sequence of overflow occasiored from the
levees not being up or sufficient to pro-
tect them. from any cause whatever, ex-
cept from the acts of such person or cor
poration.''
| Adopted.
Mr.. Campbell offered the following to
| be numbered six:
| Be il further enacted, etc.. That all the
| earth for the construction or repair OF levees
| shall, whenever it is practicable, be taken
| from the lands on the river side of the ieyee;
provided, that the company shall be liable
i TO damages for injury resulting from taking
earth from lands on the inside of the levee,
said damages to be assessed by two land
holders, one 10 be selected by the land
owner, one by the company, with the au-
| thority of the two 10 call on third in case
| Of disagreement and the award OF the com
missioners shall be finsl and operate as 8
| judgment against said company.
Adopted.
Section SIX was then read as section
seven.
Mr.. Ray offered the following amend
| ments.
Strike out from the word damages" in
line six, to and including the word
levees,' in line eight, and insert GAS pro-
| vided for in section Eve of this act
And to strike out, in line seventeen,
from the word damages down to and
. including the word 'levees," in line
twenty-one, and insert, ''As provided fol
| in section five of this act"
Adopted.
Mr.. Ray offered the following:
To strike out from the word "them," in
line forty-fve, all the balance of the sec
ton, and insert This company shall be ipsC
| focto at an end and dissolved, and this act
and contract void, and any tolls at thai
time due, or afterwards to fall due to said
company, are RENTED.
| Mr.. Campbell moved to Lay the amend
ment on the table.
Lost by the following vote:
Yeas: Campbell, jerks, Monette, Pinch
| back, Todd, Wilcox, Wittgenstein-7.
Nays: Anderson, Antoine, Bacon, Beares,
Blackman. Braughn, CoEpland, Darran
Foute, Futch, Jewell, Kelso, Lewis, Lynch
| Offutt, Ogden, O'Hara, Packard, Poindexter
! Pollard, Ray Thompson, Willams-23.
Mr.. Ray moved 10 postpone the consid
Grafton of this section.
Adopted.
Section seven, to De section eight. wa
read.
Mr. Wittgenstein moved to strike on