New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-02-16

cent City Live STOCK Lan0nS anu OlAuSn-
| terhouse Company, and to ascertain II they
| have complied with the provisions Of their
charter, ETC." beg leave to report that they
have given much time and careful lnvestl-
| CATION into the affairs and management OF
I said company and have taken the testimony
| OF many persons familiar with the working
and management Of the same.
Your committee, after careful examlna-
| ton of the act entitled an act to protect
| the health Of the city of New Orleans, to
| locate the stock landings and slaughter
houses, and to incorporate the Crescent
| City Live Stock Landing and Slaughter
house Company, approved March 8, 1869,
| together with the testimony adduccd before
| the committee, are constrained to report
| that said company has failed to comply
! with the third section of said act.
That said company have never provided
| slauyhterhouses of Sufficient capacity to
accommodate all butchers, or sufficient
| sheds and stables to accommodate all the
! stock received at this port"
That for the want Of room to hang til e
| butchered cattle in the slaughtcrhouses
sufficient time to allow the evaporation OF
| the animal heat, the butchers are compelled
| to cart away their meat in warm cOndi-
| ton the effect OF which il a more rapid de-
| cay OF the butchered meat, which operates
| detrimentally to the pecuniary interest OF
| the butchers and to the health OF the peO-
! pie of New Orleans.
Your committee are of opinion that the
/ Crescent City Live Stock Landing and
| SlaughterhOuse Company have incurred the
| penalty of the forfeiture of their charter "a
| provided in the third (') section of the act
| of Incorporation, and should no lOngersbe
permitted to carry on the business of
| Strengthening, etc. to the exclusion OF fair
! and just competition, by other parties, and
| your committee therefore beg to sub
| nit for the consideration OF your hon
| orable body the accompanying bill.
entitled an act to regulate the location OF
| slaughtcrhOuses and the inspection OF meat
| in the city of New Orleans, aud the parishes
| of Jefferson. Orleans and st. Bernard, and
| the duty OF the AttorneyaGeneral,t the city
| of New Orleans and the Board OF Metro
| politan Police in cases concerning persons
| engaged i'll the business of preparing meat
! Tor market.
F. OTTO. Chairman
I CHARLES J. BARKER.
JAMES s. MATTHEW'S.
| Mr.. Moncllre in the chair.
| Mr. Lott of Rapides, moved to lay House
| bill No. 209 an act to regulate the location
| Of slauyhterbouses and the inspection of
meat in the city of New Orleans, and the
| parishes of Jefferson Orleans and St. Der
nard. and the duty of the Attorney Gen
eral the city of New Orleans and the Board
| of Metropolitan Police in cases concerning
| persons engaged in the business of pre-
parin. meat for market. upon the table,
! subject to call.
! Carried.
Mr. Burch, of East Baton Rouge. moved
that Senate bills be taken up and con-
Sidered.
| Carried.
Senate bill No. IS. bill to be entitled an
act for the relief of the University OF Lou
| i-iana. to repair the west wing of the Uni
versity and to preserve the public property
therein. was placed upon its first reading.
| Under a suspension OF the constitutional
rule the bill was placed upon its second
reading.
| Under a further suspension of the consti-
tutonal rule the bill was put upon its third
reading and final passage. its title adopted,
| and notice of concurrence was ordered to
be sent to the Senate.
Senate bill No. Us an act to repeal sec
ton seventeen hundred and forty eight OF
| lUt 1Nf' lScu aPi'io'S" -AA'A -
1870. was placed upon its first reading, and
referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
The Secretary of the Senate was an
nounced with the following message:
TO the Honorable Speak and Members of the
House Of Representatives,:
| am directed to inform the House that
the Senate has cOncurred in the following
bills, viz
House bill No. 20i. an act entitled an act
to amend and reenact sections 1913 and
1919 of the Revised Statutes of 1870.
! House bill No 2O5. to be entitled an act
| relative to the Louisiana Levee Company. :,
corporation organized under the general
| laws of the State, constituting 1t a body
| polite and corporate with certain powers,
privileges and franchises in contracting
with said corporation for the construction,
| maintenance and repair of certain levees,
and providing for the compensation there
| for. -
CHARLES II. MERRITT,
Secretary Of the Senate.
Mr.. kcnner. of Orleans moved an ad
iournment until seven o'clock 2. NJ.
Mr.. Cochran. of Lafayette. moved Il
amend to adjourn until noon tomorrow.
Mr.. Carr of Orleans, offered as substi
tute that the House adjourn until halfpas
seven o'clock P. NJ.
Carried
And the House was accordingly al
jorrned. WILLIAM NIGERS.
Chief Clerk.