The Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-20

House Of Representative.
Senate joint resolution No. l8, a joint
resolution to raise joint committee to
collect from the United States the value
OF cotton and other property turned over
to the United States at the time of the
surrender, was taken up and read.
Under suspension of the constitu-
tional rule the bill was read o second
time.
Under q further suspension of the
constitutional rule, the joint resolution
passed its third reading, was finally
adopted, its title adopted and notice of
concurrence ordered to be sent to the
Senate.
The Clerk of the House was directed
to transmit the following message to the
Senate:
House. OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Office of Chief Clerk,
New Orleans, March 2, 1871.
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate:
GEsTIEMES-The Speaker of the House
has signed the following enrolled Senate
bills, viz:
An act relative to the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Judicial Districts.
An act to establish an institution for
the instruction of the blind, at Baton
Rouge.
An act for the relief of Centenary
College, Of Louisiana.
An act to purchase FIVE hundred copies,
each, Of the Revised Civil Code, and the
Code Of Practice of the State of Louis
lana, edited by A. VOORHEES,.
An act to alter and shorten part of
the public road leading from the Missis-
sippi river to Bayou Barataria.
To ask the signature of the President
OF the Senate to. the following enrolled
House bills, viz:
An act to reimburse certain taxes ille-
gally imposed and collected under Act
No. IS, approved April 4, 1865.
An act for the relief of the parish of
Jefferson, right bank of the Mississippi
river.
An act relative to purchasers of six
tecnth sections, approved Mar ch 10, 1866
An act authorizing the compilation of
an official map of the State.
An act to Incorporate the Roncal water
power company, parish Of Tangipahoa
An act to regulate oyster fisheries in
State of Louisiana.
An act to incorporate the Francs-Amis
Benevolent Association of New Orleans,
Louisiana.
An act to incorporate tho city of
Monroe. La
An act giving to ]. H. Cosgrove, of
Natchitoches parish, the exclusive right
to establish q wharf at Grand Ecore,
Louisiana
An act to change the time of holding
the sessions of district court in the Tenth
Judicial District, and to establish two
additional terms of .:aid court in the par
ish Of Caddo, for the trial of State cases.
An act for the relief of A. Mays, of the
parish of Bienville.
An act for the improvement of the
navigation of the rivers Tchefuncta and
Bogue Falia.
An act for the relief of E. North Gull
lon,, of the parish Of Avoyelles, and for
other purposes.
An act supplementary to the several
acts relating to the town Of Franklin, fix
ing the salary of the Mayor and council
men, and granting to said Mayor and
councilmen certain powers
An act relative to iuries in the parish
of Caddo.
An act fixing the do1nicile of the New
Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg
Railroad Company, giving to the courts
OF New Orleans jurisdiction in certain
c,ses, authorizing stockholders and
directors meetings to be held outside Of
the city of New Orleans. granting to
parish courts jurisdiction over proceed
ings for the appropriation of property,
etc, providing the mode of proceeding in
and removal from such parish courts,
and providing against suspension Of
tho operations of the company in cases of