The Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1870-1871, 1871-03-12

maintenance and repair of certain levees,
and providing for compensation thereof.
Also to to inform the Senate that the
House has passed a bill, entitled an act
10 incorporate the Louisiana Land Com
pany, and Loan and Savings Bank, over
the Governors veto by q vote of yeas IS,
nays 8, two-thirds of the members
present voting in the affirmative.
Respectfully.
WILLIAM VIGERS,
Chief Clerk House of Representatives.
MESSAGE TO THE HOUSE.
The Secretary presented to the House
for its n Iteration the following entitl-
ed BILL viz:
Senate Joint resolution No. II, grant
ing leave Of absence TO Thomas Rebtr
Parish Judge Of the parish OF Concordia,
Louisiana.
Senate bill No. 81, to be entitled an
act to amend and re-enact an act entitled
IAN act to incorporate Harmony Fire
Company No. l, of the town of Franklin,
darish of St Mary" approved Febr aary
%, 1856 ~
Senate bill No. 140, to be entitled an
act to authorize Antoine Lecolnte Hertzog
to assume the name Of Ambrose Hertzog
! Lecointe. &C..
And notified that honorable body that
the Senate had concurred in the follow
ing House bills, viz:
House bill No 6, to be entitled m act
to amend article nine hundred and
fifteen of the Civil Code, and to provide
for The descent of community property in
lcertain cases.
House bill No. 100, to be entitled an
J act to authorize the people Of the parish
! of Livingston to change the location Of
their courthouse, and to locate the same
by a vote Of the people thereupon.
And with amendments in
/ House bill No. 10, to be entitled an ac'
to extend the limits Of the corporation o
the town of Minden, and to give thu
corporate authorities thereof the exclusive
control Of the license and sale of intoxi
eating liquors within said limits, ant
the disposition of the revenue therefrom
Mr.. Pinchback presented apetition from
the River Pilots Benevolent Association
a duly incorporate body under the law
c of this State, ard domiciled in New o.
leans, asking for relief.
l Mr. Ingraham presented a petition
from the Board of Metropolitan Police c
New Orleans which was ordered printe
in the Journal Of the Senate.
To the Senate ana House of Representatives {
= the State of Louisiana, in General Asse,nbl
Il convened:
Yonr memorialits beg leave to raspec,
!, fully repre- sent, that on the third day c
:. March, 1870, the Legislature passed a
act over the veto of the Governor IL word
and figures as follows:
g NO. 70.
e can act for the relief of the officer
= and members of the Uetropohta
= Polio"
WHEREAS, Owing to the great oppos
lion shown by the different city official
N of the cities of New Orleans, Jefferson
Carrollton, A'giers, Gretna, and the paris
r of St Bernard, TIE Metropolitan Po!iC
re were forced to receive warrants for the
st salaries instead OF currency, as require
by law, thereby causing the said police
IL lose the enormous discount Of thirty p,
=, cent on the dollar; therefore
SECTION l. Be it enacted By the Sena
N and House of Representatives Of Il
n State of Louisiana IN General Assemb
convened That the Board of Metropo
ie tan Police (immediately after The passa,
h OF this act) be ard is hereby auIhoriz'
to pay Gin warrants) to each officer a,
member of said police thirty per cent {
each warrant issued to said officers 81
members of said police, for the fsc
year of one thousand eight hundr
! and sixty-nine, except those hereinaft
} named
L SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc, Th
n, the Metropolitan Police Board be and
q. hereby authorized to levy special asses
X ,nent ON the different corporations col
nd prising the Metropolitan Police distri