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

the PATHWAY House, Tor the poor anu
friendless, asking for aid, which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Charitable
Institutions.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEE.
Mr.. Ray, from the Committee on Judici-
airy, reported favorably with amendments
upon Senate bill No. sc, to be entitled an
oct to amend and re-enact articles FIVE
hundred and seventy-four, five hundred
and eighty-one, Eve hundred and eighty
FIVE; and to repeal article five hundred
and eighty-three Of the Code of Practice
Also. favorably with amendments upon
Senate bill No. S, to be entitled an act to
regulate the practice and dispatch of
business in the district courts of the
parish Of Orleans.
Also, favorably, with amendments, upon
substitute for Senate bill No. 80, to be en-
titled an act recognizing the police juries
of this State, making the parish judges
members and perform the duties Of pre-
sidents thereof, prescribing the number
thereof and the mode of election, and
fixing the duties and compensation, and
making clerks of the district courts in
each parish clerks of the police juries,
and providing how their compensation,
shall be fixed.
Mr.. Harris, from the Committee on En-
grossment, submits the following bills as
having been duly engrossed:
Senate bills No. lao, to be entitled an
act to authorize Antoine Lecomte Hertzog
Lecomte. ....
Also. as duly engrossed, Senate bill No.
81, to be entitled an act to amend and
re-enact an act entitled AN act to incor-
ate Harmony Fire Company No. l, Of
the town of Franklin, parish of st. Mary"
approved February 70, 1856.
Also. Senate bill No. II. granting leave
of absence to Thomas keber, Parish
Judge of the parish of Concordia,
Louisiana
Also, Senate bill No. 147, to be entitled
an act relative to the floating debt
Mr.. Thomas, from the Committee on
Claims reported favorably on Senate bill
No. 48 to be entitled an act for the relief
of Ernest Gallery, late Assessor of the
parish of Iberville. .......-
Also, favorably, by bill to be entitled
an act for the relief of r. A. G. Patterson.
administrative OF the estate of E. A.
Patterson, deceased, in issuing certain
land warrants in lieu of those lost, and
to refund certain amouts claimed.
Mr. Sypher, from the Committee on
Drainage, Canal and Inland Navigation
reported favorably on Senate bill No. 158
to be entitled TN act amending and re-
enscting an act entitled IAN act to reclaim
the swamp lands in the parish of st. Mary,
now Iberia" approved March IL. 1858
and an act amendatory thereto, approved
February 81, 1860.
NOTICES OF BILLS.
! By Mr.. Sypher:
OF bill to be entitled an act to incor.
porate the Atchafalaya Bay Company Of
Louisiana for the purpose Of making q
deep channel through the side bay, to
facilitate the carrying on Of commercial
intercourse between the State of Louisi-
ana and the State of Texas and foreign
countries
By Mr. Pinchback:
A bill to be entitled an ac3 to amend and re-
enact an acs creating the Mississippi River
Packet Company.
By Mr.. Hunsaker:
A bill to be entitled An act to abolish capital
punishment in this State.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
The following bills were introduced according
to previous not.c.:
BY Mr.. Butler:
A bill to b entitled an net to incorporate the
| Metropolitan Drainage Company. to provide fol
levying and draining the city of New Orleans and
Carrollton, to provide the means to defray the
expense thereof aud to repeal act No. 4, approved
March 16. 1870. authorizing the drainage to be
executed by the New Orleans and Ship Island
: Canal Company.
Passed its first reading.
The constitutional rule was then suspended by
| four 6fths Affirmative vote the bill put on il
second reading and referred to tine COMMITTEES
on Drainage.
, By Mr. Sypher:
Il A bill to be entitled An act for the relief o.
Albert Edwin Davis.
Passed its first reading.