New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-02-26
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE
FIR ST Sc SION
SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
OF THE

STATE OF LOUISIANA
Forty.Fifth Days Session.
SENATE CHAMBER,
Friday, February "A, 1871.
The Senate met pursuant to adjournment
Present: Hon. O.: j. Dunn, Lieutenan
Governor and President OF the Senate, ant
Messrs. Anderson, Antoine, Barber, Black
man, Bowman, Butler, Campbell, Coupland
Daigle, Fish, Futch, Gallup, Harris, Herwig
Hunsaker, Ingraham, jerks, kelsO, Lewis
Lynch. McMiIlen, holland, O'Hara, Pierce
Pinchback, Raglan, Ray, Smith, Swords
Sypher, Thomas, Thompson, Twitchell
Todd, Whitney, WicOx-36
Prayer by the Chaplain.
The minutes Of the previous day session
were corrected and their reading dispensed
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE.
HOUSE o. REPRESENTATIVES,,
Office Of Chief Clerk,
New Orleans Louisiana, February "a, 1871.
To the Honorable President and Members Of the
GENTLEMEN-I am directed by the House
to ask the concurrence Of the Senate in
the following House bills:
No. $780, an act to legitimatize children
born of parties cOhabiting as man aud wife,
and to declare such cOhabitatiOn during a
space Of ten years to constitute marriage.
No. 269. an act for the relief OF the citi-
zens of Bienville parish whose lands have
been returned as the property Of nOn-resi-
dents, and offered for sale by error of the
tax collector Of said parish.
No. 25S, an act to amend and re-enact sec
ton two thousand two hundred and two Of
the Revised Statutes.
No. 253, an act to amend and re-enact Sec
fiOn one Thousand seven hundred and sixty
one Of the Revised Statutes OF 1870.
No. l30, an act authorizing and creating
concurrent Jurisdiction and powers OF the
justices of the peace Of the city Of Baton
Rouge. -
No. IL, an act to provide compensation
for counsel for, accused persons in certain
cases in the parishes OF st. Bernard, Plaque
mines and Jefferson.
No. 225, an act relative to juries in the
parish Of CaddO.
No. 1876, an act for the relief of the trus-
tees Of the New Orleans Methodist DepOs-
itOry, and to exempt their property from
taxation.
No. 244, an act to amend an act entitled
an act to authorize the compilation Of new
and official map Of the State.
No. l47, an act for the relief of widow
FlOren tine Landry, Of the parish OF Iber-
vile.
No. l9l, an act to change the time of hold
ing the session of the District Court in the
Tenth Judicial District, and to establish
two additional terms ct said court in the
parish OF CaddO, for the trial Of State cases.
No. III, an act fixing the domicile of the
New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg
Railroad Company; giving to the courts OF
New Orleans jurisdiction in certain cases:
authorizing stockholders and directors
meetings to be held outside Of the city of
New Orleans; granting to parish courts jur
isdictiOn over proceedings for the exprOpria-
ton OF property, ETC.; providing the mode Of
ish courts, and providing against suspen-
sion and operation OF the company in cases
OF appeals or otherwise.
No. I45, an act for the relief of the parish
of Jefferson, right bank Of the Mississippi
river.
WILLIAM VIGERS,
Chief Clerk.
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate:
GEsrLEMEN-I am directed to inform the
Senate that the Speaker has signed the fol
lowing enrolled bills
An act to provide for the drainage of
New Orleans.
An act for the relief of Scorpini and Lat
tier.
= An act to secure homesteads, etc.
An act for the relief of 5. Belden.
Respectfully,
Chief Clerk.
To the Honorable President and Members of the
am directed to inform your honorable
body that the Speaker has signed Senate
bill No. -, entitled an act to amend and re-
enact an act to incorporate the Mississippi
River Packet Company, and to grant State
aid to the same.
WILLIAM VIGERS, ~.
Chief Clerk.
MESSAGE TO THE HOUSE.
The Secretary presented, for the sigma
ture OF the Speaker, enrolled bill to pro-
mote the interests of commerce by estab-
fishing the Louisiana Warehouse Company,
etc.
And presented for it's concurrence the
following bills:
Senate bill No. 23l, an act making an ap-
preparation to close Kimball's bayou, in
Concordia parish. -...
Also, substitute for Senate bill No. 2l5,
an act to establish an institution for the
deaf and dumb at Baton Rouge; to provide
for the organization and government
thereof; to provide for the appointment OF
board of trustees, and to provide tempo
rary quarters for the Louisiana State Sem
mary.
Also, Senate bill No. G., an act to amend
and re-enact an act entitled IAN act to re-
the State Land Office, and to pro-
vide for the disposition of public lands
and for the survey of unsurveyed approved
swamp lands, and to make appropriations
therefor
Also, Senate joint resolution No. Is, abol-
two houses Of the General Assembly, re-
quiring the present Warrant Clerk to make
settlement with the Committees
on Contingent Expenses, and providing for
the manner of drawing and expanding the
for defraying the expenses eff
the General Assembly.
Also, to return as concurred in the follow
ing House bills:
House bill No. 2is, an act authorizing
Lastir Vincent to build draw bridge on the
Bayou Vermilion.
Also, House bill No. 220, an act making
an appropriation for each representative of
newspapers in the Senate and House of
Also, House bill No. q, an act to incor-
porate the Board of Trustees OF the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, South, at Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.