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taken, and also to lay that motion on the

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Carried.
Dir. Demas, of st. John the Baptist,
called up Senate bill No. 153, an act to
provide for the cleaning out of Bayou
Portage and Bayou Mayere, and digging
a canal from Bayou Mayors to Bayou
Yokely, for the purpose of securing bet
ter drainage to q large portion of the
parish Of st. Mary, and to grant the aid
of the State thereto.
The rule requiring it to be considered
in the committee of the whole was sus-
pended.
The constitutional rule having been
suspended. it was put on its third read
ing and final passage. its title adopted,
and notice of concurrence ordered to be
sent to the Senate.
DIR: Ringgold, of Orleans, moved to re-
consider the vote just had, and also to
lay that motion on the table.
Carried.
Mr.. Devices, of DeSoto, called up Sem
ate bill No. 1872, and offered as substi-
tute therefor House bill No. PSI, an act
to provide for the payment of the indebt-
edness created by the levee commission
ers of Tensas, and of Carroll and Madi-
son contracts for levee purposes, in pur-
suance Of law, which was placed on its
first reading.
The constitutional rule having been
suspended, it was placed on its second
reading.
A motion for further suspension Of
the constitutional rule, Mcssrs. Murray,
of Orleans, and crawford, of Caddo, hav-
ing called for the yeas and nays thereon,
was lost; as will be seen by the ensuing
result:
Yeas Abel, Antoine, Barrett, Belot,
Bentley, Blunt, Brewster, buckingham,
Burch, Carr, Crawford, Darinsbnrg, David
son, Davis, Demas, Devices, Faulkner, Cad
dis, Gardner, Garstkamp, W. Harper, Hemp
stead, Huston, Kenner, Kinsella, Laurent,
Marie, McCarty, Morris, Murray, Ong, Over
Stanton, Tounoir, Ullman, Verrett Wands,
Washington, of Concordia, H. Williams,
Wilson, Worrall, Young-5l.
Nays: Adolphe, Barrow, Bickhan. Brous.
sard, Brown, Butler, Cochran, Darby, Du-
rio, Ellis, Floyd, Fontelieu, p Harper, Hy-
ans, johnson, Marvin, Matthews. Meadows
Moncure, .Horphy, Nelson Oplatek. Otto,
Pond, Souer, Stevens, Tatman, Thompson
Washington, of Assumption, Wheyland, Z.
| IFilliams-31.
4 motion by Mr.. Devices, of De Soto,
making the bill the special order OF the
day for tomorrow at three o'clock was
carried.
Mr.. H. Lott, of Rapides, called up
House bill No. So, an act for the relief o..
Branstein & Bender, on it's third reading,
and which was finally passed, its title
adopted, and ordered to be sent to the
Senate for concurrence.
Mr.. Lott, of Rapides, moved to recon-
slider the vote Just taken, and also to lay
that motion on the table.
| Carried.
The Committee on Enrolment, through
its chairman, submitted the following re-
port, which was received
| COMMITTEE on EyIorJNEyr ]
New Orleans, February Is, 1871.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House of Representatives
Your Committee on Enrolment beg
leave to report as duly enrolled
House bill No. II, entitled an act to
reimburse certain taxes Illegally imposed
and collected under act No. IS, approved
April 4, 1866.
House bill No. 272, entitled an oct to
relieve the State from its obligations to
guarantee the second mortgage bonds OF
the New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga
Railroad Company, under an act of the
General Assembly approved February
q, 1870, by the subscription on the part
OF the State to the capital stock of said
corporation, and to regulate the condi-
tons Of such subscription and to secure
the construction of the road of said cor
poration from Vermillionville to Shreve-
port.
! And your committee report as duly
engrossed House bill No., entitled an
ac: granting an appropriation Of money
to remove the distractions from the
Amite river as high up as the Governor