New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-06

I ant Governor Oscar T. Dunn. the balance
of the salary that would have been due him,
| etc.
And that the President of the Senate had
appointed as committee Of conference on
the part of the Senate on House bill No. 2S5
| substitute to Senate bill No. 26l), defining
the distances from the domiciles of MEM
bers of the General Assembly to the State
House, etc., Messrs. Ingraham, Todd,
| holland, Hunsaker and Thomas.
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.
BY Mr.. jerks:
Petition of the Board of Directors of St.
| Vincent's Home for Destitute Boys.
Referred to the Committee on Charitable
Institutions.
By Mr.. Ragan:
Petition of the superior of the Sisters of
| St. Joseph.
Referred to the Committee on Charitable
Institutions.
Mr.. McMillen presented the following
memorial, which, on motion of Mr.. McMil-
| len, was ordered printed in the journal and
to be sent to the House of Representatives:
To the Honorable Senate and House of Representa-
tives OF the State OF louisiana
The memorial of the Sisters Of Charity, in
| charge of st. Vincent Orphan Asylum, hum
| bly, represent, that being without means the
| institution is entirely dependant on public
| charity for the support ct two hundred
| helpless little ones, for many of whom wet
nurses have to be employed; also, many
| destitute women are sheltered and provided
~ 11.,,- hoe xvtIr h,,n-
| dened with debt and expense incidental to
| the care of those of whom they have charge,
| amounting to over twenty thousand dollars
per year. They therefore humb appeal in
| behalf of those helpless little ones, to your
| honorable bodies for such appropriation as
| will enable them to continue their work OF
charity, confidently relying on that gener-
GUS response to the appeal OF the orphan
| that has always characterized our State.
Respectfully submitted.
SISTER NJ. AGNES,
Directress.
New Orleans, January %, 1872.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Hunsaker, from the Committee on Jul
dietary, reported favOrably on Senate bill
No. 3l3, to be entitled an act to liquldate
the Indebtedness of the State to j. o. Nixon,
under his contract of March %, 1866.
Senate bill No. 3l4. to be entitled an act
to repeal act No. 81 of the session of 1871,
entitled IAN act creating commission to
locate the site for a State House in the city
| of New Orleans. to purchase the necessary
grounds therefor, and making an appropri-
alton to pay for such grounds and to build
State House and other buildings neces-
sary for State purposes, and improving the
| same"
Senate bill No. 3l7, to be entitled an act
to amend and re-enact section 1927 OF the
Digest of the Statutes of Louisiana.
Mr.. McNIillen, from thea Committee on
Election and Registration. reported sub
stitute for Senate bill No. 273, to be entitled
an act to amend and re-enact sections five.
six, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
twenty-one, twenty-five, twenty-eight,
Twenty-Five. thirty five, thirty-six, thirty
nine, forty -one, tifiy-three, fifty-nine, sixty,
sixty-nine, seventy, seventy-one, seventy
three, eighty two, and to repeal sections
twenty-three. twenty-seven, ffty-one. fifty
two, fifty-four, fifty-fve and tifty-seven
of an act entitled 'An act to regu-
late the conduct and to maintain the
| freedom and purity of elections; to pre-
| scribe the mode of making, and designate
the officers who shall make the returns
| thereof: to prevent fraud, violence. lntlml-
dation, riot, tumult bribery or corruption
at elections, or at any registration or re-
vision of registration; to limit the powers
| and duties of the Sheritfs of the parishes
of Orleans and Jefferson; to prescribe the
powers and duties OF the Board and Off
GERS of the Metropolitan Police in refer
ence to elections; to prescribe the mode
of entering on the rolls of the Senate and
| House of Representatives the names OF
members: to empower the Governor to pre-
serve peace and order to enforce the laws,
and to declare martial law during registra-
ton and elections; to limit the powers and
duties of the Mayors of the cities of New
Orleans and Jefferson with regard to cleo
tons; to prohibit district and parish judges
from issuing certain writs to commissioners
of election; to make an appropriation for
the expenses of the next revision of the
registration and of the next election, and to
enforce article l03 of the constitution APP
proved March Is, 1870.
Mr.. Hunsaker, from the Committee on
Judiciary, reported an original bill, to be
entitled an act relative to juries, and to
establish and fix the mode of electing the
grand and petit juries in and for the State
of Louisiana.
Taken up by unanimous consent and
passed its first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus
pended by fourffths affirmative vote. the
bill put on its second reading, and ordered
printed.
Mr. holland submitted the following re
port:
COMMITTEE on ENROLMENT,
| February 5, 1872. )
To the honorable President and Members CT the
| Senate
Your Committee on Enrolment beg leave
to report as duly enrolled the concurrent
resolution petitioning Congress to ADOPT
the supplementary civil rights bill of Sena
tor Sumner, known as United States Senate
bill No. 90.
And as duly engrossed the following
bills:
Senate bill No 269, entitled an act for the
relief of j. Osborn, to reinstate lost war
rants.
Senate bill No. 3oS entitled an act to in
corporate an independent hook and ladder
fire company of the town of Alexandria
parish Of Rapides, State of Louisiana.
Senate bill No. 3O4, entitled an act appro
priating to Mrs. Ellen b. Dunn, widow o
the late Lieutenant Governor Oscar j
Dunn, the balance of the salary that woul,
have been due him, had he lived to the eA,
of his term of service.
THOMAS II. holland.