New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20
!. WHITNEY,
Assistant Clerk.
MESSAGES TO THE EOCsE.

MESSAGES TO THE house.
The Secretary requested the signature of
the Speaker of the House to enrolled bill
defining the'distances from the. domiciles of
members Of the General Assembly to the
State House, ETC., and to repeal act No. 50
of 1869, and informed that body that the
President of the Senate had signed enrolled
Joint resolution relative to the removal of ID
duty from rice by the Congress of the
United States, ETC., and requested concur
renee lin Senate bill No 80, for the relief
of Alexander Lazano, Solomon W. Andrus,
etc., of st. Landry.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Hunsaker, from the Committee on
Judiciary, reported favorably on Senate
bill No. 349, to be entitled an act to reduce
the debt of the State Of Louisiana by au-
thorizing the Mississippi and Mexican Gulf
Ship Canal Company to return their State
bonds, to issue first mortgage bonds IN
lieu thereof, and to modify the plan of
their " Ork.
Mr.. Hunsaker, from the Committee on
Judiciary, reported, without action, on SEN
ate Joint resolution No %, to be entitled
joint resolution requesting the Auditor to
amend his report.
Also Senate bill No. 355, to be entitled an
act to amend and re-enact section two of
act No. lOl of 1870, entitled IAN act to de-
fine and regulate the cost Of the clerks,
sheriffs, recorders and notaries public
throughout the State of Louisiana, and pro-
viding forfeitures and penalties for over
charging or failing to perform their duties,
and the mode of collecting their fees.
Mr.. Twitchell, from the Committee on
Corporations and Parochial Affairs, re-
ported favorably on House bill No. 65 to
be entitled an act to establish hospital
for smallpox and other contagious diseases
Senate bill No. 1872, to be entitled an act
to incorporate the Rapides Cemetery Asso-
citation in the parish of Rapides, State of
Louisiana.
Senate bill No. 1862, to be entitled an act
for the relief of jeremiah Foley, of the par
ish of Iberville.
Mr.. Harris, from the Committee on Pub
Lie Lands and Levees, reported, without
action, on Senate bill No. 81, to be
entitled an act creating a levee district be-
tween the Ouachita river and Bayou
Macon, providing commission to conduct
the affairs of the same, authorizing the sale
of swamp and overhowed lands within said
district, the funds to be appropriated to
leveeing and draining therein, and author
ling the issue of land warrants locatable
within said district, to be used in contract
ing for work therein, and levying a tax on
the property within said district to aid in
the work, and providing how contracts
shall he let.
Mr. Barber. from the Committee on
Drainage, etc., submitted the following re-
mort respecting Senate bill No. 2O7, to be en-
titled an act granting certain privileges to
the Louisiana Canal and Land Improve
ment Company, referred to the Committee
on Drainage, which report was ordered
printed in the journal.
Canals and Inland Navigation, (
February l6, 1927
To the Honorable President and Members OF the
Senate:
Your Committee on Drainage, Canals ana
Inland Navigation have the honor 10 report
back to the Senate, without any recoih
mendation, bill entitled IAN act 10 con
firm and amend the charter OF incorpora-
tion of the Louisiana Land improvement
COMPANY. and to grant said additional
RIGHTS. Your committee submit the
inclosed brief of the history of said Barac
taria and Lafourche Canal Company, OF
which this company is the successor; ana IL