New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-19
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AN ACT

No. IL.
AN ACT
To amend an act entitled IAN act defining
the distances from the domiciles of mem
bers of the General Assembly to the
State House, fixing the mode of ascertain
ing the per diem of members Of the Gen
eral Assembly for the time engaged in
going to and returning from the State
House, and their mileage to be paid, and
the number of employees of the General
Assembly and their compensation, and
defining their duties. and making an ap-
preparation to defray the expenses of the
General Assembly, and to repeal act No.
81 of 1869"
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
OF Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
That section eleven of said act be amended
and re-enacted to read as follows That the
Committees on Contingent Expenses of
both houses of the General Assembly shall
keep regular set of books. crediting the
State with the amount of the per diem and
mileage OF members, per diem of employees,
and the contingent fund set apart for their
respective houses, and debiting the State
with payment made on any of the above
accounts daily, so as to have the account
made up at the end of each business day of
the session. and shall also open an account
with each member and employe. on contin-
gent account .cudTylllS tUt GuOuiil uut luelll,
and crediting them with payment made as
they are made. The chairman OF the Com
mittee on Contingent Expenses shall,
upon the production of the certificate
required by this act, draw his warrant upon
the Warrant Clerk of each house for the
amount due the member or employe, which
warrant shall be cOuntersicned by the pre-
siding officer of the respective houses, If he
finds the same correct. and the Warrant
ta,,ty "a NV tod 70 ant ba
fiscal agent for the amount, to be paid out
of the funds provided therefor. The Presi-
dent of the Senate and Speaker of the
House shall, by themselves or their clerks,
at any time, have the right to examine all
books required to be kept by the Warrant
Clerk and Committee on Contingent EX-
penses of either house, and the vouchers in
the possession of said respective committees
and Warrant Clerk, as the case may be,
and other evidence they may desire, to as
certain whether such warrants issued are
correct and the amounts legally due. Said
book shall be kept posted up at the end OF
each business day during the session. and
be opened to the inspection of any member
of each house. The money appropriated
for contingent expense of each house shall!
be paid ON the warrant OF the chairman OF
the Committee on Contingent Expenses,
approved by the presiding officer of the re-
spective houses, drawn on the Warrant
Clerk. The warrants shall be drawn by
the Warrant Clerk on the fiscal agent, III
favor of the persons to whom the amount
may be due.
SEC. ,. Be it further enacted. etc, That
section thirteen of the said act he amend
ed and re-enacted 10 read as follows:
That there be and is hereby appropriated
the sum of two hundred thousand dollars to
pay the per diem and mileage OF the mem
bers of the General Assembly and the Off.
GERS and employees and the contingent eX
penses thereof, for the session commencing
on the first day of January, A. ID. eighteen
hundred and seventy-two. and for the extra
session of the Senate held on the sixth and
Sc zenith days of December. A. ID. eighteen
hundred and seventy-one, payable out of
any money in the State treasury to the
credit of the general fund: and that if there
be not sufficient funds in the State treasury
to meet this appropriation. that the Auditor
of Public Accounts be and he is hereby di-
rected to issue warrants on the State tleas
ury in denominations of five thousand dol
lars each. in favor of the Governor of the
State, who is hereby authorized and en-
powed to procure a loan OF the said sum of
two hundred thousand dollars by executing
a note to be signed by him. as Governor OF
the State, to which may be annexed the
warrants above authorized to be issued to
him. as collateral security for the payment
of such loan: said warrants to be registered
i'll the Office of the State Treasurer and paid
out OF any money now in the State
treasury to the credit of the general
fund, and out of the first money which
shall be paid into the treasury to the
credit of the general fund. until all the
warrants issued under the appropriation
made in this act shall have been paid
provided, that the warrants heretofore
registered in accordance with the provisions
of act No. - of the acts of 1871 shall be
paid in their proper order; that said money,
so borrowed, Snail be deposited in the State
treasury, one hundred and forty thousand
dollars to the credit of the House of Repre-
sentatives, and sixty thousand dollars to
the credit of the Senate of Louisiana, to be
drawn upon the warrant OF the Warrant
Clerk, countersigned by the President of
the Senate or the Speaker OF the House, as
the case may be, by the chairman of the
Committee ON Contingent Expenses Of the
respective houses. The amounts so drawn
shall be deposited, in United States cur
rency. in the Citizens Bank of Louisiana.
to the credit Of the respective houses, and
shall be disbursed upon the check of the
Warrant Clerk, in settlement, first, of the
mileage and per diem of mem bers, officers,
employees and contingent expenses of the
session Of eighteen hundred and seventy
two. and the extra session OF the Senate,
convened December SIKH. eighteen nun
bred and seventy-one, and the Warrant
Clerk is hereby directed to make no pay
ment except upon vouchers drawn upon
him by the Committee on Contingent En-
penses. and countersigned by the presiding
officers of the respective houses: that no
warrant shall be issued by the Committee
on Contingent Expenses, and counter
signed by the officers of either the
House or Senate, except for the mile
age and per diem of the members
and employees, and contingent expenses
OF either house for this session and the
extra session of the Senate in December,
eighteen hundred and seveEty-one, it being
understood by this proviso that no warrant
issued by either house prior to the sixth
day OF December, eighteen hundred and
seventy-one, in the Senate. and first day OF
January. eighteen hundred and seventy
two, in the House of Representatives, shall
be paid out OF the money appropriated by
this act, and the checks issued by the War
rant Clerk in payment of the mileage, per
diem and contingent expenses of the Gen
eral Assembly shall be countersigned by
the chairman of the Committee on Con.