New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-23
No.. IL.
AN ACT
SECRETARY of State.

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To amend an act entitled "An 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 Cen
eral Assembly for the time engaged in
| gong 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 detray the expenses of the
| General Assembly, and to repeal act No.
| 50 Of 1862"
| SECTION l. BE it enacted by the Senate
| and House Of Representatives of the State
! or Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
| That section eleven of said act be amended
! and Te-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,
anu the contingent fund set apart for their
respective houses. and de0iting 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 cpen an account
with each member and employee. on contin-
gent account. Charging the amount due them,
and crediting them with payment made as
they are made. The chairman of the Com
nittee 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 enlploye. which
warrant shall be countersiened BY the pre-
siding officer of the respective houses. if he
flnds the same correct, and the Warrant
Clerk is hereby directed to warrant on the
nscal agent Tor 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 Elk
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 tie session, and |
be opened to the inspection of any member |
OF each house. The money appropriated !
tor 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-
spectlye houses, drawn on the Warrant |
Clerk. The warrants shall be drawn bv
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favor OF the persons to whom the amount
may be due.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc. That
section thirteen of the said act be amend
ed and re-enacted to 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. D. eighteen
hundred and seventy-two, and for the extra
session OF the Senate held ON the sixth and
Sc Venth days OF December, A. ID. eighteen
hundred and seventy-one, payable out of
any money III the State treasury to the
credit OF the general fund; and that if there
De not sufflclent funds in the State treasury |
10 meet this appropriation, that the Auditor
'f fuDllc Accounts be and he Is hereby di-
'ecteo to issue warrants on the State treas |
lry In denominations of five thousand dol |
airs each, IN favor of the Governor of the |
state, who is hereby authorized and en-
bowed to procure q loan of the said sum of
wo hundred thousand dollars by executing
note TO be signed by him, as Governor of
he State, to which may be annexed the
warrants above authorized to be issued to
lim, as collateral security for the payment !
VI such loan; said warrants to be registered
il the Office of the State Treasurer, and paid |
'ut of any money now in the State
reasury to- the credit of the general I
und, and out of the first money which
hall be paid into the treasury to the
redit of the general fund, until all The |
issued under the appropriation
made in this act shall have been uaid:
that the warrants heretofors
egistered in accordance with the provisions
Il act No. y OF the acts OF 1871 shall be
'ald IN their proper order; that said money ]
o borrowed, shall be deposited in the Stale
reasury, one hundred and forty thousand
lollars to the credit of the House of Repre- ,
entatiyes, and sixty thousand dollars to
ne credit OF the Senatesof Louisiana, to be 9
lrawn upon the warrant of the Warrant {
Jerk, countersigned by the President of