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FFIClAl JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL Of NEW ORLEANS
THE SENATE YESTERDAY.


THE SENATE YESTERDAY.
Thirfy.fif,h Days Session.
SENATE CHAMBER !
Friday, FEBRUARY 9. 1872
The Senate met pursuant to adjournment.
Presentation. p b. S. Pinchback, Lieu
tenant Governor and President of the Sen
ate. and Messrs. Anderson, Antoine, Barber,
Blackman, Bowman, Butler. Campbell,
COPELAND, Daigle, Gallup, Harris, Her.
wig, Hunsaker, Ingraham, jerks, Kelso
Lewis. Lynch. holland, OIIara Raglan
Ray, Smith. Swords, Sypher, Thomas
Thompson, Todd, Twitchell, Wilcox-3l.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
Reading of the minutes of the previous
days session was dispensed with.
No corrections.
Adopted.
MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,, I
February g. 1872.
To the Honorable President and Members of thu
Senate:
l am directed to inform the Senate thai
the House has refused to appoint com
mittee of conference to consider House bill
No. 2S5, known as the appropriation bill
and to ask your concurrence in House bill
5000 900 to pay the mileage and per diem o.
officers, members, employees, and cOntin
gent expenses of the General Assembly o.
Louisiana, of the session commencing JaEu
airy l, 1872, and the extra session OF the
Senate, commencing December g. 1871.
Respectfully. etc,
A. G. WHITNEY,
Assistant Clerk House of Representatives
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, I
New Orleans, February 8, 1872.
To the Honorable President and Members Of the
Senate:
l am directed by the House to inform
your honorable body that the House has
cOncurred in Senate bill No. 1873, session OF
1871, an act for the relief OF Mrs. Mary
Barlow.
Also, to ask the concurrence of the Senate
in House bill No. 144, session of 1871, an
act for the relief of Mrs. FelOnise Haydel,
of the parish of Jefferson.
Respectfully, -
Assistant Clerk House Of Representatives.
MESSAGES TO THE HOUSE.
The Secretary informed the House that
the Senate had concurred in House bill No.
2SS, to be entitled an act to empower the
police jury of Ascension parish to oren a
public road from point on the left bank of
the Mississippi river, opposite Donaldson
vile, running back to New river, and Of the
adoption of the following order: THAT the
Secretary of the Senate inform the House
that the Senate has refused to concur in the
report of the joint committee of conference
on the appropriation bill, and request the
appointment of new committee to meet a
like committee in the Senate" the commit
tee consisting of Messrs. jerks, Hunsaker,
holland, Kelso and Gallup.
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.
BY Mr.. OHara:
Petition of Sister Severina, directress Of
the Louisiana Retreat Asylum for the In
sane.
Referred to the Committee on Finance.
BY Mr.. Anderson:
Petition of the Society of st. Vincent
de Paul.
Referred to tie Committee on Charitable
Institutions.
By Mr. Anderson:
Petition of the Louisiana Retreat
Asylum of the Insane.
Referred to the Committee on Charitable
Institutions
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Hunsaker, from the Committee on Ju
dietary, reported an original bill. to be emit
tied an act to amend and re-enact articles
2262 and 1854 of the Revised Civil Code.
Also, favorably on the following Senate
bills:
Senate bill No 33l, to be entitled an act
to amend article GA of the Code of Prac-
tice.
Senate bill No. 27l, to be entitled an act
authorizing Albert E. Davis, of the parish
of St. Mary to sue the State of Louisiana.
Senate bill No. 2S7, to be entitled an act
Relative to service of subpenas, interroga-
lions, motions and interlocutory orders,
and, also, relative to the demand and notice
required by law in hypothecatory actions.
Senate bill No. 2SS, to be entitled an act
to amend and reenact section 629 of the
Revised Statutes, relative to the community
OF acquests and gains.
And also recommend the printing of the
following:
Senate bill No. 327, to be entitled an act
to regulate certain criminal proceedings in
the district and parish courts.
Senate bill No. 1923, to be entitled an act
to amend articles 675, go, 6S3, 7o6, 707, 7OS,
7l3, lis, 7l8 and 402 of the Code of Prac-
tice, and to repeal articles 6S4, 6S5, 7lO and
403 of the Code of Practice of the State of
Louisiana.
Senate bill No. 329, to be entitled an act
relative to the crimes Of perjury and sub
ornation of perjury.
Senate bill No. 800, to be entitled an act
to amend and re-enact sections 1897, 1928.
1929 and 1880 of the Revised Statutes of
Louisiana for 1870, and to divide the State
into judicial districts; to fix the terms of
holding courts in the parishes throughout
the State; to fix the salaries of district
judges, and specifying how the warrants Of
said judges shall be received in payment Of
taxes and licenses, and for other purposes.
On motion of Mr.. Ray, all the bills above
reported, except Nos. 331 and 27l, were
ordered printed.
NOTICES OF ELLIS.
By Mr.. Twitchell:
OF Joint resolution to be entitled joint
resolution memorialzing Congress to refund
the amount of the cotton tax collected
throughout the Southern States during the
years 1865, 1866 and 1867.
BY Mr.. Wilcox:
OF bill to be entitled an act to authorize
the Mississippi and Mexican Gulf Canal
Comnauy to issua /; z own bonds with the