New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-28

people Of the island of Cuba, and to abolis
the institution OF slavery therein.
Also, to inform the Senate that the Hous
| has cOncurred in Senate bill No 267, to b
entitled an act to authorize the New o.
leans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroa
Company to select the point or points fo
| the commencement Of the road; to reduc
| the liability of the State of Louisiana b
authorizing said company to issue frs
mortgage bonds, and to construct and en-
! plOy, or cause to be constructed or en-
| plOyed, steamboats, or other vessels, an
telegraph lines along the line of railroad G
said company.
A. C. WHITNEY,
Assistant Clerk House of Representatives
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.
Presented by President Pinchback:
memorial Of the American Woman SUI
| frage Association.
Read and referred to the standing Com
| mittee on Retrenchment and Reform.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. holland. from the Committee on En-
| grossment and Enrolment, submitted tn
following report:
COMMITTEE ON ENROLMENT
| February 26,' 1872
| To the Honorable President and Members of TIL
Senate:
Your Committee on Enrolment and En-
grossment beg leave to report as duly en-
| crossed the following bills, tO-wit:
Senate bill No. 273, an act to regulate the
conduct and to maintain the purity anG
freedom of elections, to prescribe the mode o.
making returns thereof, to provide for the
election of returning officers and defining
their powers and duties, to prescribe the
mode of entering on the rolls of the Senate
and House Of Representatives the names
of mem bers, and to enforce article lO3 of the
constitution:
Senate bill No. $50, an act for the relief OF
THOMAS II. holland,
Chairman.
Mr.. Harris, by unanimous consent, intro
duced the following and moved its
adoption:
Resolred, That special committee OF
three members of the Senate be appointed
by the President, to whom shall be referred
House bills (of local character), on first
and second reading, with the view OF their
immediate passage.
Mr.. Todd asked permission to take up
House bill No 80, Israelite Benevolent As
sociation of New Orleans, which the Senate
refused.
Mr.. McMillen asked permission to take
up Senate bill No. 349, relative to the Mis-
sissippi and Mexican Gulf Ship Canal.
which the Senate refused by the following
vote:
Yeas-BIackman, Hunsaker, Lynch, Nc
Millen, PinchbacK, Sypher, Thomas, Twitch-
ell, WilcOx-9.>
man, Butler, COPELAND, Daigle, Gallup,
Harris, Herwig, Ingraham, Kelso, holland,
O'Hara, Ray, Smith, Thompson, Todd,
Whitney-l9.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS ACCORDING TO
By MIR. Gallup:
Senate bill No. 1877, to be entitled an act
for the relief of the heirs of John Laidlaw.
Passed its first reading
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by four-ffths affirmative vote, the
bill put on its second reading, and referred
to the Committee on Claims.
BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT.
By Mr.. Thomas:
Senate bill No. 1893, to be entitled an act
to authorize the police juries of this State to
levy special tax for the repairs of the pub
lie roads and bridges.
Passed it's first reading.
Mr.. Bowman moved that the bill be re-
jected, which the Senate refused.
By Mr.. Butler
Senate bill No 1896, to be entitled an act
relative to juries in the parish of Plaque
mines, and to the mode of drawing and the
term of service of the same.
Passed its first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by a fourfifth affirmative vote, the
bill read a second time, and considered en-
crossed for third reading.
The constitutional rule was further sus-
pended by fOur-ifths affirmative vote,
the bill read it's third and last time, and
finally adopted with its title.
BILLS CALLED UP OUT OF ORDER BY CONSENT
OF THE SENATE.
By Mr.. Barber:
From second reading file, Senate bill No.
81, to be entitled an act recurring the
ran sfer of cases in which the city of New
Orleans is interested from the Sixth District
Court of the parish of Orleans to other
district courts of that parish.
The bill was read its second time and
ION ST dered engrossed for it's third reading
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by fourtifths affirmative vote, the
dill read its third and last time, and finally
,dopted with its title.
By Mr.. Ray:
From first reading file, House bill No.
35, an act to amend and re-enact sec
ions one, two, three, seven and the
ninth paragraph OF section nine, to add
twenty-frst paragraph to section nine,
nd to amend and re-enact sections twenty, |
wenty one and twenty-eight of the act en-
tiled IAN act to incorporate the city of |
Ionroe, to fix its boundaries, to provide for |
he government and create recorders |
flee for the same" approved May a, 1871,
nd after the first day of January, 1873, to
xempt all property, real and personal, and |
III persons, firms and corporations within |
he corporate limits of the city of Monroe
rom the payment of parish taxes and
icenses and to provide for the payment of
Osts and fees in criminal cases originating
within said corporate limits.
Passed its first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
'ended by four-fitths affirmative vote, the
ill read its second time. and adopted
hereon.
The constitutional rule was further sus-
ended by four-ffths affirmative vote, the
ill read its third and last time, and finally
dOpted with it's title.
BY Mr. Hunsaker: