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said company from other liabilities to the

and Coal Oil Storage Company, ana pro
yiding for the storage of all combustlblt
and coal oils therein, and further authoriz
ing the appointment OF an Inspector an'
directing the mode of inspection and fees tC
be charged for the inspection and storage o
said class of oils, and defining the duties o
tbe recorders and other courts for the en-
forcement of said act and providing the
mode and manner of the police regulations
to be adopted by the City Council OF the
citv of New Orleans in the premises, as pre-
cautions against fires; and directing the du
ties of the Metropolitan Police force in the
execution of the provisions of this act; and
for other purposes.
Passed its first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by four-tifth affirmative vote, the
bill put on its second reading, and referred
to the Committee on Corporations and
Parochial Affairs.
BILLS TAKEN UP OUT OF THEIR ORDER AND
ACTED UPON BY CONSENT OF THE SENATE.
On call of Mr. Twitchell:
House bill No. 2S4, authorizing the police
Jury of the parish of Red River to issue
bonds for certain purposes, from second
reading file.
Read a second time and adopted thereon.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by four-tifths affirmative vote, the
bill read its third and last time, and finally
adopted with its title.
BY Mr.. Lewis
Senate bill No. $780, to be entitled an act
to authorize A. +. Jannin ana associates to
render navigable the Bayou Saline; from
second reading die.
Mr.. Lewis moved that the bill be printed
and fixed as the special order of the day
for Monday the twenty-sixth instant at
Jpn
Mr.. OHara then gave ffotice that he
would present minority report unfavor-
able to this bill.
Mr.. Todd then moved that the further
consideration of this bill be indefinitely
postponed.
Debate having arisen, Mr.. Barber raised
the point of order that debate was not in
order.
The President decided the point not well
taken.
The question then REQUIRED on the mo-
ton of Mr. Lewis. which was adopted.
By Mr.. O'Hara:
House bill No. 36l. to authorize the police
juries of the parishes of st. Mary and
Terrebonne to issue parish bonds for the
purpose of retiring their Indebtedness.
Passed its first reading.
BY Mr. Daigle:
House bill No. 405, to change and rehx
the time of holding the sessions of the dis
trict court in the Sixteenth Judicial Dis
trict, and for other purposes.
Passed its first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by tour-tifths affirmative vote
the bill read second time, ard con.
sidered engrossed for third reading.
The constitutional rule was further sus-
pended by a four-ftths affirmative vote,
the bill read its third and last time, and
finally adopted with its title.
BY Mr.. Anderson:
Senate bill No. 266 from second reading
tle), to be entitled an act relative to con
tributions to be raised by the Citizens
Bank of Louisiana, and the resale of prop
erty purchased on foreclosure Of stock
mortgages.
The bill, on motion of Mr.. O'Hara, was
fixed as the special order at 2. NJ. the
twenty fourth instant.
By Mr.. Swords:
Substitute for Senate bills Nos. 297, Bis
and 346, to be entitled an act to amend and
re-enact sections two, three, four, six,
twenty-seven, thirty-four, forty forty
eight and forty-nine of an act entitled IAN
act to amend and re-enact an act to estab-
ish Metropolitan Police district, and to
provide for the government thereof, ap-
proved March 8, 1869, and to provide fol
the reduction of the expense of the Metro
politan Police force and the same was
made the special order Of the day for this
evening at half past seven o'clock.
REGULAR ORDER OF THE DAY-USFISIsHED
BUSINESS.
The President announced that the sub
stitute for Senate bill No. 1913, to be
entitled an act to amend and re-enact sec
tons five, six, eleven, twelve, thirteen. four
teen, twenty-one, twenty-five, twenty-elght
twenty-nine, thirty-tive, thirty-six, thirty
nine forty-one, ty-three, tfty-nine, sixty
sixty-nine, seventy, seventy-one, seventy
three and eighty two; and to repeal sections
twenty three, twenty seven, fifty-one, fifty
two, fifty -four, tifty-tive and ffty-seven OF
an act entitled "An act to regulate the
conduct and to maintain the freedom and
purity Of elections; to prescribe the mode
of making, and designate the officers who
shall make the returns thereof: to pre-
tumult, bribery or corruption at cleo
tons, or at any registration or revision OF
registration; to limit the powers and duties
of the Sheriffs of the parishes of Orleans
and Jefferson; to prescribe the powers anG
duties of the Board and officers of the
Metropolitan Police in reference to elec
tions; to prescribe the mode of entering
on the rolls of the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives the names of members; to EN-
power the Governor to preserve peace
and order; to enforce the laws; to lim
the powers and duties of the May or
of the cities of New Orleans and JET
ferson with regard to elections; to pro
hibit district and parish judges from issuin:
certain Urits to commissioners of election
to make an appropriation for the expenses
of the next revision of the registration ant
of the next election. and to enforce articl.