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OFFICIAL JOURNAL Ut IHt UN''tU SIA'tS
OFFICIAL JOUR- OF NEW ORlEANS
OFFICI1 Al JOURNAL
OF THE
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE
SECOND SESSION
OF THE
SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF TIE
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
SECOND SESSION
SECOND Gt NERAL ASSEMBLY


The Senate met pursuant to adjournment.
Presentation P.B S. Pinchback, Lieu
tenant GOverno, and President of the Sen
? ate, and Messrs. Anderson, Antoine, Barber,
Blackman, Bowman, Butler, Campbell,
Couplant, Dagle, Gallup, Harris, Herwig,
Hunsaker, Ingrsham. jerks. Kelso, Lewis,
Lynch, McMillen 20, holland, O'Hara, Ragan,
Ray, Smith, Swords, Sypher, Thomas,
Thompson, Todd, Twitchel1, Wilcox-32.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
Reading of ne minutes of the previous
days session.
No corrections.
The President announced the appoint-
ment of the following committee to investi-
gate the affairs Of the State Land Office:
Messrs. Harris, Butler and Todd.
MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE.
HoUsR OF REPRESENTATIVE
New Orleans, February 6, 1872.
To the Honorable President and Members Of the
Senate:
am directed to ask the concurrence of
the Senate in the following House bills, viz
House bill No. 352, an act relative to Gre
ating the Office of parish auditor for the
parish of Natchitoches.
House bill No. 349, an act to authorize
Mrs. Samuel 1. Jones to adopt Louisiana
MAY hayden, etC.
House bill No. 353, an act to fix the terms
dicial District. etc
House bill No. 339, joint resolution asking
the Congress of the United States to pass
an act granting million acres Of the public
lands to each State, etc.
House bill No. 3l5, granting to Ed. F.
Keenan, the right to keep ferry across the
Bursley bayou, in the parish of Catahoula.
House bill No. ITO session of 1871, an
act for the relief of William Bendel.
To inform the Senate that the House has
concurred in the following Senate bills:
Senate bill No. 269, an act for the relief of
j. Osborn, to reinstate lost warrants.
Senate bill No. 3O4, appropriating to Mrs.
Ellen B. Dunn the balance of the salary
that would have been due him.
Senate bill No. l26 session of 1871, an
act to amend and re-enact article 1855 Of
the Revised Civil Code.
Respectfully,
WILLIAM VIGERS,
Chief Clerk.
HsUsE REPRESENTATIVES,
New Orleans February 6, 1872.
To the Honorable President and Members Of the
Senate:
am directed to inform the Senate that
the House has cOncurred in the amend
ments to House bill No. 2S5 known as the
appropriation bill, recommended by the
committee on conference.
A. c. WHITNEY,
Assistant Clerk of the House OF Represent
atives.
MESSAGES TO THE HOUSE.
The Secretary presented to the House for
consideration:
Concurrent resolution relative to the for
fixture of the charters of the Barataria and
Lafourche Canal Company and the La
fourche and Terrebonne Navigation Com
pany.
Also presented to the House memorial
of the Sisters Of Charity in charge of the st.
Vincent's Infant Orphan Asylum.
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS
By Mr.. Hunsaker:
Petition of the superior of the Sisters of
st. Joseph.
Referred to the Committee on Charitable
Institutions.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. O'Hara, from the Committee on Agri-
culture, Commerce and Manufactures re-
ported back Senate bill No. 3O7, to be en-
Crescent City Ramie Planting and Manu-
featuring Company; to authorize the pur-
chase by said company Of certain lands
belonging to the State for the purpose of
promoting the cultivation of the ramie plant
and manufacture of the fibre thereof, and
for other purposes; and recommended the
following amendment:
In section two strike out "fifty cents" and
insert in lieu thereof zone dollar and
twenty-five cents"
Mr.. Gallup, from the Committee on Rail
roads and Internal Improvements, reported |
favorably on Senate bill No. 3O3, to be en-
titled an act authorizing the parishes of |
East Baton Rouge and East Feliciana to |
aid the construction of the Baton Rouge |
and State Line Railroad.
[Mr. McMillen in the chair
Mr.. Ingraham. from the committee of |
conference on House bill No. 285, appro-
priation bill, submitted the following re-
port, which, with the amendments accom-
panying, was ordered printed in the Journal
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Repre-.
sentatives of the State of Louisiana:
We, the undersigned, your committee on
conference on House bill No. 2S5, respect
fully report back the bill referred to this |
committee, and recommend the adoption of |
the amendments herewith submitted.
On the part of the Senate:
JAMES H. INGRAHAM,
Chairman.
THOMAS II. holland,
OSCAR f. HUNSAKER.
On the part of the House:
+. w. DEVICES,
O. H. BREWSTER,
C. w. RINGGOLD,
MORTIMER CARR,
p. HARPER,
HENRY DEMAS.
AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 2S5.
In section two line seventeen strike out the
words "two thousand" and insert eighteen