New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-03

JOHN r. GALLUP, Chairman

JOHN X. GALLUP, Chairman.
Mr. Swords, from the Committee OF
Metropolitan Police, reported back Senate
bill No. 1913, to be entitled an act for the
relief of the officers and members of thu
Metropolitan Police, and recommended its
reference to the Committee on Finance.
So referred.
NOTICES OF BILLS.
b Mr. Lynch:
OF a bill to be entitled an act to adjust
rr,ieine and more explicitly designate the
boundaries of the different parishes of the
State. and to define the duties to be here
after performed by the special engineer in
the revision of the official map of the State
in connection Herewith.
BY Mr.. Lynch:
OF bill to be entitled an act to consoli-
III date. limit and provide for the dobt of the
III city Of New Orleans, principal and interest,
# and authorize a tax for the support of
81 the city government, and the better en-
forcenent of the collection OF all taxes.
By Mr. Ray:
OF bill to be entitled an act for the re-
lief of +. j. Stokes.
Nv Mr.. Bowman:
Al OF bill to be entitled an act 10 incorpo-
Al rate the New Orleans Building Association.
~ b. Mr.. jerks:
M OF bill to be entitled an act to liquidate
Ri the Indebtedness of the State to j. o. Nixon,
FL under his contract of March %, 1866.
By Mr. McMillen:
ct bill to be entitled an act to create
the parish of Macon, and to provide for the
organization thereof.
By Mr.. Thomas:
Of a bill to identified an act providing
fcrclo-ing Mack's bayou, Bossier parish etc.
By Mr.. Campbell:
OF bill to be entitled an act to amend
and re-enact sections five, six, eleven,
fourteen, Twenty-Five, thirty five, thirty-six
and tifi three Of an act entitled "An act to
regulate the conduct and to maintain the
freedom and purity of elections; to pre-
scribe the mode of making, and designate
! the officers who shall make the returns
thereof to prevent fraud, violence intim-
dstion. riot, tumult, bribery or corruption
at elections, or at any registration re-
vision of registration; to limit the powers
and duties Of the Sheriffs of the parishes
OF Orleans and Jefferson; to prescribe the
powers and duties OF the Board and Off
z GERS of the Metropolitan Police in refer
81 ence 10 elections; to prescribe the mode
II OF entering on the rolls of the Senate and
House of Representatives the names of
members: to empower the Governor to pre-
al serve peace and order, to enforce the laws,
g and 10 declare martial law during registra-
q ton and elections; to limit the powers and
n duties of the Mayors of the cities of New
X <,ria.u. and LATTE uitb nd 70 OH
n tions; 10 prohibit district and parish judges
from issuing certain writs to commissioners
of election to make an appropriation for
the expenses of the next revision Of the
u registration and of the next election, and to
a enforce article 1903 of the constitution, ap-
proved March l6, 1870
v BY Mr.. Campbell:
4 OF :; bill to be entitled an act to amend
aud Te-enact sections four, eleven, thirteen.
fifteen. sixteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty
one. twenty-five, twentysix, twenty-nine,
thirt, one, thirty four, thirty-sX, thirty
eight and forty-three of an act entitled IAN
act 10 provide for the revision and correc-
ton OF the list of registered voters of the
STATE the appointment of the various Off
Gers necessary therefor, and to prescribe
the duties, powers and compensation of the
same: to prescribe certain duties for the
sections of the cemeteries of New Orleans:
to prescribe the penalties for the violation
of the law and to provide for new regis
tratiou in certain parishes and wards, APP
proved March I6. 1870, and to repeal section
fortv-two of the said above entitled act.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
The following bill was introduced. with
out previous notice, by unanimous consent:
By Sir. Lewis
A oil to be entitled an act granting to
terdnando Luchini, for ten years, the
privilege of building wharf and establish
ing "a steamboat landing at Grand Ecore,
on Red river, in the parish of Natchitoches
and State of Louisiana, and providing for
the amount of wharfage to be collected
from steamboats, and other vessels landing.
Passed its first reading.
The following bill was introduced ac-
ccrding to previous notice:
B. Mr. Gallup:
A bill to be entitled an act to incorporate
the Louisiana Library Association. and to
grant certain privileges to the same, and to
provide for the maintenance and manage
1nent thereof
Passed its first reading
The constitutional rule then Sis
pended by a four-fifths affirmative vote, the
fil put on it's second reading, and referred
to the Committee on Judiciary.
RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCE.
b Mr.. Raglan
Fes,ired, That the Committee on Peniten-
tiarv proceed to Baton Rouge, and examine
the condition and affairs Of the Louisiana
Penitentiary.
Laid over.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES LYING O'ER.
senate bill No. $40, to be entitled an act
establishing the Seventeenth and Nine
teenth Judicial Districts, and providing the
time of holding the courts in said districts
and parishes, and the time for which the
Judges and district attorneys in said DIS
tricts shall hold their offices.
Passed first reading.
RESOLUTIONS LYING OVER.
Mr. Blackman called up the following
WHEREAS There are two vacancies in the
Senate occasioned by the death of Senators
Fish and Pearce therefore be it
Resolred. That the Governor be informed:
officially, by the Secretary of the Senate, ana
he