New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-20
THE SENATE YESTERDAY.

Forty.second Days Session.
SENATE CHAMBER,
Monday, February ~, 1877.
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, CampDeil'
COPELAND, Daigle, Gallup, Harris, Herwig'
Hunsaker, Ingraham, jerks, kelso, Lewis
Ivnch. McMilien, holland. O'Hara, Raglan,
Raw, Smith, Swords, Sypher, Ih0mas'
Thompson, Todd, Twitchell, Wilcox-32
Prayer by the Chaplain.
Reading of the minutes of the previous
days session was dispensed with.
No corrections.
Adopted.
MESSAGES PROM THE HOUSE.
House. OF REPRESENTATIVE,
February Is, 1872.
70 the Honorable President and Members Of the
Senate:
Lam directed to ask the concurrence of
the Senate in the following House bills, to-
wit: ~
House bill No. 1894, an act to authorize
Julius Werner and Mrs. Helena Werner, his
wife. to adopt Mary Day as their child, and
to change her name. etc.
House bill No. 1896, an act fixing the re-
turn day Tor appeals from the parish OF
TangipahOa, etc.
House bill No. 4OI, an act to amend and
reeuact articles 2262 and 22O4 Of the Revised
Civil Code.
House bill No. 407, an act to regulate the
practice in the district courts OF the par
ish of Orleans.
House bill No. 40, an act to authorize an
additional Justice of the peace, parish Of
Avoyelles, and for other purposes.
4 actf RI r.
ond section Of an act entitled an act incorpor-
ating the Grand Lodge Of the State OF Louis
House bill No. Ala, an act relative to dis
pensing with the publication of legal and
judicial advertisements in the French Ian
guage in the parish Of NatchitOches.
House bill No. 4l6, an act to authorize the
police iury of the parish of st. John the
Baptist to issue bonds for certain purposes
House bill No. 1875, an act repeating the
constabulary law.
House bill No. 4O5, an act to change and
refix the time Of holding the sessions OF the
district court in the Sixteenth Judicial
District, and for other purposes.
Also, to ask the signature Of the President
to the following enrolled House bulls:
An act to empower the police jury OF AS
cension parish to open public road from
point on the left bank of the Mississippi
river. opposite to DonalGsonville, running
back to New river.
An act to incorporate an Independent fire
company of the city of ThibOdaux, parish
of Lafourche. State of louisiana
Also, a concurrent resolution relative to
the removal of duty from rice by the
Congress of the United States, and instruct
ing our Senators and Representatives reia-
tive thereto.
And furthermore, to inform the Senate
that the House has indefinitely postponed
Senate bill No. $50, an act to authorize
Eugene Mccarthy to sue the State OF Lou
isiana And that the Speaker Of tue House
has signed enrolled bill to be entitled an act
defining the distances from the domiciles OF
members of the General Assembly to the
State House; fixing the mode of ascertain,
ing the per diem Of members OF the General
Assembly for the time engaged in going to
and returning from the State House, and
their mileage to be paid, and the number OF
employees Of the General Assembly and their
compensation, and defining their duties. and
making an appropriation to defray the ex-
penses of the General Assembly, and to re-
peal act No 81 of 1869.
Respectfully,
A. G. WHITNEY,