New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-25
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF new ORLEANS
OFFICIAL'JOURNAL
OF THE
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE
SECOND SESSION
OF THE
SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF Tue
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Twentieth Days Session.

Barber, Blackman, Bowman, Butler, Camp
bell, COPELAND, Daigle, Gallup. Harris,
Herwig, Hunsaker, lngraham. jerks, Kelso,
Lewis, Lynch, McMillen, holland, OHara,
Raglan, Ray, Smith, Swords, Sypher,
Thomas, Thompson, Todd, Twitchell, Whit
ney, Wilcox-B.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
Reading of the minutes Of the previous
days session.
Corrections made, and minutes adopted
AS corrected.
NOTICES OF BILLS.
BY Mr.. Todd:
OF q bill to be entitled an act to amend
the charter of the city of Carrollton.
BY Mr.. Raglan:
OF bill to be entitled an act to provide
for the government of the city Of Baton
Rouge and the administration Of the affairs
thereof.
BY Mr.. Kelso:
Of q bill to be entitled an act to ineOr-
porate the Stonewall Hook and Ladder
Company of Alexandria.
by Mr.. Twitchell:
OF bill to be entitled an act to incor-
porate the town of Coushatta, parish of
Red River, Louisiana.
BY Mr.. Hunsaker:
A bill to be entitled an act to regulate
the disbursement Of public charities.
BY Mr.. holland:
A bill to be entitled an act to amend
the charter of the town of PlaQuemine,
parish of Iberville, Louisiana.
BY Mr.. Ray:
OF a bill to be entitled an act making ap-
preparations for the general expenses of
the State.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
The following bill was introduced, with
out previous notice, by unanimous con-
sent:
BY Mr.. Blackman:
A bill to be entitled an act to create q
special fund in the treasury for the pay
mept of the salaries of the executive and
judicial officers Of the State, the per diem
and mileage of the members Of the Legis-
lature, and the contingent expenses
thereof:
Passed its first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by four-ifths affirmative vote, the
bill put on its second reading, and referred
to the appropriate committee when sp-
pointed.
The following bills were introduced &C
cording to previous notice:
BY Mr.. Lynch:
4 bill to be entitled an act to define the
duties and fix the compensation of State
Printer.
Passed it's first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by four-ffths affirmative vote,
the bill put on its second reading, ordered
printed, and referred to the appropriate
committee, when appointed.
BY Mr.. Ray:
A bill to be entitled an act providing for
the election of State Printer, and for
State, judicial, parochial and municipal
printing, and to amend sections 29SS, 1898.
1895, 5000 and 3G0l and to repeal sections
1886, 1887, 29S9, 1890, 1894 and 1899 of act
No. 90 of 1870, known as the Revised
Statutes, and to repeal act No. 6, of 1870,
and to provide for printing decisions of the
Supreme Court.
Passed it's first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus
rended by four-ffths affirmative vote,
the bill put on its second reading, ordered
printed and referred to the appropriate
committee when appointed.
BY Mr.. Thompson:
A bill to be entitled an act to authorize
the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicks-
burg Railroad Company to select point
or points for the commencement OF their
road to reduce the liabilities of the State
of Louisiana by authorizing said company
10 issue first mortgage bonds, and to con-
struct and employ, or cause to be con-
structed or employed, steamboats, or other
vessels, and telegraph lines along the line
of railroad of said company.
Passed its first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by four-ffths affirmative vote,
the bill put ON its second reading, and re-
ferred to the appropriate commute when
appointed
BY Mr.. Lynch:
A bill to be entitled an act relative to |
contributions to be raised by the Citizens
Bank of Louisiana, and the resale of prop
erty purchased in foreclosure Of stock |
mortgages.
Passed its first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by four-fifths affirmative vote,
the bill put on its second reading, and re-
ferred to the appropriate committee, when
appointed.
BY Mr.. Ray:
A bill to be entitled an act to amend and
re-enact sections one, three, four, eleven,
thirteen, fifteen, sixteen, nineteen, twenty
one, twenty-five, twenty-siX, twenty nine,
thirty-tbree. thirty four, thirty five, thirty
six, thirty-eight and forty-two, of an
entitled San act to provide for the
revision and correction Of the list of |
registered voters of the State, the appoint
ment of the various officers necessary there
for and to prescribe the duties, powers and
compensation of the same; to prescribe cer-
tain duties tor the sections of the cemeteries
of New Orleans, to prescribe the penalties
for the violation Of the law, and to provide
for a new registration in certain parishes
and wards" approved March l6, 1870 and
10 repeal sections seventeen and forty-one
of said above entitled act.
Passed it's first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus-
pended by four-fiths affirmative vote, the
hill put on it's second reading, ordered
printed and referred to the appropriate
,.nittea when appOinted.