New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-28
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE

EkOCEEDlNGS OF The SENAIl
SECOND SESSION
SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
STATE OF LOUISIANA
Forty.eighth Days Session.
SENATE CHAMBER
Monday, February 26, 1872.
The Senate met pursuant to adjournment
Present-Hon P. B. S. Pinchback, Lieu
tenant Governor and President OF the Sen
ate, and Messrs. Anderson, Antoine, Barber
Blackman, Bowman, Butler, Campbell
COPELAND. Dagle, Futch, Gallup. Harris
Herwig, Hunsaker, Ingraham, jerks, Kelso
Lewis, Lynch, McMillen, holland. O'Hara
Ray, Smith, Swords, Sypher. Thompson
Thomas, Todd, Twitchell, Whitney, Viii
cOx-33.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
The reading Of the minutes Of the pre-
vious days session was dispensed with.
There being no corrections, they were
then approved.
MORNING BUSINESS.
The following communication from his
excellency the Governor was received and
read:
STATE OF LOUISIANA, }
Executive Department,
~ Now Orleans. February 26, 1872.
To the Honorable President and Members Of the
am instructed by his excellency the
Governor to inform your honorable body
that he has approved and signed the fol-
lowing bills originating in the Senate, viz ::
An act apprOpriating TO Mrs. E. j. Dunn,
widow Of the late Lieutenant Governor
Oscar j. Dunn, the balance Of the salary
that would have been due him had he lived
to the end Of bis term Of service.
An act for the relief Of j. Osborne, to re-
instate lost warrants.
An act to amend and re-enact article
3l65 of the Revised Civil Code.
An act to amend an act entitled IAN act to
incorporate the POntchartrain Railroad Com
pany," approved on the twentieth January,
$780, and the several acts AamendatOry
thereof also, to enable the said POntchar
train Railroad Company to sell to Charles
Morgan, his heirs, successors and assigns,
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with it's tracks, depOts, appurtenances and
franchises, lying between Girod street and
Elysian Fields, and to authorize said
Charles Morgan to incorporate the same
with the road now known as MOrgans Lou
isiana and Texas railroad, formerly known
as the New Orleans, OpelOusas and Great
Western railroad, and for the purpose of
providing continuous and unbrOken COM
municatiOn between the same by ferry
fyaDaOOrt tjop
o. d. BRAGDON,
Private Secretary.
MESSAGES TO THE HOUSE.
The Secretary presented to the House for
its consideration the following Senate bills:
Substitute for Senate bill No. 273, an act
to be entitled an act to regulate the conduct
and to maintain the freedom and purity Of
elections; 10 prescribe the mode of making
returns thereof; to provide for the election
of returning officers. and defining their pow
ers and duties; to prescribe the mode of en-
tering on the rolls of the Senate and House
of Representatives the names of members,
and to enforce article 1903 of the constitu-
ton.
Senate bill No. $50. to be entitled an act
for the relief of w. P. Harper.
Senate concurrent resolution relative to
the introduction of bills, etc on and after
the twenty-ninth instant at P. NJ
MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
fs February rs, 1872 )
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate:
L am directed to ask the concurrence of
the Senate in the following House bills,
to wit:
House bill No. 425, an act known as the
license law.
House bill No AL, an act to attach the
parish of Bienville to the fourth con-
gressional district of the State Of Louisiana.
House bill No. 345, an act for the relief of
Mrs. Martha NJ. Duncan, widow in COM
munity of the late NJ. j. Duncan, and
tutrix of their minor children.
House bill No. 81, an act for the relief of
w. H. Vaughn.
House bill No 347, an act for the relief of
Charles F. Drauguet for services performed
as district attorney for the Ninth Judicial
District
House bill No. 354, an act for the relief of
David Fisher.
House bill No. Az, an act for the relief of |
"A. Valsin Martin.
House bill No. 422 an act prohibiting the |
assessment and collection of certain city |
taxes in the Fifth District of the city of |
New Orleans.
House bill No. $40, an act TO estab lish an |
additional district court for the parish of Or |
leans, to define the jurisdiction and officers
thereof to define the jurisdiction Of the First
District Court for the parish of Orleans, and |
for other purposes.
Also, to ask the signature o! the President
to the following enrolled House bills:
An act to establish the Underwriters
Association of New Orleans.
An act to allow Hypolite Bellocq. of St.
Mary parish, to sue the State for alleged
damages sustained during the construction
of levees.
An act to amend the second section of |
m act entitled an act incorporating the |
Grand Lodge of Louisiana. and for other |
purposes, approved March Is. 1916.
Respectfully, A. c. WHITNEY,
Assistant Secretary.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. |
February rs, 1872 J |
To the Honorable President and Members of the |
Senate.
am directed to ask the concurrence of |
the Senate in the following House bills, |
10 wit:
& House bill No. 434, an act to incorporate
the Louisiana Academy of Arts, Sciences
and Medicines.
House bill No. 435, an act for the relief of
Eugene Sullivan, late member OF the Met
rOpolitan Police.
House bill No. 43S, an act to authorize
e. H. Russ to clean out Wilson's bayou
and other streams, connecting the same
with Pearl river and Bogue Chitto, in the
parish Of st. Tammany, so as to run out
timber and logs; to charge toll upon all
timber passing through said bayou.