New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-27
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oFFlclAl JOURNAL Of THE UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
OFFICIAL JOURNAL
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE
SECOND SESSION.
OF THE
8ECoND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF TIE
A OF LOUISIANA.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE
8ECoND GENERAL E


WAITE OF LOUISIANA
FOrty.seventh Days Session.
SENATE CHAMBER, I
Saturday, February -, 1877. }
The Senate met pursuant to adjournment
Presentation. p. b. S. Pinchback. Lieu
tenant Governor and President OF the Sen
ate, and Messrs. Anderson4Antoine, Barber
COPELAND, Daigle. Gallup, Harris, Herwig
Hunsaker, Ingrahan,, jerks, Kelso, Lewis
Lynch, McMillen, holland, O'Hara, Ray
Smith, Swords. Sypher, Thomas, Thompson
Todd, Twitchell, Whitney, Wilcox-32. 4
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.
. FORMING BUSINESS.
The Committee on Corporations and Pa
rochial Affairs were instructed to have
printed Senate bill No. 1874, to be en-:
titled an act to incorporate the Ores.
cent City Petroleum and Coal Oil
Storage Company; and providing for the
storage Of all combustible and coal oils
therein; and further authorizing the ap-
spOintment of an inspector, and directing
the mode of inspection and fees to be
charged for the inspection and storage of
said class of oils; and defining the duties of
Che recorders and other courts for the en-
forcement Of said act; and providing the
mode and manner of the police regulations
10 be adopted by the City Council of the
city of New Orleans in the premises, as pre-
cautions against fires; and directing the
duties of the Metropolitan Police force in
the execution of the provisions of this act;
md for other purposes.
MESSAGES TO THE HOUsE
The Secretary presented to the House for
it, consideration Senate bill No. 1893, to in
corporate the John Cough Temperance So,
ciety, st. Helena Parish, Louisiana: and 10
tilted that body that the Senate had con-
Cured in House bill No. 2S4, authorizing
the police jury ofthe parish of Red River to
issue bonds for certain purposes, and
House bill No. 405, ''to change and refx the
time Of holding the sessions of the District
Court in the Sixteenth Judicial District,
<epd for other purposes and informed that
body that the Senate had refused to concur
In House amendments to Senate bill No. 3Sj.
supplement to General Assembly appropri-
a1on bill), and requested a committee Of
conference on the same.
MESSAGES PROM THE HOUSE.
f House OF RKPR gsRNTATIvRs,l
February "a, 1872. )
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate:
I am directed to. inform this honorable
body that the House has cOncurred in the
following Senate bills, viz:
Senate bill No. 376, an act establishing an
additional term of the district court in the
parish OF Carroll.
Senate bill No. 326, an act to authorize |
Adam ONeth and Catherine Bethel, his
wife, to change the name of their adopted
.Dhild, Anna Betz, to Anna O'Neth.
Senate bill No. 34S, an act to amend an
,Aet entitled IAN act to incorporate the
Ppntc haStrain Railroad Company ap-
proved twentieth January, 1880, and the
several acts amendatOry thereof, etc.
\ Senate bill No. 325, an act for the relief of
Alexander Lazano, Solomon w. Andrus,
Benjamin F. White, John H Overton, Jo-
achim Joubert, Henry l.. Garland, Gabriel
Lyons, Egbert 0. Hayes, Jacob Lyons.
Abraham Hartman, William S. Hartman and
Isansonne, of st. Landry.
Senate bill No. 29l, an act to incorporate
the town Of Coushatta, in the parish of Red
River.
Senate bill No. 299, an act entitled an
act to change the name of Thomas Lew
Holloway to Thomas Lewis Holloway
BeIden.
Senate Joint resolution, No. "a, a joint
resolution memorializing Congress to refund
the amount of the cotton and sugar tax col
1coted throughout the Southern States dur
the years 1865, 1866 and 1867.
Also, to ask the signature Of the President
to the following enrolled House bills:
An act to incorporate the Literary De
batting Society Of New Orleans, and State
Of Louisiana.
And an act to fix the terms of the district
court in the Fourteenth Judicial District,
designating certain weeks of said terms for
the trial OF criminal cases, and providing
FOR the drawing and summoning of iuries
for said terms.
Respectfully,
A. c. WHITNEY, Assistant Clerk.
- HOUSE, OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
February "a, 1872.
70 the Honorable President and Members of the .
Senate:
he House has cOncurred in Senate bill No. |
IS; an act to amend an act entitled IAN :
Act defining the distances from the domicile
members Of the General Assembly to !
State House, and !
an appropriation to defray the {
sxpenses of the General Assembly, and to :
pepeal act No. ~ of 1862" with amend l
Nents. !
ALSO, Senate bill No. 1911, an act for the i,
selief OF Mrs. Gertrude Lipshuts.
AeSpee a. q: WHITNEY. ,
Assistant Clerk.
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. :
Presented by Mr.. COPELAND: Z
A petition Of the New Orleans Seamen's !
Friend Society, praying for relief. :
Read, and referred to the Committee on I
finance. .
Presented by Mr.. jerks: /.
A petition of the ladies of the Louisiana +
cciety Of st. Louis, praying for relief. I
Read, and referred to the Committee on I
Institutions. l.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. a
Mr.. Hunsaker, from the Committee on !
submitted the following report, %
Il. Ray giving notice that he would sub g
IL, on Monday next, a minority report on
,e same subject: T.
a COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY ii
80 February "a, 1872. L
) the Honorable President and Members Of the W
Senate: d
A majority of your Committee on the G
have examined and Investigated fl
le matter of the payment by the State f
Dard of liquidation of the We'll certificates e.