New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-11


not exceeding eight pages for the House
who shall receive three dollars for each day
during the session from the time of theil
appointment.
SEC. s. Be it further enacted, etc., Tha
the following standing committees of eac1
house may. with the authorization of the re
speetlve houses, appoint each clerk, wht
shall receive seven dollars per day, except
as hereinafter provided, from the date Of
tner appointment until the end of the SEES
sion, II not sooner discharged, to wit the
Committee on judiciary, the Committee on
Finance or Ways and Means, the Committee
on Election and Registration, the Committee
on Claims and the Committee on Contingen,
Expenses. The clerk of this last committee
shall be entitled to eight dollars per day
That the Committee on EngrOssment and
Enrolment OF Bills in each house shall be
authorized. to employ not exceeding eight
clerks for the Senate and twelve clerks fol-
the House; and if any other committee
whether standing or special, than the ones
above specified should need clerks at any
time, it shall be the duty of the chairman Of
the Committee on Engrossment and Enroll
ment, upon the order of the Senate
or House, as the case may be, to
assign one of their clerks to perform
such duty or service, to the end that there
shall be no greater number of clerks of
committees, in the employ of either house,
than! is hereinafter specified. Such clerks
shall be entitled to seven dollars per day
from the time they are employed until ten
days after the close of the session, unless
the business of the committee is sooner
closed, then for the time they are already
employed
SEC .. Be 1t further enacted, ETC., That
the Sergeant-at-Arms of each house shall
be authorized to employ not exceeding
three pOrters for the Senate, and five for
the House, to make fires, supply water,
clean up the halls, and do such other work
as may be necessary, at wages not to ex-
coed three dollars per day.
SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, ETC.. That
the President of the Senate and the Speaker
OF the House shall divide the committee
between the two houses, and, when so di-
vided, the President Of the Senate and the
Speaker of the House, respectively, shall
assign the standing committees who are en-
titled to clerks, to their rooms, and also
assign to other committees the other rooms;
and may, if in their judgment it is expe-
dent, assign several committees to one
room, and that there shall be no committee
rooms rented outside of the State House.
SEC. ii. Be it further enacted. etc., That
the Committee on Contingent Expenses of
JUN hcucCS VI tuC OCucIdl ASStIuDlv Shall
keep a regular set of books, crediting the
State with the amount of the per diem and
mileage of members, per diem of employees
and the contingent fund set apart for their
houses, and debiting the State
with payments made on any of the above
amounts daily, SO as to have the account
made up at the end of each business day of
the session; and shall also open an account
with each member and emplOye and contin-
gent expense account, charging the amount
due them and crediting them with payments
made, as they are made. The chairman of
the Committee on Contingent Expenses
shall. upon the production of the certificate
by this act, draw his warrant on
the Auditor of Public Accounts for the
amount due the member or employee, which
warrant shall be cOuntersigned by the pre-
siding officer OF the respective houses, if he
ind the same correct; and the Auditor of
Public Accounts shall warrant on the State
Treasurer for the amount to be paid out of
the funds provided therefor.
SEC. II. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
committees of either house who may be re-
luired to visit the public or charitable insti-
buttons Of the State, or for any cause leave
the seat of government, under the direction
Of the General Assembly, whether during
Dr. after the close of the session, shall only
De allowed the rate of mileage allowed
herein to members going to the State House
and returning therefrom, which shall be
on the distance actually travelled,
rs far as may be computed, as fixed in this
act, and shall be drawn in the same manner
Is provided in this act for the pay of the
members; provided, that before any pay
nent is made or drawn for, the member
claiming the mileage under this section
shall make out an account specifying the
distance travelled, designating the points
between which the distances are estimated,
md make oath at the foot thereof that he
actually, in person. Travelled the distance
harged for, and that the account is cor
ect, it being the intention hereof that con-
tructive mileage is never to be paid for in
he case provided for in this section.
SEC. II. Be it further enacted, etc, That
here be. and is hereby appropriated, the
UNI of one hundred and sixty thousand
dollars to pay the per diem and mileage of
he members of the General Assembly, and
he employees, and the contingent expenses
hereof, as defined by this act, for the SEES
ion commencing on the first Monday of
anuary. 1872, and for the extra session of
he Senate held on the sixth and seventh of
December. 1871, and that to obtain the
honey necessary for the purposes of this |
ct. the Governor of the State be and he is
ereby authorized to negotiate loan at a |
ate not higher than eight per cent per an
um, and to this end to draw warrant on |
ne Auditor for the amount of this appro- |
Ration. which shall have preference over |
IL other warrants on the general fund, and |
e is authorized to pledge this warrant as |
ecurlty for the loan aforesaid; and said |
honey, when borrowed, shall be deposited |
/ the treasury as a fund sacred to the fpur-
oses OF this act; provided, that the war
ants heretofore preferred by law shall be
aid before those issued under this act, and |
nat five thousand dollars of this ap-
ropriati0n be set apart for the contin-
ent expenses of the Senate, and ten
lousand dollars hereof for the contingent
Senses of the House of Representatives, to
g drawn for by the chairman of the Com
ittee on Contingent Expenses Of the re-
,ectlve houses, cOuntersigned by the
resident of the Senate and the Speaker of
le House, as the case may be, upon the
resentation to the chairman of the respec-
We Committees on Contingent Expenses
a specific bill of the items to be paid,
hich warrants are to be drawn on the Au-
tor OF Public Accounts, and he shall war
mt on the State Treasury for the amount
favor of the person entitled to the pay.
SEC. IA. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
! laws, or parts of laws, contrary to, or in
nfict with this act. be, and the same are
,reby repealed, and that this act shall
Ike effect from and after its passage.
Mr.. Gallup moved to lay the amendments
the table.
On call of the yeas and nays, the Senate
fused to order the amendments to lie on
e table by the following vote
Yeas-Gallup, Hunsaker, holland, Raglan,
words, Todd-6.
Antoine, Barber, Black
an, Butler, Campbell, COPELAND, Daigle,
arris, Herwig, Ingraham, jerks, Lynch,
Hara, Ray, Smith. Sypher, Thomas,
lompson, Twitchell, Wilcox-2l.
[Mr. Campbell in the chair
Mr.. Lynch then moved to adopt the