New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-10

| + lna0Ce OF W dyS anu MctuS, tHo NOAAhA!oO
| on Election and Registration, the COMMITTEE
on Claims and the Committee on Contingent
Expenses. The clerk Of this last committee
shall be entitled to eight dollars per day.
| That the Committee on ENDORSEMENT and
Enrolment of Bills in each house shall be
authorized to employ not exceeding eight
clerks for the Senate and twelve clerks for
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 Senatc
| 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 9. Be it further enacted, etc., That
| the sSergeant-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. TO- Be it further enacted, etc, That
the President of the Senate and the Speaker
of the House shall divide the committee
rooms in the building used as State House
between the two houses, and, when so dl
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. IL. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
the Committee on Contingent Expenses of
both houses of the General Assembly shall
keep regular set of books, crediting the
State with the amount of the per diem and
mileageOf members, per diem of employees
and the contingent fund set apart for their
respective 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 employee 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
required 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
find 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. L. Be it further enacted, etc., That
committees of either house who may be re-
quired to visit the public or charita BILE inst-
tutions of the State, or for any cause leave
the seat OF government, under the direction
Of the General Assembly, whether during
or after the close of the session, shall only
be allowed the rate of mileage allowed
herein to members going to the State House
and returning. therefrOm, which shall be
computed on the distance actually travelled,
as far as may be computed, as fixed in this
act, and shall be drawn in the same manner
as provided in this act for the pay of the
members: provided, that before any pay
ment is made or drawn for, the member
claiming the mileage under this section
shall make out an account specifying the
distance travelled, desi grating the points
between which the distances are estimated
and make oath at the foot thereof that he
actually, in person. traveIed the distance
charged for, and that the account is cor
rect, it being the intention hereof that con-
structive mileage is never to be paid for in
the case provided for in this section.
SEC. H. Be it further enacted, etc, That
there be, and is hereby appropriated, the
sum of one hundred and sixty thousand
dollars to pay the per diem and mileage of
the members of the General Assembly, and
the employees, and the contingent expenses
thereof, as defined by this act, for the ses-
sion commencing on the first Monday of
January. 1872, and for the extra session of
the Senate held on the sixth and seventh of
December. 1871, and that TO obtain the
money necessary for the purposes of this
act, the Governor of the State be and he is
hereby authorized to negotiate loan at
rate not higher than eight per cent per an
mum, and to this end to draw warrant on
the Auditor for the amount of this appro-
prdtion which shall have preference over
all other warrants on the general fund, and
he is authorized to pledge this warrant as
security for the loan aforesaid; and said
money, when borrowed. shall be deposited
in the treasury as fund sacred to the rpur-
poses of this act; provided, that the war
rants heretofore preferred by law shall be
paid before those issued under this act, and
that five thousand dollars Of this ap-
preparation be set apart for the contin-
gent expenses of the Senate. and ten
thousand dollars hereof for the contingent
excuses of the House of Representatives, to
be drawn for by the chairman of the Com
mittee on Contingent Expenses of the re-
spsctive houses, countersigned by the
President of the Senate and the Speaker of
the House, as the case may be- upon the
presentation to the chairman of the respec-
tive Committees on Contingent Expenses
of a specific bill of the items to be paid,
which warrants are TO be drawn on the Au-
ditOr of Public Accounts. and he shall war
rant on the State Treasury for the amount
in favor of the person entitled to the pay.
SEC. IA. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
all laws, or parts of laws, contrary to, or in
conflict with this act, be, and the same are
hereby repealed and that this act shall
take effect from and after its passage
MIR. Gallup moved to lay the substitute
on the table.
On call of the yeas and nays, the Senate
refused to order the substitute to lie on the
table by the following vote
Yeas-Gallup, Hunsaker, holland, Raglan,
Swords, Todd-6
Nays-Anderson, Antoine, Barber, Black
man, Butler, Campbell, COPELAND, Daigle,
Harris, Herwig, Ingraham, jerks, Lynch,
OHara, Ray, Smith. Sypher, Thomas,
Thompson, Twitchell, Wilcox-2l.
Mr.. Campbell in the chair
Mr.. Lynch then moved to adopt the sub
stitute, and called for the previous cues
ton.
Mr.. Hunsaker asked for the reading of the
substitute, and raised the point of order
that no bill can be passed until it be read.
The Chair decided the point of order not
applicable.
The main question was ordered on the
motion to adopt the substitute.
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