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

Oh House Olll NO. 0oo' duCnoA
izing Darius Hebert and Pauline Hebert,
his wife, of the parish of Caldwell, to adopt
Narcissus Gertrude Hebert, and constitute
her their heir, etc.
And that the Senate had cOncnrred in
House bill No. 29l, joint resolution ap-
pointing special committee OF the House
and Senate to prepare an address to the
Congress of the United States upon the
subject of the existing revolutionary crisis,
etc.
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.
By Mr.. Thompson:
Memorial of the Baton Rouge Board OF
Trade relative to Senate bill No. 300, TO be
entitled an act to authorize Peter h. Kemp
g. Sons to build railroad from Springfield
to Blood river, in Livingston parish.
Referred to Committee on Railroads.
By Mr.. Anderson:
Petition of the Superior of st. JOseph's.
Referred to the Committee on Charitable
Institutions.
By Mr.. Campbell
Petition of Mrs. k A. G. Patterson rela-
tive to lands.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Gallup, from the Committee on Rail
roads, reported favorably, with amend
ments, on Senate bill No. 800, to be entitled
an act to authorize Peter H. Kemp & Sons
to build railroad from Springfield to Blood
river, in Livingston parish.
Mr.. Hunsaker, from the Committee on Ju-
dietary, reported favOrably on Senate bill
No. 229, to be entitled an act to abolish cap
ital punishment in the State of Louisiana.
Without action
On House bill No. 81, to be entitled an act
for the relief of Bramstein & Bruder.
With request that it be printed
On Senate bill No. 265, to be entitled an
act providing how subscriptions may be
made by parishes, cities and municipal cor
pOrations to railroad, canal, plankroad,
bridge or other Incorporated company. for
work of internal improvement, and pro-
viding such subscriptions may be paid for
in bonds of the corporation subscribing,
and authorizing tax to pay such bonds
and interest, and how such tax shall be
levied and collected and disbursed, and
providing for the ratification Of such sub
scriptions, bonds and tax by vote, and
prescribing certain penalties for failure to
pay such bonds, and how the railroad OF
other company shall ratify the subscrip
tiOns, and providing what shall be used a.
eyidenca in certain cases
Ordered printed.
Also an original bill, Senate bill No. 80
to be entitled an act establishing the Seven
tenth and Nineteenth Judicial Dis
uicts, and providing the time Of hold
ing the courts in said districts anG
parishes, and the time for which the Judges
and district attorneys in said districts shall
hold their Offices.
Mr. McMillen, from the Committee or
Election and Registration, reported a cub
stitute for Senate bill No. 272, to be entitled
an act 10 amend and re-enact sections one
three, four, eleven, thirteen, fifteen, sixteen
nineteen, twcnty-One, twenty-five, twenty
six, twenty nine, thirty-three, thirty -four
thirty five, thirty six, thirty-eight and forty
two of an act entitled IAN act to provid.
registered voters of the State, the appoint
ment of the various officers necessary there
for, and to prescribe the duties, powers an(
compensation of the same; to prescribe Ger
tain duties for the sections of the cemeteries
of New Orleans; to prescribe the penalties
.<l,o oil &c 10 l., "a
for new registration in certain parishes
and wards approved March l6, 1870, ant
to repeal sections seventeen and forty on,
of said above entitled act
Ordered printed, and made the special or
der for Monday, February 5, at one o'clocl
z. NJ.
On motion of Mr.. Blackman, the minorit,
report Of the commute was also ordered
printed, when presented.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
The following bills were introduced
without previous notice, by unanimous con
sent:
By Mr.. Wilcox:
Senate bill No. 3Ol, to be entitled an ac
to incorporate the Baton Rouge and Stat,
Line Railroad Company.
Passed it's 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 Committee on Railroads.
BY Mr.. Anderson:
Senate bill No. 3O2, to be entitled an ac
relative to cOntinuances in the trial O.
criminal causes in the courts of this State
Passed its first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus
pended by four tifths affirmative vote, tn,
bill put on its second reading, and referred
to the Committee on Judiciary.
BY Mr.. Wilcox:
Senate bill No. 1903, to be entitled an ac
authorizing the parishes of East Bator
Rouge and East Feliciana to aid the con
struction of the Baton Rouge and State
Line Railroad
Passed its first reading.
The constitutional rule was then sus
pended by four-ffths affirmative vote, the
bill put on its second reading, and referred
to the Committee on Railroads.
BY Mr.. Ray:
Senate bill No. 304, to be entitled an &C,
approprating to Mrs. Ellen B. Dunn, widow