New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-05
the SENATE YESTERDAY.
'ywenty-ffth Day'ssSessi0n.

SENATE CHAMEgXs
New Orleans. February 4, 1874.
The Senate met pursuant to adjournment,
and was called to order by Hon. G. G. An
tome, Lieutenant Governor Of the State
and President Of the Senate.
On call of the roll the following Senators
answered to their names:
Messrs. Anderson, Alexander. Blunt. BeS
den, Barber, .Bovee, Butler, Burch, Brew
ster, Cage, ChadbOurn, Crawford. Daigle,
Detiege, Glaudin, Harris. f. +. Herwig,
Harper, Ingraham, Masicot, Pollard, Rey.
Stamps, Twitchell, Weber, Whltney-26.
The President announced . quorum
present.
Prayer by the chaplain.
The reading of the journal of Eea.e.days
proceedings was dispensed with. aa; .he
iolEnal corrected and adopted.
MESSAGE FROM THE HoUss:.
HOUSE, OF RRPREsKYrArss
New Orleans, Fl bruary 4, 1874
10 the Honorable President aud Members of s.ls
Senate:
Pam directed by the House to notify the
Senate that they have concurred in Senate
district courts in the Twelfth Judicial Dis
trict of the State of Louisiana.
Respectfully,
JOHN W. ROXBOROUGH.
Assistant C!er&
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.
Mr.. Crawford introduced petition irons
James ii. Wingfield and wife, of Carroll
parish, asking for remission of taxes for
the years 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872 aud 1873.
Referred to the Committee on Finance.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Burch asked for further time to make
a report from the Committee on Peniteu-
tiary. Further time was granted to the
committee.
CoMMITTRK OF ENROLMENT AND ESGRossSR.ri
New Orleans, February /, 1874
To the Honorable President and Members of tn.
Senate
Your Committee on Enrolment and En-
grossmeDt beg leave to report as being duly
engrossed
Senate bill No pa. an act to 1,rotscs ne
sODs who can not read or wlite.1
Respectfully JaMEs II. 1NcRAuAn.
Chairmee
NOTICES OF BILLS.
BY Mr. shadbourn:
bill to be entitled an ace reduciee .hso
litAAit VI oSSiCSdtO VI lOI Tic VilJSI
New Orleans to two per cent, eSceptinS sos
the support of public schools.
BY Mr.. Belden:
Joint resolution to- purchase sa~ ssie IS
the Louisiana Courier. snl 90 :,:.,icsse .ss
the payment thereose
By Mr.. Bovee:
A bill relative to the paSmes. oe loea~&
taxes by incorporated cities aad sswlse
BY Mr.. Barber:
A bill to be entitled an act relative sueh@
registry of births, marriages and deaths;
prescribing certain duties of physicians.
midwives, nurses, priests, justices OF the
peace and other officials in relation thereto
and fixing the penalties for any failure so
comply with the provisions of this act ar.e
other laws upon the same subject.
Also, q bill to be entitled act to an extend
the limits of the city of New Orleans to in
clude the city of Carrolton and that portion
of the territory of the parish of Jefferson,
right bank of the Mississippi river, below
the limits of the parish of St. Charles. and to
to make all the necessary arrangements for
the same.
BY Mr.. Anderson:
An act to provide for conventional mort
cages on movable, their recordation,
rights of priority, and extinction, to pro-
vide penalties for any fraud in the crea-
ton thereof, to declare certain acts
and fixing punishment for
same, to provide for the recordation Of
cases and to limit the lessons liens
BY Mr.. Ingraham:
A bill to be entitled an act to amend and
re-enact sections fifteen and twenty-seven
Of an act of the General Assembly of the
State of Louisiana, entitled an act to
amend and re-enact an act entitled an act
TO establish a Metropolitan Police district,
and to provide for the government thereof,
September IA, 1868, approved
March 8, 1869, and to change the fiscal year
Of the Board of metropolitan Police, direct
Dg it to make estimates and apporton-
ments; providing for the election Of a fiscal
agent, and prescribing his duties prescrib-
ng the manner In which the tax for police
purposes shall be collected and paid, and
providing the manner in which Metropolitan
Police warrants shall be received for taxeso
md licenses by the corporations composing
he Metropolitan Police district; directing
low moneys shall be drawn from the fiscal
agent and paid out by the treasurer of the
board of police; authorizing the board of
police commissioners to negotiate loaps
when necessary, and to provide for theis
payments. Prescribing the manner in whies
heritfs Of the parishes of Orleans. Jefers
on ard st. Bernard shall receive Metrop0s
itan Police warrants for taxes, and fixinga
penalty for noncompliance Herewith; su-
horizing the board Of police commissioners