New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-26

I oAehoAy OUiOsOAA0 S'iAAohA hoAH~'os
Adam Oaths, Tony Pennison,
!. Charles Steward. Aaron James,
g Louis Chapman, Charles Armstrong,
| Edmond SOlur, S0sthene lawrence.
James Hudson, John Kentuok,
James Jackson, John Nelson,
, BAIL Randolph, Joshua johnson,
! George Green, Alfred jones'
James Davis, John Thompson,
Louis Celestin, Abram Farmer,
Jessie Wright, Basquin Antoine,
Etchen Brennan, Tom Houston,
George Hardy, Louis Rouge,
Theodore Watson. John Monroe.
Louis Gillon, Honore Drouet,
| Thomas Francois, Louis Antoine,
Anthony Casck.
The petition was ordered to be printed il
the journal and referred to the Commute
| on Corporations and Parochial Affairs.
Mr.. Anderson submitted the petition o
George II. Braughn, for services as a::sssg
ney assisting the Attorney General.
The petition was referred to the Cornmi.
tee en- Finance, with the recommendation t.
the committee to put the Sane in ...Le gen
eral appropriation bill.
REPORTS or CORxrrTERJ.
Mr.. Barber. chairman of the Committee
| on Unfinished Business. submitted tho fol
| lowing:
Substitute for Senate bill No. II. entitled
an act authorizing the police jury of thu
parish of Iberville to purchase the dyke
across Bayou Plaquemines. and to make
the same public highway, and to ISSUE
bonds in payment therefor. and recommend
its passage.
By unanimous consent the following was
taken up, on motion of Mr.. Wharton:
! Substitute for Senate bill No. II, an act
| authorizing the police jury of the parish OF
| Iberville to purchase tho dyke across
| Bayou Plaquemine, and to MAZE tie same
| a public highway. and to issue bonds IN
payment therefor.
The bill was read the second time. and
considered engrossed.
The constitutional rule WIS suspended
by a four-fifths vote, and the bill read the
third time. The bill finally passed. the title
to stand.
Mr.. Ingraham, chairman OF the Commit.
tee on Enrolment and Engrossment, sub.
mitted the following:
III
New Orleans, February p, ldTt. {
To the Honorable President and Lenders Of ths
Senate:
Your Committee on i-arollment and IN.
gressment beg leave 10 report as daily en-
crossed the fOlling bills:
Senate bill No. 1863. entitled an act Co
authorize the district Judges throu -hout the
State to order either before or after arrest
any person charged with committing
crime to any jail or prison within the State
for safety, when the Jail or prison of the
parish in which the crime was committed or
warrant of arrest issued is unsafe or unfit
for the security of prisoners.
Also, Senate bill No 343, entitled an act
reducing the limit or aggregate of taxation
for the city of New Orleans to one per cent.
except for the support of public schools
Also. Senate bill No. 419, entitled an act
providing for change of venue in cases
which may be punished by death, and
homicide cases; authorizing the grand Jury
in any parish to find indictments for sucs
offenses in any parish of the State; provid.
ing for the arrest of the persons charged
with such crimes, and for paying the ex.
penses of the prosecution thereof, and re.
pealing sections 1923, 1881, 1904 and 1905 OF
the Revised Statutes, and exempting the
Governor from issuing death warrants, and
directing the judges to issue such warrants.
Respectfully.
JAMES II. lNGRAHAM.
Chairman.
Mr.. Anderson, chairman of the Committee
on Judiciary. submitted the following:
CoMAIrrRR ON JUDICIARY,
New Orleans. February "a. 1874. !
To the Honorable President and Members Of the
Senate:
Senate bill No. 322. an act to extend the
time and renew the rights, privileges. fran.
n q m inn INIT IF thoT
Texas Canal Company. Favorably.
Senate bill No. 43O, an act to amend article
$50 of the Code of Practice, and to authorize
lntervenOrs to bond property seized under
attachments or representations. Favorably.
Senate bill Ne. 90, an act for the relief
Of sureties. Favorably.
Senate bill No. 432, an act authorizing the
private sale OF property of interdicted per.
7. c. ANDERSON. Chairman.
Mr.. Blunt. chairman Of the Committee
on Agriculture. Commerce and Manufac.
lures. submitted the following:
CokxlrrKE ON AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE. AND,
New Orleans. February "a. 1874. (
TO the Honorable President and Members of the |
Senate:
Your Committee Oh Agriculture, Com. |
MERGE and Manufactures beg leave to re. |
port that we have had under consideration |
Senate bill No. 4o5; Secretary will read
title.
Also. House Joint resolution No. iO5;
Secretary will read title. and recommend |
their passage.
Senate bill No. 43f, an act relative TO
weights and measures, we report back with (
as follows:
Section five, after the words ''enacted,
stc.," strike out all the remaining portion
If said section, and insert as follows: That
he Secretary of State shall certify to the
correctness of each set of weights and |
measures furnished, as is provided for in
his act, tor which certificate he shall be al
owed fee of 81 and no more"
As amended we recommend its passage,
Respectfully.
lMr. Sypher in the chair.
Mr.. Brewster, chairman of the Committee
N Education, submitted the following: !
CoNdIrrRB on BDucATroHs !
Eew Orleans, February "a, 1874. ( |
% the Honorable President and Members of the |
Senate: |
Your Committee on Education beg leave
o report to your honorable body that they
ave had under consideration the petition
rom citizens of Weet Baton Rouge and
rom the citizens of the city of Baton
.ouge, asking the General Assemble to
i've the whole Of the Agricultural and
College fund arising from the
grant Of 1862, to tho Lsuisi-