New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-07
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
No. 30.
AN ACT

AN ACT
Making an appropriation Tor the payment
of the mileage, per diem and contingent
EXPENSES of the General Assembly of the
State of Louisiana for the extra session of
1872 and regular sessions Of 1873 and 1874;
describing the manner in which the same
shall be paid.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of Louisiana, in General Assembly con-
yened That the sum Of ninety thousand
dollars, or SO much thereof as may be neces-
sary, be and the same is hereby appro-
priated out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated for the payment
of the mileage, per diem and contingent ex-
pepses of the General Assembly during the
regular session of 1874, including salaries OF
officers and employees; also, per diem ana
mileage of members that have not received
their nav for the extra session OF lsI2 ana
regular session of 1873, said sum to be ap-
propriated as follows, to wit: To pay mile
ace and per diem of MEMBERS officers and
EMPLOYEES and contingent expenses OF the
House of Representatives, sixty-five thou
sand dollars; to pay mileage and per diem
of members officers and employees and con-
tingent expenses of the Senate, twenty-five
Thousand dollars.
SEC . Be it further enacted. ETC., That
it shall be the duty of the Committee on
Auditing and Supervising the Expenses OF
the Senate and the Committee on Con-
tingent Expenses of the House to issue,
when demanded, and upon presentation OF
the proper evidence, a certificate certifying
the amount due each member OF their
respective houses, for his mileage and per
diem, and to each of the officers and EN-
ployes of their respective houses his salary,
and to each contingent expense creditor the
amount due to said creditor, which certiti-
cate, thus issued, shall be approved on the
part of the Senate by the presiding officer,
and on the part of the House of Repre-
sentatives by the Speaker thereof, and the
Auditor of Public Accounts shall and he
is hereby directed to issue his warrants tor
the amount of said certificates on the Treas.
urer, and the Treasurer is hereby directed
to pay the said warrants, and the Com
mittee on Contingent Expenses of the
House and the Committee on Auditing and
Supervising Accounts of the Senate shall
issue no certificate in excess of the amount
appropriated by this act; and that no war
rants. vouchers or other evidence of in
debedness issued prior to January l, 1874,
shall be paid out of the appropriation made
in this act, excepting the back pay of men,
bers of the present General Assembly who
have not received their pay.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted. etc, That
all acts or parts Of acts in conflict with the
provisions of this act be and the same are
hereby repealed, and that this act take
effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
(Signed) CHARLES w. LOWELL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives..
tSigned) G. C. ANTOINE,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved February %, 1874.
(Signed) WILLIAM p. KELLOGG,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
p. G. DEsLONDE,
Secretary of State.