New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-18
SENATE.
FOrfy.fifih Days Sesston-MOrning.


New Orleans, Thursday March 5, 1874.
The Senate met pursuant to adjournment
and was called to order by Hon. c. e. 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, Barber
BeldeD, Blackburn, Blunt, Bovee, Burch
Cage, Chadbourn, Crawford, Detiege
Daigle, Greene, Glaudin, Harris, f. +. Her
wig, Harper, Ingraham, Kelso, Mascot
Pollard, Rey, Sypher, Stamps, Thomas,
Weber, Wharton, Whitney-29
The President announced quorum
present.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
The reading of the Journal of yesterdays
proceedings was dispensed with, and the
journal corrected and adopted.
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
New Orleans, March S. 1874
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate:
/ am directed by the House of Repre-
septatives to inform your honorable body
that the House has cOncurred in the follow
ing Senate bills, viz:
senate Dill NO. 0l~, tulltlcu III dCt OK
natOry of the fifteenth paragraph OF the first
section of act No. IA, approved March 5,
1879.
Senate bill No. 400, entitled an act max
ing claims of each year payable only from
the revenues Of that year.
Senate bill No. 467, entitled an act to
amend and re-enact sections one aud two Of
net No. 10 Of 1873, entitled an act to amend
sections seven, eight and seventy of an act
f1ad ON oot N rQUnIafp the cnn0ncf and
maintain the freedom and purity Of cleo
tions, etc.
Also, asks concurrence in the following
House bills, viz:
House bill No. 1874, entitled an act to pro-
hibit the payment of claims of persons who
are indebted to the State.
Also, House bill No. $40, entitled an act
relative to the appointment and qualifca-
tons of curatOrs of vacant SUGGESTIONS.
Also, House bill No. 4l6, entitled an act
to authorize writs of attachment in actions
arising from offenses or quasi 0fienses.
Also. House bill No. 429, entitled the
general appropriation bill
Also, House bill No. 239, entitled an act
to insure equitable assessment on property,
real and personal, in the State of Louisiana,
BY admitting testimony as to its actual
market value in suits to enforce the col
lection of taxes.
Also. House bill No. 164. entitled an act
to amend article l24 of the Code of Prac-
tice.
Also, House bill No. 1874, entitled an act
to amend and re-enact article S79 of the
Code OF Practice.
Also, House bill No. &c, entitled an act
repeating section 1857, part of ectiOn 1878,
and aection 1874 of the Revised Statutes of
1870.
Also, House bill No. 3Ss, entitled an act
to exempt certain property from seizure by
landlords for rent.
Also, House bill No. 26O, entitled an act
to fix the terms of court Of the Fifth Judi
cial District.
Also, House bill No 249, entitled an act
for the restoration to citizenship of L. D. |
Wightman.
Also, House bill No. l3l, entitled an act to |
authorize the police jury Of the parish of |
Rapides to issue bonds for certain purposes. |
Also, House bill No. 279, entitled an act |
relative to appeals to the Supreme Court |
from the parish of Avoyelles.
Also, substitute for House bill No. 3, en-
titled House bill No. 234, entitled an act to
provide homestead and to exempt certain |
property from seizure and sale; to regulate |
the same, and to provide a homestead for
widows and children in necessitous circum-
stances, and to repeal all laws or parts of
laws in conflict with this act.
Also, House bill No. 29l, entitled an act to
~ " AuO Aoi supplying tHC iooo VI puuiiC IcC- |
Ords and other papers consumed by the burn.
ing of the courthouse in the parish of Grant
on the thirteenth day of April, 1873.
Also. House bill No $50, entitled an act to
establish ferry across the Mermentau
river, between the parishes of ST. Landry
and Calcasieu.
House bill No. 3Ol, entitled an act to pro-
vide for abolishing town or city boards of
school directors within parishes where the |
same may not be necessary to limit the
ices OF tax collectors on all school moneys
TO five per cent; to restrict and regulate
parish and other local school treasurers; to |
provide for text books; to restrict further
of schoolable children and
regulate the apportiOnment of school funds,
and to provide for the recovery of lands
and other assets claimed for educational
purposes.
House bill No. 2SS, entitled an act author ,
zing the police juries of the several par
shes in this State to pass laws and regula- | ,
ions for the employment of persons SEN
enced to imprisonment in the parish Jail or
he public works of their respective par !.
shes.
House bill No. OF, entitled an act to give
abOrers and mechanics a privileged lien | ,
lpon the mOvables and immovables on
which they may have been employed, and
or other purposes. c
House bill No. 81, entitled substitute for -,
louise bill No. 257, an act to authorize and
nforce the receipt by the city of New Or
sans Of certain obligations of said city in 1
ayment Of back taxes. 6
House bill No. 347, entitled an act punish
lg the unlawful interference by any person g
: officer with the property of another. '
House bill No. 36O. entitled an act impos-
lg license taxes upon persons engaged in
uying and selling seed cotton, and on per-
ms vending drugs in connection with other P
nsiness Respectfully. o
WILLIAM VIGERS,
Chief Clerk.
The item rent of Public Buildings, was i,
ken up. 81