New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-31

The Picayunc issued an extra last even
ing, from which we copy the following
New ORLEANS, March 30, 1875.
Hon. P. g. Deslonde, Secretary Of State:
SIR-We have carefully read act No. IL
purporting to b: general appropriation
bill. approved by the Governor on the
twenty-seventh instant and officially pro-
mulgated by you in the New Orleans Re-
PUBLICAN of to day purporting to be signed
by us in our respective official capacities.
We have carefully compared the published
bill with the one sent to your Office by the
Governor and find that it agrees with the
latter, but we avail ourselves Of this oppor-
tunity and manner to notify you that the
bill as deposited in your office is a gross,
unwarrantable and criminal act Of forgery,
and is not the act certified and signed by
us.
1t is true our signatures to the last page
are correct and genuine, but serious and
criminal changes have been made in the
other parts OF the bill. For instance, various
alterations are made in so much of the
original bill as remains. and ont Of the eev-
enteen pages which now make up the bill
pages two, four, Six, seven, eight. ten,
eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen
are entirely new, and have been thrust into
the bill. and substituted for others since we
certified the original bill.
We submit to you that this is too serious
a matter to be overlooked or submitted to:
and we therefore request you to revoke and
annul your prOmulgation of said act, and
we request you and through you the Attor.
ney General, to take steps to find out who
the guilty parties are, and have them
prosecuted with the utmost rigOr of the
law. Very respectfully, ETC..
c. c. ANTOINE,
Lieutenant Governor and President Of the
MICHAEL HAHN,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
We, the undersigned, hereby certify that
the original of the above letter, signed by
the Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of
the House of Representatives, was served
on Hon. p. G.. Deslonde, Secretary of State,
personally. on this thirtieth day of March,
1875, at $3.50 P. NJ.
WILLIAM VIGERS,
Chief Clerk Of House of Representatives
P. L. BECHTEL,
Secretary of the Senate.
w. L. RANDALL,
Acting Minute Clerk House Representatives.
w. w. WHARTON,
Chairman Senate Finance Committee.
The following shows the changes made in
the appropriations:
Secretary of Comm ission of Person (sal-
ary).. ........................... $2060
j. d. Maclin (fOr coal furnished State HOuse) 1000
Costs of court, etc, (when property is bid
IN Dy the State) 10000
for taxes). ................ .......... 10000
recorders (ands forfeited to State) ...... 10 GOO
The Centennial Exposition for steel plates) $50
Country assessors (c0mmissiOns) .......... 65 900
City assessors salary ........... 30O6
Boards of assessors Country. ............ Ii 900
City assessors contingent fundl .......... 1000
Mechanical College Support of ......... 10000
Keeper of State House at Baton Rouge (sal-
aIyj............ 900
Total .............. .......... ....s.. Is. $50
INCREASE.
Keeper of State House at New Orleans
(salary). ............. $500 90
assistant engineers (salary). .......... 4UOO 90
Adjut3nt General (salary) ).............. 1000 90
GeOrge Hite. te............................. 50
Newspapers (fOr repOrters). ........... 1900 90
Governor porter Salary ............... 800 Oa
AUDITORS chief clerk (salary). .......... 5000 90
Total. S IL 400 so