New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-17
Thirty.FOurth Days Session.

l am directed by the House to ask th
concurrence of yOnr honorable body
House bill No. 49, entitled an act regulatin
the fees of recorders.
Very respectfully, etc.
JOHN w. ROXBOROUGH,
Assistant Clerk
House or Representatives
New Orleans, February Is, 1875.
To the Honorable President and Members of th
Senate:
/ am directed by the House to ask tn
concurrence of your honorable body in tn
following House bill, viz:
House bill No. 81, an act to provide 70
the purchase of a State House, to max
appropriation therefor, to set apart tn
necessary funds, and to grant jurisdiction
for the enforcement of the acts of sale AM
mortgage.
Very respectfully, etc:
JOHN w. ROXBOROUGH,
Assistant Clerk.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr. Burch, chairman of the Committee
on Penitentiary, submitted the followin,
report
COMMITTEE ON PENIrENrIARY
New Orleans, February 10, 1875.
TO the Honorable President and Members of tn.
Senate:
Your Committee on PeDitentiary, t.
whom was referred bill No. 63, relative t.
I convicts working on the outside of the
! walls of the Penitentiary, having had the
same under consideration, respectfully beg
leave to report as follows:
The same subject was under considera-
ton by this committee during the session
of lS73-l874, and the law bearing on it thor.
oughly examined, in addition to which the
lessees of the Penitentiary were summoned
before this committee and their authority
to work the prisoners on the outside of the
walls of the Penitentiary inquired into.
Your committee would invite the attention
of the Senate to the proceedings of this
committee relative to this subject, contained
in the official proceedings of the Senate for
1873, page I4S.
Your committee having examined into
the merits of this bill, and the results of
its labors not proving entirely satisfactory,
would therefore, report back to the Senate
bill No. 63. and ask that it be referred to
the Committee on Judiciary, instructing
them to report to the Senate their opinion
as to what bearing. the provisions OF said
bill No. 63j will have on sections 1855,
2Sb2, and that portion of section 1886, Re
vlsed Statutes. included in a proviso, and
the lease now in the possession of the pres
ent lessees of the Penitentiary.
All OF which is respectfully submitted,
j. HENRI BURCH, Chairman;
GEORGE Y. kELSO,
WILLIAM HARPER,
f. l.. WEBER,
Il. Ii. CHADBOURN.
Mr.. Anderson, chairman of the Commit.
tee on Judiciary. submitted the following
report:
COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY.
New Orleans, February IL. 1875.
TO the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate:
Your Committee on judiciary beg to
l. l.:
entitled an act to punish persons who shall
be guilty of Gischarging firearms in any
city or town in this State.
Very respectfully submitted.
THOMAS C. ANDERSON, Chairman.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
Mr.. Kelso introduced the following:
A bill to be entitled an act to appropriate
++the sum of $3.50 for the payment of the
salary of Henry L. Daigre as parish Judge
of Rapides parish.
The bill was read the first time.
The constitutional rule was suspended by
o four-fifths vote, the bill was read the Sec
ond time and referred to the Committee on
Judiciary.
Mr.. Burch introduced bill to be entitled
an act to amend and re enact item twentieth |
Of section ten of act No. ia of the session |
of the General Assembly of 1874, entitled |
an act to amend and re enact an act grant. !
ing corporate privileges to the Inhabitants |
of the city of Baton Rouge, in the parish of |
East Baton Rouge, and to provide for the |
government of the affairs thereof, and to |
repeal an act entitled an act to amend the
several acts relative to the police and gov
ernment of the city of Baton Rouge, ap-
proved April ., 1853 and to repeal an act
% provide for the government of the city
If Baton Rouge, approved March 8, 1856,
md to repeal all acts amendatory thereto.
The bill was read the first time.
The constitutional rule was suspended by
. four tifths vote, the bill was read the Sec
md time and referred to the Committee on
Corporations and Parochlal Affairs.
Mr.. Wharton introduced q bill to be en-
tiled an act to repeal the act of March ),
S74, entitled an act authorizing the Gov
General, regulating his Office, defining his
uties and fixing his compensation, and au
horiziug certain officers to appear by attor-
eys selected by them.
The bill was read the first time.
The constitutional rule was suspended By
four-ffths vote, the bill was read the
ecoud time and referred to the Committee
n Judiciary.
Mr..Greene introduced bill to be entitled
n act to fix the price OF the public State
lnds; to authorize the Register of the State
and Office to sell the sixteenth or school
,ctons, and to provide a way for the set
ement by the State OF lands enormously
I'D
The bill was read the first time.
The constitutional rule was suspended by
four ffths VOTE the bill was read the sec ,
nd time and referred to the Committee on
ublc Education. {
RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED.
Mr. Burch introduced resolution author. :,
ing an inquiry into the management of the y
ouse of Refuge in the city of New Orleans S
,der section 1879 of the Revised Statutes:i
Lies over. Il
Mr.. Blackburn offered the following reso- | r,
ton:
The doctrine or political theory