New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-28
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and fifty eight thousand dollars out OF
| the general funds in the State treasury,
| or received in the treasury during the
year 1875, for the payment of the mileage
and per diem of members, salaries of
officers and employees and contingent ex-
penses OF the General Assembly of
Louisiana, for the regular session OF 1875:
directing the Auditor of Public Accounts
to issue warrants to the chairman of the
Contingent Expenses Committee of the
House, and to the chairman of the Com
mittee on Auditing and Supervising the
Accounts OF the Senate on the Treasurer,
and making such warrants receivable for
Safe licenses; directing the Treasurer of
the State to receive such warrants in set
Element with tax collectors, and to pro-
vide for the disbursement of the amount
appropriated.
SECTION !. BE it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
OF Louisiana in General Assembly con-
vened, That the sum of one hundred
and tifty-eight thousand dollars, or as
much thereof as may bo necessary
be and is hereby appropriated out of any
money in the treasury to the credit of the
general fund, or that may be received in
the treasury to the credit of the general
fund, not otherwise appropriated, for the
payment of the mileage and per diem of
members, salaries of officers and en-
ployes and contingent expenses OF the Gen
eral Assembly, during its regular session
or 1879, said sum to be appropriated as
follows, to wit: To pay mileage aud per
diem of members. salaries OF officers and
employees of the House OF epresentatives.
seventy two thousand dol,a-s. 20 nav con-
tngent expenses OF the House OF Repre-
seutatives. including furniture. etc. ior the
use of the House OF Eepceser tatives,
twenty eight thousand dollars. To paw
mileage and per diem Of members salaries
of officers and employees of the Senate,
thirty-nine thousand dollars; to pay con.
tingent expenses OF tho Senate, including
furniture. etc, for the use OF the Senate.
nineteen 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 State, and the Committee on Contin
gent Expenses of the House of Represent
atives to issue, when demanded and upon
presentation of the proper evidence, GER
titicate certifying the amount due to each
member Of their respective houses for his
mileage and per diem: and to each of the
officers and employees of their respective
houses his salary, which certificate thus
issued shall be approved on the part of the
Senate by its presiding officer, and on the
part of the House of Representatives by
the Speaker thereof and the Auditor of
Public Accounts shall and is hereby direct
ed and required to issue his warrants for
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 Senate shall issue
no certificate in excess of the amount APP
propriatad by this act, and that no war
rants, legislative vouchers or other evil
dences of Indebtedness issued prior TO
January |. 1873, shall be paid ont CT the
appropriation made in this act.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, etc, That
the chairman Of the Committee on Contin.
gent Expenses of the House, and the chair
man of the Committee on Auditing and Su-
pervisng Accounts Of the Senate shall
draw a certificate in their own favor, ap-
proved by the presiding officers of each
House, on the Auditor Of Public Accounts,
for the amount of the appropriation made
in section one of this act for contingent ex-
pensea. and the Auditor shall issue his
warrants in such sums as the respective
shall indicate, and the chairmen
OF said committees shall issue a certificate
to each contingent creditor, which shall be
approved by the presiding officers Of the
Senate and House, and the said chairmen
will then pay such certificate out Of the
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further enacted, that the warrants issued in
accordance with section two of this act are
hereby made receivable for all licenses due
the State during the year 1919, and the sew
erai tax collectors throughout the State are
hereby directed to receive the same 10 set
Element for licenses, and the State Treaau-
rer shall receive the said warrants as cash
in making settlement with tax collectors.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, etc, That
the certificates issued by the chairman OF
The Committee on Contingent Expenses Of
the House. approved by the Speaker OF the
House, and the certificates issued by the |
Committee on Auditing and Supervising |
the Accounts of the Senate, approved by |
the presiding officer of the Senate, in ac-
cordance with section two of this act shall !
be considered by the Auditor of Public |
Accounts of the State as full and final evil |
tence OF legal debt against the State, and |
the Auditor shall, upon presentation Of |
such certificate, Immediately issue a war |
'anJ on the Treasurer Of the State for the |
amount OF the certificate or certificates so |
presented, the warrants TO be drawn on |
he funds appropriated in section one of this |
sct.
SEC. j. Be it further enacted etc, That |
1t the next session of the General Assembly |
he Auditor of Public Accounts shall pre-
,ent to the said General Assembly |
ltem!zed account CT every warrant |
ssued By him for the mileage and per diem |
md salary OF the officers of the present |
General Assembly, and the Committee on |
Auditing and Supervising the Accounts of |
he Senate, and the Committee on Centin. |
rent Expenses Of the House ehall. at the |
lext session Of the General Assembly, pre-