New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-19

nard, House bill No. 1903, an act to amenl
No. l0l of 1870, entitled an act to defin'
and regulate the cost of the clerks, sheriffs
recorders and notaries public throughout thu
State of Louisiana, and providing forfeiture
and penalties for overcharging or failing Il
perform their duties and the mode OF col
lecting their fees, was referred to thu
Committee on Retrenchment and Reform.
By consent, Mr. Guchard, of st. Bernard
called up House bill No. 81, an act to pro
vide salary for the criminal sheriff of the
parish of Orleans, and for the clerk of the
First District Court and the clerk of the Su
perior Criminal Court Of said parish, and
to auth orize said sheriff and clerks to en-
pIoy deputies at public expense, and pro-
viding for the payment thereof, and fixing
the rate OF compensation for feeding pris
oners.
Mr. Drury offered the following amend
ment:
In line three of section three Of printed
bill, strike out the words thirty cents" and
insert twenty cents"
Adopted.
The section as amended was adopted.
The bill was considered as engressed.
The constitutional rule being suspended,
the bill was placed on its third reading and
final passage, it's title WAS adopted, and IT
was ordered to be sent to the Senate for
concurrence.
Mr.. Demas, of St. John, moved to recon.
slider the vote whereby tho bill was finally
passed, and also moved to lay the motion
to reconsider on the table.
Carried.
Under suspension of the rules Mr..
Mathews, OF Tensss, called up House bill
No. II, an act fixing the compensation Of
tax collectors in the parish Of Orleans.
Mr.. Drury, of Assumption, moved to
amend so as to make the compensation Of
tax collectors in the First and Second Dis
tricts to be three per centum instead of five
per cen tum.
Carried
Mr.. Martinez, of St. Martin, moved to
of tax collectors in the Third and Fourth
Districts FIVE per centum in lieu Of seven
and one-half per centum.
Carried.
The section as amended was adopted.l
The bill was considered as engrossed.
Under a suspension Of the cOnstitut iOnal
rules the bill was placed on its third read
ing and final passage, its title was adopted,
and it was ordered to be sent to the Senate
for concurrence.
Mr. Devices of Red River, moved for a
reconsideration of the vote on the final
passage of the bill, and also moved to lay
the 10 Otion to reconsider on the table.
Carried.
BY consent, Mr.. Murrell, of Madison,
called up House bill No. 81, an act pre-
scribing the mode Of appointment to, and
determining the mode of filing vacancies
in, and providing for the suspension and
removal from Offices created by law or
establis he'd by the constitution of this State
except in such cases as in the said constitu-
ton are otherwise provided for; fixing the
term ut which all Offices created by law
shall expire; prescribing and defining the
duty OF the Governor, Secretary Of State
and Secretary of the Senate in relation
thereto, and providing for nomination and
election by the Senate in certain cases.
On motion OF Mr. Drury, of Assumption,
its special consideration was fixed for Sat
urday, twentieth instant, Immediately after
the reading of the journal.
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE.
The following message was received:
SENATE CHAsBKR,
New Orleans. February 49, 1878.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House of Representatives;
i am directed by the Senate to ask the
of your honorable body in the
of Senate bill No Is, relative to
fees and emoluments of the Auditor of
Public Accounts. Also, the Senate concurs
in the passage of the following: House bill
No. 81, relative to tho Tenth Judicial Dis
trict.
Respectfully,
J. A. GREENE,
Assistant Secretary.
Under a suspension of the rules, Senate |
bill No. Is was taken up for consideration.
Read first time.
Mr.. Martinez, Of st. Martin, moved to |
suspend the constitutional rules, to put |
The bill. on its second reading, on which the |
yeas and nays we're ordered, resulting as |
follows, viz:
Yeas-Speaker Hahn, Butler, Carvill e,
Drury. Davidson, Devices, DeLacey, Gni !
,hard, Gracien. Hubeau. Hunsaker Levisee,
Murrell. Milon, Marie Person, Poindexter, |
Randall. Richards, Ridgely, Raby, Sutton, |
,ouer, Wrignt-M
Nays-Armstead. Crawford, Connaugh-
on, Cousin. Dickinson, Demas,. Hill of |
Ascension, Hill of Ouachita, Hunore, Jour
lam. Jones of Pointe Coupee, Heating, Lane.
Mathews of Tensas, Parker, Ray, Stewart,
sonthard. Sartain, Tyler, Triplet, Thomas,
No quorum voting,
Mr.. Mathews, Of Tensas, moved to ad.
ourn until tomorrow at I2 NJ, on which
notion the yeas and nays were ordered,
With the following result, viz:
Yeas-Armsread. Butler, Carville. Craw.
ord, Cousin. Devices. DeLacey, Dickinson,
;uchard, Gracien, Hill of Ascension, Hill
f Ouachira, Hubeau, HOnOre, johnson of
,addo, johnson OF DeSoto, Jones of Pointe
'oupee, Kesting, Lane, Leviiee, Mathews
Tensas, Murrell, Marie, Pierson, Pom
exter, Randall, Ridgely, Raby. Stewart.
outhard, Ssrtain. Tyler. Triplet, Thomas,
wilson, Wright-36.
Davidson, Demas,
lloyd, Huusaker, Jourdain, Milon, Parker,
.ay-9.
Carried.
And the House was accordingly ad
burned.
WILLIAM VIGERS,
Chief Clerk.
SHERIFFS SALES.