New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-20
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
fifteenth Days Proceedings,

Thirteenth Days PROCEEDINGS.
| HousE REPRESENTATIVES
| New Orleans, January 10. 1875,
The House met pursuant to adjournment
Speaker Hahn in the chair.
The roll was called and the following
members answered to their names:
Speaker Hahn and Messrs. Armsteah
Butler, Baker, Carville. Crawford. Con
Dewees,' DeLacey, Dickinson, Demas
Guiohard. Gracien, Hill, of Ascension, Hill
| of Ouachita, Hubeau, Honore, Hunsaker,
Jourdain, johnson. Of Caddo, johnson, OF
De Soto, Jones, of P0inte COupee, Heating,
Lane, Lowell, Levisse, Mathews, OF Tensas,
Murrell, Milon. Marie, Parker, Pierson,
Poindexter, Piles, Randall, Ridgely, Ray,
Raby, Stewart, Sutton, Southland, Snaer,
Sartain, Scuer, Tyler, Triplet, Thomas,
Wilson, Woods, Ward. Wright, Yorke-55.
Fifty-fve members present and quorum.
Prayer by the chaplain.
The journal was corrected SO as to read
that Mr. Jones, Of Pointe Coupee, was
appointed On the Committee on Corpora.
tiOns, and to strike out the name Of +.
Marie, of Terrebonne, and insert that Of
Mr.. Lane, of East Baton Rouge, as a mem
Der of the Committee On Penitentiary.
The journal as corrected was then ap.
proved.
NOTICES OF BILLS
Notices were given that at some future
day the following entitled bills would be
introduced:
BY Mr.. Pierson, of Natchitoches:
An act prescribing the payment of GER
tifioates Of indebtedness issued by the board
tiary.
BY Mr.. Leyisse, OF Caddo:
An act for the relief of l.. w. Baker,
parish judge of Bossier parish.
BY Mr.. johnson, OF De Soto:
An act for the protection Of life AID
for all parish and State officers.
Also. an act providing for the organiza-
ton and arming of a militia throughout the
State.
Mr. Mathews, Of Tensas. gave notice that
he would tomorrow introduce amendments
to the rules Of the House.
The following. House bill No. II, intro
duced yesterday by Mr. Mathews, of
Tensas, was ordered to be printed in the
journal:
An act fixing the compensation of tax col
lectors in the parish of Orleans.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House Of Representatives of the State |
Of Louisiana in General Assembly convened, |
That tax collectors of the parish OF Orleans |
shall receive the following compensation On /
the amount of licenses collected by them /
and paid into the treasury, viz:
The collectors Of the First and Second |
Districts. five per cent
The collectors of the Third and Fourth /
Districts. seven and one-half per cent.
The collectors of the Fifth aud Sixth Dis
-rlcts, ten per cent on the amount of licenses
collected by item and paid into the State
SEC. =: BE it further enacted, ETC., That
AK collectors for the parish of Orleans
snail receive the following commissions on |
current taxes collected BY them and Maid
INTO the State treasury: A collector ofkAe
First District, one and one-half per cent.
he collector Of the Second District two per,
sent; the collectors of the Third and Fourth
Districts, five per cent; the collectors of the
fifth and Sixth Districts, eight DER cent
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted. etc. That
III laws or parts of laws, in conflict with !
his act, be and the same are hereby re- |
ealed that this act shall take effect from |
nd after lite passage.
The following resolution. were presented
nd lie over under the rules:
BY Mr.. Heating, of Caddo:
Resolred, That no committee clerk or en-. |
loye Of the House of Representatives be |
lowed pay unless regularly appointed. and |