New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-21

warrants drawn BY tho said Clinton, q
Auditor ct Public. Accounts, ON the Stat.
Treasurer, Nos. 1858, 2345, 1886, 24l4, 2444
each of the above named officers and NOM
bers of the said Board of Liquidation vel
knowing 1T the time that the said warrant
were issued for and represented ffaudulen
elaine against the said State, and that tn
same were not fundable under the provi
sioDs of the said act.
The above charge of misdemeanor in OHIO!
involves several other members of the Fund
ing Board, in addition to the Hon. Charles
w. Lowell, q member of this House, an(
relates to q transaction which occurred be
fore he became member of the presen
House Of Representatives.
| Your committee therefore ask leave Il
refer the case Of the Hon. Charles w
Lowell back to the Houee, with the recon
mendation that it be referred, with all Other
eaid Funding Board, or commissioners OF
| liquidation, to . special committee of inves
| tigatiOn aed inquiry, for which purpose We
| offer the following resolutions:
ResolUed, That committee of five mem
hers be appointed by the Speaker of the
House of Representatives to investigate and
| inquire into charges made in an information
filed in the Superior Criminal Court tor the
parish of Orleans by the Hon. A. P. Field,
Attorney General, on the twenty fourth day
| Of July, 1875, against Charles Clinton, An.
tome Dubuclet, P. George Deslonde and
Charles w. Lowell, acting as members Of
the Board of Liquidation, or Funding Board,
constituted by act No. 3, approved January
"a, 1874, entitled an act to provide for fund
ing the obligations of the State by exchange
for bonds, etc., such charges beng OF
misdemeanor in Office by them committed.
Also, to investigate and inquire into the
tro N 40 otinno of tho aoid Roo r1 Of I.inui0a
ton generally, and to ascertain wherein,
to what extent and in what particulars the
same have been illegal, unauthorized or
fraudulent, and that such committee shall
have full power to sit at such times and in
such places as they may deem proper, and
to send for persons and papers, with COM
pulsOry process of this House, and to re-
port after due proceedings, recommending
such action 40 they may consider sppropri-
said board, or any member or members
thereof.
Respectfully submitted.
LOUIS A. WILT. Chairman.
New Orleans, January II, 1876.
BILL INTRODUCED AND REFERRED.
Mr.. Estilette, without previous notice
and with q suspension of the rules first
granted, asked and obtained leave to intro
d uce bill entitled an act to fix the sala
ries of State tax collectors in oil the par
ishes except the parish of Orleans.
Which underwent its first and second
readings by its title, and was ordered to be
referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY.
This being the day set apart for the con-
81 derstion of House bill entitled an act
re gulating the FORMULATION of the &c neral
laws Of Louisiana, and of all other acts of
the General Assembly, the same was taken
up.
Section one, which reads as follows, was
considered:
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives Of the State
Of Louisiana in General Assembly con-
vened, That whenever the Legislature of
the State shall enact any law Of private
such ao the granting of charters to
CO. pOratiOns and societies, acts OF relief for
societies or associations, chang
ing names OF persons, emancipatlng minors,
the adoption of children, such
laws shall be promulgated only ct the ex-
pc nse of the parties interested, and such
shall be and are hereby declared inOper-
alive until promulgated by publication in
the official journal Of the State, and the
Secretary of State ehall not publish any
such law until he shall have received from
the parties interested therein the amount
Of the cost of the official journal and the
statute book at the same rates paid the
State Printer for official publications and
printing, and it shall be the duty Of the
Secretary Of State to pay over forthwith all
accounts received by him 10 the State
Treasurer. who shall place the same TO the
credit Of the State printing fund.
Mr.. Billieu moved to strike out from the
line of the section the words, 'eman
,ipating minors and authorizing the adop
ion of Children" which amendment was
Ost
nth line, between the words minors" and
authorizing" the word ''or," pending the
of which, on motion OF Mr..
Meredith, the further consideration Of the
Dill and proposed amendment we're post
ooned. And it WAS ordered to be referred
% the Committee on Judiciary.
This being also the day set apart for the
of House bill entitled an act
relative to the public printing, and the pub
ication of the ordinances, advertisements
md proceedings of the corporation of the
,ity of New Orleans, the same was taken up
and considered section by section.
The first section was read and adopted.
The second section, which reads as fol-
ows, was considered:
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
1t the first meeting of the City Council
after the PRONUNCIATION of this act, the
Mayor shall give notice that sealed Propo-
contract for publishing the proceedings, Or
and all notices and advertise
ments appertaining to the city government,
BY one OF the daily Journals, to be published
in the English language only, in the city OF
New Orleans; that sealed proposals will
also be received for the contract Of printing
and furnishing all the blanks. books and
and for executing all such other
Job printing as may be required by the sew
srsl departments of the city administration.
On motion of Mr.. Byrne the second Sec
ton was amended by inserting in the fifth
line, after the word 'give," the words eff
teen days."
Mr.. Hahn moved to amend the second
ection by striking out in the eleventh,
twelfth and thirteenth lines the words Ito
be published in the English language only"
snd upon that motion he called for the yeas
and nays, which were ordered and resulted
Dc follows, to wit:
Yeas-Aldige, Armstesd, Booth, Byrne,
Bayley, Bower, Beasley, Billieu, Brice,
Collins, Carmouche, Carloss, Dupre, Dugas,
Davidson. DelhOmmer, Dunn, Edwards OF
Grant. Gilmore, Hall, Hammond, Jeffries,
johnson of Lafourche, Jones of Lincoln,
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