New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-09


On motion of Mr. Kidd
Resolred. That the Speaker of the House
be requested to appoint select committee
Of seven to examine the report Of the State
Registrar of Voters, purpOrting to be the
census of 1875, and to report whom practi-
cable, and that said committee shall have
power to send for persona and papers.
NOTICES OF BILLS.
The hereinafter named members respect
lively gave notice that at some future day
they would ask leave to introduce the fol-
lowing entitled bills:
Mr.. Murrell:
An act to incorporate the Tallulah and
St. Joseph Railroad Company.
Mr.. Snaer:
An act for the relief of the estate of O..
Delahoussaye.
Mr.. Sartain:
An act to regulate the assessment of prop
| taxation.
Mr.. Booth:
An act to incorporate the Factors Ware
house Bank; to provide for its management,
and the mode of securing pledges of pro-
duce and merchandise on warehouse receipts
and actual pledges.
Mr. Pipes:
An act providing for the relief of the In
| sane Asy lum at jackson.
Mr.. Wilt:
An act to repeal an act entitled an act to
establish hospital for small pox and other
contagious diseases.
Mr. Matthews, of Tensas:
An act to amend and re-enact paragraph
one of article 2O6 Of tbs Code Of Practice.
Mr. Bower:
An act to determine the mode Of filing
vacancies in a'l parish and municipal Offices
| for which provision is not made in the con-
stitution, or by special act of the Genera
Assembly.
Mr.. Schiller:
An act for the relief of B. Witherspoon.
Mr.. Woods, Of West Baton Rouge:
An act to change the time of holding the
terms of the Fifth Judicial District Cou TT
for the parish of West Baton Rouge.
Mr.. Lowell:
An act entitled an act to amend act No. 3
of the session of 1874, known as the funding
bill, and to provide for the funding Of all
outstanding floating Indebtedness Of the
State of Louisiana.
Mr.. Hunsaker:
Concurrent resolution instructing our
Senator and members in Con gress to urge
the passage of law providing for an in
crease of United States legal tender o.es
for the Southern States.
VETO MESSAGE.
Mr.. Demas moved to take up the Cover
nor's veto message on . joint resolution.
changing the venue in the case of the State
| of Louisiana vs.. Alexander Newton.
| Mr.. Matthews, of Tensas, raised point
of order that the veto message having been
ordered on the table, subject to call, could
not be taken up without q vote of ma
jority of the House.
| The Speaker decided the point of order
not we'll taken.
The veto message was then taken up, on
motion of Mr.. Demas.
| The further consideration Of the same
! was postponed, and it was ordered to be
made the special order Of the day fol
Wednesday next.
BILLS INTRODUCED ACCORDING TO NOTICE
| The hereinafter named members, accord
ing to previous notice given, asked and OBJ
| tanned leave to introduce the following en-
titled bills. which were disposed of as in
dictated below:
Mr.. Sartain:
| An act to incorporate the Rock of Homo,
Sooie of the parish of Orleans.
Which underwent the first read ing, and
| was ordered to second reading.
| Mr.. Heating:
An act indorsing the act granting aid fol
the construction of the Texas Pacific rail
road, and the Louisiana branches thereof
| Which underwent its first and second
readings by its title, and was ordered to be
referred to the Committee on Railroads.
An act to repeal act No. IS, approved
March @, 1874, entitled an act to authorize
the council of the city of Shreveport tc
lew q police tax; to regulate levies Of
taxes; the proceedings of tax suits and
jurisdiction of the parish court for the par
| ish of Caddo in reference thereto; to define
and punish forgery in certain cases; te
authorize the funding of the floating debt
to consolidate, limit and provide for the
debt of the city of Shreveport, principa
and interest; to authorize tax for the sup
port of the city government, and to estab
lish q fiscal agency, defining it's duties, and
for the better enforcement of the collection
of all taxes, and for other purposes.
| Which underwent its first ana second
readings by it's title, and was ordered to DC
referred to the Committee on Retrench
ment and Reform.
| Mr.. Snaer:
An act for the relief of Benjamin Walker
Belden.
| Which underwent its first reading, and
| WAS ordered to a second reading.
| Mr.. Demas:
An act to repeal an act entitled IAN act
to exempt from seizure and sale home
stead and other property" and to repea
sections 1851 and 1892 of the Revised
| Statutes.
| 1Uh;oh urdarvant its first and second