New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-26
submitted the following

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report:
To the Honorable Speaker and Members Of the
House of Representatives.:
lam instructed by q majority OF the Com
mittee on Corporations to make the follow
ing report: u
Fsvorably, with amendments, on House
Hill No. 445. entitled an act to enroll the
charter of the Charles Morgan Hook and
Ladder Company No. !, OF Morgan City, IN
the parish of st. Mary, State VI Loulslana'
and recommend it's passage.
Fayorablv, with amendments, on liouse
bill No. Alb, entitled an act to enroll the
charter of Washington Steam Fire Engine
COMPANY No /, of the city OF Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, and recommend its passage;
Favorably, with amendments, en- House
bill No. 372, entitled an act to incorporate
the town OF Houma, in the parlsh OK 1er-
rebonne: to define the boundaries Thereon;
to provide for the government OF SAID to"h'
giving to the town council certain powers
and privileges: authorizing the council TO
raise revenue: to establish recorders
courts; limiting the rate of taxation; ex-
empting the property situated within the
limits OF the town from parish taxation,
and repeating act No. pa Of the acts OF the
Legislature OF 1913, approved March l6, 1873,
aad repeating act No. 80 OF the acts o1 the
Legislature Of the year 1858, aad recon-
mend it's passage.
Fayorablv on House bill No. 444, entitled
an net 70 Incorporate the town OF Oak
Ridge. in Mcrehouse parish, and recon-
mend its passage.
UDfayorably on Senate bill No. t2l0)
entitled DIN act to confirm and approve the
act of Incorporation and amendments
thereto OF the Hebrew Zion Congregation
o. the city of Shreveport. Louisiana, ana
rec nmend that it DO indie tinl1eIy post
pond ,.o,,
Unfavorably on Senate bill No. liz aug,
eniitisa al act TO incorporate the 81. James
Methodist Episcopal Church Association OF
Shreveport, Louisiana. and recommend that
it he Indefinitely postponed.
THOMAS E. MEREDITH,
Chairman.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members OF the
House of Representatives:
Yonr Committee on Corporations, to
whom was referred the resolution in rela-
ton to the Sugar Shed Company, beg leave
to submit the following report, viz: Your
committee finds that on the fourteenth day
of August, 1869, the City Council OF this
city passed an ordinance granting to
Francis B. Feitas the exclusive right and
privilege Of using the public spaces on the
leyee, in the Second District OF this city,
between Customhouse and St. Louis streets,
for the period of twenty-five years,
tor the purpose of erecting thereon fire
proof sheds for the reception OF sugar and
molasses. The terms and conditions upon
which said privilege was granted arc IN
brief as follows:
First-To erect sugar sheds at his own
coat and expenee. with such accOmmOda-
rjons "a the business demanded. and to
keep said sheds IL coed order and repair
at his own expense.
Second-To charge a sum not exceeding
twenty-five cents, On every hogshead OF
sugar, and fifteen cents on every barrel OF
molasses sheltered under said shed; but II
the sugar or Inolasses changed hands while
under the shed il gave the said Fleitas the
right of making an additional charge of
fifteen tents OF the hogsEead of sugar and
five cents on the barrel for molasses. for
every sUcr change.
Third-The said Fieitas was TO pay 10 the
city as consideration for said privilege.
ten per cent, OF the gross amount realized.
Your committee finds that on the
eighteenth day OF August. 1869. the said
Eleitas. acting for himself, ard john 4.
CONWAY. the Mayor, acting for the city,
went before anotary public, the one accept.
rg in due ard legal form the terms and
conditions which this ordinance imposed.
and executing bond as required by the
ordinance the other on the part OF the
city. transferring the rights and privileges
granted by che ordinance. thus rendering
effective the OBJECT contemplated by the
ordnance.
luur committee ends that On the twenty
eighth OF January, 1870, the said Fieitas.
| under the general laws of the State, and by
viz ue OF the rights and privileges given to
him in the ordinance above referred To. as
socia.ed with himself Robert Mott. Samuel
Janlison. L. w Rood. w. NJ. Geddes. F. NJ.
Hatch, Thomas J. Semmes. J. j. Warren.
| Hanson Kelly and Thomas fanny, all OF
whom. by notarial act, constituted them
selves body corporate and polite under
the name OF tie New Orleans Sugar Shed
Company. Tie capital stock OF this asso
citation was fxed in the original charter at
$ 200 0l0, represented by 10000 shares OF
500 each, ans! this capital stock may be in
creased or diminished to any sum
not exceeding 100000, nor less
three .0urths OF the stock represented IN a
general meeting OF the stockholders. Not
outstanding this provision in the charter
which prevents the capital stock from being
LEES than St0o,ec9. II appears from the evil
dence adduced before your committee that
il has been diminished 10 $4,000. While
your committee are OF the opinion that the
affairs OF this Sugar Shed Company is not
properly a subject OF legislative investiga-
,ion, l. being organized under the NUM-
clpal sanction of the city Of New Or
leans. ard while they do not wish to lend
their lnt.uence or De instrumental IN prying
into matters which pertain exclusively
20 municipal authorities. yet having been
appointed by your honorable body TO inves-
tigate the affairs of this company. your
committee is compelled, IN performance of
the duties imposed upon it. to pretermit
afeyer individual opinions 1t may enter
tam AZ regards the inherent right TO this
investigation, AMI submit a statement of
facts az elected by the evidence, and the
conclusions those facts have brought the
committee to. The evidence shows thai
The company charges twenty-five cents per
hogshe ad On sugar and ten cents per pack
age on molasses, not 10 remain over five
days. including the dav OF receipt aud the
dag q delivery. and If il is not removed
within the five days the storage therefor IS
forty cents per month or fractional parts
thereof, on the hogsilead for sugar, and IF
teen cents per month, or frac tlonal part
thereof, tor each barrel of molasses. Your
committee iind no authority for the COM
pany to make any additional charges for
storage after the first tive days, and can not
refrain from expressing their opinion that
.he company has transcribed its limits and
violated the charter which gave it birth.
An ordnance OF the city gives the wharf
niger the right, whenever the levee be
comes encountered TO remove the sugar
and molassfs SO incum boring the levee into |
the sugar sheds. and ii also gives him the |
right, and in fact makes it his duty, to re-
move into the sugar sheds all sugar and |
inolasses which have been on the leVee tor |
twenty four hours. The evidence shows |
ground of complaint to be that the wharf |
niger commences TO count the hours from |
the time the steamboat puts her nose into |
the wharf and some time before she begins |
to uaload, and by this process ofientlmes
sugar and malasses are SEM to the shed be- |
fore twenty-four hours expired, counting |
from tbs tl,uo It Was actually Delivered on |