The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-02
POLITICAL TALK.

THE HAWKINS INVESTIGATING COMMITTEES
will to-day submit their report to the House,
and will recommend the impeachment of
Judge Hawkins, on the grounds Of mall
administration in Office and incompetency,
and they will further report that they will
prepare articles of impeachment against this
official.
The other
COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE
are hard at work, and are daily engaged in
examining witnesses, and their reports will
40 doubt be submitted in short time.
The following bill passed the Senate yes
terday. 1t is of interest
TO THE MERCHANTS OF NEW ORLEANS,
and is given in full:
AN ACT to amend and re-enact article 1853 of the
Code Of Practice.
SEES l. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of
Louisiana, in General Assembly convened,
That article 1913 of the Code OF Practice be
amended ard re-enacted so IS to read as fol-
lows: "In action of revindication of real
property when proceedings are instituted in
order to obtain the seizure and the sale of
real property in virtue of an act of n.y.
pothecation importing confession of judg-
ment, and in actions brought to enforce
legal or judicial mortgage against
third possessor, and in actions against
third possessor to enforce special mort
gage, and in all cases of provisional seizure
or sequestration the defendant may be cited,
whether in the first instance or in appeal,
either within the jurisdiction, where the
property revindicated, hypotheoated or pro-
visionally seized or sequestrated, is situated
or found, though he has his domicile or resi-
dence out of that jurisdiction, or in that
where the defendant has his domicile. as the
plaintiff chooses; provided, that all judgments
rendered in such cases shall only be opera
tive up to the value of the property con-
ceded, against and not binding for any excess
over the value OF the property in personam
against the defendant"
Senator White presented the above bill to
the Judiciary Committee who accepted it and
reported it as q substitute for another bill Of
the same nature, aud Senator White worked
it through the Senate yesterday.
There is
in and around the State House about certain
appropriations for the benefit of the officers
of the House. The talk, however, has not
as yet become of sufficient importance to
Justify report of what is said, but the ru-
mors. it is stated, will be inquired into.
REFORM MEASURES PASSED IN The HOUSE.
Tue following bills Of general nature, and
all looking to reform, have to this date passed
the House of Representatives and have been
sent to the Senate for concurrence:
House Bill No. 10-An act relative to the
public printing and the publication of the
ordinances, advertisements and proceedings,
etc., of the corporation of the city of New
Orleans
House Bill No. 11-An act to repeal an act
entitled "An act relative to public printing"
approved Oath of July, 1868, and to repeal an
act entitled "An act relative to Judicial and
legal advertisements" numbered "a of the
acts Of 1870, and to repeal sections 1886, 1887,
1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892. 1898, 1894, 1895,
1896, 1897, 1898, 2999 and section 5000 Of the
Revised Statutes of the State of Louisiana,
of the public printing. and to prescribe the
manner in which the same shall be done.
House Bill No PAN act to regulate the
manner Of making advertisements in judicial
proceedings and sales of property under judi
cial process in all parishes other than that of
Orleans, and regulating and directing the
manner and price at which contracts shall be
made by police 1ries or municipal corpora
lions, except New Orleans, for puolic print
ing.
House Bill No. 26-An act to determine the
mode of filling vacancies in the parish and
municipal Offices for which provision is not
made in the Constitution.
House Bill No 80 An act to repeal an act
IL L e
smallpox aud other contagious diseases.
House Bill No. 37-An act giving parties
accused of crime the right to testify as wit
nesses on their trial.
House Bill No. 48-An act to provide for
the time, manner and place of holding cleo
tons in this State; to provide for the appoint
meot of commissioners of election, and d.
recting the promulgating of results of election;
to provide penalties for intimidation and
violence at the polls, and other attempts to
prevent fair free and peacsable election; to
provide proceedings for contest for Office,
and to repeal all other laws inconsistent with
the provisions of this act.
House Bill No. 58-An act to relieve the
city of New Orleans and State of Louisiana
from any charge for the registry of births,
marriages and deaths occurring in this
city.
house Dill NO. OO-hu ACL W O0uuo tu0
object of drainage assessments, and to regu.
late the collection Of the same, and to prevent
judgments for assessments being rendered as
personal judgments, and to repeal so much of
Act No. 81, approved March l, 1851, as m Ike
such judgments personal, and to confne The
execution under assessment Judgments to the
property on which the assese ment is levied.
House Bill No. S0-An act to amend and re-
enact article GA of the Code of Practice, and
to repeal al laws in conflict with the provi-
sions of this act
House Bill No. S0-An act to organize the
police of the city of New Orleans and to create
police board therein, aud limiting the cost
of the same.
House Bill No. 1O1-Aa act to provide
for the uniform assessment of properly in
the city Of New Orleans, defining the duty Of
the Administrator of Assessme nts of said city;
fixing the limit of expense to be paid for said
assessment, abolishing the Office of State
Assessor for the parish of Orleans; providing
that no separate State assessment shall bs
made within the parish, and repeating all laws
or parts OF laws in conflict or inconsistent