New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-23

othar acts and narts of acts Incompatible
with the nrnyisIons Of this act, with amend
ments
Respectfully, ppcuru1
Secretary of the Senate.
SENATE CHAMBER,
New Orleans, February l9, 1876
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House of Representatives,:
! am directed to inform your honorable
BODY that the Senate cOncurs in the passage
of House bill No. S77 entitled an act TO
authorize the city of New Orleans to as
sumo exclusive control of all drainage
works in the drainage districts; to author
ize the purchase of certain rights and prop
erty of the Mississippi and Mexican Gulf
Ship Canal Company and its transferee'
and to provide for the manner OF making
said purchase, and paying therefor IN
drainage warrants.
Respectfully,
p. Z. BECHTEL,
Secretary of the Senate.
The following message was received from
the Governor:
STATE OF LOUISIANA
Executive Department.
New Orleans, February 10, 1875.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members OF the
House of Representatives.:
honor to inform the House that an act
originating in the House of Representatives
confirming and extending the charter OF the
New Orleans Pacific Railroad Company,
has this day received the executive ap-
prevail.
Very respectfully.
II. CONQUEST CLARKE,
Private Secretary.
Mr.. Burkhardt gave notice that at some
future day he would move reconsideration
of the vote by which Senate bill No. 80 was
passed.
Leave of absence was granted Mr. Lowell
to Monday, the twenty first instant.
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.
Mr. Young, from the Committee on the
Judiciary, submitted the following report:
To the Honorable Speaker and Members OF the
House of Representative
am directed by the Judiciary Commit
tee to submit the following report:
FavOrably on the following bill:
House bill No. li, an act to provide for
the pubiicatitn of the Louisiana Annual
REPORTS.
Unfavorablv on the following bills
House bill No. 255, an act to fix the salary
of parish judges, etc. 10y the majority Of
the cOmmittee).
Honse bill No. 1872. an act to extend the
criminal Jurisdiction of the Justice of the
peace of the eighth ward of the parish of
Bossier.
By.substitute for the following bill
House bill No. 225, an act relative to
insurance companies.
Favorably with amendments on the fol-
lowing bills:
House bill No. 1871. an act regulating the
A.
State treasury.
Amend by striking out the words land
other" in the first section and third line.
Strike out all Of section two after the
enacting clause and insert, THAT this act
shall take effect from and after its passage.
and that all laws or parts OF laws in conflict
with this act are hereby repealed
House bill No, 200, an act for the protec-
ton of physicians.
Amend by striking out the word parish
in the sixth line OF the first section and in
sert district" In twelfth line OF same sec
ton, strike out the word twenty" and in
sert ten In thirteenth line, same section,
trike out the word ''locality' and insert
Estate" In the fourteenth line, same sec
ton, after the word same insert the
words, "by the affidavit of two competent
witnesses" After the word "of' i'll the sec
ond section aud seventh line, strike out all
that follows. and insert, 1.-THE district court
having jurisdiction of the case.
House bill No. 3Gl. an act to create the
parish of Marion. etc.
Amend after section thirteen, by insert
ing the following as section fourteen:
BE it further enacted etc, That so
much of the apportionment act passed
at the present session Of the Genera Assem-
bly, as gives to the parish of CaddO three
Representatives. be and the same is hereby
repealed and that said parish of Caddo
shall be entitled to two Representatives,
and the eaid parish Of Marion to one Repre-
sen tatlve.
Reminder section fourteen and make it
fifteen.
Favorably on the following bill:
House bill No. 1896, an act to create q US
tice court and the Office of constable FOR
the Seventh District, city of New Orleans,
etc.
Unfavorably on the following bills:
House bill No $50, an act to amend aud
rel nact section two of act No, "a, session
of 1873.
House bill No. $50. an act to amend and
re-enact section llli of Rays Revised
Statutes.
House bill No. lG9, an act to re-enact sec-
tion 81 10 of the Revised Statutes of Lou
isiana.
House bill No. 1873, an act to amend ar,
ticle SOB of the Code of Practice.
House bill No. 2Sl (by a maj ority of the
entitled an act to require all
persons asking for trial by jury in civil
suit to deposit with the parish treasurer of
the parish sum sufficient to pay the per
diem Of jury for one day.
Favorably, by substitute, on House bill
No. 2Sjl2, an act to authorize the parish OF
JIatourche and the town of ThibodauX to
saue bonds for exchange purposes.
Favorably, with amendments, on the fol-
lowing bill:
House bill No 800, an act to repeal all of
sections sixteen to twenty eight inclusive
IF an act entitled an act to incorporate the
Alexandria, Homer and Fulton Railroad
Company.
Amend by striking out the word "of' in
the first line of the title and insert in lieu
thereof the word "the." In same line in
sert the word from between the words
sections" and Sixteen" In section one,
line four, strike out the word ''oi" and in
sert in it's stead the word the and be
tween the words ''sec tons and sixteen
in the same section and fourth line, insert
the word from"
Your committee begs leave to report back
the following bills, and asks that they be re-
terred to the Committee on City Affairs:
House bill No. 25S and House bill No. los.
Also, House bill No. 2l6 and asks that it
be referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means.
JOHN YOUNG, Chairman.
Mr. Meredith, from the Committee on
submitted the following re-
port:
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House Of representatives;
am instructed by ma ority of the Cum
mittee on COrDOrations to IL AXE the follow
ing report:
Unfavorably on Senate bill No. % House
bill No. 312l, entitled an ac5 to incorporate
the Cathnlia MntIal and REnaXOlent AID