New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-18

| House bill No. 1876, an act to amend and
re'enact sections $50 and 1876 Of the Revised
| Statutes of Louisiana of 1870.
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| House bill No. 1872, an act to encourage
| manufacturing industries in this State, and
| to limit licenses for manufacturers in cor
| tain cases. Amend by inserting in section
one, after "manufacture," in fourteenth
line, the following words: provided fur
Their, that this act shall not apply to the
manufacturing of malt or alcoholic liquors.
House bill No. l3, an act to establish the
| fees, costs and charges of the civil sheriff in
| and for tie city of New Orleans, etc.
| Amend section four, in the third and fourth
linee, by striking out ''sixty days" and in
! sorting six MONTHS" in section nine, third
line, strike out the words 'its passage" ana
insert 1.-The first day of December, 1876"
Senate bill No. 80, an act to authorize the
| employment Of shorthand reporters to re-
| port testimony in appeslable civil causes,
| etc.
Amend section four, in line seven, by
striking ont thirty five" and inserting
twenty five" and in line nine strike out
both parties agree" and insert ''either
party desire"
Section skin line tour, strike out all
after the words plaintiff in suit" down to
and including the word court" in line sew
sworn statement Of the correctness OF his
charges approved by the judge, to be taxed
part of the costs of the suit, and shall be
payable at the time and in the manner pro.
| vided by law for the payment of the costs
Of clerks of the district courts in this
| State"
BY substitute for the bill:
House hill No. 3Ol, an act to repeal all of
sections fifteen to twenty six inclusive of an
o< To fho
Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Rail
roap Con paDy, ETC., being an act to repeal
sections fifteen to twenty.six inclusive of
an act to incorporate the New Orleans,
Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Com
pany, and to expedite the construction of
the road, No l43, approved December 30,
1869.
House bill No. 3ae, an act to carry into
effect an act for the relief of parties who
have not paid and those who have paid
their taxes to the Drainage Company in the
parish of Orleans, with the recommendation
that the same be referred to the Committee
ON Citv Affairs.
Favorably, with amendments, on the fol-
| lowing:
House bill No. AZ. an act to provide for
| supplying the loes of the public records in
out all after the word property" in Sec
| ton one, line fourteen, down to and inclu.
| sive of the word interest" in line eight
cen. and insert in lieu thereof the following:
1.-The title to which is sought to be estab-
lished does not exceed $500, or when the
amount of the bond, mortgage, judgment
| or other obligation sought to be established
does not exceed $500, exclusive of interest"
| On page two, line seven, OF same section,
strike ont "parish of Cameron" and insert
Estate of Louisiana" Page two, section
| one, line ten, after the word petition"
strike out all to the close of the section and
insert the following: "And in the event
that the defendant does not appear by him
self or counsel within the legal delay for
answering, it shall be the duty of the Judge
who hears the cause to appoint an attorney
PENDANT, who shall be served with q copy
| OF the plaintiffs petition"
In section three. line ten, after the word
''nOn-existence" insert the words land con
| tents.
| Section seven. line seven, strike out all
after the word 1.-The" and insert the words
registration of the original would have"
JOHN YOUNG, Chairman.
Also, favorably, with amendments, on
House bill No. AZ, entitled an act to provide
for supplying the loss of the public records
| and other papers consumed by the burning
| of the courthouse in the parish OF Cameron
during the month of February, 1874.
| Your Committee on Judiciary also report
| favorably on House bill No. 29, entitled an
act to fix the time of holding the terms of
the Fifth Judicial District for the parish of
! West Baton Rouge.
| Respectfully,
JOHN YOUNG, Chairman;
| JAMES S. MATTHEWS,
B. G. ELLIOTT,
A. B LEVlSEE,
| F. VOORHEES,,
JOHN BILLlU,
CHARLES w. LOWELL,
| JOHN L. SCALES.
| Mr.. Billiu, from the same committee, sub.
mitted the following report:
| l dissent from the majority report on
| House bill No. $50. l report in favor of the
| increase of Jurors in the parish of ST. james,
provided that their compensation lie fixed
at not more than g per day, and they
not to sit more than twenty-five days
in any one year.
Respectfully.
| JOHN S. BILLlU.
Mr.. Pipes. on behalf of the Committee or
Public Education, submitted the following
report:
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of thu
House of Representatives:
| I am directed BY the Committee on Public
Education to report favorably, by substi
tute, On House bill No. l09, and recommend
it's passage.
Mr.. Lowell, from the select committee
appointed to investigate the Louisiana
Levee Company, submitted the following
minority report:
NEW ORLEANS, February II, 1876.
/ M 0f <ho
mittee appointed to examine the LOuisian
Levee Company, after careful and elabc
rate investigation, lasting through severa
weeks of time, ana hearing the testimony o
large number of witnesses, both oral an
written, including the answers to interroe
atories addressed to the officers of thu
Levee Company itself, beg leave to max
the following report:
: We do not pretend to discuss the genera
importance of q levee system in Louisiana
In State situated as Louisiana lie, wher
four-ffths of it's productive lands are allu
vial, and are liable to annual inundatiCn
from the Mississippi river and its tributa
ries, the Importance of the protection Y
these lands is 90 patent to all as to preclud
the necessity of any extended statement Q
} discussion. Under the terms of the reso
luton authorizing this committee to act. "
have confined ourselves to the cOnsld
: GRAFTON of the question whether tn
Lsvee Company have complied wit
the requirements of their contract wit
the State, and have administered tn
fund collected from the levee take
: az efficiently and as honestly as that con
pany should have done. The Levee Con
, paay certainly has not done all that was 81
pected Of it by the public. In extenuatio
of this failure to build all the levees needed
and make all the repairs to the old levee
n. cessary to secure each and every portion