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

SAMUEL HEAD,
President Police Jury of CsddO Parish.
N. w. MURPHY,
May or Of Shreveport.
r. KENFRO,
Administrator of Public Accounts.
THOMAS KELLY,
Administrator of Public Imp Ovements.
SAMUEL LEVY.
Administrator of Fin tnce.
JAMES T. UTZ,
Administrator of Assessments.
Which memorial was ordered to be
spread upon the minutes and referred to
the Committee on Charitable Institutions.
Mr.. Pipes submitted memorial from the
officers and attendants OF the Insane
Asylum, of the State Of Louisiana, praying
for relief, which was ordered to be referred
to the Committee On Claims.
Mr.. Wilt presented petition from the
citizens of the parish Of Pointe Coupee ask
ing an appropriation of $4,000 for the pur-
pose Of restoring tho navigation of False
river in it's former condition, which was
ordered to be referred to the Committee on
Lands and Levees.
REPORTS FROM STANDING COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Meredith, from the Committee or
Corporations, submitted the following re-
port:
To the Honorable Speaker and Members Of the
House of Representatives:
am instructed by majority of the Com
mittee on Corporations to make the follow
ing report:
i. Favorably on House bill eNo 1863. emit
tied an act to incorporate the Louisiana So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
male, and to repeal an act entitled an act
to incorporate the Louisiana State AssOcia.
ton for the Prevention and Suppression of
Cruelty to Animals, and recommend its
passage.
2 Favorably on House bill No. 264, emit
tied an act to prevent cruelty to amin ale,
to p. ovide for and regulate proceedings and
punishment for crimes, misdemeanOrs and
otfenses touching the came, and to aid in
enforcing police laws and regulations, and
recommend it's passage.
3. FavOrably on House bill No. 295, emit
tied An act to incorporate the Merchants
Insurance, Warehouse and Trust Company
Of New Orleans, and to define it's powers
and authority, and recommend it's passage.
FavOrably on House bill No 1926, entitled
an act to repeal an act entitled an act rela-
tive to the unlicensed sale of lottery tickets
in the city of New Orleans, and comforting
upon the police courts power to suppress
the same; to forbid the sale of lottery tick
eta within the State of Louisiana. and to
provide penalties therefor, and recommend
its passage.
5. Favorably on House bill No 354, emit
tied an act incorporating the town OF Simms-
port, in the parish of Avoyelles, and provid-
ing tor the organization thereof, and recon-
mend it's passage.
6. Favorably on House bill No. 81, emit
tied an act to incorporate the city OF Shreve-
port, define its limits, and provide for its
police and municipal government, and rec
Ommend its passage
!. Fayorably on House bill No. 376, en-
titled an act to Incorporate the town of
Many, in the parish of Sabine, State Of
Louisiana, defining the boundaries thereof
and providing for the government Of the
same. and recommend its passage.
s. Favorably on House bill No. $50, en-
titled an act to revive the charter Of the
First Baptist Church, Incorporated by an
act of the Legislature approved March 5,
1915, and recommend it's passage.
THOMAS E. MEREDITH,
Chairman.
Mr.. Mitchell, from the Committee on
Claims, submitted the following report;
COMMITTEE ON CLAIMS,
New Orleans, February II. 1876
To the Honorable Spt aker and Members of the
House of ReBresen tatives:
l am directed by the Committee on
Claims to submit the following report, viz:
Fayorably on House bill No. l20, an act
to reimburse j. H. Marshall Of AVoyelles
parish.
Fayorably on Senate bill No. 81, an act
for the relief of the minor heirs of E. c.
Hart.
Unfavorably on petition of Louis Lacroix,
of Latourche parish, praying for relief ,
Respectfully request that the memorial
testant Female Orphan Asylum at Baton
Rouge be referred to the Committee on
Charitable and Public Institutions.
Very respectfully submitted,
H. C. MITCHELL, Chairman.
Mr.. Edwards, of Tangipshos, from the
Committee on Corporations, submitted the
following report:
CoxnIrrkB ON CORPORATIONS AND
ParOchlal Affairs. February II, 1876. }
To the Honorable Speaser and Members Of the
House of representatives:
Your Committee on Paroohial Affairs bel
leave to Ieport on the petition of citizens OF
Ascension parish praying to be annexed to
the parish of Livingston, fsvorably with
bill entitled an act to annex certain terri
tory of Ascension parish to the parish OF
Livingston; to dispose of certain records Of
Ascension parish, and certain suits pending
in the courts of Ascension parish: to pro
vide for the collection and disposition o.
certain taxes and Licences; to su6divide eait
territ sry into wards Of the parish OF Living
ston; to provide for the officers of sale
wards: to attach the said territory to thu
congressional judicial and senatorial dis
trcts in " hich the parish of Livingst i
embraced, and to repeal all laws in cont1Ic
with the provisions of this act, and recon
mend that the bill do pass.
Respectfully.
Chairman.
Mr.. VOORHEES,, from The Committee OF
Railroads, to whom was referred House bill
No. 37S entitled an act Incorporating tn
Evergreen and Atchafalaya Railroad Com
pany; defining it's duties, and providing TO
the organization thereof, submitted the fol
lowing report:
To the Honorable Speaker and Members OF tn
House of Representatives,:
Your committee beg leave to submit tn
following report:
Thew report favorably on bill No. 37s
with the following amendments: Strik
out section thirteen, and 10 the following
section, in lieu of the words "section four
teen' insert "section thirteen" and recon
mend its immediate passage.
They report favorably on House bill No
1899, entitled an act to charter the Nortl
Louisiana Railroad Company, by amending
section two of ead bill in striking out il
said section, after the words lone hundre.
dollars each" the words 'the capital stool
of the company, but not it's property. shal
be exempt from taxation" and recommeR'
the immediate passage of the bill a
amended.
Respectfully.