New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-22

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@ six per cent. ........ ........ 1910
). | Available for purchase by Soc
q ton six of organizing act. war ~.
t rants not drawn .............. 4O,OOO I
? Total contingent. ...........*lIo64o 7
, Grand total and contingent 26,5SO
All of which is respectfully submitted.
: DANIEL EDWARDS,
, Treasurer Board of Control Louisiana Stat
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
To this We append a statement OF the &C
ton of the State in connection with the col
lege finances.
Section six of the act Of 1874 organ Yin
the college provided as follows:
"That no part of the grant made by tn
acts of Congress aforesaid shall be apprO
priated to the purchase of ground or tn
erection of buildings, duty the tulfillmen
of which is assumed by the State, to be Car
ried into effect as fast as the wants ant
progress of the Agricultural and Mechanica
College may require. The sum of $40 ,OOt
is hereby appropriated out of the genera
fund in the treasury of the State from mon
eys not otherwise appropriated, to be placed
to tho credit Of the board of control for the
purchase OF site and erection of buildings
in che of the country parishes, embracin
sufficient land for the successful conducting
of an agricultural college, with mechanical
departme ut included, and for the remain
der necessary for such purchase end cree
ton they may CT ntract debti secured by ACT
of mortgage OF all property purchased and
erected, enforceable in not less than five
| years. and bear ng not more than eight pei
cent per snnum. but said mortgage shall
never exceed the amount previously ex
pended for land and buildings, it being the
intention of this act that the State shall con
| tinue its appropriations in favor OF tho lE
/ stitution until they reach the sum OF
| $50000."
| In accordance with the terms of this Sec
| ton a warrant, against the State treasury
for $40, 900 was duly issued by the Auditor,
| which warrant still remains unpaid, in the
| in the hands Of the treasurer of the college.
| The general appropriation act of the regular
| session of 1875 contained q further apprO-
priatiOn of 1000 for the benefit of the col
| lege, but the State Auditor has hitherto de-
| clined to issue warrant upon the treasury
| for this sum, on the ground that it's payment
| has been enjoned by the courts. 1t will
| State has practically failed to carry out any
| part of the duty which it formally assumed
in the act of organization, and which, in ac-
cepting the grant of the national govern
! ment. it bound itself to perform.
Ii your honorable body will recall the
fact that no part of the fund derived from
the land grant is available for the erection,
IudIUleuduCc UT repair VI any
the purchase of furniture or apparatus
for stocking the farm or the purchase
of farm tools and machinery and that
the State has not provided the means, not
obtainabie elsewhere. for such objects, you
can not fail to zee the necessity for prompt
and generous action in the premises.
Your committee recommend the following
appropriation at the present session:
For erection of college building
upon the Lynch place college
farm, and upon the foundations
and framework of the present
structure 5000
For furniture and fixtures of same. $500
For mules and domestic animals,
harness. plows, farm machinery
ana TOOLS. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. i.uOO
lotal. ......... ...............S l3,500
Your committee further recommend that
your Finance Committee be instructed to
investigate and report whether the apprO-
priatons of 1000 each made in 1874 and
1919 for the benefit of the college can be
made available, or if not, whether it is pos
sble. by the retrenchment of less important
expenditures, to replace them at least par
TALLY by an additional appropriation dur
ing the present session, and also that your
Finance Committee be instructed to report |
bill reflnding to the Agricultural and |
NtCuduiCdl OUlltSr, Ill COEsOilualeu
OF the State, the amount lost by the same |
under the operations of the funding law,
which law. IN the judgment of your com
mlttee, was not intended to apply. and |
manltestly did not apply. to the sacred |
trust funds Of the college. funds derived |
neither from the State OF Louisiana nor
from the labor or taxation of her people !
Your committee are informed that in this |
view of the law. It's intent and scope, they
have support from the highest legal author
lty, and hope that their recommendation
will prevail with your honorable BODY
Respectfully submitted.
o. H. BREWSTER,
Chairman;
GEORGE Y. kELSO.
Senator Burch asked and obtained further
time to make majority report on the same
subject matter
Senator Chadbourn. from the Committee
on Public Lands and Levees made the fol-
lowing report:
COMMITTEE PuBLlC LANDS AN D LRvRRs |
New Orleans, February l9, 1876 : |
TO the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate:
-FOUR Committee on Public Lands and
Levees having had under consideration
senate joint resolution No. 9. report favora-
ply. with the following amendments:
In line three, strike out all after the word
AT" and all in line four to the word
the, ana insert "a price to be agreed on
~ said Mrs. Beauclair and Louis Cayer
md the board of school directors of said {
parish, which price shall not be less than ,
Il - per acre. and add at the end of sec
ion one: Provided, said Mrs. Beauclair
md Louis Caye pay to said school board {
ent for the time they have occupied said ,
ands. IN accordance with existing laws" ,
Your committee also submit the follow
ng substitute for Senate bill No. IS, and
commend their passage.
by direction of the committee. +
Respectfully
r. II. CHADBOURN, Chairman.
The report lies over. c
OF BILLS BY UNANIMOUS
CONSENT. q
By Senator Chadbourn:
Senate bill No. 1863, entitled al act to en- t
bic the parish of St. Charles to fund its Il
ebt. to issue bonds for said purpose, and o
, provide by taxation for interest and re-
emptlon thereof. u
The constitutional rules being suspended tt
: a tourtifths affirmative vote of the Sen ,
Re, the bill was placed on its second read Il
g, and referred to the Committee on II
nance. G.
,TION on REPORTS OF COMMITTEES LYING
OVER. tl
Senator Alexander called up the report
the Committee on Retrenchment and Re- il
rm on Senate bill No. 1872 entitled an act
regulate, classify, and fix the rate of CO
to be allowed TO tax collectors a
roughout the State OF Louisiana. and for al