New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-13
0rEICIAL JOURNAL
SENATE.

SENATE.
rhiru.socond Days Session.
New Orleans, February II. 1876.
The Senate met pursuant to adjourn
ment at twelve O'Clock NJ, the Hon. c. c
Antoine. Lieutenant Governor and Pres
dent of the Senate, in the chair
On call Of the roll, the following Sena
tors answered to their names:
Present-Messrs. Alexander, Allan, Ar
ders0n, Black burn. Blunt, Brewster, Burch
Dumont, George, GOode, Greene, Harper
Landry, Ogden, Pollard, Robertson, Stampf
Steven, Sypher, Weber, Wharton-2l.
Absent Meesrs. Breaux, Cage, Chad
bourn, Detiege, Euttie, Ola, Grover, He,
White, Whitney, Young-l5.
Dardls.
The journal was read, corrected and ap
proved.
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.
Senator Burch presented memorial from
the city council of Baton Rouge relative t
the location of the State Agricultural anG
Mechanical College.
On motion of Senator Burch, the memo
rial was ordered printed in the journal, and
referred to the Committee on Public Edu.
cation.
1t reads as follows:
MAYORS OFFICE }
City Of Baton Rouge.
Monday, February =, 1876.
At regular meeting of the city council
of the city of Baton Rouge, on the above
date, the following ordinance in relation to
the Mechanical and Agricultural College
was cOnfiI lined and continued, viz:
RESOLUTIONS.
Be it ordained by the mayor and CITY
council of the city Of Baton Rouge, That in
case of the location of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College in Baton Rouge, the in.
ducements offered by resolution of the
mayor and board of selectmen, March Q,
1874, are hereby confirmed and continued,
viz:
That sufficient amount be appropriated
ont of the contingent fund to purchase
about 100 acres of land near the State Uni.
versity tor tho use Of said college.
That the public square known as Marcio
square, fronting the State University, be
also rendered the Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College for the accommodation and use
Of its pupils when located in this city.
Unanimously adopted.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Senator Greene, from the Committee on
Retrenchment and Reform, made the fol.
lowing report:
CoAnI1TEE on ARRANGEMENT ANp REFORM
New Orleans February II, 1876. :
To the Honorable President and Members Of the
Senate:
Your committee have had under con-
sideration House bill No. l36, IN act to pro.
vide money compensation in lieu Of sta
sembly, and to provide stationery tor the |
Secretary Of the Senate, to the Clerk of the |
House of Representatives and the com. |
mittees of said houses, and beg leave to re- |
port favorably thereon.
ALIEN HisEss' GREENE, Chairman.
j. K. ALEXANDER,
w. A. ROBERTSON.
EDWARD D. WHITE.
The report lies over.
Senator sSpEer, from the Committee on
Finance, made tho following report:
Committee ON FINANCE
New Orleans, February TO- 1876. ! |
To the Honorable President and Members OF the
Senate:
Your Committee on Finance having had
uuOOI CUu1lOCI0t1OA AOu00 VIII XNVs II, III |
act to regulate the rate of parish taxation
and assessment, report the same fsvorably
with the following amendments:
In line eight, section one, strike out the
words lone percentum" and insert in lieu
thereof the following words: "The amount
now limited by law"
And for section four the following addi-
in any manner the levy of judgment tax
be and the same are hereby repealed, and
that eli claims against parishes shall be pro-
vided for out of the taxable limitation as
now provided by law" thereby making sec.
lion four section five.
A. J. SYPHER, Chairman.
The report lies over.
Senator Twitchell, from the Committee
N Corporations, offered the following re-
,Ort: t;
COMMITTEE ON CORPORATIONS AND
ParOchisl Affairs, February II, 1876. : G
% the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate ,
Your Committee on Corporations and Pa
ochial Affairs report favorably on the fol- q
owing bills, viz: r
House bill No. 22s, an act to amend and :
e-enact section one OF an act to incOrpO-
ate the town Of Cre0ls, in the parish of
Vim.
Also, on House bill No. l67, an act to con- -
% o0O POwCE W requisite LILO COmpOu66tlOu .
or keeping prisoners in parish prisons u
lpon the respective parishes of the State, q
.ther than the parishes Of Orleans and n
Jefferson. "
Also, House bill No. $50, an set to amend
md re-enact act No. Ill, approved March | O
3, 1850, incorporating the town Of Homer. O,
PARISH of Claiborne, with the following :"
amendment: n
In section five, line forty -three, strike ont C
,eEinning with the word "to'' lines forty. ;,
hree, forty -four, forty five, forty six, forty -
even, forty eight, forty nine and fifty, end
ng with the word gospel"
Also, on Senate bill No. &c. an act to in.
the Merchants Exchange of New q
Orleans, with the following amendments: .,
Strike ont in title. in line four, beginning :,
with the word provided" lines four, five, u
Nix, seven, eight, nine ten, eleven, twelve,
thirteen, fourteen and fifteen, ending with
The word trade, strike out all after the =
word witnesses"
Strike out sections eight, nine and ten. q
Change section eleven to section eight: | r,
,ectiOn twelve to section nine; section thir. !,
cen to section ten; section fourteen to Sec Z"
ion eleven: section fifteen to section twelve:
,ection sixteen to section thirteen. ~
In section twelve. in line sixteen, after ;;
he word Corporation" insert: provided ~ =.
hat nothing in this act shall affect or be =
'inding upon any person or persons not L
members Of this said Merchants Exchange"
In section thirteen, line five, after the ,,
vOrd ''shall," insert take" in the same
inc, strike out passage" and insert "Pro- q
mitigation. the expense of said promulga- il