New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-16

| amend an act entitled an act relative to tn
Supreme Court; changing the place OF hold
| ing the same from Opelousas to Franklin
parish of St. Mary.
Unfavorably on the following bills: j.
House bill No. 296, entitled an act t
| amend and re-snact section l7lO OF Kay
Revised Statutes.
House bill No. o9S entitled an act to au
| thOrize the clerks Ut the district courts
the several parishes, except the parish
Orleans, to index the public records. aut
authorizing the police Jurles TO NIX tne CON
pensatiun therefor
House DILL No. $50 10y the majority emit
| tied an act providing for an additional mum
her of police jurors for the parish OF st
James.
House bill No. 1877, entitled an act to pun
ish certain acts, to declare the same mis
demeanore, and to protect the inhabitantf
of towns in their rights of way, etc.
House bill No. l27, entitled an act to
regulate the manner of proceedings of tax
collectors in the sale Of property seized for
taxes.
House bill No. 23l, entitled an act to
amend and re-enact section eight of act
No. ii of tn. session of 1872, approved
February 26, 1872
House bill No. 1873, entitled an act rela-
tive to notariee public, their powers. duties
and penalties; tO create the office OF parish
notary, etc.
House bill No 1872, entitled an act to re,
peal articles GA, 675 and 676, and to amend
and re.euact articles go. I'll and ooO OF the
Code OF Practice, and 10 regulate the ap,
praisement at forced sales OF movable anu
lmmOvable property. etc.
House bill No. 1874, entitled an act to
regulate loans and interest.
And the committee reports without action
on House bill No. l79, entitled an act t.
protect the city of New Orleans; to locate
the stock landing of slaughterhOusee, and
to provide for the inspection OF animals
slaughtered and sold for food in the CITY OF
New Orleans, and TO repeal certain acts.
JOHN YOUNG, Chairman.
And on behalf of the same committee
Mr.. Edwarde, of Tangipahoa, submitted
the following report
The Legislature of 1869 chartered the
Crescent CITY Live Stock Landing and
Slaughterhouse Company, and conferred
upon the corporation certain exclusive
privileges, for twenty five years. The char
ter conveys monopoly in the full sense of
the term. So far as this monopoly preserves
the public health it is to be commended; 80
far as it increases the price of food, and in
terferes with free labor. it is to be repro
bated.
House bill No. ia has for it's object to
preserve the sanitary regulations OF the act
Of 1869, but TO deprive the company of its
monopoly; and to open the business of
butchering, and preparing meat for mar
ket, to competition. A bill of q similar
character. relative to the New Orleans
Sanitary Exc.vstiDg Company has been
unanimously approved by the Judiciary
Committee, and has already passed the
House.
The Crescent City Live Stock Landing
and Slaughterhouse Company protest
against House bill No. II, as Contravening
the exclusive privilege. granted in their
charter. They deny the right OF this Legis
lature, under article no Of the constitution
of the State, to interfere with their vested
rights.
Whether the charter of the company is q
contract with the cOrpOratOrs, which can
not be impaired under the provisions of the
constitution; and whether this bill will i'm
pair that contract, are questions for the
courts to decide. The Legislature enacts
laws; it is for the judiciary department of
the government to interpret them, and give
them effect.
The Legislature unquestionably has the
right to grant TO corporations, or to indi
viduals, exclusive privileges, under GER
tain limitations, for term Of years, in
consideration of corresponding public
benefit; but we do not recognize the author
ity OF any Legislature. once procured and
exercised, to sssten irrevOcably upon its
success ors a monopoly in great city upon
the neceesaries of life, and hedge it about
az q vested constitutional right. from
which the people can get no relief. We are
Of opinion that all the features of the char
terof the company looking to the monopoliz
ing of labor, or trade, and increasing the
price of food. without compromising public
benefits, are within the reach of both legis-
:atlve and judicial power.
We therefore report in favor of the bill.
BOLIVAR EDWARDS,
w. b KOONTZ.
JOHN 5. BiLLIU,
JOHN l. SCALES.
GEORGE w DUPRE,
B. G. ELLIOTT.
Mr.. Mitchell, on behalf of the Committee
on Claims, submitted the following report:
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of tho
House Of Representatives,:
sm directed bv the Committee on Claims
to submit the following report, viz:
Unfavorably on petition of Hermogene
Vicnair praying for relief
With respect.
nc. MITCHELL, Chairman.
Mr.. Beasley, on behalf of the Committee
on Health and Quarantine, to whom was
referred House bill No. 3l5, entitled an act
to reorganize and render more efficient the
Board of Health of the State of Louisiana;
to define its powers and prescribe it's duties
and those of quarantine and other officers
under the contract to provide penalties for
violations of this act, and of the ordinances
and orders made in pursuance thereof, sub
mitted favorable report
MIR. Edwards, of Tangipahos. in behalf
of the Committee on Corporations and
report:
COMMITTEE ON CORPORATIONS Aypl
Parocn Al Affairs, February is, 1876 !
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Senate:
Your Committee on Corporations and Pa
rochial Affairs beg leave to submit the fol
lowing repOrf:
UntavUrably on petitions of the citizens
of Csdio parish, asking the annexation of
q part Of Bo-sier parish to said parish OF
Ca.tdO.
Untavorably on the petition of the police
jury OF Sabine parish, asking the passage
OF an act authorizing them to levy a special
tax to reduce outstandlng warrants, etc.
On House bills Nos. 2H and 29i, both
relar We to relief of taxpayers whose prop
erty has been or may now b. inundated by
the Bonnet Care crevasse. FavOrabiy by
substitute for both bills, and recommend
that tho substitute do pass
UnfavOrably on memorial of the citizens
Of Iberia pari-h, praying to be annexed to
the parish of St. Martin.
titIed an at to r.ctify the boundaries of
the parishes of CaddO and Bossier.
Your committee reports back without &C.
ton tue protes' OF the police jury of Bossier
parish against an election IN said parish
relative 10 the removal of the parish seat of