The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-01
Claims, on Railroads and on Engrossment and

enrolment
Mr. Lea offered the following as an an end
! ment:
| Provided that no clerk employ cd by any Oh
the said committees shall be paid but for the
time actually employed and for the days on
which he was engaged In work by the committee
by which no was employed, to be evidenced by
the certificate of the chairman Of the COMMITTEES
setting forth the time and manner Of employ
ment Of such clerk.
| The amendment was laid upon the table and
the resolution was adopted.
On the motion Of Mr.. Gaskins, the vote of the
House on the adoption OF section 95 of House
| bill No. 81 was reconsidered.
The special order OF the day. House bill No
1853, was. on motion Of Mr.. Berry, postponed to
| 1886 o'clock D. m.
On motion Of Mr.. Hill OF Orleans. the House
| took a recess to o'clock D. m.
After recess the roll was called as follows:
Hon l.. Bush, Speaker: and Messrs. Aldige
Aycock,; Billieu. Barbin. Bridger, Breard. Bow
BIZ Begs Be5fy
Dupree, Estopinal. Fitzpatrick. Forester. Gas
kins, GILLESPIE, Huntington. Hammond. Hill of
Lamare. Lea, Leonhard of Orleans, Martin.
| McGehee. Nunez. Peralta, Pitts. Richardson,
Ryland. Randolph, Role Robsrt!s2n, ,lRidg-
Steele. Sellers. Smart. Taylor, Tremoulet,. Toler,
| VOORHEES, Washburne, Wilde, Williams, Young
of Claiborne and Young OF East Baton Rouge.
sixty-one members and quorum.
| Mr.. Leeds in the chair.
| Mr.. Me9ehee moved that House bill No. 81.
being the special ord ,r of the day for this day
| at 1 o'clock D. m, be postponed to half past q
| o'clock D. m.
| The motion prevailed.
House bill No. 1853. special order of the day,
was taken up on is second reading, pending
| the reference Of the bill to the Special Com
| mttee on City Affairs.
| The report of that committee was taken up.
| and the amendment of the committee to section
| 8 was adopted as follows:
Add at the end OF the section the wo1d5 PRO
yided that no ordinance, rule. order or regula-
ton Of said Board of Health under this section
shall be operative except upon approval and
concurrence of the City Council"
Mr.. Lyons offered the following amendment:
After the word Orleans" strike out all to the
word Suitable" and Insert the words land to
take such legal steps ns shall be necessary to
| abate the same"
Pending the consideration Of this amend
ment and at half past two o'clock D. m. the
House, In accordance with its previous order,
took up the
SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY.
House bill No. 81. IAN act regulating the as
sessing and collecting Of taxes throughout the
State"
Sec ion 95 becoming section 80. having been
| reconsidered on the motion of Mr.. Gaskins, Mr..
Jonas moved that the vote on the adoption OF
Mr.. Hill s amendment, to-wit: To strike out all
down to the word Immediately" and insert the
words that the Governor shall appoint, by and
with the advice and consent Of the Senate. one
f5,,, q nrfn hn
His motion prevailing, Mr.. Hill withdrew his
amendment
On his motion. the section was amended by
inserting In line g. after the word city" the
words without any compensation from the
State"
The section was readopted as amended.
The motion of Mr.. Berry to adopt the addi-
tional section offered by him, February 26. and
printe in the journal Of that day. as section 80,
was lost.
Section 90 becoming section 30. and section 81
becoming section 81, were adopted rs they
stand.
Section 90 becoming section %, and 90 becom-
ing 70, were referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary with instruction to report thereon
tomorrow morning.
Section 100 becoming section 81.
Mr.. Young, of Claiborne, moved to amend by
striking out in line the words e with the pen
allies" and inserting with interest and costs.
Adopted and the section adopted as amended.
Sections 1ol and 1o2. becoming respectively
sections 95 and Sc. were adopted as they stand.
Section 103 was, on the motion Of Mr.. Bilieu,
stricken out
Section 104. becoming section g. was, on the
motion of Mr.. Lyons. amended by inserting
after the word collection" in line 7, the words
in full for all charges" and on the motion Of
Mr.. VOORHEES, by striking out from said word all
of the printed bill down to line IT.
The section was adopted as amended.
tections 1O5 and LOG becoming respectively
sections SO and 80. were adopted rs they stand.
Section 107 was, on motion OF Mr.. Young of
Claiborne stricken out.
s elton 108 becoming section 100, was adopted
as 1t stands.
Section 100 was stricken out.
Mr. McGehee offered IA additional section to
stand as section 101. 1t was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.
Section ITO becoming section 1o2 was amended
by changing or" to and" in line 5, and adopted
| as amended.
The further consideration of the bill was post
poned to one O'Clock p. M, February 20.
House bill No. 1853 was, on motion Of Mr.. Berry.
made the special order for February %, at two
o'clock D. m.
Leave Of absence was granted to Mr.. Gillespie.
Of Cameron, for the remainder of the session.
MESSAGES FROM THE SENATE.
The following message was received from the
Senate:
SENATE CHAMBER STATE OF LOUISIANA
New Orleans, Feb. 26, 1877.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members Of the
House of Representatives.
Gen lernen-I am directed to inform your hon
orable body that the Lieutenant Governor and
President of the Senate has signed duly en-
rolled Senate bill No. -. entitled IAN act to
amend and re-enact sections i419 and 1421 of the
Revised Statutes of Louisiana. and to authorize
candidates for State offices to contest before the
courts the election of their opponents" and to
request the signature of the Speaker of the
Of Ranre.santat iuas q IL anna