New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-16

jury the manner in which she funds so col
lected shall be applied and disbursed and
for other purposes.
Read first time.
The constitutional rules being suspended
the bill was read second time and referred
to the Committee on Retrenehment and Re
form.
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.
The Committee on Appropriations
through its chairman, submitted the follow.
ing report, which was received and
adopted:
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATION !
New Orleans, March 8, 1877.
To the Honorable Speaker and Members of the
House of Representatives,:
l am directed by the Committee on Ap.
preparations to submit the following re-
port:
Favorably on the following bill: House
bill No. 43, entitled an act relative to the
building in which the sessions of the Su-
preme Court shall be held, and making an
G. w. KEETING, Chairman;
j. BLACKSTONE,
WILLIAM ]. MOORE,
GEORGE DRURY,
w. g. LANE.
House bill No. 43, an act relative to the
building in which the sessions of the Su-
preme Court shall be held and making an
appropriation for fitting up the same, was
taken up.
The rule by which the bill is compelled
to be considered in committee of the whole
was dispensed with, and the bill passed it's
second reading and was considered as en-
crossed.
Under further suspension of the consti-
tutiOnal rules the bill was placed on it's
third reading and final passage, its title was
adopted, and it was ordered TO be sent to
the Senate for concurrence.
HOUSE BILLS ON THEIR SECOND READING.
House bill No. SO, an act to provide for
the compensation of jurors in criminal
cases in the parish of Orleans, was referred
to the Committee on Judiciary.
House bill No. 80, an act relative to
the levees of the State of Louisiana; to
create board of levee commissioners; to
define their powers and duties; to continue
in force the levee tax for building and re-
pairing levees; to repeal an act entitled an
act relative to the Louisiana Levee Com.
psny, corporation organized under the
general laws Of this State, constituting it q
body polite and corporate, with certain
powers, privileges and franchises, and con-
tracing with the said corporation fer the
constructing, maintenance and repairs of
certain levees, and providing compensation
therefor, and the several acts amendatory
thereto; to provide for the liquidation of
any debt due by the State to the Levee
Company, and to authorize the employment
of the Penitentiary convicts in the con-
structiOn and repairs of the levees of the
State, was read, and its further considera-
ton postponed until Thursday, fifteenth
instant.
House bill No. 40, an act apportioning the
State into senatorial districts, and desig-
mating in what senatorial districts Senators
are to be elected at the next general cleo
ton, and repeating all laws or parts of laws
contrary to or in conflict with this act, was
read and its further consideration post.
pOned until Friday, the sixteenth instant.
On motion of Mr.. Souer House bill No. 2,
an act to provide for the creation of board
of equalization, prescribing their duties
and compensation, providing for the equali-
cation of assessments of property of the
various parishes of the State, and for the
Of the total amount of the
of the property of all the State,
and prescribing certain duties to be per
formed by the Auditor of the State upon
the passage Of this act, was made the
special order of the day for tomorrow at
! P. NJ.
On motion Of Mr.. Drury the Committee
on Ways and Means was directed to report
back House bill No 46, an act repeating all
laws or parts of laws exempting properties
from taxation.
On motion of Mr.. Jones, the House was
adjourned until tomorrow at twelve o'clock
N.
ROBERT F. GUICHARD, b.
Clerk of the House of Representatives.