The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-27

and for ten days after the session The Chief
Enrolling Clerk of each house may, when and
as the services of clerks become necessary,
employ, from time to time during the sessions
OF, the Legislature, and for ten days after its
| adjournment, a sufficient number of clerks to
perform its clerical duties, as may by law
devolve upon them, In the engrossnent and
enrolment OF bills, The number of clerks
time exceed six for the Senate and
eight for the House, and they shall be paid Mt
the rate OF four dollars per day, each; proui-
ded, that no clerk shall be employed under tho
provisions OF this section, until the Chairman
OF the Committee on ENDORSEMENT and En-
rolltnent, or on Enrolment as the case may
be, shall certify to the necessity of his ser-
vices and his competency, which certificate
shall accompany his voucher for payment of
services. All clerks of the Senate shall be
under the direction and control of the Secre-
tafy of the Senate, in all matters pertaining
to the duties OF their offices. and all clerks of
the House shall be under the direction and
control OF the Chief Clerk of the House, in
Offices and the Chief Clerk and the Secretary
OF the Senate, as tho case may be, shall be
responsible to their respective houses for the
| faithful performance Of their duties The
ployed by direction of either house of the
Genera, Assembly by any standing commit
tee shall never exceed four az dollars day.
SEQ. 6. BE IL further enacted, ETC., That at
each session each house Of the General AS
sembly shall elect one Sergeant-at- Arms who
shall receive, as full compensation for his SER
vices, seven hundred and fifty $3.50 dollars,
payable monthly on his own warrant, whose
duty II shall be to have charge Of their
respective houses and committees and other
House, with all the fuel, furniture and other
things used in and about the State House, not
pertaining to the offices occupied by State
officers, and that before they shall be put in
t..Ix.
inventory of all the furniture and all other
things put into their possession pertaining to
their respective houses, committee and other
rooms, not pertaining to the offices occupied by
State officers giving their receipts therefor,
the office Of the Secretary Of State. That the
Sergeant-at-Arms of each house. before they
enter upon the duties Of their respective
offices, shall give bond, with good and suf1l-.
Gent security conditioned according to law
in favor Of the Governor Of the State In the
sum Of twenty-five hundred dollars, for the
faithful performance of all duties required of
them by law. That after the adjournment OF
each session Of the General Assembly the
Sergeant at Arms of each house shall within
five days deliver over to the Secretary Of
State oil the stationery of every kind left i'm
his possession, and take his receipt therefor,
and that the Sergeants- at Arms of the respee-
tive houses shall hold office until their sue
cessors are elected and have qualified accord
SEQ. Z. Be It further enacted, etc, That at
each session Of the General Assembly the
Senate and the House of Representatives
shall elect an Assistant Sergeant-at- Arms,
who shall receive rs full compensation for his
services four dollars per day from the day Of
bis election until tho day Of adjournment Of
The session. O t..
SEC 8. BE it further enacted, etc, That each
house Of the General Assembly, at each seq
sion, shall elect one Doorkeeper, who shall re-
ceive two dollars and fifty cents per day from
the date of their election until the close OF the
session.
SEQ. D. Be il further enacted, ETC., That the
President of the Senate shall appoint not ex-
ceeding four pages for the Senate, and the
Speaker Of the House not exceeding ten pages
for the House, who shall each receive one
dollar per day during the session from time of
his appointment.
SEQ. 10. Be Il further enacted, etc, That the
President Of the Senate and Speaker Of the
House shall be authorized to employ not ex-
ceeding three porters for the Senate and four
for the House, to make fires, supply water,
clean up the halls and do such other work as
may be necessary, at wages not exceeding two
dollars per day and the porters Of each house
shall be under the direction of the Sergeant
alarms.
SEC. II. Be 1t further enacted, etc, That the
President of the Senate and the Speaker of
the House shall divide the committee rooms
In the building used as the State-House be-
tween the two houses, aud when so divided
GilS Oh LIle penHISHnu speaker the
House, respectively shall assign rooms to the
standing commit ttees, and may, IL Ill their
Judgment it Is deemed expedient, assign one
room to several committees. That the Ser
geant,at-Arms shall, at least ten days before
the Adjournment of each session of the Gen
eral Assembly, render to the President of the
Senate and Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, respectively. a detailed statement
Of the expenditures made by them during the
session, accompanied by vouchers, which re-
MORT EhnlI he s11hrpfttnG IL, thu Tprp milf on nr,
Appropriations for each house, as soon rs
furnished, which committees are required to
examine and report to their houses; and no
expenditure Of money shall be made by the
The approval of the presiding. officers and Of
the chairman Of the Committee on Contin-
gent Expenses In the House, and Auditing
and Supervising Expenses in the Senate.
SEQ =. BE 1t further enacted, ETC., That the
Expenses OF the Serate and the Committee
on Contingent Expenses Of the House shall
keep regular set of books. crediting the
State with the amount OF the per diem and
travelling expenses of members, per diem Of
for their respective houses, and deblting the
State with payments made on any OF the
above accounts, daily, so as to have tho ac-
counts made up at the end Of each business
count with each member and employee On
contingent expense account, charging the
amount due them and crediting them with
payments made as they are made; and that
It shall be the duty of the COMMITTEES on
Auditing and Supervising the Expenses of the
Senate and the Committee on Contingent
Expenses in the House to issue. at the end OF
the first thirty days of the session and at the
close Of the session, and upon presentation Of
the proper evidence, certificate certifying
the amount due each member Of their respec-
tive houses for travelling expenses and per
diem, and each Of the officers and employees
of their respective houses his salary, and to
each contingent expense creditor the amount
due to said creditor, which certificate thus is
sued shall be approved on the part of the
part of the House of Representatives by the
Speaker thereof, and the Auditor of Public
Accounts shall and he is hereby directed to
issue his warrants for the amount OF said GER
tficates on the Treasurer, and the Treasurer
is hereby directed to pay the said warrants
out Of the funds provided therefor.
SEC. 10. BE Il further enacted, etc, That the
committees Of either house who may be re-
quired to visit the public or charitable insti-
buttons of this State, or for any cause leave