The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-15
OFFICIAL JOURNAL
or THE
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
OF THE
STATE OF LOUISIANA.

seyen,y-.econd pays Proceedings.

fOFGlQck ~ IL sgMms" -
present-Louis A. Witt. President, and lit
members. .....-
e Absent-Messrs. Allan, Benham, Brian,
Bulow. Cahen, Demas, King. Mentz, Ponder,
Nm. Smith, Stage, Steele Stewart Warmoth,
r. b. Williams.
The journal OF July II was corrected and
approved.
Mr.. Lott. chairman, on behalf OF the special
committee appointed to investigate charges
81 corruption against the Convention touch
i,,p the question Of the adjustment Of the
state debt. submitted report, which lies
over. .,
Ordinance No. 439, Concerning corpora
tions and corporate rights" being the special
order of the day, was taken up On second read
Inn and ordered to be considered article by
article. 5@r ".a...a.=..,
TO article Mr.. Cunningham offered the FOL
lowing amendment: -".
After the word "nor," in line 4, insert the
word renew
The amendment was adopted and article
was adopted as amended.
Article 2was adopted as printed.
To article 5, Mr.. Blanchard offered the fol-
lowing amendment:
Add at the end the words, land they may be
sued iii the courts OF any parish where they
may have taken risks by citation upon tnelr
agent In the parish Of his domicile.
on the motion Of Mr.. Robertson, by rising
vote Of 58 yeas to "a nays, the amendment
was laid upon the table.
Article 5 was adopted as printed.
Article being read, Mr.. Mcconnell moved
that it he stricken out
Mr.. Watkins offered the following amend
ment:
Amend so as to read: mo corporation
whose charter may be hereafter altered or
amended or renewed shall engage" etc.
Mr. Lagan offered the following as an
amendment to the amendment OF Mr.. Wat
kins: .m".
Add the words. Nothing ID TINS . artlc l.e
shall be construed as affecting associations OF
q purely charitable character, when SUCH real
estate ID used directly by such charity.
The amendment offered by Mr.. Lagan, by
rising vote Of Is yeas to 46 nays, was lost
The amendment offered by Mr.. Watkins, by
q rising vote Of 81 yeas to 46 nays was lost
MI. George offered the following amend
ment:
At the close Of the article add the words;
provided this article shall not Apply 70 iea eau
to real estate purchased hereafter by CORPORA
lions In collection or settlement OF debts now
due such corporation.
~ ON the motion of Mr.. Mutt the amendment
was laid upon the table,
MI. Forman moved to amend article Dy
inserting In line 4, after the word charter,
The words "or Incidental thereto" and moved
sthe previous question on the whole subject,
which was seconded.
BY rising vote OF As yeas TO IL nays, the
amendment was adopted.
On MI. McConnell's motion to strike out ar
ticle the yeas and nays were called Tor, with
the following result:
Yeas-Messrs. Babcock, Bell, Breaux, Bul-
ger, Burton, Byrne, Caffrey, Chaffe, Daven-
port Davidson 81 Claiborne Dl Har,,n EsEo an-
Marks, Marshall, Moreland, Mcdonnell,
PHELPS. Semmes, Stamps, Stevenson, String.
fellow, Strovich, Todd, Wells, Williams OF
Navs@Messrs. Baskin, Blanchard, Bolton.
Bourgeois. Breen, Bridger, Bulger, Carey,
i Chiapella, Claiborne, Collins. Colyin, David
son Of Iberville, Davis, Denis, Diekerson,
Easterly Edwards Eam r] Eaalk n r9fan
6I.I
Hazard, Henry Of Cameron, Henry OF Natch-
itoches, Hough, Howell, Jastremski,r Jof-
frion. Kelly, Kemp, Knoblock, Lana,ax Land,
Leake, Loan, Long, Lott. Luck sa Lyons lyons,
Matthews, Miliard Moore Moore Of NIT nE ande
Pardee. 'Parlange, Reid, Richardson, Rivet,
Roach, Robertson, Self, Simon, Smith Of St.
Mary. Stone Sutherlin, Thompson, vance,
Watkins, = White Young q East batoh
Absent-Me ssrs. Allan, Benham, Bien yenu
Demas. Gaskins, ella, JENKINS, Kidd, King
Krkman, Landry. Mentz, MOORE GRE, Of pa Ia
fourehe oyler ~ fcnpass tse IoG stawar
Warmoth, Webb, Williams OF Grant, Young
.of Concorda-3l.
The motion to strike out was lost.
Article 4 was adopted as amended.
On the motion OF Mr.. McGloin the vote by
which article was adopted was reconsidered
and he offered the following amendment:
At the end OF line add the words "or pur-
poses
The amendment was adopted.
On the motion Of Mr.. Simon, by a rising
vote Of 50 yeas to % nays. the article was 1ur.
ther amended, in line g. by striking out "hve
and inserting ten"
The article as amended, by q rising vote OF
46 yeas to % nays, was adopted, Messrs. VIC
Cornell and Davidson voting mo ""~
Article 5 being read. Mr.. Knoblock moved
that it be amended by striking out, in line 2
the word 'snor" and inserting the word ''or'
in lieu thereof. #5M@@~m.
On the motion of MI. Stone by rising
vote OF 81 yeas to s6 nays, the motion te
amend was laid upon the table.
ETha President In the chair3
On the motion of Mr.. Vance article s was
amended by adding the words land any cor
poration issuing such fictitious stock shall
forfeit It's charter"
Article was adopted as amended.
Mr.. Mcconnell voted mo-"
Article was read, and on motion OF MI
Lyons, it was amended by inserting In lin
6. after the word meeting the word stock
holders
Artiele6 was adopted as amended.