The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-25

clearinghouse and steamboats,; and to re-
peal all laws or parts OF laws contrary to and
inconsistent herewith.
BY Mr.. Curley-
House bill No. 1Ol,
An act to repeal act No. 101, approved April
30, 1877, and to provide for the appointments
OF u registrar OF voters for the parish OF Or
leans. and clerks of registration throughout
the State; fixing their compensation; defining
their duties and powers; providing for a new
registration for the city of New Orleans; 10
provide for the keeping OF registry OF legal
voters to define the duties OF certain officers:
to prescribe penalties for violations OF this
act, and to regulate the manner OF register
Ing voters throughout the State, and to pro-
vide for the appointment OF special canvass-
ers, etc.
BY Mr.. Williams. of Terrebonne-
House bill No. 49,
Joint Resolution requesting our Senators
| and Representatives In Congress to use their
best endeavors to secure the passage OF u bill
to appropriate $4,000 for the purpose Of
| cleaning out and deepening the channels OF
Bayou Terrebonne Grand GALLON, Little
! GALLON and Bayou Black.
| HOUSE BILLS ON SECOND READING REFERRED
TO COMMITTEES.
| The following entitled House bills were
taken up on their second reading, read by
their titles and referred to committees, as
| follows:
BY Mr.. Cosgrove-
| House bill No. 155,
| An act to regulate and fix the fees and COM
pensatiOn OF the SheriT3 throughout the
State, the parish OF Orleans excepted. and to
| fix and regulate the fees and compensation
Of the clerks OF the district courts and er
| oDfcio clerks OF the courts OF appeal and er
OOictD parish recorders OF conveyances, mort
cages and other acts, and notarles public
throughout the State, the parish OF Orleans
| excepted; to require specific fec bills to be-
posted; to prescribe penalties for oyercharg-
ing; to require specific foe bills to be filed be-
fore retiring from office; to define what shall
DO taxed costs; to require the deposit OF fees,
to provide for the collection OF fees, forfeiture
of costs. and directing clerks to furnish
specific bills Of taxed costs when required.
| To the Committee on the Judiciary.
BY Mr.. Jones
| House bill No. 1876,
/ AL ACL W HIueIu Auu Tc-elluCL BGCLlOl JJI OK
| Rays Revised Statutes.
| TO the Committee on the Judiciary.
| By Mr.. Buchanan
! House bill No. 1877,
An act to authorize the opening, carrying
or and continuing Of private markets wlthin
the limits OF any and all parishes or munich
pal corporations OF the State OF Louisiana,
and to provide for the proper regulation
thereof.
To the Committee on Health and Quaran-
tine.
By Mr.. Pope
| House bill No. 1853,
An act to provide for the admission Of parol
evidence In all cases to show an interruption
OF prescription on all debts due the Poydras
fund of the parish OF West Baton Rouge.
To the Committee on the Judiciary.
By MIR. Pope
House bill No. 159,
An act to authorize the police jury OF tho
parish of West Baton Rouge, as better So
Icurity and investment OF money belonging to
the Poydras fund, to purchase land and to
receive transfers OF property In payment OF
| debt.
To tho Committee on Parochial Affairs.
BY Mr.. Phillips
! House bill No. 1GO,
| An act to repeal act No. 96 OF the extra ses-
sion OF 1876, approved March &c. 1876, entitled
AN act granting to w. IL. Finnegan the right
to establish a ferry across the Mississlppi
river" etc, and to cancel the privilege there
| In contained.
| TO the Committee on the Judiciary
| By Mr. Faulkner
I House bill No. 1G1,
An act for the better security of life DROP
| erty and commerce within the State OF Lolis-
lana; to create board OF railroad commis-
sioners, and for other purposes.
| 70 the Committee on Public Works, Lands.
Levees and Railroads.
By Mr.. Farmer
House bill No. 162,
An act to provide for the appointment by
| the Governor OF police jurors throughout the
State for the four years next succeeding the
promulgatlon OF this act, or until the next
general election, In the year 1884.
| To the Committee on Parochial Affairs.
By Mr.. Richardson
| House bill No. 1853,
| An act providing for the paym ent and sat-
| lsfaction OF the judgment OF the Sixth District
Court Of the parish of Orleans, in suit No.
$685. entitled st. G. w. Ellis Vs. the State OF
| Louisiana"
To the Committee on Claims.
| By Mr.. Kavanaugh-
| House bill No. 16G,
An act to amend and re-enact article 3l2 or
the Code OF Practice OF 1870.
| To the Committee on the Judiciary.
| By Mr.. Butler
| House bill No. 1G7,
| An act to provide for the trial OF offenseg
where the punishment is not necessarily i'm
prisonment at hard labor or death, and to
carry into effect article Of the constitution.
To the Committee on the Judiciary.
By Mr.. Butler
| House bill No. 1913,
An not tn carry into effect article ~ <bn