The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-06

MONROE. La. FEBRUARY 9. 1880.
FOR PRESIDENT
GEN. ". s. H:A.HLOCX.
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
Mr.. Farmer introduced into the
House, a bill to provide an annual rev.
enue for the State by taxation and as
sessment.
1t provides for tax Of six mills on
all taxable property. Three mills of
this tax are to be used to pay, first, the
interest ON the consolidated bonds IA
fixed by the State debt ordinance, and,
second, If any sum remain In the treas
ury after paying the interest coupons
thereon, or any bonds maturing and
which have been presented, the bal
ance, after reserving enough TO pay the
coupons falling due on the June next
following, shall be used to purchase
bonds with their coupons not matured,
at the lowest prices at public auction.
One mill on the dollar IL to be used for
levee purposes.
One mill for educational purposes,
such as to pay the interest on the free
school, the Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College and the Seminary funds;
$40, 900 for the maintenance annually
OF the State University Of Louisiana;
$40, 900 annually for the Louisiana
State University and Agricultural and
Mechanical College; $4,000 annually
for university for persons of color; the
remainder of the fund to be applied to
1T "a
mill on the dollar, general fund tag, is
to be used for these purposes: to carry
on the Government of the State and
the institutions thereof; to suppress in
surrectfOn, repel invasion and defend
the State in time of war; to supply ar
tificial limbs to soldiers who lost their
limbs in the Confederate service.
Section 8 exempts from taxation only
such property as named in article 2O7
of the constitution.
AL taxes shall be collected in the
calendar year in which the assessment
is made, and shall be paid on or before
the 3lst December.
Tho committee on relies and for
supplying disabled soldiers with arti-
fetal limbs announce that they will
meet in the room of the judiciary COM
lnittce, on Tuesdays and Thursdays,
at II 80 a. M, Of each week, until fur
Their notice.
Tho clerks of courts of records
throughout the State generally are re-
quested to forward to the committee a
list of probable beneficiaries, r. sidents
of the several parishes, under article
2O4 of the constitution, together with
all the facts in each particular case.
Evidence submitted must DO explicit
ons1 OF w, IN tho nif va,,S1,in IF
the applicant, the command TO which
he belonged, and the exact nature OF
his disability. ~
The following opinion, in response
to n resolution which passed the House
n few days ago, was received from the
Attorney General and referred to the
Committee on Railroads:
ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE,
State Of Louisiana,
New Orleans, February =, 1880.
Hon. Robt. N. Ogden, Speaker of the
House of Representatives.:
Dear Sir-In response to the rcsolu-
ton of the House of Representatives,
this day received, in regard to the case
of tho State of Louisiana vs. the Vicks-
burg, Shreveport and Texas Railroad
WouAu Suy i
the State has legal and just claim.
This corporation gave to the State, in
payment of Il debt due and secured by
mortgage, stock in said company, and
said company has, by a judgment of
the Supreme Court of the United States,
been declared not to be the owners of
the road and its franchises. 1t is, there
fore, in my view of the law, like all
other persons who sell property, respon-
sible in warranty ON account Of want
of title in the property conveyed.
The success OF this suit, both in
obtaining judgment and realizing the
amount due the State from the COR
portion, must of course depend upon
the vigilance upon which it is pros
ecuted. Ineed scarcely say that it is
impossible for me to give this suit, in
stituted and carried on in Monroe, that
attention necessary for it's successful
prosecution and termination.
Very respectfully,
j. G. EGAN, Attorney General.
Congressman Acklen of this State is