The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-14

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soon thereafter as may be practicable"
Oh motion Of Mr.. Henry the amendments
were adopted.
The section as amended was adopted.
The bill was passed to third reading.
| SENATE BILLS ON FIRST READING.
The following entitled Senate bills were
, taken up On first reading, read by their titles
: and passed to second reading.
Senate bill No. 65,
An act providing causes OF recusation Of
the judges Of the courts Of Louisiana.
Senate bill No. 90,
An act to restrict the employment OF sail
ors and crews OF foreign sea-going vessels
from rolling cotton, handling cargo or labor
Ing on the wharves and Ievee of the city OF
New Orleans beyond the end Of tie ships
tackle.
Senate bill No. 1916,
An act to amend and re-enact section 800 OF
the Revised Statutes OF 1870, In regard to
bigamy.
Senate bill No. III,
An act to transfer certain balance In the
State Treasury, now credited to the levee
and drainage fund. to general engineer fund.
Senate bill No. l16,
| An act to amend and re-enact sections
and Of act No. SO OF the General Assembly
OF 1879. being entitled IAN act to repeal act
No. Of the extra session OF 1878; to create q
Board OF State Engineers; to define their
powers and duties; to levy q tax Of one mill
for lovee and public improvement purposes;
to divide the State into levee districts; to
| provide for the appointment OF boards OF levee
| commissioners therefor, and to prescribe their
duties and powers; to authorize the imposi-
tion OF a district levee tax, not to exceed five
mills on real estate and taxable property; to
vest the control OF levees and completed pub
lie works throughout the State Ia police iurles;
and to impose certain duties on the Governor
| OF the State"
Senate bill No. 119,
An act directing the State tax collectors to
receive for all licenses and general fund taxes
the warrants drawn by constitutional officers
OF the State for their salaries, under the pres
ent constitution; to cash said warrants when
presented, and to prohibit speculation IN the
same.
Senate bill No. 1876
An act relative to the powers and duties OF
clerks OF district courts and their deputies
throughout the State, the parish Of Orleans
excepted.
Senate bill No. 126,
An act to regulate the manner OF making
advertisements In judicial proceedings, or
sales OF property under judicial process, or
any other legal proceedings In all parishes,
regulating the price therefor, and repeating
oil laws or part Of laws In conflict herewith.
Senate bill No. 1919,
An act empowering police juries to declare
hedges and fences made Of posts planks or
barbed wire to be lawful, and empowering
police juries to authorize the use OF the
same.
Senate bill 1884,
An act relative to the payment OF costs OF
court In contested election cases, and In cases
In which the right to Office Is claimed.
Senate bill No. 145,
An act to punish the crime Of Incest.
Senate bill No LAG,
An act relative to the appointment OF COM
missioners to superintend the repairs OF the
State-House at Baton Rouge, and defining
their duties and powers.
Senate bill No. $50,
An act requiring the Auditor and Treasurer
to hold the money accruing to the general
fund by article 8 of the State debt ordinance
for the expenses Of 1880; and to enforce article
8 Of the State debt ordinance.
The following Senate Concurrent Resolu-
ton was taken up:
Concurrent Resolution approving the ad-
dress Of the Mississippi Valley States Com
mission and memorializing Congress to con-
cider the improvements for the Mississippi
river, and requesting the Governor to forward
copies to our representatives OF this resolu-
tion, etc. |
The resolution was ordered to lie over.
HOUSE BILL FROM THE TABLE.
House bill No. 191,
An act to provide for the settlement of the |
indebtedness Of the State OF Louisiana, in
CURED In the prosecution Of tax and license |
suits In the State Of Louisiana,
Was taken up on second reading, under the
favorable report OF the Committee on the Ju-
dietary, with amendments.
The amendments offered by the committee
were adopted.
Mr.. Billiu moved that the bill be engrossed
and passed to third reading.
By rising vote Of Al yeas to Is nays, the
motion was agreed to.
Mr.. Morel stated his objections to the
above entitled House bill No. 191, as follows:
Il object to the bill on the ground that 1t Is
a special law or special legislation"
SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY.
House bill No. 223,
An act to provide an annual revenue for the
State Of Louisiana, by the levying OF annual
taxes upon all property not exempted by the
constitution from taxation, and by prescrib-
Ing the methods Of assessing and collecting
the same and of enforcing payment thereof,
Being the special order Of the day for this
day at p. NJ. was taken up on its third read
ing.
The bill was read In full
A call of the House was ordered, and the
members answered to their names /:
Messrs. Archer. Allan, Atkins, Aitken,
Barry, Baskin, Billiu, Buchanan, BuIger,
Butler, Bulow, Cade, Cayolle. Cosgrove, Cur
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