The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-27

parish Of Orleans to the Criminal District
Court for said parish; providing for the ap'
pointment Of q shorthand reporter for the
Criminal District Court for the parish Of Or
leans, and fixing his salary; and to repeal
all laws and parts Of laws In conflict here
with.
Senate bill No. III,
An act fixing the burden Of proof Of due
diligence on railroad companies in certain
suits against them.
The following ..5.-
Concurrent Resolution,
Providing for the appointment Of joint
committee to examine the condition OF the
Louisiana State University and Agricultural
and Mechanical College,
Was taken up and adopted.
The following
Concurrent Resolution,
Requesting our Senators and Representa-
tives In Congress to use their. best endeavOrs
to obtain thepassage Of an appropriation Of
$4,000 to clean out the mouth Of Bayou Carlin,
ETC., 5.M-=.5 -=.
Was taken up and adopted.
HOUSE BILLS FROM THE SENATE AMENDED.
House bill No. Is,
An act ordering and requiring parish Or
municipal corporations In this State to receive
for taxes or licenses due any parish or mum.
cipal corporation prior to January 1, 1879, all
valid warrants, scrip or evidences Of indebt-
edness Of said parish or municipal corpora
ton,
Was taken up.
This bill comes from the Senate with the
following amendments:
Strike out the word 'including" and insert
the words, without any discrimination as to
what years said warrants scrip or evidences
OF Indebtedness shall have been issued"
Second amendment-In line %, strike out
all after the word "including," and all Of
lines 49, "a. 25 26. ~, %, 80, 80, 81, 49, and on
second page, lines l., Q and UP to word
"the," and insert In lieu thereof the words !:
provided that all valid metropolitan police
warrants or scrip for the years 1874, 1875 and
1876 shall be receivable only for that portion
Of the tax levied for the metropolitan police
fund, and no other. without any discrimina-
ton as to the year In which said warrants
were issued, or said taxes levied; and that all
school certificates issued according to law by
any school board shall be receivable for any
taxes due any parish or municipality only for
that portion Of the school tax due by said
parish or municipality"
Third amendment line 6, after the word
ye3hI, buu Ul1o WOluo PAlUk w kAC AA6b VI
January, 1879" "
At the end Of section add: "With the re-
strictionS above provided, without any dis
ordinations as to the year In which said
warrants, scrip or other evidences Of indebtr
edness were issued, or the debt contracted;
other evidence of Indebtedness Of any pa
rochial or municipal corporation shall be re-
ceivable for any tax or license unless the same
shall. after the passage Ct this act, have first
ish or the municipal authority Of the town or
city owing the Indebtedness and found valid,
and indorsed by them as such; and it shall
be the duty OF said police juries and municipal
authorities throughout the State to pass on
the validity Of said scrip and other evidences
sentation Of the same to them"
Add at the end OF section the words !:
"Provided, no right to plead prescription
shall hereby be waived. And provided further,
that all warrants and certificates condemned
by the police jury or municipal corporation
shall be SO stamped"
Mr.. Faulkner moved that the House concur
in the Senate amendments.
The yeas and nays resulted as follows:
Atkins, Baskin, Buchanan. Bulow, Butler,
Cade, Carron, Cayolle, Cosgrove, Curley,
Davidson, Deibel, Dlllard, Dudenhefer, Essex,
Farmer, Faulkner, Feazel, Franz, Gibson,
Golsan, Hall, Haney, Harris, Hathaway,
M Mlrsng Jackson Of Natehitochea gorion On
Jones, Kirk, Kleinpeter, Lancaster, Legendre,
Letten, Lyons, Mshoney, Mtllaudon, Nixon,
Morel, Munday, Mccain, Mccullough, Nc
Dowell. McLeroy. Ogden Of Bossier, Phipps,
shaiffer, Shepherd, Talten,, Vaughan, Vim
cent, VOORHEES,, Weems, Williams Of Terre-
bonnie, Williams Of MorehOuse, Wise, Young
of Iberia, Young Of st. Landry-68:
Nays-Messrs. Allan, Billiu, Dickerson,
Landry, Roche, St. Clair; R R. Telias no
ereaux. Frazier, Gardner, Herring, Kava-
nagh, Lucke, Morgan, Mcdonald, Newsom
Pearce, Phillips, Pope, Quinn, Schneider,
Stringfellow, Varnado-19.
The amendments of the Senate were con-
Cured In.
House bill No. 80,
An act to prescribe the amount and char
acter of the bonds and qualification of the
sureties to be furnished by the clerks Of the
civil and criminal district courts for the par
ish Of Orleans,
Was taken up, coming from the Senate
with the following amendments:
Section AFTER "bond." line Is, insert, 'as
follows: The clerk OF the criminal district
court"
After .dollars," line is. insert, s'and the clerk
Of the civil district court, In the sum OF twen-
ty thousand dollars"
In line 16, strike out the comma after
'each."
Section 2-After 'In." In line 81, insert "un-
incumbered immovable;" and in line 80 strike
out the words Tin real estate unincumbered. =
Section 3-After ''said, }" In line 7, insert ere
spective courts" and strike out Court
In line IS strike out ''real estate" and insert
"immovable"
After s'therein." In line Ia. Insert Sin favor
of the State, parish and all persons In inter-
est. Before said clerks shall commence the
discharge Of their duties, or be recognized,
they shall make affidavit before their respec-
tive courts, and have the same recorded In
the minutes, that they have caused their Off
oial bonds to be recorded as provided In this
act"
After "Orleans," In line II, insert land re-
corded In the mortgage records Of the sew
eral parishes of the State wherein said clerks
own immovaDles."
In line Is; strike out same" and insert "of
said bonds.''
In line II, strike out Secretary Of State, !"
and insert auditor OF Public Accounts"
Strike out from that" in line 8, to '.oH-