The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-07-17
BILLS FINALLY PASSED.

The following House bills were
finally passed in the Senate on Wed-
| nesday:
An act to amend and re- enact act
1O5, session of 1884, entitled an act to
amend and re-enact act 81, session OF
1880, an act entitled an act to regulate
the number of employees of the register
OF conveyanccs for the parish Of Or
leans, aud to fix their salaries. Ayes
25, nays none.
Joint resolution to amend article 90
of the Constitution, providing for a
lapse in the Office of Lieutenant Gov
ernor. Ayes 90, nays none.
BY act retaining Walter Il. Som-
merville and Omer Villere, counsel for
The State of Louisiana, in the matter
of succession of Kate Townsend, fix
ing their fee, and authorizing the pub
lie administrator of the parish Of Orr
leans to pay said fee ayes, %; nays, 2.
Au act to amend and re enact sec.
tions No. aud of act No. 127 OF
1880, entitled can act to provide for
the appointment Of a superintendent
and other officers and employees of the
New Basin, Canal and Shell Road,
prescribing his duties, fixing his
salary, and limiting the expense OF
said Basin, Canal and Shell Road
ayes, 20 nays, none.
An act TO provide an annual reve-
nue. for the State of Louisiana by the
levying of annual taxes upon all pro.
perty not exempted by the Constitu-
ton from taxation, and by prescribing
the methods of assessing and collecting
the same and enforcing payment there
Of /; ayes, % nays, 1.
An act to provide for the better and
more speedy collection OF the poll tax;
ayes. 56 nays, 2:
An act to place all funds to be de-
rived from the collection of the State
taxes due by the Vicksburg, Shreve-
port and Pacific Railroad Company up
to and including the year 1883, in the
parishes of Ouachita and Richland, to
the credit of the Tensas Basin LeVec
District, to be used for levee purposes,
and to authorize the police juries OF
said parishes to make appropriations
for the same purpose; ayes, 81; nays, Z.
An act for tho better protection Of
buildings and property belonging to
the State situated in Baton Rouge
ayes, 81 nays, 4.
An act regulating insurance compa-
nies conducting business in this State,
either domicilcd or by agent, as to the
rebate allowed by same, and fixing
the penalties for violation of the pro
visions of this act. Ayes "A, nays 1.
An act to rc-establish the beneficiary
system at the Louisiana State Univer-
sity and Agricultural and Mechanical
college, and to make an appropriation
for that purpose. Ayes 2G, nays 5.
An act to create special lcvee dis
trict within certain limits prescribed
by this act to empower said corpora
ton to levy contributions and to issue
bonds, and to provide for the payment
thereof, and under certain circum-
stances to require, under penalty, the
performance of labor by certain per-
sons on said levee, to enforce the col
lection of said contributions, aud for
other purposes. Ayes &c, nays none.
An act making it crime for any
physician or practitioner OF medicine
to prescribe spirituous or Intoxicating
liquors with intent to evade, or with
intent to assist others to cvade, the
payment OF any license required by
any State law or parochial or munici-
pal ordinance for the salc of said spiri
tuous or intoxicating liquors, or with
intent to cvade, or with intent TO as
sist others to evadc any such laws or
ordinance prohibiting the sale of said
spirituous or Intoxicating liquors, and
to prescribe the punishment therefor.
Ayes 2G, nays none.
An act to increase the number Of
justices Of tho peace in The second ward
of Calcasieu parish. Ayes 2G, nays
none.
An act to amend and fc,rnact s:c-
| ton 80 of the Revised Statutes uf
1870. Ayes 2S, nays none.