Begun and Held in the City of Baton Rouge on the
Sixteenth Day of May, 1898.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

BATON ROUGE:

THE ADVOCATE, OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.

1898.

on

to pay said warrants out of the first monies paid into the
Treasury on licenses due in
the year 1898, and
taxes which fall due in the year 1898 by prefer-
ence over all other warrants except warrants for the sala-
ries of the Constitutional officers of the State for the year 1898,
which shall be concurred with the warrants provided for in
this act.

S. P. HENRY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
R. H. SNYDER,

Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate,

MURPHY J. FOSTER, Governor of the State of Louisiana.

Approved June 2d, 1898.

A true copy:

JOHN T. MICHEL,

Secretary of State.

Recommending

S. C. C. Res. No. 2-By Mr. Denechaud.
Act No. 2.]

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.

Whereas, Lieutenant Jacques de Lafitte, U. S. Army, a native of Louisiana, and for the past two years the able instructor of the State National Guard, has applied to the President of the United States for authority to raise a regiment of immunes as provided for by recent Act of Congress:

Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Louisiana, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Senators Jacques de Lafitte nd Representatives from Louisiana be requested to use their best efforts in having such authority granted.

to Congress Lieut.

for authority to

raie a regimeut of immunes.

Be it further resolved, That a copy hereof be transmitted to the President of the United States and to the Senators and Representatives from Louisiana.

S. C. C. Res. No. 3--By Mr. Sirjacques.

Act No. 3.]

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.

Resolution requiring an investigation of the books, accounts, vouchers and other official documents of the Auditor and Treasurer of the State.

Requiring an in

vouchers and other

of the Auditor and

Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Louisiana, the House of Representatives concurring, That a committee of ves igation of the five (5), two (2) on the part of the Senate and three (3) on the books, accounts. part of the House of Representatives, be appointed by the official documents President of the Senate and Speaker of the House, respec- Treasurer of the tively, as a joint committee of the General Assembly, whose State. duty it shall be to make an investigation of the books, accounts, vouchers and other official documents of the Auditor and Treasurer of the State of Louisiana, and make a detailed report thereof to both Houses of the General Assembly, as required by Sections 195 and 3779 and 3780 of the Revised Statutes; with authority to employ an expert to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate and House of Representatives.. S. P. HENRY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

R. H. SNYDER,

Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate,

Approved June 9th, 1898.

A true copy:

JOHN T. MICHEL,

MURPHY J. FOSTER,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.

Secretary of State.

S. C. C. Res. No. 4-By Mr. Sholars.

Act No. 4.]

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.

Whereas, the Hon. Samuel D. McEnery, United States Senator from Louisiana, has laid before the General Assembly of Louisiana, the following letter, to-wit:

Washington, D. C., 1232 17th Street,

April 13th, 1898.

Hon S. D. McEnery, U. S. Senator of Louisiana:

Dear Sir-During the war in 1862 at Baton Rouge, La., one of my men brought me this bit of stone. The State House had been, unfortunately burned. This stone is a specimen of the great block furnished the Washington monument by the State of Louisiana; and it gives me infinite pleasure to restore