Format:
1 Online-Ressource (12 pages)
Content:
1858 report of the Louisiana House Committee on Commerce and Manufactures which examined the affairs of the Board of Health of New Orleans, and the Resident Physician at Quarantine Station. While finding expenditures properly indicated in the books, the committee made various recommendations to reduce expenditures and onerous taxation
Note:
Included is the "Minority report in relation to the Pilot Association" (pages 11-12) in which members "cordially approve of the main features of the Majority Report, [and] beg leave to dissent from that portion of it relative to the harbor masters, referring to suits being instituted to test the 'constitutionality of the law fixing the taxation upon the shipping arriving at New Orleans,' for the reason, we think it not within our province to inquire into its constitutionality, but its expediency under existing laws to serve the ends of its organization; and also to the whole of said report in relation to the 'Mechanics' Institute,' as we doubt the propriety of the Legislature, under any 'state of the Treasury,' making appropriations to such institutions; and more particularly do we dissent from that portion of said report relative to the Pilot Association."
Language:
English
