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Louisiana Capital Locations: 1875

and some capitol places

1875

No. 6.]                           AN ACT
To provide for the purchase of A State House; to make appropriation therefor; to set apart the necessary funds, and to grant jurisdiction for the enforcement of the acts of sale and mortgage.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened, That the building known as the St. Louis Hotel property, now occupied as the Capitol, be purchased by the State of Louisiana for the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, with interest.

No. 17.]     AN ACT
Making appropriations for the general expenses of the State for the year 1875; providing for deficiencies existing in appropriations for the year 1874, and for the payment of claims and obligations due by the State of Louisiana prior to the first day of January, 1874; providing for the payment and auditing of said claims and obligations out of the revenues of the years in which said obligations were issued or said claims incurred; providing for and regulating the manner of auditing, warranting and liquidating said claims and obligations and providing for the receipt of certain warrants in payment of certain taxes due the State, and to provide for the absorption of the floating indebtedness.

Salary of keeper of State House at New Orleans, six hundred dollars, $600, payable on voucher approved by the Lieutenant Governor.
Salary of keeper of State House at New Orleans, six hundred dollars, $600, payable on voucher approved by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Salary of the keeper of State House and public gardner at Baton Rouge, six hundred dollars, $600.
Appropriation for the payment of fixtures and furniture of the office of the Superintendent of Education at the State House, or so much as may be necessary, one thousand dollars, $1000.

1875 Act No. 6

1875 Act No. 17