The election last November in 1872 led to disputed results between the parties.in January 1873, there was conflict in the streets. Union-backed forces held the Mechanic's Institute with federal marshals and police. The democrats set up a rival legislature in the Odd Fellows Hall across Lafayette Square from City Hall.
No. 56.] AN ACT
Making appropriations for the general expenses of the State for the unexpired term of the year ending the thirty-first day of December, 1873.
Appropriation to pay rent of a building used as a State House, ten thousand dollars.
image from Francis P. Burns, Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Winter, 1963), pp. 82
Courtesy Historic New Orleans Collection
