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No. 197.] JOINT RESOLUTION
Instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives in Congress, to call the at-
tention of Congress to a memorial of the State of Louisiana to Congress, presented in
the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, praying to cause to be removed obstructions
placed in the Bayou Lafourche by orders from General Jackson, during the invasion of
Louisiana by the British in eighteen hundred and fourteen and eighteen hundred and
fifteen.
Preamble. WIIEREAs obstructions were caused to be placed in the Bayou La-
fourche by orders from General Jackson, to prevent the British
forces from ascending said bayou; and whereas said obstructions
have caused serious injury to the planters on said bayou, causing
mounds and sand bars to be formed, narrowing the channel of said
bayou, causing the bed of the bayou to fill up, and increasing the
hight of the water so as to cause great injury to the plantations,
threatoning the lower portion of the settlement with destruction:
Therefore,
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened, That our Senators
Relative to the be instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to devote their
memiorial pre.
sonted to on. zealous attention to said memorial, a)d obtain such relief as Con-
gress In 1841. gress in its wisdom may deem necessaYy in the promises.
Relative to es- Be it further resolved, That should an estimate of the probable
tAmate of cost of cost of removing such obstructions be deemed necessary, that our
work. Sonators be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to cause
a resolution to be adopted, calling on the State Engineer of Louisi-
ana, to furnish Congress with an estimate of the probable amount
necessary to cause said obstructions to be removed.
Ccples to be Be it further resolved, That the Governor of the State of Louisiana
forwardedto our be requested to forward to each of our Senators and Representatives
gress. in Congress, a certified copy, from the office of the Secretary of
State, of those resolutions.
WM. W. PUGII,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
C. II. MOUTON,
Lieut. Governor and President of the Senate.
Approved. March 20th, 1856.
ROBERT C. WICKLIFFE,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy,
ANDREW S. IIERRON,
Secretary of State.
No. 198.] AN ACT
Making Appropriation for the General Expenses of the State for the fiscal year ending
thirty-first of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.
SEcTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
Appropriantions of the State of Loutisiana in General Assembly convened, That the follow-
for the salaries.aprpitdfrteolwngpr
of officers and Ing sums be and they are hereby appropriated for the following pur-
for the general
expeuses of the poses for the fiscal year commencing on the first day of April, eigh-
State for the is- teen hundred and fifty-six and ending on the thirty-first day of March,
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