True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1839-04-04
4rotteut,igs Of Co,.,rrll.
Sc co Nd. MUNTCIPALITY

' TUESDAY, ID April, 1889.
. Ihe Seunctl met pursuant to adjournment
Pfseent Hon Joshua Baldwin. Recorder; Alder.
Whitnsy. and Yorke.
\ The Journal Of the preceding meeting having
ban read and approved,
TIE Recorder laid before the Council tho papcrs
~ suit before the Dist let Court, entitled Bow
ditch, Stanton 4 Go. vs.. Municipality No, 2,
which, on motion. wore referred 10 tho Committee
on Site y and Landings.
The weekly Statement of the Treasurer was
eob,nittsd, showing the balance at last report to
hsvs tsen 1919 10; received since, $3,976 80:
City Bank drawn from, sl7,O3s 80; municipal
notes exchanged. $l,305 Is. Expended $l5,.
5O5 A.; City Bank deposited; $4,000; notes pay
abb. $685. 30; notes redeemed, $2.379; balance,
sails 81. s
IN A petition from Lords & Co. was referred TO
she Finance Committee.
8 Mr.. Peters, ~ Chairman of the Finance Com
mittee, introduced tho following ordinances and
revolutions, which. tho rules bcing dispensed with,
wore severally takcn up and adopted:
An Ordinance. authorising the issue Of 2OOO 900
dollafs-Bonds of this Municipality to the State
ct Louisiana. in exchange for an equal amount
/ Of bonds Of tho State.
1. Be il Ordained, That the Mayor be and he
10 hereby authorized to issue, comfortably with
law, Bonds Of this Municipality to the State Of
Louisiana, TO the amount oftwo hundred thousand
dollars /; which Bonds shall be delivered 10 the
Treasurer of the State in exchange for the same
amount Of Bonds Of the Slate as is also provided
by law.
2. Be it further Ordained, That in order to pro,
vide for the punctual payment Of the Bonds author.
lied 10 be emitted by this Ordinance, a sinking
I. fund shall be established, and kept in the Union
hank OF Lonisiana, in which shall be annually de.
posted by the Treasurer four housana eight humid
rod dollars, said deposit be made in the month Of
n AL lvnnp INIT sho oe
Bonds; and in order to insure said annual payment
to said sinking fund, the revenue arising from tho
wharfage tax is Hereby specially pledged to the
amount Of said sum Of four thousand eight hundred
dollars Per annnm, during twenty five years.
Resolved. That the sum of one hundred and
forty dollars be paid 10 Dove and Cochane, on the
warrant Of the Mayor, for lining an oil c,stern with
Resolved, That Neil Campbell DO accepted as
securMy for James Flood, in the sum Of tn ee
thousand dollars on his contract for repairing paw.
90 streets for the present year, instead of Duncan
Campbell.
T., Resolved, That the Treasurer pay to C. Lcmai-
tre. on tbs warrant Of the Mayor. Two hundred dol.
lara for collecting tax bills for the years 1886 and
1897. amounting TO $AO24 40; sah bill hay-
ing boon returned by tho attorney employed to
collect them.
An Ordinance more fully defining the dutc. of the
Attorney. Of the Municipality, and fixing his
compensation Tor collecting.
!. Be It ordained, that the Attorney of this MI.
niciPality shall hereafter keep his office in some
convenient place within this Municipality.
He shall keep Register of all suits brought
in behalf Of tho Municipality, and shall keep mi
nutes of their progress duly recorded in said Re.
gister which Register shall be open at all times tc
the inspection Of the Mayer, the R.c ordcr any Of
the Aldermen OF this Municipality, and 10 the
. Comptroller and Treasurer.
3, He shall mako a monthIv rrnort IN the Comm
troller, of tho condition Of the business entrusted
10 his caro-.
4. No suit shall hereafter be insttatsd by any
officer Of the Municipality, except fde fnes) with
out such suit shall be first sanctioned by the AT.
tvrney.
S. The compensation to the Attorney Tor rcco
vering and collecting moneys and notes, secured
70 the satisfaction of the Council, shall be two and
half per cent commission all sums collect
Cd, provided that in no shall the compensation
tor any ono suit exceed one hundred dollars, with
out the previous consent of the Council.
b. The salary Of tho Attorney remains fixed at
one thousand dollars per annunl.
I. All resolutions and ordinances contrary to
this. are hereby repealed.
Resolved, That notes be issued to John Minturn
having not less than ninety days TO run, for thirty
three thousand and seventy.sx dollars, 96.l01, in
such sums ms he may require, being tho amour,
due HIM for paving, conformaby with the ccrtf
cate Of the Surveyor.
Mr.. Gloyd, as Chairman of tho Committee on
Streets and Landings, introduced the following
Report, accompanied with tic annexed Resolution
which the rules boing dispensed with, was adopted
On motion Of the same gentleman, the accom-
Panying letter from the Attorney, was ordered to
bc published with tho report.
The Committee of Streets and landings Ia
whom wa, referred the memorials of sundry per
sous, for and against opposing the street from
Poydras to Girod street, between Tchouptoua,
and Magazine streets, respectfully report that they
have attcntively examined tho subject and have
unanimously arrived.at the following conclusions
That tho Council has proceeded strictly accord
ing 10 the provisions Of the law of third Of April
1889, in Ia ing out said street, andin condcmnng
the private property necessary therefor Tint said
street was deemed ,mport,nt n tho ;n,crcst, of
majority Of the owners of the property fronting on
the same; owners also of more than three. fourth.
Of the ground through which said street rnrs-an,
that said owners have given their assent to sal,
improvement, either by petitions to this Council
or BY tl,cir sen, acqur.cenc, to the decree of III,
Council ordering sad street to be opened, Of whicI
public notice was given according TO law in orde
,nat opposition might be made if any reasons OK
listed therefor.
That the ground condemned der said law as
public street, now bclengs to the publitA and tl,a
tho only question that cau arise i. with respect tc
the assessment of damage and benefit hy the Com
missi.ners appointed by tho Court
That a NC regard to the rights and interests OF
the owners of property fronting on said street. wIc
have pcti,ioncd for tic sane, and who hive re-
moved their buildings ticrctron, erected new build
ings from ling thereon Nc. make, j, the Imperative
duty Of the Councii 10 usc al LEGAL means to mn,
them and the public in .posse,son Of said street.
with tile least possible DELAY.
Il The ext aordinary allegations in the memorial
of Lucius c. Duncan acting M agent nj tho estate
ef D. Herman, and Others which although IN,