The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-11

SECOND MUNICIPALITY CoUNCIL.-The regular
weekly meeting of this body was held last evening
Recorder Baldwin presiding. The following Alder
men were present: Stockton, Renshaw, Montanye
Gleason, Peters, Bullitt, Marks, Graham, Lands
and Thacker.
Annexed is the Treasurer's statement for the last
two weeks:
Amount hand last eport............... $3.50 81
Received 2252O %
n,,, Sg3 5g8 q
On hand. I47 SO
Mr. Peters, from the Finance Committee, pre-
scented a resolution fixing the rate of taxation for
the next year at one per cent and making the taxes
payable on the LIST February next The resolution
also provides that the assessment shall be according
to the State Auditors tableau; that upon all taxes
paid in before the LIST February, a reduction Of %
per cent shall be made; that on all paid in before
that time shall accrue interest of per cent per
annum, and that the Tax Collector shall be empow-
cred to sue all defaulting tax payers alter the time
Tor payment appointed by the resolution shall have
elapsed
Mr. Marks, from the Police Committee, submit
ted repOrtsin favor of allowing Mr.. Mullen to erect
a cotton pickery Richard street, and in favor of
permitting the pckery of Mr.. Hue, on the same
street, which was petitoned against, to remain du-
ring the pleasure of the Council
Mr.. Marks, from the same committee, also pre-
sented report in favor of allowing the commits
soners for the superintendence of the building of
the new CustomhOuse, TO continue to completion
the buildings now being erected by them on the
neutral ground, - in Canal street, and to occupy
the same until the Customhouse is finished. Ac-
COmpanylng the report was a correspondence be-
tween the Commissioners and the Committee, in
which the former say that no cOmbustibe materials
viii be contained in the buildings to endanger near
premises, and that the shade trees planted on the
ground shall be protected from injury
A resolution was passed some months since to
allow material for the Customhouse to be lodged
the ground, but nothing was contained in it in re-
lation to buildings. This omission, Mr.. Marks said,
was an oversight on the part of the Committee, and
IN support Of his assertion he read the petition from
the Commissioners, to grant the prayer of which
the objeot of the resolution. This petition GER
ialnly askedHhe Council in plain terms for permits
sion TO erect buildings, and Mr. Marks argued that
since the buildings were in process of erection,
under the impression on the part Of the ComlIlis-
soners that the resolution covered all they asked,
it would be a breach Of faith on the part of the
Council TO them to be torn down, to arrest
their progress. He further argued the necessity of
tolerating temporary public inconvenience while
great public edlfices, alike ornamental and beneii-
Clal to the city, were being built He showed, too,
that several of the petitioners who complained in
this matter were not persons whose property was
endangered, or who would suffer inconvenience
from the proximity Of the temporary buildings, as
their premises on Common and Magazine streets,
and one of them is in the FRS! Municipality.
Mr.. Graham expressed his decided opposition to
the report As Canal street now is, it is completely
blocked up 1t is a great nuisance, he said, and
there was no knowing how long the buildings
would have to remain-perhaps fifteen years.
Mr.. Renshaw said, by adopting the report they
wonld be doing great injustice TO the occupants OF
premises in the neighborhood and to the owners of
property, IN allowing the thornughare TO be blocked
up for a period, the length of which could not be
determined. The Commissioners were putting up
building for materials, a carpenters shop, and
were putting up another building for an office the
sooner they stopped these buildings the better For
aught they knew they may be extended to Tchoupi-
toLlas street. They were put up in contravention
of the ordinances, and in despite of the notice of
the Mayor and Surveyor to discontinue them and
he was in favor of further progress being immedi-
ately arrested.
I Mr. Peters was in favor of inserting the papers
in connection with the matter in the journal of the
Council, but he would COMO farther. They had no
right to grant permission for the erection OF the
buildings; no more right than they would have to
authorize buildings 20 be raised in Lafayette Square.
He did not wish that any thing abrupt should be
done and as long as the occupants and owners OF
premises in the vicinity did not complain ne Wond
overlook the matter. Ii behoOyed the Council 10 be
careful of their action in legisatng the subject
lie would remind them that the title TO the ground
now covered by the storesN between the two lower
markets, was acquired, in Ae time Of the Old CITY
by granting temporary posi- Non, as is sought iol
i'll this instance
Mr.. Bullitt-when the resolution in question was
submitted, nne-tenths Of those present voted for Il
with the understanding that il only permitted mar
bic and ike material to be todged on the ground.
If the petition of the Commissioners read at the
tiue it was inds,inctly that he did not hear its
FurpOrt. lie would have opposed the resolution
had it given larger scope than it does
had been argued that 1.-THE Second Municipal
ity determined upon disturbing the buildings, the
Commissioners would remove them to that part o.
the ground within the limits of the First Munich.
palily, and that, while the Second would have tc
bear the odium Of throwing obstacles in the way O.