The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-17

the traQsaCOn of regular business Recorder GenOis
presiding, and ten members present. The following
message from the Mayor was read:
MAYORS OFFICE OF New ORLEANs,l
October 49, 1913.
To tfc Hon. President and Members Of Council Of .MHR
Agreaby 10 the resolution passed by your honorable body
Me Mcneil Duplessis, and Dupre and request them to
withdraw tbsF IesIgnations have 70 inform you that the
ent was used 10 prevail on them to meet your wishes they
Enc osed hand You copy Of petition and citation from
the Honorable Third District Court, in the case of J. L.
Bglen rerSns Municipality No. One, wherein claim for
$40 Ng damages Is made for an arrest and imprisonment
A. D. CRossMAN, Mayor.
Alderman Fabre moved that the designations be
received and the usual steps adopted to fill the
vacancies. "A resolution was passed authorizing
the Mayor to issue notice that an election shall be
held on the second Monday of November, at the
usual places designated, for three Aldermen TO Gil
the vacancies OCcasoned by the resignation Of the
above named gentlemen. Alderman Fabre also
submitted a resolution that Finance Committee
should be appointed by the President to act ad nte
yjm-adopted. The Recorder appointed on the
committee Aldermen Fabre, Gourdain and BLANCHE
That part Of the Mayors message relative to the
citation of A. ID. Bolen, was referred to the Attor
ney of the Municipality.
The Council then proceeded to the consideration
of the unfinished business left over at the last sitting
Alderman Blanque moved that the Surveyor be in
structed TO furnish Dennis CrOnan with certificate
for paving done in Bienvill5 street, provided the
work had been accomplished in a satisfactory man.
ner. lie supported his resolution by some remarks,
20 the effect that he had more in view the urgency
of bringing the contract TO termination than a
desire 10 interfere with its completion account of
some trivial departure from the exact letter Of the
contract
This resolution led to a very animated debate, in
which all the members took part The main point
of the controversy being the opposite merits Of
bank stones and sea shore stones, which the alder
men handled with facility that must have struck
Dennis Cronan himself with admiration. Round
stones and square stones heW-in debate-in every
dTccliCI; but no damage was done. Alderman
. lagan opposed the resolution in a lengthy argu-
ment, in which he commended that it was improper
for the Municipality to depart from the strict letter
of the ConiraCt-that II established bad precedent
of which future contractors might avail themselves:
and that, moreover, the material employed in the
paving Of Behyille street, was not equal to that
which the agreement called for. He assured mein-
bers, thai 90 his personal knowledge, many Of the
property holders would refuse pay up their quota
he had nothing 10 do with the fact alleged, that
Z Cronau had purchased much Of the material from
the corporation, as well might the contract call for
paving with granite stone, and sand ballast be
used instead, on the ground that the Municipality
had a supply of the latter and none OF the former
lie was aware, however, that his opposition could
mot defeat the resolution, and therefore moved an
amendment that in the event of the passage OF the
resolution, Mr.. Cronan be required to furnish secu-
rity TO hold the Municipality harmless for that por-
uon Cd be collected from the property-holders, and
that he collect il at his own expense and risk.
Alderman lanata moved that the surveyor be
scalied in, and ON his appearing he questioned
10y the members relative TO the contract. He
stated that it had been fulfilled to Che letter, but
1bat on the whole the work was we'll done.
Alderman Fabre opposed the amendment, and
Indignantly spurned the charge Of avoritism which
had been made by the member of the First Ward !;
he was no friend Of Cronan, as the Council well
knew, but he urged the adoption Of the original
resolution tr0ma desire TO have an important and
extensive contract completed
Alderman SILK remarked that the paving was
exceedingly Wen DONE but that there were some
persons present who would have obieetedto it even
II the contractor had made use Of marble and por-
.phyry.
Ailer some further discussion the question being
put ON the amendments It was lost by a vote of G
pays TO 3 yeas, On the final adoption Of the orr