The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-07-14
oFFICIAL.
Council Of Municipality No. Two.


SATURDAY, June Il, 1851.
The Council met on the following call of the |
MAYoRALTY OF NkwORLEAss. July II. 1851. |
j. Calhoun, Esq, Sec. Council Municipality No. Tno:
SIR-You will please convene the Council for |
tomorrow Saturday evening, the 18th inst, at |
the usual hour and place.
Respectfully. your ohedient servant,
A. d. CROssMAN. Mayor.
Present: The Hon. James II. Caldwell, Pres
dent; Aldermen Brugniens Emerson, Etter, Haw-
thorn, Johnson, Perry, Renshaw, Sykes, Vontagen,
Wheelehan and Yancey.
On motion, the reading of the journal was dis.
pensed with.
The following message of the Mayor was read
and laid over for consideration:
MAYoRALTY OF NEwoRLEAas. July IL, 1851.
To the Hon. President and Members Of the
Council If .Mun'cipaiity No. Tpo:
GENTLEmEN-l have cansed you to he convoked
for the purpose Of laying before you the enclosed
communication from Messrs. Davis d. McLanathan,
in which, for reasons assigned, they decline signing
the contract for extending the steamboat landing
and ship wharves, adjudicated to them on the Both
June. have the honor to be, very respectfully,
your obedient servant, A. D. CRossMAN, Mayor.
NKwoRLIAss. July 10. 1851.
To the Hes 9s;. a. r. p; I1 or9sisman T,i,na Mayor of
STR-We, the undersigned, having been the low
est bidders for the building the wharves in The
Second Municipality, at your sale on the Both Of
June, 1851 are obliged to decline signing the oon-
tract for the. following good and sufficient reasons
First-That we have not been able to obtain a
written contract for signature 10 the present
| moment, and that this delay in furnishing one has
been of great loss and damage to us, as the river
| has fallen SO much that We should be compelled TO
work by hand that which we might have done by
| steam had we received the documents in season 10
| enable Us to go to work Immediately after our bid.
| Second-This delay will cause us great loss in
making our arrangements for materials, as well
| loss of labor etc.
| Third-That so much time has been lost by the
| delay Of the proper documents to enable us to com
| mence, that we should not be able to finish the
work, according to the specification, in season,
| which would leave us liable for fines of $50 per
| day, afer The lst of October, 1851.
All IF which we hope you will consider, and re-
lease us from situation in which we have been
| placed by no fault of ours.
We respectfully, your obedent servants,
DAVIS & McLANA1HAN.
A communication from The Commits ary of the
Seventh Ward, asking authority to have certain
lots in the rear of said Ward filled up, was read
and referred TO the Committee on Streets and
Landings, with power to act.
| A letter from the First Lieutenant of the Night
Watch, reporting the suspension of Watchman No.
80, was read and referred to the Committee on
Police.
| Ine IeslguduOu o1 fOnce OT1cer j. w. Behan
was read, aud on motion accepted.
Mr.. Renshaw, as Chairman of the Committee on
Streets and Landings, presented the following re-
port, which adopted:
The Committee Streets and Landings bee
leave TO report, that since The adjournment of III,
ECouncii they have, by authority of The powe
vested in them hy a resolution of the Council, No
1897, adopted July l, 1851, authorized the Sur
veyor 10 enter INTO the following contracts, agree
ably 10 adjudicalions by the Mayor, viz:
With David Moores, principal, and Charlie
Robinson security, for furnishing all material an
, | building drop tender for the Of the dredg
beat, in accordance with the specifications for tn
f sum of $1,000.
With James Davis and j. McLanathan. as prn
cpals, and ID. S. Graham and F. Martin as secur
ties, for furnishing all material aud extending .tear
boat landing aud shipping wharves AT SI9 rs ne
square for the former. and Sl9 per square for ih
latter, the work to be done in accordance with tn
| specifications
With James NJ. Forgay as principal, and Fl
Bier as security, for furnishing four hundred an,
eighty square yards block stone, agreeablv to tn,
specifications, at So per square yard-all Of whicl
is submitted for the approval of the Council.
RrfTr \ sFIsw. sRrssHAw.
BERNARD IN nA2Sa WarrLEHAs.
On motion, the Mayors message was taken up
and MIR. Renshaw, as Chairman, presented the fol
lowing resolutions, and they were adopted afte
. susrendng the rules:
, Resolved, That the Mayor be authorized and re
quesed, after giving five days notice in the offica
paper, resell, at public auction for account ans
risk of the former purchasers, James Davis and J
McLanathan, and their securities, d. S. Graham
and F. Martin, who have failed to comply wit
their bids, the contracts:
l. For furnishing all the necessary material an,
extending the steamboat landing
2. For furnishing all the necessary material am
extending shipping wharves Nos, 6, 7, 8, TO- H. l2
13 and a.
The above work TO be done in accordance witt
the plan deposited in the Surveyors office, and tn
specifications which will be furnished by the Sur
veyor, and published with the notice given by tn
| Mayor.
Resolved That during the adjournment of tn
Council .he Committee Streets and Landing
be empowered to carry out all works ordered b
the Council and coming under their supervision.
i And on motion the Council adjourned
: JOHN CALHOUN. Secretary,