New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-11-18
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The resolution authorizing the omptrollev to
sell at auction the contract for the construction
Of an iron railing to Washington. Square-were
read and referred to the Committee on Improve
ment and Building.
The resolution prohibiting the use of horses
for loading and unloading vessels, was read and,
on motion Of Place, rejected. f56
The resolution allowing fifteen dollars to Thos.
Wagner for batture sand, was read, and referred
to the Committee on Finance.
The resolution granting the right OF way
through jackson street to the Lafayette and
Pontchartrain Railroad Company having been
read
Mr.. Shaw moved to amend by striking out the
words, " accepted by said Railroad Company"
which was carried, and the resolution as
amended, was concurred in.
The substitute for the resolution appropria-
ting FIVE thousand dollars for completing book
of plans having been read
Mr.. Bailey moved to appoint a Committee of
Conference on said subject, to consist Of six
members, three from each Board, which motion
prevailed. sslss
The President appointed on the part Of this
Board, Messrs. Bailey, Watkins and Leeds.
t@. - PETITIONS, ETC.
A statement from the Recorder Of the Third
District, of the amount sof fines collected by
him, to wit: nine hundred and seventy eight
dollars and fifty cents, was read, and received.
A bill Of Thomas Hunton for professional SER
vices in battdre suit, amounting to one hundred
dollars; of G. L. Turgeau, for payment of bal
ance due him as Secretary Of the late Third
Municipality Council; Of Jean Derete, for pay
ment of amount of assessment awarded him for
the exappropriation of his property for widening
Ursuline street; bill of John Ball, for stations
cry furnished the Public Schools of the Third
District; of Col. H. ParloDgue, for payment of
the appropriation due the Ninth Brigade,
Louisiana Militia-were read, and referred to
the Committee on Finance
Of l.. p. Gator, to be allowed to erect o tenn
parary pavilion on Canal street, for the sale eff
fireworks; of sundry residents and property
owners on st. Charles street, in favor OF the
location Of Dan Rices Circus on said street, near
Commercial Place; and of sundry citizens in
the rear of Camp street, for night watchmen,
etc.-were read, and referred to the Committee
on Police.
Of sundry property holders of the Fourth
District, for brick banquettes on the West side
Of Jersey street; of sundry tax payers of the
same District, for sundry improvements of sun
dry property owners in the rear Of the old Sec
ond and Fourth Wards, First District, asking that
the resolution to construct sundry banquettes,
passed by the late Second Municipality Council,
be carried out, etc. of sundry property holders
Of the First District for the planking of Euphro-
syne street, from Hercules to Howard streets
of Geo. Cronan, representing that in conse-
quence of the profuse watering of Levee and
Charities streets, he, as contractor, is compelled
to make additional repairs to said streets, and
asking to be refunded amount already expended
by him, viz: four hundred dollars and of
property holders on Tchoupitoulas street, be-
tween Race and Richard streets, for the removal
of the paving blocks obstructing said neighbor-
hood-were read, and referred to the Committee
on Streets and Landings
~ residents and property owners in the
vicinity Of the Dryades Market, for the opening
Of q street in the rear Of said market, was read,
and referred to the Committee on Improvement
and Building.
A petition of Maurice Power, for remission Of
a fine, was read and laid on the table, by the
casting vote of the President. I
A petition in favor of granting permission to
Homes & Bennett to establish blacksmith shop
and foundry on the corner of Benton and Eu-
phrosyne streets-having been read, .
Mr.. Leeds moved to grant said permission.
Mr.. Derbes moved to amend by granting per-
mission, subject to the Fire and Police regula-
tions. u
And on motion Of Mr.. Summers, it was re.
ferred to the Committee on Streets and Land.
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STANDING COMMITTEES u. F.
Mr.. Place, on behalf of the Committee on Fl
nance, presented the following report, which was
read and adopted:
The Finance Committee, to whom was referred
sundry claims, petitions, etc., respectfully sub
nit the following report End resolutions, and
ask to be discharged from the further consider.
alton Of the matter.
The petition OF It. Derelle, asking payment Of
one hundred and nineteen dollars and forty six
cents, for proportion of the late Third Munich.
pality, due him for the making Of apavilion on
the Place d Armes, on the reception of Gen. P
+. Smith, in 1848. The Council of the Third
Municipality having refused to pay the claim al
that time, your committee cannot recommend
the payment now.
The claims of Victor Hebert & Co., amount
ing to two thousand four hundred and seventy.
three dollars and forty-eight cents, for French
books ordered by the late Superintendent of tht
Board of Public Schools of the late First NUM-
cipality, on the 28th April, and LIST Sept last
your committee recommend their rejection, in
| asmuch as they were purchased without author
1-ity, and are unaccompanied by any certificate
The securities offered by W. H. Waters
Keeper Of the Police Jail, your committee re-
commend their approval, and annex the neces
sary resolution. ~.
The letters of Theodore Braun and II. F
Pelster, each requesting payment for services al
Health Wardens for one month; your committe,
have approved the same, and offer the necessary
resolution. L. FL. PLACE,
THOs. L. LEEDS,
- Frs. SIEwERssEN.
The following resolution, presented by Mr.
Place, on behalf of the Finance Committee
were read twice, and severally adopted unani-
mously by yeas and nays:
Resolved, That the securities offered by w
| H. Waters, Keeper of the Police Jail, viz.
Messrs J. N. Relf & Co., be, and the same ar
| hereby, accepted, and the Mayor is hereby au
| thorized to enter into the necessary bonds witt
| said parties. -ls
Resolved, That the Treasurer pay the follow
ing sums on the warrant of the Comptroller
| viz.
To Theodore Braun, thirty dollars for on
| month services as Health Warden
| To H. T. Pelster, thirty dollars for on
| months services as Health Warden.
Resolved, That the Treasurer pay the follow
ing sums on the warrant of the Comptroller
| viz:
To the NewOrleans Gas Co., for gas and fix
lures to LIST Sept. 1852, eight thousand min
hundred and twenty-one dollars and seventy
| three cents.
VIM. Merer, for boarding orphan boy George
four months, forty dollars.
Thos. McGovern, for cab hire for two months
while in the discharge Of his official duties