New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-14

missioners to take the census of the city; all to
be elected subject to such regulations as the
Council may hereafter provide.
Mr. Stevenson presented the following ordi-
nance, which was laid on the table:
The Common Council of the city of NewOr-
| leans ordains as follows, viz
| ART l. That the Comptroller shall, after ten
days notice in the official newspaper of the late
| General Council of the city of NewOrleans, ad-
| Indicate to the lowest bidder, for the term of
one year, the printing of all the proceedings of
| this Council. The amount of the said contract
shall be paid in monthly instalments by the
Treasurer, on the warrant of the Mayor.
| ART. 2. That all ordinances and resolutions Of
| a general nature that shall be passed by this
Council, and all such statements Of the directors
Of the public schools as shall be directed by this
| Council, and also the titles of such ordinances
| and resolutions passed since the first incorpora-
ton of this city as shall be hereafter repealed,
shall be printed in one newspaper in each of
three Districts of this city, pursuant to the pro-
visions of the preceding section
| Mr.. Stetson made motion that the resolu-
ton to inform the Board of Aldermen that this
| Board was ready to proceed to an election of
officers, presented by Mr.. Mackey and laid over,
be taken up, which was carried, and the resolu-
ton was adopted.
Messrs. Mackey, Summers and Sykes were
appointed Committee of Three to communicate
said information.
Mr.. Mackey offered the following resolution,
the rules being suspended
; Resolved, That the official journal that is to
be elected by the Common Council of NewOr-
leans shall receive, as full compensation, fifteen
cents per square, payable monthly
l ~ 10 l,,;
, s' thirty cents instead of fifteen cents''
which was lost by the following vote:
Yeas-Messrs Burthe, Forbes, Lusto, Nixon,
Relf Shaw, Stetson, Summers and Sykes--9
.Nays-Messrs Alpuente, Bailey, Derbes,
Dolhonde Eustes, Hermann, Lanata, Leeds,
NIackey, Philbrick, Place, Ramos, Stevenson
Wilson and Winston--15.
Mr. Shaw moved that twenty cents be
made the maximum, which was carried, and
the resolution as amended was adopted by the
following vote:
Yeas-Messrs. Alpuente, Bailey, Burthe,
Nixon, Place, Relf, Shaw, Stetson, Summers.
Sykes, Watkins and Winston-17.
| .Nays---Messrs. Derbes, Dolhonde Eustis,
Leeds, Philbrick, Ramos and Siewerssen7.
Resolred, That the Official Journal that is to
be elected by the Common Council of New Or
leans, shall receive, as full compensation, not
exceeding twenty cents per square, payable
. monthly.
. A messagewas received from the upper Board
through their Secretary, that t'aey were ready
to proceed to the election of all officers except
the Printer
If Mr.. Lanata presented the following resotr
ton, and moved to suspend the rules which wa:
" adopted by the following vote
. Yeas: Messrs. Alpuente, Bailey Burthe
- Derbes, Dohonde, Eustis, Forbes Hermann
e Leeds, Philbrick, Place, Ramos, Relt, Shaw
:" Summers, Wilson and Winston---17.
a Mays: Messrs. Lanata, Lusto, Mackey
Nixon, Stevenson and Stetson---6
l. Whereas, under our present State Censtitu
le ton, it is rendered obligatory to publish tn
proceedings of the Legislature, and all the laws