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


BOARD OF ASSISTANT ALDERMEN.
MONDAY, April IL 1852
The Board met at 6 o'clock, P. NJ, according
to law.
Present: DR.. F. Alpuente, President; Messrs
Bailey, Burthe, Derbes Dolhonde, Eustis, Forbes,
Hermann, Lanata, Leeds, Lusto Mackey, Nix
on, Philbrick, Place, Ramos, Relf, Shaw, Sic
werssen, Stetson, Summers, Sykes, Watkins,
Wilson, and Winston.
Mr. Watkins was called to the chair by the
President.
The journal was read and approved
The following message of the Mayo was read,
and, on motion of Mr. Stevenson, 500 copies
were ordered to be printed; 200 of the same
with marginal notes:
| MAYoRALry OF NEwORLEAss,
To the Honorable President Members qf tie Bonrd Of Al
damea and The Boa'd Of assistant aLermea Of The City Of
New Orleans.
GESrEMENI beg apprise your honorable body, that
by virtue Of the fifteenth section of the act to consolidate
the city of New0rlcans and provide for the government
and administration of its affairs approved 23d February
1852 have duly taken the oath required by law and
have this day entered upon the duties of my office
Mayor of the city of NewOreans In the discharge of
the important and responsible trust thus devoved on me-
deem the occasion an appropriate one to communicate
with your honorable body in relation to the various mat
tiers that will have to your early and serious aten
ton The transition from an old and long established
order Of things to that will have to undergo so ad
cal change as contemplated by the charter carries
with it multitude Of weight and pressing business but
have satisfaction of feeling assured advance that
your honorable body will without delay earnestly apply
yourselves to the arduous and important task of getting
the administration fairly way and of giving it
that hearty and cordial support which good citizen
should withhold, and which is demanded moreover. by
every consideration of public welfare and prosperity
The seventeenth section of the charter makes it
imperative your honorable body to appoint this day
commissioners to take the of the different districts
ap1 ha etpd
the end of the The section further provides
that Immediately after said shall have been fin
shed and before proceeding to any other business your
honorable body shall apportion the representation among
the several districts and wards the basis of the
ber of qualified voters contained therein.
Incidental to this provision of the charter is the tenth
section. which directs the mode in which the Common
Council shall hereafter lay out and establish sufficient
number of election precincts and the sixteenth section
which provides that in the Common Coun
Gil shall be equal and uniform and shall be regulated and
ascertaned by the number Of qualified voters in the
e spective districts and wards
The twenty section Of the directs that the
Common Council shall in Joint meeting elect
from their number three persons who shn alone act
Recorders tenn in Of sickness absence of
more Of the Recorders 1t will therefore becom.
not only for the First Second and Third Districts but
also for the Fourth which, by virtue of the supplemental
act approved February I'D 1852 Is entitled to share ir
the and to the extent said Fourth
District had been included in the original act Of conso
+ dation.
/ The organization Of the various departments created
III under the act of Consolidation will necessarily
US your immediate attention and in connection Herewith
would point out that there several Offices for the fill
ing of which provision will have to be made by your hon
orab!e body Among these may be cited Wharingers
Collectors Of Levee Dues Notary of the Corporation
Y Physicians of Police Jails and Physician Of the Parish
Il jail The Commissaries of Markets being appointed 70
the purpose of enforcing the police regulations of tn
I'd will have TO be selected in the tn
as remainder of the Police
y would suggest to your honorable body the necess
ry of complying early with the provisions
the thirty yforth section Of the act by electug Attor
ncy for the Corporation nasmuch as there are severa
adviser.
lis The necessity copious supply of wate
IN all large cities requires demonstration and this
cessty becomes strongly apparent in climate i
ours where the high of temperature during poi
on of the calls for frequent cleansing of the strec
H. cutters, yards Nothing contributes essential
to the comfort and convenience of the inhabitants tha
trust Therefore that exertions of your honorabl
body will be directed towards obtaining extension o
the water privileges to portion of the city by tn
laying of such additional pipes will bring this impor
ant necessary of life within the reach of every
90 part Of your honorable bod viii simulate the Water
gS works department to renewed exertions in bringin
by about this desirable end Their own interests are
deeply involved in the matter as those Of the com
- munty at large for extension of the supply mus
II necessarily add to the and enable the Compan
to afford water at cheaper rate, thus making its plent
u accessible not only to the weathie but also to tn
poorer classes of fellow citizens portion of III
the city nearly the whole of the Third Dis
trct deprived altogether and dependen
for scanty supply at best cisterns which give ou
great inconvenience manifest discomfort to the inhat
tan the danger OF fire in those quarters becomes great
increased and to be hoped that in view of this imo
tan consideration will be speedily adopted
extend the supply of water in that direction so far
M the Fourth District is concerned and which by the tern
the charter entitled participate i'll the bent
fits arising from the establishment the Waterworks,
must leave it to your honorable body hereafter to dcv
means by which the residents of that quarter ma
share in the inestmable blessing of cheap and abur
dant supply of water. take this occasion to inform yo
that the ownership of 5000 shares Of Commercial Ban
stock belonging to the city of New Orleans is veste
your honorable body and that agreeaby to the chart
of the Commercial Bank it will become necessary for
to elect two directors from honorable body to rer
L. sent the interests Of the city in that institution
lion | deem it my duty to urge on your serious col
sideraon the importance of establishing House
Correction for juvenile vagrants On former occ
S" sions have brought this subject to the notice
NIX the General and Municipal Councils but for want
that proper concert of action which trust is
EI waited by consolidation and unity of the interests of
y classes and of all sections my recommendation
carried out We have among us much regret to say,
numerous class Of youthful iders and offenders many
n the Levee and who have frequently been arrested
"tf the act of stealing coffee and other arc
ery When apprehended for these delnluencies they
locked up in the Work house for few days whence tn
emerge hardened in crime than before and are th
let loose society to reeommence their pecuations
ultimately to become familiar with vices of darker hi
nd Others again deprived of the properly regulated resrs,
of home aud education. allowed to prowl about
where they assai the passers by with obscene
profane language while another class trained
m parents equally depraved to engage in regular $.
ten of begging. The lessons of deception and iden
nculcated at tender necessarily lead odegrat
ton deprayity and crime. and we have thus brought
fore the sickening spectacle of generat
growing up in midst and becoming qualified by
Craations to be inmates of the brothe the workho
the prison and the penitentary To obviate this cryi
OSs evil the establishment of House of Refuge and Corr
TIL, tion is of the last Importance The juvenile denquc
AD arrested the first Threshold of crime may there
sp reclaimed from the of his path, and uuconaI
M mated by the association with older adopts in wckednt
may be brought up to become useful member of socc
,3ds | conceive of no institution more necessary to
m wcl-being of the community: and permit me- thereto
express the hope that the attention of your honora
body will be directed at early moment to the establ
,oK ment of the same
or The erection of house. extensive scale
equally desirable and which should
the itself the earnest consideration of your hon
are are able body All other large cities possess institutions
the kind and experience has demonstrated that they
the best corrective to habits OF aZness
pper beggary is to be denied that of late inc
0 diarm increased and the spectacle almost da
presented able bodied who should be
to work for livelihood, soliciting aims in our stre
Not infreQuenty that system made the cloak for I'll
on robbery and persons under the guise of ggars
roduce themselves into houses for the purpose OF car
ing out their nearious practices To remedy this ev
7 consider the establishment of almshouse absolut
necessary, and would therefore recommend the purch
of sufficient extent of ground in the rear OF the
for the erection of suitable edifce and ouhouses
h vagrant and the ndoen beggar might there be made
work and contribute to their own support, while
and honest poverty would find an asylum and protect
neu- from want and necessity. well administered inst
ton, so far from being an expense would IN tne COZ
ruary of few years. actually yield profit So at least
been the experience in other large cities, and can
ceye no reason why NewOrleanS should afford an exc