New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-16

Making acknowledgements. .,...... slooGso 0,
being abeat $4,000 more than the estimated cost made
by the Company sineer aud pretended intended tc
b. recorded against tho property but which never
to have been entered upon any certificate issued from
the Mortgage Office required by their charter also allow
ing three months than the estimated time for
plotting the work, Nor is there any allowance made fol
wood pickes. etc sold from the band by the Company
which may presume valuable thu Company took
great pains drive Of All persons who attempted to
rickes on the section, and may very reas-
onaby conclude that body must have found prof
liable the Company would not have taken i've years
do that which could have been done in fifteen months
The affairs to have been managed by a Board ot
Directors, six of which appointed by the stock
holders VIZ the holders Of $4,000 not 100000
tcmIateI by the charter by the State and four by
thu city and pretty mess they made Of it.
A. regards Messrs Durcl and Wright. we leave them
to take Of themselves, but at the time viii state
that they Lad nothing to do with the getting up the
meeting in Claiborne Market. and the petition to the
Council they Jill address the people, when called upon
% do for which they have their thanks The meeting
the result Of spontaneous feeling Of resistance to
oppression and gross injustice
People who had bought property free from all eacum-
brance proved by The Recorders certificate were no
tilted that Judgment resting their property in
cases for than s value and inquiry they
found that they had been imposed upon and judgment
taken Tor an unreasonable and unjust charge They
further learn that the city IL receive the principle
benefit fram the collection II his unjust tax aud wha,
could be natural than Tor oppressed and wrong-d
people apply to their representative for relief Hence
the petition 10 tie Council and it be possible that
che ggausl .si hesitate d. justice 10 the people
Upon examination find the Company started by
individual sub crptioas $4,000 dry three thousand
loirs) the city by issue Of bonds S350GUa AMI
the State $4,000 making SOS 900, tfour huulreI
fifty three thousand dasrs) The Company frst drain
section No l. wiz below Canal Catandtlr) AMI attempt
to e5ieet # .he property Nv dl succeed
The First Municipality compromised with them for some
S35QeD. with proyiso that it should be expended IN
draining above the Canal Caroudcrt Section No 2
They also drained Section No s. wiz Third Municipal.
y) and attempt has been to collect the tax but
effort IS made to extort al out Of Section No >
aud told by your correspondent that the Drain
ing Company sustained in their attempt to roll
the people that tha jefferson and New Orleans Draining
Company will fall through but that only an atempl
to Brighten the uptown Aldermen, | viii say no more
about it. But return to examination, find in
the budget report Of the Consolidating Commissioners
among the liabilities OF the old City f3t5CJo for bond.
i.sutd to the Draining Company due in lsa5 bearing
per interest pay which called upon by the
city for per tax upon his very property
Thns called BY tho City, through the Draining
Company y about - er cent of the bonds with IL
per cent interest and chen also by the City directly
nay our portion Of the SAME bonds with per cent in
terest by tax upon this very same property Thus
taxing property twice for Tie same liability, and
thu Whsle city has received equal share OF
the bcneht derived from the expenditure of the mo-
ncy. the people DO not doubt FOR moment hut that
the Council will the in hand once and ar
rest the attempt rob thsm through Chartered Com
pany who have by OCULAR, underhand and unjust
method, got the advantage Of them. PuBIlc JusrIcr