New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-01-13
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rHoCxrnrxas OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN

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read and laid on the table subject to call:
MAYoRALTY or NEW ORLEANS,
January, IL, 1858.
To the Honorable President and Members
Of the Board Of .4lde,men and The Board
Of Assistant aldermen Of the City 81
.Vetc Orleans
GExrLENEN-An election having been ordered
for Fourth Justice Of the Peace, in the Fifth and
Sixth Representative Districts OF the parish Of
Orleans, on Monday the Gath Of January next,
to fill the vacancy accustomed by the resignation
Of the Hon. Alex. Derbes, it will become neces-
sary for your honorable body to designate the
places for holding the polls, and also to appoint
one commissioner and one clerk to preside over
said election. The Districts referred to COM
prise the Fifth and Sixth Wards OF the city, and
embrace the present tenth, eleventh, twelfth,
thirteenth and fourteenth Election Precincts.
have the honor to be, very respectfully, our
obedient servant, A. D. CRossMAN. Mayor
The following message of the Mayor was read !;
MAYoRALTY ON New ORLEANS,
January A, 1858.
To the Honorable President and Members Of
the Board Of aldermen and the Board IF
assistant Aldermen Of the City Of Mar
Orleans:
GENrIEMEN-In order to carry out faithfully
the provisions of the will of the late John Me-
Donogh, by which one-half of the estate Of
the deceased was bequeathed to the city
of New Orleans, it will become incumbent
on your honorable body to appoint this day three
citizens to act as commissioners for the manage
ment of the general estate. The language Of
the will directs the appointment of one respecta-
BILE citizen out of each Municipality, who shall
be resident therin, but not a member Of the
City Council, nor re-eligibe for two consecutive
years. The Municipalities having ceased to eN-
list with the consolidation of the city, it would
be advisable, nevertheless, to conform to the
boundaries laid down in the will, and to select
the three commissioners from the First, Second
and Third Districts Under another clause Of the
will, one eighth part of the net yearly revenue
Of rents Is bequeathed to the city for the pur-
pose of establishing an Asylum for the poor Of
both sexes, until said one-eighth shall amount
to the full and entire sum of six hundred
thousand dollars. To carry this into effect,
il will become necessary for the Common
Council to appoint this day one citizen from each
ward of the city, who shall serve as commission
ers for the management of this bequest. Neither
Of the commissioners SO chosen to be mem
bers Of the City Council, nor re-eligible for two
years.
Under the Municipal Administration there
were eighteen wards in the city, but the phl'a-
seology of the will renders it competent for your
honorable body to make the selection from the
Third Districts, viz one commissioner from
each ward At your next meeting, the appoint
ment Of two commissioners from each District
Cor Municipality, as styled in the willy will de-
volve on the Common Council, and the citizens
thus selected are to exercise equal powers in
conjunction with the three commissioners of the
general estate. in administering the Free School
Fund bequeathed to the city of New Orleans by
the late John McDonogh. This completes the
provisions of the will, far as the duties Of the
City Council are concerned. | have the honor
to inform you that, pursuant to the require
ments of the twelfth section of the City Charter,
proceeded on the Goth December last, at my
Office, in presence Of the four Recorders of the
city, to verify the returns of the License or no
License vote, taken by virtue of resolutions Of
the Common Council, on Monday, the 9th day
Of December last, and that the result of said
election was majority throughout the four
Districts of the city of New Orleans of 20Z9 in
favor of the licensing of drinking houses |
take this opportunity of calling the attention Of
your honorable body to the tenth section Of the
City Charter, which provides for the laying out
of election precincts by the Common Council
prior to the first Monday in February, 1858,
and to suggest the appointment of a committee TO
take the subject into consideration have the
honor to be, very respectfully, your obt SER
want, A. d. CRossMAN, Mayor.
REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE
The special committee appointed to confer
with the Board of Commissioners, relating to
the consolidated loan tax, to be levied for the
year 1852, presented the following report, which
was rhceived and the committee discharged.
The special committee appointed by the Board
of Aldermen to confer with the Commissioners
Of the Consolidated Debt, upon the subject Of
the superintendent of the debt of the late NUM-
CAPABILITIES, and Of the city of Lafayette, in view
ofpassing an ordinance levying the tax required
by the acts of Consolidation, beg leave to report
That the committee have had an interview
with the Commissioners, who furnished the com
mittee with all the information required
The result of the examination of the subject
is, that the committee are Of opinion that the
basis OF the apportonment of the tax to be levied,
as contained in the report of the Commissioners
submitted to the Board of Aldermen at its last
meeting, is in conformity to the laws of the State
commonly called the aConsolidation Acts with
the exception of some slight errors in the est.
mate Of the debt of Municipality Ne. Three,
which have since been adjusted by the Commits
sioners, and the correction with the necessary
alteration of the apportionment will be reported
to the Council by the Commissioners ut this
meeting.
The laws of the State relating to the console
dation Of the city, direct that the debts of the
respective. Municipalities and of the city of La
fayette, as they existed at the time OF the or
ganization of the new government, viz on the
18th of April, 1852, shall be assumed and paid
by the new government, and that the tax TO be
imposed annually to meet the interest and prin g.
cipal of said debt shall be apportioned by the
Commissioners to each of the respective Districts
in proportion to the amount of the debts of such
Districts, viz: to the First, Second aud Third
Districts the sum Of 100000 and to the Fourth
District $4,000.
The laws also provide that the assets and pro-
perty OF the late corporations shall pass into
the hands Of the new government and not to the
Commissioners, subject to the trusts and pledges
to which they were specially assigned by preyi-
GUS acts of the Legislature, consequently the
assets have passed into the City Treasury, and
have been applied as far as realized, as the COM
mittee are informed, to the payment Of the ex-
penses of the new government
The laws Of the State having disposed Of these
assets in the manner as stated no discretion was
left with the Commissioners, they had con
strued the law, to apply them to the reduction
OF the debts of the late corporations
With regard to the contracts made by the
corporations, the Commissioners have informed
the committee that all those contracts which
were completed, and the amounts aseertained
but not settled, have been charged to the late
respective corporations, and form part Of their
apportionment of the old debt; but those con.
tracts which were incomplete, and the amounts
not scerfained at the eontnancan,anfo Of tho non.