New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-13

COMMITTEES have examined said bills and would recon-
i mend mai said resolution be concuTred in.
Your committee offer resolution to pay the Com.
rnercia Bulletin for s1 moths subscription, Board Of
A'ae''''sA' tN'spi EDW.' H. DuRELL,
A. DUPRE.
THoS. Il. PRICE.
The following resolutions, adopted by the As
sistant Board, were ooncurred In as recon-
mended in the foregoing report:
A resolution approving the adjudication OF the con-
tract for lighting the oil lamps of the city to Philip
whitman and accepting his securities.
Yeas-Messrs. Culbertson, Durell, Dupre,-
Peire, Price, Pride and Prague.
/ resolution 10 pay sundry bills adopted July 3Ist.
Yeas Messrs. Culbertson, Dureil, Dupre,
Peire, Price, Pride and Prague---7.
A resolution appropriating sao5s 76-ioo for provs
o sa Mar ee pl ana Nav isss '' ~
| Yeas-Messrs Culbertson. Durell, Dupre.
/ Peire, Price, Pride and Prague.
i The following resolution, adopted by the AS
sistant Board, was concurred in after having
/ been amended as recommended by the commits
tee by striking out the following item: :
| New Orleans Picayune, for printing and binding
1 100 copies Comptrollers Reports j$965 50.
Aresouton for the payment Of sundry bills adopted
| July 24th, 1861 sg0 s5
| Peire, Pride, Price and Prague.
The following resolution accompanying the
| foregoing report was read twice and adopted,
4 j ! =
| the rules being suspended:
Resolved, That the Comptroller warrant on the
Treasurer in favor of the New Orleans Commercial
Bulletin, for The Of six dollars, being for SIX
months Subscription from February Goth, 1865, Board
Mr.. Duren, on behalf of the Finance Commit
tee, offered the following report and resolu-
tons, which were read twice and adopted, the
rules being suspended.
The Committee on Finance, in accordance with a
resolution iBstrucrng said committee toohlain and
port 10 this Board statement setting forth the names
official duties, and pay of all officers and employees of
1.-THE clay of New Orleans, and the debt of said Guy
from the consolidation thereof in 1852, up to date make
the following report:
The total Consolidated debt of the csy on The s0th
of july 1855, amounted 70 800 pc; disappears by
statement thereof marked A..
The total Of bonds Issued by the city for stock in
railroad companies. amounts 100000, as appears
| by statement thereof marked ..
The total floating debt Of the city the 1st Of Au
gust, 1855, amounted sa67727 1s; as appears by
| statement thereof marked g.
Statement dues no, include claims which, although
of valid character have not 50 yet Been definitely
acted upon by the Common Council a
The entire Indebtedness of The city is then, al this
time, s12 4g1 ,G37 ~.
Statement marked shows that READ estate within
theicty of New Orleans is bnrtheied with average
Of 81 40 per hundred of valuation, fefpayment of
the interest together with small portion of the CAPT.
tai of the above enormous debit enormous for city of
4 less than 10000 inhabitants
Statement marked E sets forth-the number of
employed in The Department of Police, together with
their salaries amouniing The aggregate o$477f 66
| per month or $I77260 per year.
Statement marked II s the payroll of the officers,
clerks and servants employed by the city in Its various
departments other than pollcs. n sets forth their
names Office and salaries which last amount in the
aggregate to Slooss 90 per MONTH or a6a 90 per
4 year. SE
stateaentsnarked G is an estimate Of the sxpendi-
nres of the City New Orleans from April II 10 De-
eember 81, 1856.
Your committee thought it advisable revise that
portion of the joint report made by the Committees
Finance OH the 20h of May last which relates 10 This
subject The report Of the 18th Of May gives an est
mate Of expenditure Of 81 47s,3l4 so; estimate Of
receipts Of os6 a3 showing deficit on the 31st
4 of December next OF s20l ,3l5 81.
Your committee, with the aid of Mr. Lee, the very
able Chief Clerk OF the Comptrolers Department have
horoughy examined the basis cf eachite Of the eslj-
of the 29h of May and have been forced thereby
ID tie conclusion that the of s. 07,9l9 81 will
more nearly repres ent the amount 10 be expended by
The city from the 18th of April 10 the 31s Of December
next This, taking the receipts as Estimated by the
joint committees at 996 23ywill give deficit Oh
ihe a1st Of December next of Sl35928 IA; but your
committee at this time, entertain very great doubt OIL
the correctness Of the estimated receipts reported
by the joint committees of the Goth of May Your COM
mee have much reason TO fear that the amount to be
received INTO he city treasury from The Eth Of April
| the estimate of 8 l271 1906 "a.
Upon examination of the isestimate OF expendi-
lures" reported by your COMMITTEE, the Board will
lind the chief deductions made upon the estimate re-
ported the 29h Of May, relate the estimates for
Public schools, Police Work-house, House Of Refuge,
Fire Companies, Board of Health, Contingencies,
Street Commissioners Department and City Survey.
ors Department. TO The Public Schools your commit
tee have given what the appropriation, lately made,
| allows. Eolhe Police the amount called for by its
/ payroll To the Work-house and the House of Re-
tuse, the amounts called for by their pay-ros and bills
OF expenses taking as basis the pay-ros and bills
Of expenses for the months of May, June and July
From the Fire Companies, Your committee have de-
Quoted $4,000; intending that the $4,000 allowed that
Department shall cover, in addiiion to its other ex--
penses, the cost of the steam fire engine lately intro
dneed into onI city The Board Of Health, your COM
miltee have stricken out the oily has no
Board of Health Contingencies are cut down one
| half The Street Commissioners Department is re-
duced from l46,a $50 10 10000, and the Surveyors
Department from $446,Qi2 ga 70 S350,U09 So Your
4 committee have advanced salaries from S70eO0--as
gwen in the estimate of May 49, to Ss53as TO-; ,he
latter amount being the exact called for BY The
payroll Your conlmiltee did hope taking the esti-
mate of" receipts" as given in the report of May 30
p be eorreci, 10 have erased altogether the estimated
dehelt for The 31st of December next but unfortu-
nalelyP the statement as 10 Outstanding Warrants .
given in the report Of May, found, upon examina
10 be s349,s74 30; being sl3u753 OF more than the
estimate given in the report Of May.
Il. Your committees after due consideration of The re-
qnremenis OF the several Departments whose clerical
force IT now proposes to reduce suggest the proprety
OF taking one clerk al salary OF $500 from the Conn
foller one clerk al salary Of $90e from the Treas
er and one clerk az salary of 1920 from the Chief of
/ Police, and offer the requisite resolutions
-FOUR committee also recommend that the salaries of
me four Deputies in the Street RS De part-
men be reduced from 800 $75 per month"; thai The
office Of Two Assistant Deputies in said Department
one for the Third District and one for tie Fourth Dis
aet be abolished; together with the Office of superin-
enuent OF ghuns and cleaning streets; and offer the
requisite resolution
onr committee also recommend thai the offices OF
superintendent Of work under contract Deputy Sur
veyors and of Craftsmen, III The Surveyors Denart
ment be abolished, and offer The requisite resolution
on: committee also recommend the repeal of sec.
lions o. zand 8 Of ordinance No. so relatiye to carts
anu aporers IN connection with the Surveyors Depart-
men, and oder the requisite resolution IA
fouf committee also recommend that the Offices OF
assistant Superintendent of the House OF Refuge for
Boys and ofSecreiaTy of the Board of Commission
OF said House, BIO abolished, and offer the requisite
4 resolution. ieHs'si'
i Your committee deem il to be UNNECESSARY in yie,,
q all the circumstances herein detailed to prge upon