New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-07-21
lowing report upon the several matters referred to it by

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satiou for itpan Of superintendent Of The excess O
measurement which existed in the Faubourg Livan
dais in the city Of Lafayette, Fourth District o.
the city OF New orleans;' your COMMITTEES report adj
vsrsey as youT committee after due consideration O
said memorial, and Of the facts connected with the sub
ect matter of the same, has concluded that said PLAN
was made without authority was not adopted BY The
late city of Lafayette, and emanated wholly from the
mere unauthorized motion of said Buisson
O. Upon the petition Of Madame p o Peroux, asking
to be Unidentified for the loss sustained by her by the
opening of various streets in the Second District
your ommittee report that after thorough examina
tion of the TITLES hot Madame Peroux The property
alleged To be injured and of the 1plaus Of said pro
perty accompanying said titles. your committee /,
unable 10 discover that The petitioner is in any way in
urcd by the opening Of the streets referred TO- viii
regard 10 the portion of said petition which asks TIM
the petitioner may be permitted as means OF indem
nifty for supposed injury, to assume The rights O
ownership thestreels abandoned and inclosed ad
Joining her property, yonr committee can only saw TIM
the soil of street, abandoned by the city belongs az
general rule, 10 the first proprietors thereon Yon
committee, Therefore report adversely said petition
3. Upon tho petition OF Martin Nee ormack askine
for compensation for horse and cab, alleged 10 ha VI
been lost in the canal Nj elpomene street on The
night of the 23d Of March last your committee repor
Adversely, there beng no evidence whatever bsfore
your committee, fenid loss.
A. Upon the petition of Eliza o'Neil, PRAYING TIM
she be allowed hesum Of twelve bundled dollars fol
damages done TO her bar of liquorsn situate at Inc
corner of ST. Joseph and New Levee streets by n moi
on the evening ofe Goth day of March asi, yonr com
miee report adverse there being evidence what,
eyerbefore yonr committee touching the same
S. Upon the petition of Antoine Doriocouri, praying
that the judgment rendered against him by the Sixth
District Court of sew UTieans, on the 18Th of June
1866, for the sum Of 100 IS, with costs and commits
sion should be dcared to bear only upon lie propery
assessed, described in the tax receipt upon which
said Judgment ishased and that he BIZ personally re-
eved therefrom, your committee report avorably and
offer the appropriate resolutions inasuch as it
that said properly although assessed in The name Of
said Dorfocour, IN reality the property of another
party.
9. Upon the memorial of Michael Tarpey, informing
the Common Couacil Of his determination to repudiate
certain contractor cleaning The paved and unpaved
and keeping in repair the unpaved streets the Eighth
and Ninth Wahs of the city of New Orleans for
one year, and ef his determination to !. reserve
his claims IN damages against SAID cily,' your
committee recommend said Tarpey be referred to
the courts oflaw.
Z, Upon the communication of the Street Commits.
sioner concerning communication from Thomas
HyHer, informing said Commissioner Of his fsaid
Hyner'sl determination to abandon his contract for
cleaning streets and pairing the unpaved streets
of the Seventh Ward, Third District and of his deter
minaton 10 reserve his claim in damages againsI The
city, your committee recommend that said Hyner he
referred to the courts of law.
g. With regardto the resolution instructng the As
sisant City Attorney to cancel two judgments STA ndjne
against n. Fitzsmmons for taxes upon property Of
which the ownsrship was not in said Filzs lmmons,
adopted by the Board of Assistants April 9th 1856
your committee advise concurrence therein
0. With regard 10 the communication Of the Street
Commissioner, under date of July 1885, touching the
aconracs for improving the paved streets in the fourth
and fifth sections comprising the whole of The Second
District held by Mr.. George Cronan, or Denis Cronan,
assgnee" anda certain writ of injunction connected
herewith, ISSUED out Of the Sixth District Court of
New Orleans your committee would advise that said
Commissioner be instructed 10 await the final action
of the court.
10 With regard to certain resolutions touchng the
requests made BY the late John McDonoeh 10 the city
of New Orleans, adopted by the Board Of Assistants
May Goth, 1855 your committee recommend concur
renee therein.
EDW. H. DuRELL,
JOHN CULBERTSON.
The following resolution, accompanying the
foregoing report, was read twice and adopted
the rules being suspended
Resoteed, Tnat Antoine Dorlocourt be- and that he is
hereby releasedirom all liability the city of New
Orleans arispgon judgment rendered by the Sixth
District Court Of New Orleans on the Ish day of uue
1855, in the woods and figures following 10 witt 1.-THE
law and evideHce being in favor of the planE IL is
considered thathe plaintiff recover from The defendant
one hundred and sixtynine 33-l00 dollars with per
cent interest thereon from the 9Th day of May last ill
paid, and hve per cent. attorneys commission on the
said sum, and costs of suit with special privilege az
cording TO law on the property described in The tax
receipt on fe in the case 1.-THE said Antoine Dorio-
court not being The owner of the property described in
said lax receipt neither al the time of as made
thereof, nor atany time since
The following resolutions adopted by the AS
sistant Board and referred to in the foregoing
report of the Judiciary Committee, were con-
Cured in as recommended by said Committee:
A resoutionns tructng the Assistant Civ Attorney
10 cancel two Judgments against N. Fitzsimmons Tor
taxes.
A preamble and resolutions in regard 10 the requests
OF the late John McDonogh TO The city of New
orleans, for charitable purposes etc. adopted 29lh
May, 1855. -
Mr.. Durel, on behalf of the Committee on
Education, offered the following report, which
was adopted:
The Committee on Education TO which was re.
erred AN ordnance providing for the support of the
Public Schools of the city OF New Orleans during the
year ending Nay 81, 1856, and for other purposes"
l2lh of June, 1856, beg leave 10 report
Ihat IN making the appropriation called for by said
ordnance your committee has deemed it TO be fit
TO lake. the basis of said appro priaton the actual
average attendance at school, during the whole scho.
astlc year. efIesident pupils, in the several Districts
OF the city, With such basis for action we avoid
hon of the fund which The city annually approp PIRATES
for the common education Of lis children. The sum
tola OF the several registers of the several Districts
gives the number of boys and girls Who enter the
schools during the year. but the number who continue
permanently receive the benefits of instruction, is
found 10 be greatly less The city should pay for edu-
eaoh actually gwen; and the basis OF distribution,
winch most certainly effects such payment should be
the basis adopted in determining both the amount to be
annuity appropriated, and the division OF such appro-
prlalion between the four Municipal Districts
Your committee, therefore, finding that the actual
average attendance school osresdent pupils in The
several Districts of the city, during the past Scholastic
year 10 be SOU would recommend an appropriation of
que hundred and ninety one thousand eight hundred
ana twenty dollars for the maintenance Of the pubIie
schools for The term of year from the first day of
une, 1855. This amount is arrived a, by allowing
twenty dollars for each and every pupil led bV
sald number Of s90i and adding thereto thirteen thou
sand eight hundred dollars for rent and repairs of
sehoo-houses
Your committee, believing the sum of one hundred
lnd ninety one thousand eight hundred and twenty
iollars TO be amply sufficient for economical and
udlcoas administration of the public schools during
he present scholastic year. offers the ACCOMMODATING
resolution, in amendment of art Isl of the ordinance
'eierred 70 your committee, and now reported upon.
Your committee deems it to be proper at this time,
% call The attention of this Board to the present
organization Of the Common Schools of New Orleans
being in an eminent degree faulty, and necessa
lily involving large and useless expenditure of
money. The division into districts, governed by
Numerous and unwieidy Boards of School Directors
with their aendent secretaries and superintendanls
destructive both of nnityo purpose and economy of
means.
he schools during the past year. exceeds, your COM
nitlee is informed, thousand dollars an item of
expense from which the city might be very properly re-
ieved.
The city is In the enjoyment of the services of four
superintendent of Public Schools, at an aggregate
under more oidaled SYSTEM the labors of three of
hese gentlemen might not be prohtaby dis pensed with
Among the branches of knowledge Taught in the
High Schools of The several Districts, your COMMITTEES
lnds enumerated Algebra, Geometry, Astronomy, Sur
veying, Navigation, Chimistry, Anatomy, Physiology,
Botany and the Latin language, OF some of hese ii
may be said that TO acquire slight information of
hem can be of possible advantage, and that be-
come thoroughly acquainted with them, requires more
of time aud cost than is compatible. with system
tended 10 give 10 all, gralulously, education ade-
luate 10 The ordinary demands of life,
EDW II. DURELL.
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