New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-07

On motion, sections 81, So and 81 of the or
dinance concerning the Fire Department, Zap
proved November %, 1866, were amended, as
recommend in the foregoing report, SO as to
read as follows:
sec 81 That the Comptroller of the civ of New
Orleans SHALL after FIVE days publication thereof in the
Official ournal, sell al auction The lowest bidder
the contract for the support of the Fire Department.
constituted by This ordinance, and The working
of the year by year the of T years from
the day OF The date oil the adjudication OF the same.
SEC. 49, That the purchaser of the for the
support clhe Fire Department, and the active working
thereof, at the sale made in with sections
80 and 81 Of this ordinance shall, Within day after
the day the date ofthe adjudication of said purchase
give bond made payable 10 the Mayor of the city OF
New Orleans and his successors in etee with secu-
rly to be approved Of by the Chairmen of the Finance
Committees of the Common Council in the amount
of forty thousand dollars conditioned that said pur-
chaser will fulfil and perform, al his charge and
cost, during the term Of his eontrae all that is
CURED 10 be done and performed by sections one,
three. four, five, eight, nine, ten, ELEVEN Twelve,
thirteen, fourteen, fifteen sixteen, seventeen, eighteen
nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-ttgo twenty.
three, twenty-five iwenty-six twenty-seven twenty
eight thirty flour, hirtyfye, thrlysix, thrtynine and
forty OF this ordinances that he will make the appoint
ments and invest said appointments with the authority
and duties required by sections one, eight, nine, ten.
eleven, threen fourteen. fifteen seventeen, eighteen
twenty, lwenty-one, twenty, four, twenty-five and
thrty-lwo OF this ordinances and that he will
be done by the several Engineers, Captains and Lieu
tenants OF companies and members companies. D.
pointed and employed by him under BY virtue OF
this ordinance all the duties, services and labor
CURED to be done by said Engineers, Captains and
Lieutenants of companies and members of companies
by this ordinance and generally that said purchase
will do and perform al his own charge and cost, du.
ring the term of HIS contract all thai is required
be done and performed by him under and by virtue OF
| this ordinance.
SEC 81 That said purchaser of said contract at the
sale made in accordance with sections 80 and 81 OF
this ordinance shall deposit, at The time OF the adud
| cation of said sale The of TWENTY-FIVE hundred
dollars in the hands OF the Comptroller OF New Or
leans said deposit TO be returned 10 said purchaser
his giving bond required by section 80 of this erd
nancei otherwise, and on said purchasers failing to
give snid bond, said deposit 10 be forfeited The
and benefit OF the Treasury of New Orleans +
The ordinance concerning the Fire Depart
ment, in its amended form, was then adopted
by the following VOTE the rules being suspended
| Yeas Messrs Bailey, Dnrell, Denegre, Du-
pre-, Gilmore, Converse, Price, Pride and
Tompkins- 80.
BY message, the Board was invited to CON.
Y cur in the following resolution, adopted by the
Assistant Board
A resolution approving the adjudicatons of the diff
ieren. markets made BY the Comptroller on the 30 o
| December 1855.
The rules being suspended, the foregoing reso.
luton was read twice and conourred in
eas-Messrs. Bailey, Durell, Denegre, Du
pre-, Gilmore, Converse, Price, Pride ant
Tompkius-e,
The rules being suspended, MIR. Pride offered
| the following resolution, which was read twice
and adopted: -
| Yeas -Messrs Bailey, Durell, Denegre, Du.
pre-, Gilmore, Converse, Price, Pride and Temp
| kins--9.
Resolps, That the Comptroller sell at auctions afle
ten days notice in the official journal, contracts fol
cleaning the paved and unpaved streets, and repar
ing The unpaved streets in the Filth and Eleventh
Wards and also for attending the nuisance
boats and wharvcs all 10 80 into effect The expira
lion OF the present contracts aud subject the ap
| prevail OF The Council. r~
On motion, the Board adjourned
CHAS. CLAIBORNE, Sec'y.