New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-11-24


the Council. One is relative to mode of leasing
the market houses of this city and the other is III
tended to create an entirely branch of revenue
by establishing a public slaughter house in each
district, for the slaughtering of such animals
destined to be retailcd i'll the markets.
Against the utility Of these two measures we be-
leve there is nothing to say Although the latteraoue
is to produce revenue the former would largely
increase the income which is now derived from the
markets, and both are eminently calculated to sup !
press speculatons and monopoles and evils of other
nature of which the public has been complaining for
a length Of time
For example, although monopoly in the markets is .
denounced and punished by several provisions of the
Old ordinances Of the City Council which are still in
force, q number Of persons putting intentional
mscoustructon upon one section Of those same or
dinances have found the means to create for them
selves quite fat revenue, merely 10y leasing stalls
from the farmers Of the markets, and sul-lcasing the
same stalls to some less fortunate spectators.
We here uudc to article Sth Of an Ordinance for
farming out the collection of the revenue of the
butchers market, approved Nov l7th, ISIS, which
reads thus No butcher, other person, shall have
81 right dispose of any Of the stalls, tables, other
articles destined for the sale Of meat i'll the said mar
ket without previously having obtained the consent
of the farmer thereto. and given to him receipt for
said articles 1t beng always understood that al
persons who thus shall have obtained stand OF the
said farmer shall have right to hold it while he
tnues duly to pay the price fixed by the City Council
or any other. lrGe that NAY Is tNed. etc, notw
standiig3he renewal Of the farming Of the collection
! Of the revenue of:the butchers MARKET
| Now is it not strange that this provision, wisely
calculated to protect the butchers having possession
OF the stalls against the caprice or bad will Of the
farmers should be construed as creating perpetual
monopoly in favor OF those butchers: The iefst at
tenon Will Snow that sueh an opinion cannot seriously
be sustained. 1Ae CITY Council has created the prl-
1lIege therefore, Inc tlty to0helI can a"oIlSh H.
That privilege mas been created under certain mode
O. farming out the revenue OF the InArhct It M&>
then cease WITH tAat 1noue OF farming our.
Even the literal meaning Of Inc article Q"o'eo
above is against the Interpretation which we combat
Is it not said that " No butcher, etc, snail nave
right to dispose Of any OF tile stalls, etc, without pre-
vjousy obtaining the consent Of tie J@ro'tr'" Well,
then, if the farmer is abolished 50 Is the privilege
commended for because there Is ~ means lett OF oh
tanning the consent OF the farmer.
And, further, is it not evident that the Common
Council can destroy the present markets, and have
: them transferred to some other places: In such
case, what Woull become Of the pretended privilege
Of the butchers or other persons having possession
= now Of certain stalls?
There being no difficulty to be apprehcrlel from
the opposition Of those butchers can see ob-
lection to the adoption Of a measure which would
certainly increase largely the revenue derived from
i the markets, by creating competjtoa between the
butchers for the leasing Of each stall, and by causing
1 all the benefits which are now made both Ivy the
farmers AMI the persons who suitcase the stalls d
i ,vflit .hn have l,OSsisSiHrl IN to tho