New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-10-19

1 1s5a IS IS 5ss g 81 90 @ 81
1856 2ss2 10 5,s4s IS 225 % 1850 o
1857 1850 90 2,445 rs 1869 90 9,sll SO
s42,47l 90 s25,a3a SO $7,42l 90 sso,5ee 4s
a-,U' ~ 4 RECAPITULATIoE.
Maintenance of Orphans" etc.. s42,47l 90
Insane Asylums, etc. ............... 1888 30
AUTHORIZATIONS to Orphan Asylums .. so56e IS
Total. j., .......,............. $lo5 ,7sl 80
In addition to the amounts expended as above
the Board Of Health, established by Ordinance No.
l145 Of the Common Council in 1858, during the
epidemic Of that year, $4,000, which amount,
although charged to that Board of Health, was ex-
pended really for the relief of the INDECENT, who
attacked during that fearful epidemic, and should
have been included in the Charity account for that
year. This amount swells the aggregate cost of
Charity since Consolidation, to the liberal sum of
$l45,79l 50.
Aims House, cannot omit this opportunity to
direct the attention of the Common Council to the
growing necessity so apparent for the establishment
of an Aims House, on a scale commensurate with
the increasing demands for such an institution The
subject demands your earnest consideration.
The increase Of beggars and mendicants in our
midst has become an intolerable evil and the only
means, under existing laws, we have to rid the COM
munity Of them, is to arrest and commit them as
Migrants to the Work-House. There is class Of
persons other than those named above, who are
the public-those who, from the causes of disease
dissipation old age ETC. are unable to provide for
their own support This class is constantly relieved
from the limited Charity Fund allowed to the Mayor
and vet enly limited number is provided for they
fill our lock.ups and prisons, and are not only an ex
pense but have become a serious reproach to the
CITY, -
The remedy for these evils, consider, would
readily be found in the establishment of an Aims
House. the system which is in use in all the large
cities of the Union. The yagrant and beggar and
even those of that other class named-those afflicted
BY disease long course of dissipation, or by old
age-woud there be made to contribute to their own
support, by being compelled to labor according to
their respective ability and the community would be
the body polite. - =
There il abundant experience in other cities in
favor of this recommendation and do not doubt, if
an institution were established and properly con-
ducted it could be made source of revenue to the
city, instead of expense In this connection would
most respectfully direct the attention of the Com
mon Council to the Goth enumerated bequest CON
tanned in the last will and testament OF the benevo-
lent late Judah Touro which is as follows:
al give and beoleath for the purpose of establish
ing an Aims House in the CITY of New Orleans
and with the view of contributing as far as possible
10 the prevention of mendacty in said City the sum
Of eighty thousand dollars, Issy $50 900 and de.
sire that the Aims House thus contemplated shall be
organized according to law and further, it is my
desire that after my executors shall have legally
organized and established said contemplated Aims
and control the direction Of its affairs that such per
sons legally so appointed and their successors in office
conformity with the Mayor of the City of New Or
leans and his successors in Office shall have the per
petual direction and control thereof"
On the 26th January, 1854 Mayor Crossman in
formed the Common Council that he had been for
mally notified by the Executors of this beauest and
on the same day the Board of Assistant Almerme1
passed a resolution accepting the beuuest and ap
poipted committee to confer with the Executors il
relation to it.
With view doubtless to carry into effect the be
nevoent intention of the testator, the Common Coun
Gil in February 1856 passed resolution requesting
our Senators and Representatives in the State egis
lature to have PASSED an act of incorporation for thu
''Touro Aims House." which was accordingly done
and approved on the l4th March is55-p. l33 act
1855 This act provides that Rein D. Shepherd O
Virginia, A. K Josephs, G. Kursheedt, P. A. D
Casenave, ltestamentary executors of said Judal
James Saul, as perpetual directors, together will
the Mayor and two citizens, to.be annually elected
Directors by the Common Council, shall be created
body corporate and politic under the name and sty
Of the Touro Aims House,
The act further provides that the said Board of Di
of the Aims Hopse
lam not aware that any subsequent action hs
been taken by the Council or by those named as Di
rectors with reference to this subject IT should at