New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-26
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
Regular Session.

CRY HALL, New ORLEANS,
Tuesday, April Il, 1868.
The Board met pursuant to adjournment,
and was called to order by the President.
The roll was called and the following
Aldermen answered to their names:
President Graham, and Messrs. Burbank,
Clay, Devices, Kellogg, Stapleton, Tucker,
and Woolhey.
The minutes were read and approved.
COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE MAYOR.
The following message from the Mayor,
with inolosed documents, was referred to
the City Attorney for his decision
MAYoRALrY OF NEW ORLEANS,
City Hall. April 81, 1868.
To tbe Honorable the Members Of the Board of
GENTLEMEN amount of taxes to be
collected on account OF the consolidated
debt is fixed by law at six hundred and fifty
thousand dollars (S650, 000), and the interest
coupons for the consolidated debt and rail.
road bonds, falling due i'll the months OF
NAV, June, and July, amount to two humid
red and sixty-one thousand nine hundred
and nineteen dollars (S26l, 9l9). ! recon-
mend that all that portion of the taxes
levied on account of the consolidated debt
be collected in United States currency, in
accordance with resolution passed by the
Commissioners of the consolidated debt this
day, copy of which is herewith inclosed.
Article 1866 of ordinance No. 264j, page
459, LeOvy's Digest, providing that sit shall
not be lawful for any Treasurer of the city
of NcE Orleans ia receive in navment of
aly tax due the city Of New Orleans for the
payment of the interest on the consolidated
debt or the interest on the bonds due to any
railroad company by the city anything ex-
cept money" bears upon this case, In order
to make the language more specific recon-
mend an amendment to this article, so that
the latter part of it shall read "anything
except the lawful money Of the United
States.p
| would also recommend the repeal of the
third section of ordinance No. ll3, new
series, page AGO, Leovy's Digest, staying the
collection of taxes for the years 1929
and 4.
Ihave the honor to be, gentlemen,
Very respectfully,
E. HEATH, Mayor.
WHEREAS, The interest coupons of the
consolidated and railroad debts are made
payable in the city of New York, in United
Resoloed, That the City Treasurer be di-
rected to collect the taxes levied for meet
ing the same In current money OF the
Rescued, That the City Treasurer be di.
rected to deposit, daily, with the fiscal
agent all sums so collected, apart and sepa-
rate from any other fund, according to the
provisions of the city charter.
COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE BOARD OF ASSIST
ANT ALDERMEN.
The following were received for concur
renee, and adopted on their first reading ;
Resolued, That the City Surveyor be and
he is hereby authorized to have Clay street
from Cont to Castomhouse street graded
and macadamized, using for that purpose
the round stone now being broken by the
inmates Of the city workhouse.
Resolued, That the Mayor of the city of
New Orleans be and he is hereby authorized
to enter into contract by notarial act for
the term of Eve years, ON behalf of the city,
with Mayer Stein and Henry Stein as prin-
cipals, with good and solvent sureties, to be
approved By the Finance Committees of the
streets OF the city all dead animals, to be
taken In close covered carts beyond the
limits Of the city. Said Mayer Stein and
Henry Stein TO keep At a central portion in
each district an office where the public and
the officers Of the police and Street Com
missioner's Department may at all times
notify them to remove dead animals; to pay
Anto iHo SitJ tAcesuIt ~ tue tllilt u 5iSnlhS
this contract (S500) I'VE hundred dollars,
and annually, during the continuance Of this
contract, to pay into the city treasury like
sum of $500 five hundred dollars; and in
case of failure to comply with she terms OF
their agreement to forfeit to the city the
amount Of their bond, and also forfeit their
contract; the carts used BY the contractors
to be Of such pattern as shall be approved
by the City Surveyor,
An ordinance providing for the sale Of the
right Of way to establish railroads on
Losust Freret, Jackson, Claiborne, and
other streets, for PASSENGERS only:
e1cr1oR l. Be It erasined, That the Con
frpllsr be and he Is hereby authorized &