New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-08

porne Streets your committee report favor.
any ana ofter the necessary resolution for
Upon the resolution that the Street Com.
missioner be authorized to place the neces-
sary lamps on Water street, between Girod
ana Foydras streets, your committee would
report favorably.
Upon the resolution that permission be
granted TO Messrs. c. A. Whitney & Co., to
pace on the wharf opposite the usual
tanuips OF their steamers two small cisterns,
| LOT the purpose of obtaining clear settled
wafer, provided that said cisterns shall in
no manner impede business and remain only
during the pleasure of the Council, your
committee would report favorably.
GERALD FARRELL,
Chairman;
W. W. WALKER.
| G. PANDELY,
The following resolutions were offered and
unanimously adopted On their several read
ings, after which they were ordered trans
mitted to the Board of Aldermen for con
currence:
Resolced, That permission be and the
came is hereby granted to Messrs. C. A.
whitney d Co., to place on the wharf CD
p1site the usual place Of landing of their
ST am 'rs, foot of st. Joseph street, two SIN, l.
cis ems Tor the purpose of obtaining clear
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snail IN no manner impair the wharf or i'm
pede business, and shall remain on the
wharf only during the pleasure of the Com
mon Council.
ReSotUed That the Street Commissioner
be authorized to place the necessary gas
lamps On Water street, between Girod and
Poydras streets.
Resolred, That the Mayor be and he is
hereby authorized to enter into contract
with Jos. NJ. Howell for the extension of
ninth street Market, Fourth District in &C.
cordanee with plans and specifications of the
City surveyor, and in accordance with the
adJnolcation made by the City Controller
on the twenty-second September, 1868, to
said Jos. M. Howell, for nine thousand four
hundred and twenty-five (S9425) dollars,
with F. F. W. Bohning as security, which
adjudication is hereby approved.
Tie following resolutions were read and
unanimously adopted on their several read
ings:
ReSotued, That permission be and is here
0y granted to Charles Morel to erect stand
ior the purpose OF retailing soda water,
cakes. ice cream, ETC., at the corner of Ely
sian Fields and Claiborne streets, Provide.
ca, the same be built in accordance with
e>f5slug laws and ordinances, and only to
remain during the pleasure of the Common
Council.
ReSotced, That the Controller be author
lzed to issue warrants on the Treasurer, in
favor of the New Orleans Gas Light Com
pany, IN settlement of the monthly bills due
said company, and unpaid, with interest at
seven per cent per annum from their several
dates, and'to settle all future bills Of said
company as due in same manner.
The following resolution. reported upon
favorably by the Committee on Streets and
Landings, was adopted on its several read
ings with the following vote:
Yeas: Messrs. Kearny, Rose, Atkins,
Walker, stuicken, Fisher, Morphy, Pandely
Wynne, Farrell and Breen:
WHEREAS, There is q great want of com.
merclal facility to connect the Jackson Rail. |
road depot with the river front, in the |
city, owing to The want of paved streets;
therefore, be it
ReSOlred, That the Controller be and he
is hereby authorized, after five days notice |
IN the official journal, to adjudicatC a con-
tract to the lowest bidder or bidders to shell |
and grade Magnolia street, between Wash
ington street and Felicity Road, the work
TO be performed in strict accordance with
plans and specification Oh Tile in the office |
OF the City surveyor.
The following resolutions from the Board
OF Aldermen, were read and referred to the |
Finance Committee:
WHEREAS, The parties who had contracted |
for the building and leasing of the extern |
sions to the Poydras Market, known as the |
Pile Market, had entered into said contract |
PRIOR to the passage by the General Assem- |
bly, Of this State of the act creating free |
markets throughout this city: and
Whereas, The establishment of said free |
markets has destroyed the market monopoly |
heretofore existing, and upon which said |
contracts were based, said contractors, after |
buying the same in GOOD faith, are now exc.
cutting the same faithfully, and are heavy |
losers on account of the establishment Of |
said free markets: be it, therefore,
ReSOtred, That an extension of two years |
time be granted to James Mohan q Co. for |
collecting the revenues of the Pile Market.
RESOLVED further, That the Treasurer be
and he is hereby instructed to return to said |
Jas. Mohan Il Co. all the promissory notes
given by them on said contract. and receive
in lieu thereof twenty notes of 5000 50 each,
payable halfyearly.
The Committee on Fires submitted the
following report:
NEW ORLEANS, CITY HAIL.
October e., 1865.
To the Honorable Board of Assistant Aldermen
GENTLEHEN-iour Committee on Fires
have the honor to submit their report on
matters referred to them for consideration,
In the case OF the petition of Mrs. Mary
Bourdette, who states that in ignorance of
the laws establishing the fire limits, she has
commenced and nearly finished, on st. John
street, between Poydras and Perdido, the
building of a frame kitchen, and that she
has been ORDERED by the proper authorities
to discontinue the work, and prays that
she be permitted to finish the building: it is
with much regret, when we con-
slider the circumstances, the little
real danger to property in the neigh.
borhood, there being NO houses imne.
diately contiguous, that we should be com.
PEELED to report unfavorably. Her petition
unaccompanied by any concurrent petit.
ton of property holders of the vicinity;
and we are furthermore authoritatiyely in.
formed that variation from the law would
affect insurance in the neighborhood.
In the matter of the resolution to author
lie the City Surveyor to establish fire
alarm bell at the house Of Vigilaut Fire Com
pany No. 3, We have the honor to report ia
Vorably with the proviso that the cost shall ]
not exceed five hundred dollars. which we
have Incorporated in the resolution as re.
urned. Very respectfully,
j. S. ATHENS,
Chairman;
GERALD FARRELL.
ERNEST q. MORPHY.
The following resolution, accompanying
he report of the Committee on Fires was I