New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-09

Gqf1tsell the Office of Assistant City Attor-
neY sHNRld be abolished, and the collection
OF HS&ksxes intrusted to the City Treasurer,
Va 81 fesolution OF the Council should be
gll444se49.lsto select from among the employees
q Ae6ffce suitable persons to go to each
taxpayer and collect the amounts due; and
when the taxes become past due, TO have
them advertised according to law, and col
lected by clerks in his Office duly author
ICED and deputed to perform that office;
and that the Legislature be requested
| through the Mayor to abolish the Office of
Assistant City Attorney.
And the following, offered by MI. Brady
as substitute, was adopted:
Resolved, That it is the opinion of the
Common Council that the office of the As
sistant City Attorney be abolished, and
that the Finance Committee be empowered
to request the abolition of that Office by the
| Legislature.
The rules being waived, it was read a
second time and adopted by the following
vote:
Yeas: President Marley, and Messrs.
Brady, Boguille, 0'Brien, Poynot, Prados,
and Shields.
Nays: Mr. Kaiser-I.
Resolved, That the Controller be and he
is hereby authorized to warrant on the
| Treasurer in favor of Policeman W. H.
| Webb, for seVenty-seven dollars thirty-fve
cents, as payment of his salary during his
| illness.
This was adopted, and the rules being
waived, read a second time and adopted on
the following vote
Yeas: President Marley, and Messrs
Boguille, Brady, Kaiser o'Brien, Poynot,
Prados, and Shields-s.
Nays None.
An Ordinance to enforce the Payment OF
Taxes and Judgments due the City
WHEREAS, Large sums are due the city
for bacx taxes and dissatisfied judgments in
favor of the city;
Be it ordained by the Common Council of
the city of New Orleans, That the Assistant
City Attorney be and he is hereby author
lied and instructed to enforce forthwith the
collection and payment of all said back
taxes, and of all said unsstisfied judgments,
from the yesr, 1852 to the year 1867 inclu-
sively Provided, That his compensation
for the additional duties hereby imposed
upon him shall not exceed five per centum
on the amounts paid into the treasury And
provided further That all costs attending
unsuccessful attempts to enforce said collec.
ton shall be at the risk of said Attorney.
Be it further ordained ETC., That the man.
be and the same is hereby revoked.
Be it further ordained, etc., That the said
ordinance No. 70S, new series, and all other
ordinances or parts of ordinances conflict
ing herewith, be and the same are hereby
repealed.
This was laid on the table subject to cali.
COMMITTEE OF STREETS AND LANDINGS,
Board of Aldermen, I
City Hail. August 4, 1868. }
To the Honorable Board of Aldermen:
GENTLEMEN-Your committee have the
honor to report upon the following subjects
referred to them, viz:
Upon the resolution sent from the Board
of Assistant Aldermen for concurrence, not
withstanding the veto of his honor the May
or, concerning the sale of the right of way for
a railroad on Where, Dumaine, Marais, aud
other streets, which was adiudicated on the
fifteenth of May, 1868, to the Orleans Rail
road Company, with d. B. Macarty, George
W. Hynson, B. Saloy, ard L. E. Lemarie as
be and the same is hereby ap.
proved.
Resolved further, That the Mayor be and
he is hereby authorized to enter into con-
tract before the City Notary in behalf of the
city of New Orleans, with the Orleans Rail
road Company as principals, and D. B. Ma
carly, G.. W. Hynson, B. Saloy, and L. E.
Lemarie as securities, for the right of way
of railroad on Villere, Dumaine, Marais.
and other streets for twenty years, at the
rate of 2232 of one cent per passenger car.
ried on the cars agreeably to specifications
by the City Surveyor.
Your committee would report favorably
on the passage of the aforesaid resolution.
THOMAS II. SHIELDS,