New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-30


New Orleans by section 12s of the statute of
1906, known as the city charter, Samuel
weeks, Superintendent of the Fire Alarm
Telegraph, be and he is hereby removed from
SAID ONCE because of want of confidence of
Weeks.
This was received without dissent and
concurred in on first reading. The rule
was suspended unanimously for second
reading, and it was concurred in on that
reading by the following vote, it being two
thirds of all the members elect:
Yeas: President Markey, and Messrs.
Brady, Kaiser, o'Brien, Frados and
Shields-6.
Nays: None.
The following were coneurred in on first
and second readings, the rule being duly
waived thereto, by the vote annexed to
each:
!, WHEREAS, The drainage of the city and
the compromise between the city of New
Orleans and the Carondelet Canal and Navi-
CATION Company compel the digging of
canal on Orleans street, from Bayou st.
John to apoint beyond the Matairie Ridges
and =
whereas Said canal will have shortly to
be widened to sixty feet in order to be of
sufficient capacity to receive and lead the
drainage waters to the draining machine
which is to be erected on Orleans street, at
the Intersection of Taylor avenue; and
whereas, Said Orleans street is not open
from Bayou st. John to David street, and
that the portion already open has not the
width required; be it
ResolUed, That the Mayor be and he is
hereby authorized TO give notice according
to law that is the intention of the Common
Council of New Orleans to open and widen
northeast of
Bayou st. John to the Matarie Road, to
uniform width of (ls0) one hundred and
eighty feet.
Yeas; President Markey, and Messrs.
Brady, Kaiser, 0Brien, Prados and
Shields-G.
Nays: None.
Resolued, That the Street Commissioner
be and he is hereby authorized to have
gas lamps at the following named places,
viz:
One at the corner of villere and Barracks.
One on Villere, between Barracks and
Bayou Road.
One on vilIere, between Bayou Road and
Ursulines street.
One at the corner of Robertson and Bar,
racks.
>, One on Robertson, between Barracks and
Bayou Road.
One on Robertson, between Bayou Road
and Ursulines street.
Yeas: President Msrkey, and Messrs.
Brady, Kaiser 0'Brien, Prados and
Shields-6.
Nays: None.
Resolced, That Henry Otis be and he is
hereby authorized to erect steam engine
on his premises, No. 81 Foucher street, be
tween Lafayette and Girod streets.
Yeas: President Markey, and Messrs.
Brady, Kaiser, o'Brien, Prsdos and,
Shelds-6. r.. t
Nays: None.
An Ordinance regulating the construction
OF the Kel ar Market and collection Of
the revenues thereof.
ReSotU5d, That city ordinance No. 524.
new series, approved March %, 1867, be SO
amended as to expunge therefrom the words
Fifteen years. and substitute therefor the
words thirty years:n Provided, That John /.
H. Kellar, the gran$or of the square upon
which the market Louise, described in said
ordnance will be built, and the lessor Of
the same be required to build at his own
expense, sidewalks around said market Z
house (as described and specified in ordi-
nance No. sos, new seriesr) the performance
Of which work must be accepted by the
City Surveyor. al
Resoloed, That all resolutions and ordi-
pauces in conflict with the subject matter of
this ordinance be and are hereby repealed.
allotted, Mr.. Kellar, his heirs or assigns
shall return said market and extensions
thereof II good and frstolass condition aud
repair.
Yeas: President Markey and Messrs.
Brady, Kaiser, oBrien, Prados and
shields-6.
Nays: None.
Resolued, That the Mayor be and he is
hereby authorized to sign an act before the
City Notary to transfer the contracts of
Gabriel Correjoles for cleaning the streets
of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Wards of the
Second District to John Bietry, as principal,
securities remaining the same.
Yeas: President Markey and Messrs.
Brady. Kaiser, o'Brien, Prados and
Shields-6.
Nays: None. ...,
Resoloed, That the Mayor be and he is
before the City Notary, in behalf of the city
OF New Orleans, with ]. j. o'Hara, as prin-
cipal and G. Correjolles as security, for
grading and shelling Eighth street from
Magazine to Tchoupitoulas street, with lake
shells, at one dollar and ninety five cents Per
running foot, the work to be done aceord-
| ing to specifications on file in the office of
the City Surveyor. aagsu
Yeas: President Markey and Messrs.
Brady, Kaiser o'Brien, Prados and
| Shields-6.
Nays: None. ris.ra
Resoluei, That the City Surveyor be and
| he is hereby authorized to have the Maga-
zine Market repaired, providing the cost
does not exceed i've hundred dollars.
! Yeas: President Markey and Messrs Bra
dy, Kaiser, o'Brien, Prados and shields-6.
Nays; None.
! ResolUed, That the sixty-seventh section
| OF ordinance 6ls, new series, relative to
/ licenses for the year 1868, be and the same
is hereby amended by adding thereto the
| following proYiso, viz;
"ProOlded, That no menagerie, museum
| of natural curiosities, or other exhibition or
| show not of theatrical character, perma-
nently established in this city, shall be re-
quired to pay license exceeding two hun
ared and fifty dollars; and,
| "PrOuided further, That nothing herein
| shall be so construed as to deprive the
Mayor of the power of ordering the removal
of any such managerie, ETC., whenever he
deems proper" ,..-.--.
Yeas: President Markey and Messrs. Bra
dy, Kaiser, o'Brien, Prados and shlelds-7s.
Nays: None.
The following were referred to the Com
mittee on Streets and Landings: Ha3
Resolced That the Mayor be and he d
hereby authorized to enterinto contract, IN
behalf of the city of New Orleans, before the
City Notary with Robert Meadowcraft as
principal, and John Clark security, for
building foot bridge across the New. Canal
: Basin AZ the foot OF Liberty street, for the
I price and sum of six Thousand nine hun