New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-12-31
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY DECEMBER 81 1868

and property holders desiring
completion.
2. On the advice of the City Attorney.
8. The Board of Assistant Aldermen hav-
ng requested the withdrawal of veto as to
Race street, by resolution.
JOHN R. CONWAY, Mayor.
The following communication from the |
Controller was received and read:
CONTROLLERS OFFICE, CITY HALL. |
New Orleans, December %. 1865 |
To the Honorable the Common Council
GENTLEMEN have the honor to report |
TO your honorable body that on the twenty
third instant after due notice in the official
journal, l sdjudicated the following con-
tracts, to wit:
l. By virtue of ordinance No. 1882, Eew
series, the contract for grading and Smelling
the swamp side of Bayou ST. John, from
Esplanade street bridge to the City Rail
road, to James Fallon, principal. and Will
liam Cullinan, security, at three dollars (S3)
per running foot.
2. By virtue of ordinance No. ll64, new
series, the contract for the construction OF
brick sidewalks on Peters and Clay streets,
between Customhouse and Cont streets, to
j. Coleman Il Co., principals, and John
McVittie security, at two dollars and fifty
cents (S2 SOY per running foot.
And on this day, by virtue of ordinance
No. l176, new series, readiudicated the
contract for repairing the breakwater at
Milneburg fronting the lake, between
Frenchm and St. Anthony streets, to II.
Ellerman, principal. and c. A. Eager, Sc
curity, at six thousand dollars (SGO00).
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Your obedient servant,
j. %. LANDRY, Controller.
The following communication from the
City Surveyor was read and referred to the
Committee on Streets and Landings:
SURVEYORS OFFICE
Room No, 10, City Hall, :
City of New Orleans December g. 1865
To the Honorable the Board of Assistant Aldermen:
GENTLEMEN-In conformity with resolu.
ton from your honorable body requesting
the Surveyor to furnish you with an esti-
mate of the actual cost of repairing the
wharves aud levees, / will respectfully re.
fer you to my communication of the twenty.
second of september last.
In that communication | stated that the
amount required to keep the wharves and
levees in repair, for the year ending July
1869, would not exceed $50 900.
My reason for such a low estimate was
determination to do no other repairs than
than those absolutely necessary, the city
having at present great deal more
wharves than required for the present
wants of commerce.
The nature OF these repairs will consist In
repairing eighteen wharves slightly
damaged in the several districts, and also
five portions of levees and bulkheads
which have caved into the river.
The steamboat wharf from Canal to Girod
street, needs also Il constant attentions the
flooring is nearly worn out, and on account
OF the quantity of heavy hauling upon it Il
great deal of patching and repairing is daily
required.
The probable cost of these repairs, VIII CHI
are partly done by hands employed in my
department. will not exceed S25 600.
The remaining S35000 will be required
for the repairs of the shelled portions of
levees, and 1t shou De time for the city to
adopt more economical mode of paving
for the levee than Shells AS they have to be
renewed every year, aud have, since the
last thirty years, cost upward of $4,000 II
year.
The area of levee now sheled is not over
ninety thousand superficial yards, and were
1t paved with square blocks, would prove an
economy on the present system OF over
fifty per cent.
| remain. respectfully, gentlemen,
Your Obedient servaDt,
L. SURGI, City Surveyor.
The ordinance in the matter of licenses,
previously adopted by this Board, and sent
to the Board Of Aldermen for concurrence,
was returned with the following amend
ments:
Section 4, line 5, strike out so and insert
80. =
Section 6, line l, strike out 1000 and insert
$50.
Section IL. line 4, strike out $50 and insert
250
Section II, line u, strike out so and insert
100.
Section II, line 10, between the words
'publjcn and markets insert the words
Tor free.r
Section Is, line 8, strike out the words
''person employed" and insert proprietor
engaged"
Section 20, line 2, strike out 10 and insert
Is,
Section %, strike out $50 and insert 100.
Section 80, line l6, strike out broker
and insert breaker
Section SO, line 3, after the word "coal"
insert "or lumber"
Section SO, line 2, strike out Sturgeon
dentist and average adjuster.'''
Section Y, at the end add land every
person keeping hand carts for hire, five
dollars for each cart, the same to be branded
al cost of not more than 25 cents
Section 70, line four after warehouse"
insert the words ''or yards" and
at the end add the words ''for each of
fense, one half of the same to go to the in
former
Section IS, line seven, strike out
80" and insert "lOO;T after the word
market" in the tenth, fourteenth and
nineteenth lines, insert the words ''of the
city,"
Section SO, at the end add "all free
markets shall have Their floors tagged
and secured, SO that the blood will not
affect the premises, under penalty of ten
dollars per day, aud in ease of failure on
the part of any proprietor Of a free market
to comply with the provisions of his Sec
ton within fifteen days, the Mayor is hereby
authorized 10 close the same.
Section 80, line eight, after word ''as"
insert "such.a ~
Section 81, line one, after the word
''cigars" insert the words 1925, and every
manufacturer off,
Section "a, liue eight, before the word
"amodntn insert payment of the.n
Section 95, line three, strike out
''l5' and insert the words surgeon dentist
and average adjuster, 90"
The above amendments were, on molten
OF Mr.. Fisher, concurred in.
The following resolution from the Board
of Aldermen was adopted on its first read
ing:
ResolUed, That the keepers of bridges