New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-04

LA1ayette avenue rom claiborne street TO
GENTLY road, and in place of opening said
avenue that the Surveyor be authorized to
dig and clean out the bitches of Lafayette
avenue from Claiborne street to Florida av-
enue, and that the Street Commissioner be
instructed to cause all the offals of the Sec
ond and Third Districts to be dumped on
said avenue from Claiborne street to Florida
avenue, and offer the necessary resolution
for adoption. .
GERALD FARRELL,
Chairman;
W. W. WALKER,
H. F. STURCKEN,
G. PANDELY.
The following resolutions, accompanying
the above report, were read and unani-
mously adopted on their several readings:
Resoloed, That the Controller be and he
| is hereby authorized to warrant on the
| Treasurer in favor of William Henry, for
and in the sum of four hundred and fifty
dollars ($45O), in full compensation tor $50
| tons Of paving stones, used in street Com
missioner's department in the month ofFeo-
ruary last.
RESOLVED, That the Controller be and he
| is hereby authorized, after five days notice
| in the official journal, to adjudicate CON
tract to the lowest bidder or bidders for
shelling Claiborne street, between Espla-
1
| to be done in strict accordance with plans
and specifications on file in the Office of the
| City Surveyor.
Resolued, That the Street Commissioner
be and he is hereby instructed to at once
cause all the offals of the Second and Third
Districts to be dumped on Lafayette avenue,
between Claiborne street and Florida
avenue. .-..
Resolced, That the City Surveyor be and
he is hereby authorized to dig and clean out
the bitches on both sides OF Lafayette ave
nue., from Claiborne street 10 Florida
avenue.
RESOLVED, That permission be and it is
hereby granted TO W. Thiel, for the term OF
five years, dating from the fifteenth day OF
May, 1869, the sole privilege, for himself and
his representatives or assigns, of establish
ing a swimming school and bath-house at
tached, ut any place in the batture the Sur
veyor may select in the First or Fourth Dis
tricts: Provided, That the cost of bathing
shall not exceed ten cents for each person
bathing: And provided further. That the
baths are adequately constructed and con
Quoted with due Difference to morals, de-
corum and the public safety, and subject to
the approval of the city Surveyor.
Be Il further resogoed, That in considera.
ton of the general utility of such baths, sale
W Thielis hereby granted exemption IRON
! the usual wharfage dues while engaged II
conducting said swimming school and bath
house, which will be from the fifteenth o
J May to the fifteenth of September of eact
J year, and then only: Provided further
That the said baths shall. at no time inter
fere with commerce or navigation, estao
lished or hereafter to be established by law
: and exist subject to the pleasure Of the Com
mon Council.
The following resolution reported upol
9 favorably by the Committee on Streets an
Landings, was read and adopted on its frs
reading:
: WHEREAS, The commission appointed
assess the cost Of opening Lafayette ayenu
= from Claiborne street to Gentilly road, hav
placed the damages at one hundred an
> half of which is to be paid by the propert
holders; and
IF whereas, Many of the property holder
h have opposed the homologation Of the CON
+ mission, and
p whereas The city of New Orleans is NJ
It in condition at the present time to expen
ID so large a sum of money as slXty-thrt
Il thousand dollars, 1868, 000) be it therefore
n Resolred, That the City Attorney be an
/ he is hereby instructed to discontinue Il
Ie proceedings in the Fifth District Court, Il
lie opening Of Lafayette avenue, from Clf
IS borne street to GENTLY Road.
p The following resolution from the Upp'
Board was read and concurred in on
4 several readings:
Az Yeas: Messrs. Kearny, Rose, Wake
A. Pemberton, Camp, sturcken, Grandpr
Fisher, Morphy, Pandely, Wynne, Fare
e. and Breen.
lg Nay: Mr.. Athens.
le WHEREAS, The payment OF the back pa
ne rolls to the first OF June would not relic
m the sufferers who have, for the most pal
Mt discounted the several amounts accruing
er them. and as il is the intention of the Cou
o. Gil to relieve the really needy,
ar Be dresOleed That the Treasurer be al
Sc he is hereby Instructed to pay first t
or different payrolls of August, and to t
l. different officers employed during the mon
of July, not at present in the employ OF t
al hereby repealed.
nm The Committee on Police and Health So
,r. mitted the following report:
..i COK,dITTEF ON POLICE AND HEALTH
City Hall New Orleans September ], 1853.
Is; 10 the Honorable the Board of Assistant Alderm'
hn GENTLEMEN Your Committee beg lea
~ to report on the petition OF H, ReimoniL
m asking permission to lay pipe rom
for wool-washing establishment to the river,
na as to allow the escape of soap water used
ns his establishment, favorably by resoluti'
, Ie r. WYNNE, Chairman
'ca w. H. PEMBERTON.
The following resolution, accompany
so. the report Of the Committee on Police a
raj Health, was unanimously adopted on
several readings:
Ms, Resolued, That Mr.. H. Reimoning BE- 6
ma he is hereby authorized to lay pipe fir
n'' his wool.washing establishment to the rlv
to carry on the soap water used for the P
nd pose of washing the wool.
A motion to transmit the above resoluti
is together with the report of the Commit
o. on Police and Health, to the Upper Boa
, me was adopted, but not carried out, as 1
he body had adjourned.
The The following resolution was read 6
'ay adopted on its several readings;
al Yeas: Messrs Kearny, Rose, Aitki
,os Walker, Camp, sturcken, Grandpre, Fish
Morphy, Pandely, wynne, Farrell, {
9 Breen.
r Nay: Mr.. Pemberton.
~ Resolus1, That the contract for repair
che the railing around Lafayette Square, az
w. Wy dictated on the fifteenth OF August, 1868,
''s the Controller to John Clark, (secur
and John Baker,, be and the same is hereby
Eel. proved.
slds Mr., Farrell offered the following RESI-
was ton, which was unanimously adopted
y VIZ its several readings:
i to Resolosd, That the Mayor be and h
ing hereby authorized to enter into cont
our with Nicholas Connell, as per adJudica'
and BY the Controller, for the grading
ion. shelling of Josephine street, from Ap
pre- TO Howard street, at 81 81 per running
fur. security, Christopher Cornell.