New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-03

The following, also from the Mayor, an
document accompanying, was referred t
the Committee on Improvements and Built
ings:
MAToRALTY or NEW ORLEANS,
City Hail, 2stn Day Of April. 1868.
To the Honorable the Assistant Board OF Aldermen
| GENrLEMEN-I transmit herewiththe com
munication of A. r. Cotton. ESQ. askin!
permission to sink one OF Chandler
| Patent Drove wells in Laf9 yette Square
aud also an appropriation of one hundred
| dollars TO paw the expense OF the same.
am informed that this will neither dis
figure nor iucumber the square, but may
lead to valuable discoveries. | therefore
recommend that his request be granted.
Very respectfully,
i. HEATH, Mayor.
New ORLEANS, La, April o. 1865.
To the Honorable Mayor aud City Council of New
Orleans;
EsrLEMEN-Haying the exclusive right
and privilege for this State for Chambers
Patent Drove Well" | desire the privilege
of sinking one OF these wells in Lafayette
square, where its usefulness might be made
apparent, providing an appropriation not
exceeding 500 Zone hundred dollars,)
(Which amount covers only the cost of ma.
terial) be made in my favor.
The incalulable benefits which NAV he
derived by the city of New Orleans in the
tate valuable discovery OF large and never
t !dg supply OF gas at certain depths from
i the surface, and IN every locality within its
limits, renders TINS new source OF usefulness
an oPJecI OF more man ordinary interest to
our gu citlzens' and VIII eventually supersede
All I otneT MODES oil hghtnS the city at night.
Meus nave oeen sunk In various localities
a. S4ts ciey WIN UNIFORM successful results,
brightness, and purity as when first strnck
oi nave tne 1onoF 70 subscribe myself most
- O1' '' A, r Col Col TON
rono~+ os .ro r-oos,uo. g.. A.. =,
on5tno -, a. 200 eS-,- ~ VIC "eeA
Receiots e,o, ooo m
9''-''''--''''-- 'Sltl, zJU bU
Expenditures. ................... 1857 so
Balance on hand. 2g5 175 N
Was referred 70 the Finance Cor,r,ittoo
M ,0--oO ~ 'H' lu@Hoe COMMITTEE
AAe controllers statement of checks
drawn by Treasurer for one week ending
April %. 1865. amountiro m s,so ,,,o. =
farrad ", +te E;,,,,,o C,o.,,7.....-
0LIeu 70 ene lnauCe committee.
The following report Of the Controller
was referred to the Finance Committee
,,,,
5, Z In III ~ lily oF sew ORLEANS,
III. ~, I I. ~ o4y u 1Ori'' 1905
4 ~ 1, IlOnolaoie 'H1 common Ooonoh'
~, %EEIL La nave tne hohor 10 report
faaS have tbs sda JUDI the contract for
iluInIsnlHg the CITY institutions with beef
l1llng the year I9es, as per ordnance No.
: %, ~ SERIES; 70 Louis huch al three and
nan Genus SogC.l per pound
very respectfully, ou,r,r
Deputy Controller.
REPORTS OF STANDING Commences
mi
Inc following report from the Finance
Committee was received. and the resoIp,
lions recommending a5ontod ~, go
- - -, Us "Opseo Oi' tHeAr
d ie'uiHs' " uiialililous vote:
FINANCE COMMITTEES Room. No "a |
April 1868, |
TO the Honorable the Board of Assistant Aldermen:
GENTLEMEN - The Finance Committees |
rave the honor to report upon the following |
matters referred to them:
Navorsbly upon the petition of Will
liam r. Bell for the settlement of
his bills; the one of the first of No
vember, 1867, he having furnished
a horse and driver for the convey
ance of the sick poor of the first
and fourth districts at night dur.
ing August, September, and Octo-
Der last at S. per night. ......S 4GO 90 |
likewise his bill for same duty in
the second and third districts and
fol the same term, also Der night
at S5.................... $50 90
With an additional charge second of
December for two charity wagons
by night from November l to De-
cember inclusive, thirty.tWo days.
at $40. ............',, 800 90
Total ..... .......-. .... Sl240 90
These bills not having been duly present
and consequently omitted in the proper
eriodical rolls issued by the Street Commits.
oner, but who with .he Chief of Police has
nee substituted the amounts claimed, we
ivise the payment thereof. ""
Upon the petition Of e. Barthe unfavora.
".
Your Committees can not respond fayora-
" to the petition OF the police officers who
ssire to be reimbursedior costs of uniforms
18th which they have been debited, mas
UGH as they constitute fully as cheap
leir own expense. ' "
Upon the petition of William ], McCuIloh
no acted as Deputy Street Commissioner
II short period in February last. and who
esires cancellation Of his bond, we see
reason to object, and therefore submit a ,
solution agreea6ly to his request.
touching the desire Of l.. Redon to be ,
9rmitted to transfer his contract for col
citing the revenues at the Poydras market
Mr. John FERNANDEZ, your Committees are |
lWliling 70 acce9e, as might create con-
sion in the city,s accounts, and the neces-
~ Is apparent when an assignment can be
ade in the same manner as mortgage
,tes, etc.
As double wharfage seems to have been
acted from MT. Peter Kaiser through the
CT of his having. employed an additional
lrge in case OF distress, and especially as a
turn of the extra Wharfage is advised by the
harhnger, we are IN favor Of remission ]