New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-08

the Judge Of said court, $685..
). &. Roche, Coroner Of First and Fourth
Districts, for inquests, views and burials in
June, 1870, 1912.
Fifth and Sixth Districts, for inGuests,
views and burials in November, 1870, $l64.
James I. Jackson, Coroner OF Second and
Third Districts, for inquests, views and
burials in November 1870, $l39.
l.. Rsseu, Recorder Of Births and Deaths,
for recording deaths occurring in the
charitable institutions of the city in July.
August, September, October and Novem-
Der, 1870, l4l0. at fifty cents each, sos.
trict Court, for transcript OF appeal i'll suit
OF Louisiana Bank va. John S. Walton, Adj
ministratOr of Finance, $32 10.
John w. Madden, for stationery for De
partment of Accounts, 1898 %.
James A. Gresham, for account books for
Department Of Accounts, $l05.
G. G.. Fisk, attorney at law. for profess
sional services in sundry suits for and
against the late City Of Jefferson. $272.
/ Read twice and laid over.
BY Mr. Shaw:
An ordinance providin. for the payment of
the several accounts therein named.
Be it ordained, That the following appro-
priations be. and are hereby made, and that
/ the Administrator Of Public Accounts war
rant on the Administrator of Finance in
payment Of the same:
Steamboat Mollie Able. for freight on
cast iron pipe, as per bill approved by De-
partment of Waterworks and Public Build
ings, S245 A.
Steel & Company, for stationery. etc. for
Office of City Attorney, $66 -.
Hon. Il. +. Flanders, for sundry expenses
paid by him, $l6.
McCutchon & Howell. for hardware
bought February !. 1868, as per bill APP
proved by Finance Committee. 50.
A. Z. Turner for examination of printing
accounts in November. 1870. $50.
Adopted.
The City Attorneys Office.
Mr.. Shaw introduced the following or
dinance:
An ordinance relative to the Office of City
Attorney.
SECTION |. BE it ordained by the Council
of. the city of New Orleans. That the City
Attorney be authorized two employ two
clerks, at the rate of one hundred and
seventy-tive dollars each per month. and
two attorneys at law. at the rate of two
hundred and fifty dollars each per month,
to hold their positions during the pleasure
of the Council. The said attorneys shall
other law matters as may he assigned them
by the City Attorney.
SEC. 9. Be it further ordained. That Ordi-
nance No. $50 be and the same is hereby re-
pealed
The roll was called and the ordinance was
unanimously adopted.
Petitions.
The Mayor laid before the Council the
following petition:
NEW ORLEANS, NOBLE AND ChArTASooeA
Railroad Company,
New Orleans December l. 1870.
Hon. B. F. Flanders Mayor:
BY the provisions of two certain ordi-
nances Of the city of New Orleans, approved
respectively the fifteenth day of November.
1867. and the seventeenth day of June. 1869,
the city of New Orleans became obligated
to this company to open and grade an ex-
tension of Claiborne street, from St. Ber-
nard avenue to Lafayette avenue, and by
the express terms of the ordinance approved
June II, 1869, the city assumed to complete
within specified time SO much Of the grad
ing of said extension, between Elysian
Fields street and Lafayette avenue, as
should be required to enable this company
to lay one track Of its road along the same.
Though the Mayor at that time repeatedly
promised that the work should be done, he
obliged this company to do the work. at a
season of the year when its performance
was difficult and expensive. l respectfully
refer you to the provisions of the ordinances
named.
Herewith submit to you for the examina-
ton of the proper officers the vouchers for
all disbursements made by the company for
the said work between Elysian Fields street
and Lafayette avenue. amounting, on the
NJ tn "A
VIII you please have the account examined,
and advise me whether correct, and, if so,
when and how it will be paid to the company
by the city.
And oblige yours, very truly,
JAMES A. RASNOR, President.
The communication was referred to the
Administrators of Assessments and I'm
provements.
The following petition was received and
ordered to be printed, and referred to the
Administrator Of Improvements.
New ORLEANS, December ). 1870
To the City Council of New Orleans
The undersigned, residents of this city,
and interested in its material prosperity,
have the honor to respectfully invite the
attention of your honorable body to the
serious burden, loss and Inconvenience en-
tailed upon the commerce Of this city by
reason Of the exposure Incident to the pres
ent manner in which all articles of COM
merce consigned to or shipped from this
port by water craft are laden or unladen.
and the almost certainty that all merchan-
disc must suffer damage and deterioration
while it is unav oidably exposed during the
most favorable and expeditions process of
shipment or delivery. over the present
broad, unprotected and unsheltcred public
levee and wharves; and also to petition and
invite. your consent to and concurrence in a
plan for Obviating such loss. and enhancing
the commercial and material interests OF
the city, both i'll the present and in the flu
ture. by furnishing as nearly as possible a
complete guarantee to all shippers against
any loss or damage by exposure to the clc-
ments, or from larceny and peculation by
wharf thieves.
We believe there is no city in the world
possessed of any considerable commerce,
where the merchandise arriving at and
shipped frOmits wharves is so exposed to
certain damage and depreciation from storm
and the elements as in this city. This fact
is so well comprehended by merchants and
shippers in other portions OF the country
along our great water courses naturally
tributary to our city, that they have, as il
were, established scale or percentage OF
loss which their merchandise must suffer il
sent here and passed over our public wharves
in process of transhipment on its way to
the ocean. So serious has this charge and
estimate become, that the commercial pros
perity Of this city has become seriously and