New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-12

City Of New Orleans,
| City Hall. May 10. 1870.
To the Council Of the City of New Orleans:
In the matter OF the petition of Denis
Cronan. Jr., lessee of the IRENE Market
asking to be discharged from all further Oh.
legations in said market contract, referred
to this Department, l respectfully report
that upon inquiry and examination into the
facts find that the security for the per-
| formance of said contract on the part of
| said lessee is quite unreliable. md that
| the two notes of said lessee due fourth of
! March and fourth Of April for $3.50 each
are unpaid. Said lessee having paid his
January, February and May pay ments of
$S250 each.
Said lessee presents an account of receipts
from said Market from January 1, to NAV
III. Inclusive, amounting to $11 ,779 40, and
after sundry deductions for amounts paid
collector, and for cleaning market. etc. he
shows balance of cash on hand of Sl355 "a.
which he proposes to pay to the city, and
surrender the said market upon cancella-
ton of all obligations.
recommend that the Council authorize
this department to receive frcm said lessee
Sl84l 20 in full settlement of said market
contract. This allows him simply for cash
paid for cleaning said market during bis oc.
cupancy.
Respectfully submitted,
s. C. EMLEY,
Administrator Department of Commerce.
Received and adopted.
Moved by Mr.. Finley:
ResolueG, That the Administrator Of The
Department OF Finance be and hereby ia
authorized to receive eighteen hundred and
forty-One dollars and forty cents, from Denis
Cronan, Jr., lessee of IRENE Market, and
accept the surrender of said market to the
city, and to cancel all obligations under the
lease of said market.
The Mayor mentioned that many of these
market leases had been forfeited by the
failure of the lessees to pay up their notes.
The old Council took no notice. of this, but |
the present Conncil would probably pursue
q different course in this respect.
The resolution moved by Mr.. Emley. was |
carried.
Mr. Emley presented another report:
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, }
City OF New Orleans.
Oity Hall, MAY 10, 1870. !
TO the Council of the city of New Orleans:
The petition of L. Nargaud, lessee of LIE
Breton Market, referred to this Department.
that since the adjudication of
ald market to said petitioner the butchers
tails, only one is occupied.
That under the circumstances it is impos-
IDLE for petitioner to perform his part of the
contract, and asks the Council to discharge
nm from further obligations as lessee of
aid market. The undersigned respectfully
eports that upon personally visiting said
aarket and inquiring into the facts, finds |
hat said market is Yielding in revenues to
aid lessee about one dollar and fifty cents
er day, or forty-fve dollars per month: ,
bat there is but one vendor of meats and |
ne OF vegetables in the market; that this /
slling off OF patronage is from no fault of
aid lessee. The said market was leased {
II the year at $1,000. The lessee has already | I
sld S43! %, and now agrees to pay SlO0 :
iditional and surrender the market to the !
ty, upon being released from all further
Dligati0ns in the premises.
This wonld make his entire payment
mount to 1857 SO, about equal to the gross