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

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Roll called.
Present: Administrators West, Emiey an
Walton.
No auorum-recess OF ten minutes.
On the reassembling OF the Council, tn
roll was called, and all tue Administrator
answered to their names, as iolloW
Administrators J. r. West (Improvements)
Alfred Shaw tAccountSl q. I. pelessiz
public Buildings), S. C. Emley Com
merce), E. W. Pierce Police, ]. S. Walton
(Finance), and Fl. Romano (Assessments)
Minutes of last meeting read and con
firmed.
Department Reports.
Administrator West reported faYorably OIL
. the petition of the New Orleans Railroad
Company for a change Of track. He alst
presented a report relative to the protes
of Thomas F. Fisher, bridge contractor
First District, to a report on the petition O
property holders On st. Charles street
relative to the Nicholson pavement.
All three reports were received and LAID
over, to be taken up with unfinished
business.
Administrator Shaw presented the follow
ing report:
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, }
New Orleans. May 8, 1910 !
The Administrator of Public Accounts, to
whom was referred the petition fthe South
ern Cotton Press. respectfully reports:
That several similar claims are before this
department, and that they do not properly
belong there. They involve no question of
accounts, and no dispute is made of the cor
rectness of the assessment, nor generally of
the costs of suit and levy.
The questions involved appeal to the
equity n liberality of the Council, but
they should be first examined and reported
upon by the Department of Assessments,
and perhaps by the City Attorney, as they
may effect a large amount of taxes already
paid, or still due to the city treasury. The
Department of Public Accounts is already
burdened with such difficult questions and
so much labor, that ] feel justified in asking
that the consideration of this, and similar
business now in my hands, be referred to
the Department of Assessments.
ALFRED SHAW,
Administrator of Public Accounts.
Mr.. Shaw moved that the report be re-
ceived and adopted, and that the matters
therein referred to be transferred to the
: Administrator of Assessments.
Administrator Bonzano seconded the mo-
ton, but asked if the Department of As
sessments was construed to be a department
OF equity? He thought the City Attorney
would be the better judge both Of law and
equity.
Mr.. Shaw modified his motion by refer
ring the subject to the City Attorney and
the Department Of Assessments jointly.
Referred accordingly.
Administrator Walton offered the follow
ing report:
Report of committee to whom was re-
ferred a bill for celIecting ground rents:
On the twenty-second OF April, 1870, there
was paid to the Administrator of Finance
by J. o. Landry, late Controller of the city
of New Orleans, the sun of $5552 IA, for
ground rents, of which S206S Al was in city
notes, collected, as was alleged, at a time
when the city was receiving them.
No, explanation is made of the DELAY in
making the return, and as I know of no law
by which the Controller could charge CON-
mission for collecting bills due to the city,
/ recommend that the claim be rejected.
JOHN S. WALTON,
AdministratO of Finance.
Mr.. Shaw, as he himself had presented
this claim, asked for time for further In
vestigation before the Council took action
in the matter.
Mr.. Walton assented, ard the report was
laid over.
Mr.. Shaw offered the following report,
which was received, and adopted, and pay
ment ordered:
The undersigned to whom was referred
the bill OF Alexander Walker, of $3.50, for
taking an injunction preventing the lease of
the Waterworks, respectfully reports:
That said Injunction, although taken os-
tensibly at the instance of an indiyldNal,
was really in the interest of the city, and
was done at request of the Commissioners
of the Waterworks. AS the act epjoined
was being taken by the Council, there was
no other way OF effecting the object. The
bill appears to be very reasonable, COM
pared with usual legal charges against the
corporation, and l recommend its payment.
ALFRED SHAW,
Administrator of Public Accounts.
Resolutions, Ordinance. and A~ppropria-
lions.
By Administrator Lmley:
Resolved by the Council of the city of
New Orleans, That the Administrator of
Assessment be aud he is hereby requested
TO report to the Council the condition in
which he found the office Of the late Board
OF Assessors, now under his superintend-
ence, together with the condition in which
he found the books, aud assessment of each
district, and, If necessary, that he report
upon the efficiency of the former Assessors.
respectively, as disclosed by the records OF
the Office.
Adopted.
Mr.. West offered an ordinance appropriat-
ing money to defray the expenses of the
Department of Improvements for the month
of April, 1870, and moved that 1t be read a
first time by its title.
Ordinance read a first time by title.
Mr.. West moved that it be read a,second
time by title.
Read a second time by title, laid over IN
der the rules, and ordered TO be printed.
The ordinance was as follows:
An ordinance appropriating money to de-
fray the expenditures OF the Department
of Improvements for the month Of April,
1870.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Coun-
ell OF the city of New Orleans, That
the following sums of money, or 80 much
thereof as may be necessary, are hereby ap-
propristed to defray the expenditures Of the
Department Of Improvements for the month
of April, 1870.
L. Expenditures OF the Department proper, |
six hundred and twenty (S620) dollars.
2. Expenditures of the Bureau OF Streets, |
twenty-six thousand and five hundred
($26, 500 dollars.
8. Expenditures of the Bureau of Wharves
and Landings, six thousand eight hundred
(S6S00) dollars.
4. Expenditures of the Bureau of CITY
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