New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-19
creating the Offices of COrOners, and specify

respecting the cause anu nanieA "a
death, and if from such inquiry he snaii De
satisfied that no person has been guilty OF
lcausinp. or procuring the death, anu that
\ there are no suspicious circumstances AT
! tending il. he shall, without further pro-
! ceedings therein, deliver the oody Tor IN
ferment to its friends. and IN case there are
| no friends, and the deceased snail not nave
left property to pay the expenses OF me
| burial, then it shall De the GUY OF tne
Coroner to bury it."
| SIC. 655, Ii the coroner shall have reason
to suspect that the person whose body he
shall have been called to view came to his
| death by violent means. then, and not other
wise, it shall be his duty to proceed and
4 take inquest of such DEATH"
4 In Coroner RoChe's report for the month
! of April, $50 he claims to have held regu-
lar Jury inouests Oh forty-five bodies, and to
! have "vewed" thirteen other bodies-tota',
So: on these he makes the regular charge OF
$50 per inquest and So per view. HIS
report further shows that he mas buried
| thirty-two of the above number OF bodies,
for which the regular charge OF Sl2 per
| burial is also made.
OF the fortv-fve bodies upon which it is
claimed inauests were held, twenty-seven
of them appear to have come 10 their death
by natural causes, or, in other words.
| through the operation OF recognized dis,
| eases, such as debility, infammatlCn, l0anl-
ton, pueumonis, spasms, smallpox, III
Guiding that OF six stili-bGn babes.
| can not reconcile the foregoing twenty
seven cases with the law which provides
| that ii is only IN cases acheTe U5olence has
been used or is suspected to haze been uSed,
that the Coroner is authorized to empanel 8
iury and hold an inquest. La the case OF
| stubborn children, | submit. that the eX-
animation of the city or police physicians
| would more surely determine the causes OF
death than any jury the Coroner could pos
| sibly bring together.
The report OF DR.. AviIa, Coroner of the
| Second and Third Districts, does net show
the causes OF death, except in the instance
| of stiil.born" children, of which bis report
contains thirteen cases.
The reports of both Coroners taken to-
gether, show q total of ninety-nine bodies
as having passed through their hands during
the month of April, which, 1t would seem,
| must have been buried on COroners certiti-
! Gates. Application at the office OF the Board
| of Health has shown that the report OF that
| body, for the said month Of April shows but
| seventy-eight bodies buried on Coroner's
| certificates, difference of twenty.One be
| tween the report of the CorOners and that
| Of the Board of Health. To avoid discre-
| pancies in the future, l would also advise
| that vouchers for burial expenses, under
| takers bills, etc, be filed regularly once a
month by the Coroners, in the office OF the
-'~' - 49, '-'' ''' - ALFRED SHAW,
Administrator of Public Accounts.
! Received and spread upon the minutes.
The next report took up the question of
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
| Since entering into Office, learn that
there was, Or had been, III the State treasury
an amount of money, due to the city OF New
| Orleans for the support OF public schools
upon quarterly apportinnment required by
law. to be made on the first OF March.
gave q receiving warrant in blank to the
A ADMINISTRATOR of Finance, who waited on
| the State Auditor, and Yves Informed that the
| apportioDment had been made through the
| State Superintendent. | have since then
| learned that the following payments have
| been made in the last two years to the city
or parish:
MAJ |. 1868, to Treasurer Howell. S., 900 0(
Nav is, 1865, to Treasurer Howell. 20l0 OF
June II, 1868, to Treasurer Howell 10 900 OF
July 3, 1868, to Treasurer Howell. 1900 Of
| August 6, 1868, to Treasurer
| Mount ..........'............. 5.OOo VI
Mount ......................... 2,516 I;
Nav H. 1869, to Treasurer ". Van
Norden. %. 96S 8,
Total ...............s5 S, 795 Z:
Also there was paid to Fl. G. Dibble
Treasurer of the.Board of School Director,
of New Orleans, $1,000 'for pay Of teachers, ;
| as is expressed on the books Of the Auditor
As the Board Of Directors, Of which Mr.
! Dibbie was Treasurer, was never in posses
sion of the schools, am at q loss to know
| what teachers could have been paid with
| these $4,000.
or L. lat
| wss pursuant TO the pportiOnmentTequ
to be made March l, 1870, and was undoubt.
| eddy vested right in the city OF New Or.
| leans, to pay the salaries OF teachers then
| already due. The city up to that date WAS
in debt, and still is, for some eight months
Of back salary. How it could be taken from
| the city under law passed sixteen days
afterward, and given to board not created
till within the last month, is difficult
to understand. If intended to reach the
teachers at all, which l do not question,
ii has been travelling very leisurely route
to their pockets. 1t did not reach the
School Board Jill eleventh of May; and
though it shouId have been paid without 9
| single days detention, it is still unpaid,
and / am now told they do not consider
themselves authorized to pay back pay,
and propose to hold it till the month of May
shall have expired, to pay this month.
This is great wrong IS we'll to the city as to
the teachers, who, while the money is lying
| idle in the treasury OF the School Board, are
compelled day by day to part with their
hard earned pittance to the shavers and
| brokers, who exact of them a heavy dis
count.
ALFRED SHAW,
Administrator Of Public Accounts.
This report was also received and spread
| upon the minutes.
Teen followed the following report on the
subject of the floating debt, with accom-
panying statements:
| FLOATING DEBT.
/ submit the first sheets OF the floating
| debt statement. Out of the 81 500 900, sup.
posed amount of the floating debt, | have
| examined between Blk and seven hundred
| thousands. The examination OF the fret
| two hundred thousands consumed more
time than | expect ali the remainder to,
because all the questions arose in them
| that ere likely TO arise al all.
The charter limits me to the following
| four classes Of debt:
Final Judgments.
Registered certificates.
Warrants.
| City notes.
About final judgments no QUESTION can
arise City notes have been obliged to
| classify fer the reason that some of the is.
| sues were unauthorized by any action OF
the Council, and may, therefore, need le-
| galization or recognition by the present
Council. L was further impelled to this
course by the fact that the late City Attor-
ney gained one or more judgments in favor
of the city upon city notes sued Tor; these
are now on appeal; 1T the same time the
| courts have given Judgments against the
| city upon similar issues. | could not place
| upon my tibleau as q debs against the city