New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-24
ADJOURNED MEETING.

CITY HALL, April %, 1870.
The Council met pursuant to adjournment
at seven O'Clock.
Roll called.
Present-Mayor Flanders; Administrators
West. Shaw, Delassize, Emley, Pierce. Nal
ton and BoBZano.
Reading of the minutes of last rGeetin.
dispensed with.
I Administrator Shaw (accounts) presented
an ordinance providing special tax fo1
park purposes, remarking that the pass
age of the ordinance was rendered obliga
tory on the Council by the Legislature
whether they approved it or not.
The ordinance was read as follows:
An ordinance to impose and levy an annual
tax to establish the New Orleans PARK ,
WHEREAS BY section seven of an act o.
| the Legislature, entitled IAN act to estab B.
lish public park FOR the city of New Or
leans, and to provide means therefor" APP
proved March 1G 1870, it is made obligatory
on the city OF New Orleans to impose and
levy for the purposes OF said act AN annual
tax OF neeighth of one per cent on the
assessed value of ali the real, personal ard
mixed property taxed by the city for any
| other purpose; therefore.
Be it ordained by the Council of the city
OF New Orleans, That the said tax Of one.
eighth of one per cent be and is hereby I'M
| posed and levied in obedience to the require.
! ments of said act.
i The ordinance was laid over under the
rules to be taken up at the next regular
meeting.
petition Of Thomas Mcknight with re-
| gard TO the taxes on his sprinking carts was
referred to the Administrator of Improve
ments.
A communication from DR.. C. B. White,
president Of the Board of Health, enclosing
a special report from DR.. A. W. Perry, with
regard 10 the sanitary condition Of certain
parts OF the city. was referred to the Admin.
istrator of Police.
4 communication from the Rev. T. ".
Conway, State Superintendent of Educa-
ton, asking the approval of the Council to
the amount of fund fixed for the treasurer
of the Board of School Directors (twenty-
five thousand dollars), was read and re,
ferred to the Administrator Of Accounts.
communication from Mr.. Daggs was re-
ferred to the Department of improvements.
A petition from the Chattanooga Railroad
asking permission to erect shed for the
storing of locomotive engines, bounded by
Water, Calliope, Pile and ST. Joseph streets:
also to erect on the opposite corner shed
for storing passenger cars, was referred to
the Department of improvements.
"a petition from the lessee of LIE Breton
Market, asking for relief, was referred 10 the
Department Of CONNIE
Administrator Shaw (AccouDts) offered q
resolution appropriating to the Home of the
Aged and Infrm $50, and to the Jewish Or
phan Asylum the amount provided by Law.
Carried.
Administrator BOnzano (Assessments) an
bounced that he had appointed Mr.. Charles
Ingalls, his Chief Clerk.
The JSckscn Railroad Stock
Mayor Flanders said: Administrators,
under the appointment Of the Council last
evening, the committee composed of the
of Finance and Commerce
and myself, have endeavored to arrive at
some conclusion in regard to the course
WHICH the interests Of the city require us to
take with respect to the sale of the city
stock in the Jackson Railroad Company.
We have made q careful inquiry as to the
effect of such sale upon the city's interest,
and after careful reference to the law and |
the facts, We have been unable to arrive at |
any conclusion which will enable US to |
recommend anything on the subject. We |
ind the whole question involved in |
very great difficulties, and though there is |
as l stated last evening, a |
great risk of the city losing both its stock |
and the amount rendered for it, we find it
far from easy to determine what is best to
De done. The law suits which are being
prosecuted with regard to this stock tend to
excite the public mind, and every move
nent and every act we make in regard to
his matter is liable to misrepresentation,
out our duty is clear, and that is to do what
n our judgment is best for the interest of
he city. This is all we can say at present,
md it is for the lCouncii to say
whether they will leave the matter in our
lands for further consideration, or whether
hey will discharge the committee.
Administrator Shaw moved that the mat
er be left in the hands of the committee for
urther consideration.
Administrator West seconded the motion,
which was unanimously carried.
The Council then adjourned.
H. CONQUEST CLARKE,
Secretary pro TEN.