New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-21

| shall not audit, or draw warrant for any
payroll, bill or claim against the city which
| will not have been certified as correct by
| the Mayor, or the Administrator Of the de-
nsrtment in which the expenditure origin
| ated, which said certificate shall designate
| specifi cally the ordinance authorizing the
! contract, that approving the adjudication,
| and that ordering payment; and shall state
that the appropriation therefor has not been
exhausted; and shall include the certificate
of the Surveyor that the stipulations OF the
| contract have been faithfully complied with;
provided, that if the execution of the con-
| tract can not be supervised by the Surveyor,
| that fact shall be stated, and then the Ger
tificate of the officer Immediately superin-
| tending the work or receiving the materials
will suffice; and provided, that for contracts
under five hundred dollars, as contemplated
in section twenty'three OF the charter, res
olution approving the adjudication will NOS
be required.
4. That every warrant issued for the pay
ment of money shall specify the person and
sum to be paid. the ordinance authorizing
| the payment, and the account OF the budget
agains. which it is to be charged.
s. That payments Of licenses and taxes TO
| the city shall be made as now proVldeo py
| law.
6. That all payments to the city by its
officers shall be made in lawful money by
the collector thereof, to the Administrator
of Finance only, and upon the receiving
warrant of the Administrator, in whose de-
| partment the revenue arises duplicate OF
which receiving warrant shall be furnished
| Immediately By the Administrator Issuing
| the same 20 the Administrator OF Accounts.
! Said receiving warrant shall designate the
account to be credited, the source OF the
revenue, and the Official name OF the collec-
tor thereof. The original of said warrant
shall, on the same day, be returned with
&c oh y1a9r mt Of int " hta n.
| minisirator OF Finance 10 the Administrator
| issuing the same.
Z. The Administrator of Finance shall
| make daily reports, in detail, to the Admlp-
istrator of Accounts OF the receipts and eZ-
penditures in his department.
s. The Administrator of Accounts shall
keep ledger, to be called the Contract and
Appropriation LEDGER" in which he shall
record by reference to title and number
all copies of contracts filed in his Office and
the estimated expenditures under each; and
| in the same ledger he shall post the items OF
the budget, so that this ledger will always
exhibit the uneXhausted balance OF the
yearly appropriations subject to disposal by
the Council and furnish q basis of estimate
| for subsequent budgets; and it shall be the
duty of the Administrator Of Accounts 10
report Immediately to the Council the
exhaustion OF any appropriation; and upon
such report this Council will not contract
lux luI LnSI WOihS VI SuppiicS Uulli SpSCAhA
means be devised to pay for the same.
Every Administrator shall keep ledger
of the same character as the one referred to
in this section, but only in regard to the
contracts in bis own department..
9. No certificate for work done, nor re-
gistered bill, nor other voucher, involving
the payment OF money, shall be delivered
by any Administrator to contractors or other
parties, or in any manner uttered upon the
market as an obligation OF the city; but all
such rs are contemplated to be issued
under this ordinance shall be forwarded
under official envelope to the Administrator
of Accounts to be by him finally audited,
and when audited a warrant shall issue
therefor as prescribed by law.
10. That the Administrator of Public Ac
counts open new set of books in stvic.
conformity with the requirements OF the
budget, adding to the number of the gen
eral accounts only the "new seven per cent
bonds" metropolitan police assessment"
and suspense accounts which latter shall
only include the items of discrepancy be-
tween the cash accounts of the Administers
tor Of Finance and the late Treasurer OF
the city.
The books OF the late Controller shall De
closed as soon as practicable and a balance
sheet written of for the Information Of the
Council.
The following resolution was also offered
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Resolved, That in order to facilitate the
auditing of the floating debt, in case the
requisite information be not filed in the
office Of the Administrator of Public Ac-
counts, he is hereby authorized to refer any
voucher or bill which appears to be imper--
feet to the Administrator of the department
at present IN charge of the work on which
the expenditure Was made, who shall there
upon notify to the Administrator of Accounts
al
claim, but shall not in any manner alter Or
detace the original document.
Mr.. Shaw called up the following ordin-
ance. which was put upon its final passage,
ana passed:
An ordinance declaring the fiscal wear and
regulating the assessment of incomes.
Be it ordained by the Council OF the city
of New Orleans
SECTION |. That the fiscal year of the city
OF New Orleans De and Is hereby declared to
commence on the first day of January. and
to end on the thirty-irst day of December
Of each year.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, ETC.. That
the department of assessment, in estimating
and assessing the value of the income of any
individuas Or Corporation, as provided in
the city charter or act of incorporation, shall
estimate and assess the income that has
accrued to such individual or corporation
during the last fiscal year next preceding
the date OF such assessment.
SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, ETC., Tia:
this ordinance take effect and be in force
from aud after its adoption aud promulga.
ton.
Administrator Delassize (Waterworks and
Public BuildiDgs) moved the following reso-
luton, which was carried:
WHEREAS, The present residence OF tie
Engineer of tie Waterworks, within the
Weterworks enclosure, has been declared
by the City Surveyor as untenable and
utterly beyond repair; and
Whereas, The building used as q carpen
ter shop in said enclosure can, with slight
alterations, be made suitable for a dwelling;
therefore be it
ResOIUed, That the Administrator of
Waterworks and Public Buildings be and ia
hereby authorized to set apart the building
now used as carpenters shop, in the
MaterWorks enclosure, for the use of the
Engineer OF said works as a dwelling, and
that he be authorized to make such repairs
as may be necessary; tie expense thereof
not to exceed $500.
On motion of Mr.. Delassize it was also
ResoLced, That the Administrator of VS.
terWorks and Public Buildings be and is
hereby authorized to advertise by ten days'
notice in the official journal, for proposals
to fu{nlsh the following materials for the
use of the Waterworks:
One bar cast steel, three-fourth inch
square.
One bar cast steel, three fourth inch oc.
tagon.
Two bars Tennessee iron, one inch square,
Two bars Tennessee iron, one inch round.