New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-22

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| alton on the assessment rolls of 1870, paya-
BILE in 1871, be and is hereby liked and as
1 sessed, as follows:
For the capital and interest Of the consol-
idated loan, at the rate Of sixty t6O) cents
on every one hundred dollars Of the assessed
| value Of real property.
For the interest on the bonds issued for
| subscription to the stock of the New Or
leans, jackson and Great Northern, the
| New Orleans, OpelOusas and Great West
| ern, and the Pontchartrain railroads. at the
rate of twenty (20) cents on every one
! hundred dollars OF the assessed value Oh
real property, and one ~ cent on every one
hundred dollars of the assessed value OF
personal property.
| For the capital and interest of the bonds
| of the one million loan, now over due and
falling due in the year 1871, at the rate OF
twenty-five (25) cents on every one hundred
dollars of the assessed value of the real and
For the other liabilities and expenditures OF
the city, at the rate of seventy FOl
| cents on every one hundred dollars OF
the assessed value of real property, and
| one hundred and forty-nine cents (l49) ON
every one hundred dollars Of the assessed
| value of the personal property.
The Mayor handed in the following
message, which was read by the Secretary
[The Mayors Message, with all the ae-
companying tables, will be published in full
in Fridays REPUBLICAN,
The reading of the message concluded,
Mr.. West rose and said Itherc were some
figures given by the President which indi-
Gated an imperfect research. He would
like his own figures to go with the Mayors.
1t was customary to refer to the Depart
ment Of Improvements as the department
OF extravaganza.
The Mayor: There is no such statement
here.
Mr. West: There is no such statements
there. know. Few people are aware thai
the Department of improvements covers
forty-seven square miles Of territory.
The Mayor: More than that.
Mr.. West resumed: How many bridges
there were under his control he did not
know, for he had never had sufficient time
to count them. He would like to offer some
figures in regard to 1868 and 1869. In his
report of the tenth Of May last, he took
occasion to say:
/ am informed, by the Administered or o.
Public Accounts, that the records OF his
office can not, without great and labor lous
research, afford a detail of the exp n ,es
hitherto incurred by the departments of the
old city government, corresponding with
that Of improvements Recourse to the
data and records of the old Streets and
Landings Committee and to the Surveyors
| Department by myself, disclOses an ex-
penditure> of 81 ,006.000 in 1868, and of
81 ,O29, $3.50 in 1869. The examination is by
no means perfect, and if 81 ,05O,oO is as
will be nearer the just figures. And
these embrace only the expenses OF the old
city.
Reference was made in the message to the
budget and the amount to be expended on
streets in the year 1871. He would state
that of that five hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars
was for contracts entered into for the iron
bridges on st. Charles street, leaving
only four hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars to be expended on the streets. The Gen.
templated expenditure of the Department
of Improvements for the year 1901, from
the nine months of 1870 to the three months
} of 1871. was one million Of dollars, out Of
which the city had to show solid improve
, ment Of 100000 expended on wharves still
incomplete, but universally admitted to be
the best wharves the city had ever seen;
, and hundred and fifty thousand dollars
had been spent on St. Charles street, another
solid improvement. The expenses of the
Department of improvements were some
thing frightful. There was not day that
he did not deny a thousand or fifteen hun
bred dollars worth OF expenses. that were
asked Of him. He had co-operated and
would cooperate with the Mayor in en-
deavOring to keep these expenses down.
He agreed with all the Mayor had said, but
at the same time he Thought 1t was just
he should have an opportunity of showing
what the neces ies ere also.
The May" remarked that he was not
aware of or had .orsotten he fact that the
St Charles sire ur,dgo con ractS came
out of the estimate for street repairs.
Taking that into account, the possible re-
trenchment in the item of street repairs, as
urged by him. amour ed to little or nothing.
, The ordinance was adopted, and, on mo-
ton of Mr.. Walton, the Mayors message
, \and the accompanying tables were ordered
printed and spread upon the minutes.
The ordinance imposing q tax of three
1 | quarters of one per cent for the Metropol;-
l tan Police was called up and passed.
Mr. BonzanO said he would like it to be
l stated in the minutes that the Council very
firmly hoped the Legislature would reduce
| the tax.
The ordinance imposing tax Of one
r eighth Of one per cent for the City Park Was
called up and passed.
: Deferred and Referred Business Resumed,
MIR. Shaw called up number four of tho
| calendar.
, On the first three items, which were az
| follows
l N. Trepagnier, Clerk First District Court,
, for fees and costs in cases in said court IN
November, 1870, as per account approve
y by the Judge of said court, $lO95 60.
, William Golding, on account Of cast iron
=. bridges and plates furnished ON st. Charles
= avenue, under his contract of July 90, 1870,
. az per bill approved by the Administrator
. OF improvements, $1,000
i John Bietry, on account of banquet.e
- drain on the southeast side of st. Charles
avenue, under his contract Of July ii, 1870,
as per bill approved by the Administrat0s
OF Improvements, $1,000.
y FIR. Walton said he voted yea, because il
e was the law and he could not help himself /,
= but he thought that the st. Charles street
paving was swindle.
q Mr.. Bonzano said he voted aye for tie
: same re ason.