New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-01

| approval in the order of thor registry; and
no warrant shall be issued in settlement Of
any bill or pay roll, until it's payment shall
have been ordered by the Council.
SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That
| whenever a contract shall have been adj
| Indicated in any department, and approved
| by the Council, it shall be the duty OF the
City Notary to furnish q notarial copy OF
the same to the Administrator of Public Ae-
counts, numbered in regular series for each
| department who shall cause an abstract OF
| the same to be entered into book to De
| called the Contract Book, and which shall
| be properly indexed and classified for con-
venient reference.
SEC A. In addition to the books herein
before mentioned, the Administrator OF
| Public Accounts shall keep the books now
| to be described, as follows, viz:
| /. A Register Of claims in which shall
| be entered, in the order of its reception
from any department, the number, date,
name of claimant, folio of contract book,
nature of services performed, department
| from which received, and the amount OF
each claim and pay roll received for audit
| and settlement. The said book shall also
! contain a column for remarks, in which
shall be entered opposite each claim entered
! therein statement Of the action of the
! Council upon said claim, whether approved
! or rejected with reason for rejection.
| g A note and bill book. in which shall be
described each and every promissory note
or bills receivable Of every kind, belonging
to the city. :,
| 3. Apaying warrant book, in which shall
| be registered in regular order, every war.
rant issued upon the Administrator OF
Finance. specifying the number OF the war
| rant date of issue, to whom issued and the
| account against which it is drawn, with the
| number Of the ordinance ordering the pay
| ment
d. A receiving warrant book, m which
| shall be entered every receiving warrant
| issued for moneys collected on account OF
| the city, specifying its number and date, to
| whom issued, the account to be credlte0,
| and the sum received.
| 5. A cash book, in which shall be entered
the daily cash transactions of the city, and
| which shall be balanced at the close OF
| every week. and the balance compared with
cash in the hands of the depOsitary, called
| Fiscal Agent, in section thirty, OF city
| charter
6. A journal, in which shall be entered all
| transactions Of the city which do not III
| vOlve an actual payment or receipt OF cash.
7. A ledger, in which shall be posted,
under appropriate heads, the entries made
| in the cash book and journal, and which
| shall contain an account with each issue or
| bonds composing the funded debt OF the
| city; and said ledger shall be balanced on
| the thirty first of December of every year,
after placing to the credit of the respective
| accounts the unpaid sums, if any, OF all
| liquidated claims against the city, which
shall have been approved prior TO Decem-
| Der 81, so that the balance sheet shall ex-
| hibit the exact condition Of the assets and
| liabilities OF the city at the close OF each
| fiscal year. and such balances shall be car
| ried forward to the credit of the respective
| accounts for the ensuing year, to be pro-
vidai for in the Ind
| s. Be it ordained, ETC., That this ordl-
| nance shall take effect from and after July
| /, 1870
By Mr.. Walton:
DEPARTMENT OF finance, !
August 30, 1870. )
To the City Council of New Orleans
| In the matter of the claim of Eager, Eiler
| man & Co., for payment in cash OF their
bill for seventy-eight hundred and fOrty-fou
| dollars for constructing break water jetties,
etc to protect the levee in the Third Dis
| trict, under an emergency order issued by
| the Mayor, dated December 8, 1869. re-
| spectfully report:
l. That the work was done as appears By
| a certificate of the City Surveyor, approved
| by the Department of Improvements.
| 2 That on the twenty-fourth day Of De-
| cember, 1869. the late City Council passed
ordinance No. 1857, specially appropriatins
the levee dues ''for tine payment, OF certiti-
| pairs of the Wharves and bulkheads"
lam informed by the Surveyor, as well as
| by the claimants, that they positively re-
fused to do the work without this special
guarantee, and it was out of this fund las
appears by the bank account in which it
was kept, that they were paid for work
done on the wharves.
When this administration came in to Office
the work for which this claim is made was
not finished and therefore could not be paid
for by our predecessors under their contract
to set apart the levee dues for that purpose
Ordinance No. 1857 was repealed on my mo-
ton in ignorance of any claim existing IN
der it, but l do not think that its repeal ex-
onerates us from the obligation to carry out
its guarantee to those who acted under it in
good faith.
| therefore recommend the adoption of
the following resolution:
Resolred. That the sum of seventy-eight
hundred and forty -four (s7s44) dollars be
paid to Eager, Ellerman & Co., for bill of
work done to levee in Third District. under
emergency order of December 8, 1862 as
guaranteed By ordinance 1857, approved
December "A, 1863.
JOHN S. WALTON,
Administrator.
The resolution was read a first and sec
ond time, and laid over.
by NIL AcldSSEc.
+ DEPARTMENT OF WArERwoRKs AND
Public Buildings, August, 80. 1870. 5
| To the City Council of New Orleans
| respectfully report favorably upon the
| petition referred to.sme, of j. o. Belknap,
asking the privilege of erecting, on the
/ neutral ground on Canal street, above
7 Camp, ''hghly ornamental fountain,
| which will consist Of three basins, one above
the other, with a stream of water passing
| from the bottom to the top, and in its course
through each basin will meet certain me-
| chanical combinations in the centre of them,
| by which a variety of ornamental boats,
containing figures, will be propelled con
stantly in one direction around In the
basin by the power of the water;
also, in the upper basins, artificial swans
and other devices are likewise propelled in
a contrary direction, and, finally, the wateS
reaching the top of the fountain, from which
it spends itself in a jet, holding thereon
golden ball" The fountain he proposes to
cover in with a magnificent Chinese pa
| CODA, of a very ornamental design, com.
posed of iron, wood and glass, elegantly
decorated and gilded, painted, etc. The
space required for the fountain, etc, will
| be about twelve feet square.
The object of Mr. Belknap is to Introduce
a novel and very attractive style of foun-
tain, invented and patented by himself, as
a decoration for city parks, public squares
| etc, and in the construction of this orna-
ment he does not ask dollar from the citv.
| simply requesting the free use of the stream
of water it will require to run it at certain
hours of the pay. To pay the expense Of
| erection, (say three. thousand dollars), he
designs using the Dsses and panels OF the
| pagOda as an advertising medium: but. Al
the expiration of three years from date Of
completion, the Improvement becomes the