New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-08-25

ton three of the act OF the Legislature ap
proved February ID, 1869 l recommend
its payment, provided the requisite vouchers
are furnished to the Administrator of Ac-
counts.
BENZ. F. FLANDERS, Mayor.
MAYoRALrY OF Nav ORLxASs, I
August %, 1870. s
To the City Council of New Orleans
The Council have referred to me an Ordi.
nance to settle by the issue of seven-thirty
certificates, the judgments rendered against
the city in the suits Of Victor BelOt and
Lanaber for damages occasiOned by cleo
ton mObs. The amounts involved i'll these
two suits do not exceed three thousand five
hundred or four thousand dollars, but be-
hind them is another suit of A. BelOt Of q
similar character, in which judgment has
been rendered against the city for twenty
thousand dollars, with interest and costs,
and as all three cases have been appealed to
tho Supreme Court, I recommend that we
await the decision of that tribunal before
taking any action in the way Of settle
ment.
BENZ. F. FLANDERS, Mayor.
MAYoaALrY OF. NEW OaLsaSs,
August o. 1879.
To the City Council Of New Orleans:
have had under consideration the COM
llOAA ENN S4O l. AAiL,
interest ON cash warrants to a considerable
amount, held by him, and which he proposes
to exchange for certificates of floating debt
also the petition Of Mcssrs. Behan s. Thorn
to similar effect.
Warrants of the description in question do
not bear interest, and l therefore can not
recommend that the city's indebtedness
should be increased by allowing interest
upon them.
MAYoRALry OF New ORLEANS,
August -. 1870. :
To the City Council of New Orleans:
Benjamin Campbell, Recorder of the
Sixth District, as tutor for mis- son, claims
from the city six hundred dollars and costs
for services rendered. By law, Recorder
Campbell was entitled to clerk. He ap
pointed his son, a minor, to that position,
and reported the fact to the Council of JEFF
fersOn City, who took no action thereon.
This silence on their part he took for con-
sent, and was justified in so regarding it.
As the duties were performed, I recon-
mend that the claim be acknowledged.
BENZ. +. FLANDERS, Mayor.
MAYoRALrY OF New ORLEANS
August %, 1870.
To the City Council of New Orleans
The bills of George W. Sadler, First JUS
tice of the Peace, for criminal prosecutions,
amounting to $498 IS, and A. A. Platts-
mier, constable of said court, for $3.50, were
referred to me for examination.
In the cases enumerated il these accounts
the Justice and constable did not confne
themselves to the constitution and laws of
the State, governing trials in criminal cases.
find in article eighty-nine of the consti
tuition of 1868, relative to justices of the
peace, shat they shall have such criminal
jurisdiction as shall be provided for by
law"
Now the act of the Legislature relative
to justices of the peace for the parish of
Orleans, approved March Is, 1855. re-enacted
1865, and embodied in Ray g Revised Statutes,
confers no jurisdiction upon these justices
in criminal matters-their jurisdiction be-
ing confined to hearing and determining
certain civil causes, ETC.; nor do | find any
law where such authority is conferred upon
them.
The city of New Orleans has salaried
Recorders, whose duty it is to act upon
such cases as those disposed ofby Justice
Sadler. These trials or examinations were
therefore conducted in violation of the
laws of the State. The Recorders were the
proper officers to make those examinations.
In view of these facts, respectfully re-
port against the payment of the bills OF
George w. Sadler, Judge, and A. A. Platts-
mier, Constable, of the First Justice Court
BENZ. f. FLANDERS. Mayor.
By Mr.. Bonzano:
An ordinance appropriating money to de-
fray the expenditures of the Department
of Assessments for the mouth of August
1870.
SECTION l. Be it ordained BY the Council
of the city of New Orleans, That the fol-
Inu,nn Of hnrahv
priated to defray the expenditures of the
Department of Assessments for the month
of August, 1870:
Pay roll of salaries. ...............S3,6 1851 So
John w. Madden, blank books. % 90
Pelican printing Office, notices and
Albert Weber & Co., posting two
thousand notices.. IL 90
w. II. Fish, two hundred and sixty
two certificates of transfer. l3l 90
Peter O'Donnell, stationery ...... 65 %
Total. So. 1893 Sc
SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, etc. That
of expenditures other than those
of salaries, shall be made upon vouchers
approved by the Administrator Of Assess
ments, and the Administrator of Public Ac-
counts shall draw his warrants upon the
Administrator of Finance in favor of the
persons holding the vouchers, approved as
aforesaid.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, ETC., That
the Administrator of Assessments shall fur
nish the Department of Public Accounts
certified pay roll of salaries due by his de-
partment, and the Administrator Of Public
Accounts shall draw his warrant upon the
Department of Finance for the aggregate
amount thereof, and the Administrator Of
Finance shall take the individual receipts
OF the parties borne upon the pay roll
Ordered to be printed, and, at the sug-
gestion of the Mayor, referred to the De-
partment of Accounts.
By Mr.. Emley:
Rcsolved, That the sum of Sl745 81 is
hereby appropriated to the payment of the
August pay roll of the Department of Com
merce, aud that the Department of Public
Accounts is hereby authorized and instructed
TO warrant on the Department of Finance
Tor that amount in payment thereof.
Mr.. Walton did not know how Administra-
tors, on the twenty-.hird of the month,
cou4d know what their expenses for the
whole month would be. He thought this
premature Offering of pay rolls irregular. :
Inc Mayor said the object was to pay the
laborers and employees of the city as near
the first OF the month as possible. So an
approximate estimate Of the amount re
quired was INTRODUCED and passed to Sec
ond reading as required by the charter, and
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