New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-15
CITY COUNCIL LAST NIGHT

Mr.. Emley presiding. and present, Messrs.
Delassize, Pierce Bonzano. Shaw and West.
The resignation OF Mr.. s. A. Stockdale, a
School Director, was accepted.
Mr.. Delassixe reported in favor of paying
$500 for rent of building opposite the City
Hail, but stated that the amount is exces-
sive. ..--.
MIR. West stated that he had given to Q.
A. Thomas contract for ten thousand
barrels of shells thirty-eight cents per bar
rel. Approved.
Resolution granting s6Oe per yesr to City
Surgeons for vehicles, was adopted.
A piece of vacant property, belonging to
the city, near the Customhouse, was leased
to A. W. Moffett for Sl2C0 per annum.
Certain citizens residing on Gentilly Road
were granted right to form an independent
ire company.
The wood and coal ordinance was
amended, making two divisions.
Tha. dog ordinance was taken up. and Mr..
DelassiZe proposed to amend by imposing g
tax of one dollar per head per annum.
Lost.
The resolution fixing the tax at two dol
lars per head was adopted, the city to sup
ply metal plates and numbers. Persons
counterfeiting plates will be punished by
law; informers obtain no reward. The law
is to go into force on the tenth OF July.
This years license will be for six months,
SA~SS ~
present year.
Four score or more petitions, propositions
and communications were taken up and dig
posed Of. Most Of them will not interest our
readers in the least.
Subject of removing the Criminal Court
room to the old Orleans Ballroom was con.
sidered and adopted. Mr.. Grardey, pro-
prietor, for the present charges only sixty
dollars per month, he Offering 10 pay one
half she.expeases necessary to fitting up.
Ordinance creating a second class floating
debt was adopted on second reading.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
New Orleans, June 1870.
To ths Council of the city of New Orleans:
have the honor to submit reports on the
several subjects named, which seem to re-
quire action of the Council:
CoRoNERs BILLS.
The Coroner's bills for the month of May
have been presented, and | shall need the
instructions of the Council as to how shall
act upon them, unless the Council will make
another reference.
The reports of the Coroners are more full
and detailed than those heretofore presented,
aud have found every disposition ON their
part to furnish any information required
But the same objections exist as formerly IN
the number of inquests held and the pro.
portion they bear to the views without in
quests
The law requires in case of violent death,
that the Coroner shall repair to the place
and "view" the body. This costs five dol
lars and the Coroner is justified in going
in all cases of death by accident and suicide,
as well as suspicion of violence. But only,
when after due inquiry by himself, he has
good reason to suspect death by foul means.
is he justified in putting the city to the ex-
pense of an inquest, for holding which he
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neling S5, and the jurors draw $40. Or So
each, making the expense of each inquest
forty dollars.
The return of the Second and Third Dis
trlcts for April shows thirty. nine inquests,
costing forty dollars each, two views at five
dollars each, and five burials at twelve dol.
lars each.
For May forty-fve inQuests, nine views.
twelve burials.
The verdicts in the eighty-four inquests
show but three cases of supposed homicide.
According to the meaning of the law, the
Coroner is supposed, after his own examlna-
tion to have suspected eighty-one cases of
murder; and it required the verdicts Of these
juries of unprofessional men to remove his
suspicious or doubts.
Henry Long, Deputy Coroner First and
Fourth Districts, served as a juror in twenty
five inquests held by Coroner Roche during
the month of April, and ON twenty-one in
quests held during month of May.
J. D. Cole appears as a juror in forty
inquests in April and thirty in May.
The returns of the Second and Third Dis.
tricts show the name of J. Reys figuring as a
juror twenty-four times in April; L. J. Allan
thirty.eight times in Nav and twelve times
in April; G. Reneaud twelve times in April.
As sample of 'crowner's quest law" the
case of still born male child is thus intelli-
gently disposed of:
"We the jurors, etc., after careful ex-
animation of the body, find that the
deceased came to death from being still
born.
(SignedD HENRY G. LONG,