New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-15

| vened as Board of Estimate and Apportion
I ment, have made up. and submitted to the
Mayor an estimate of the sums re-
| quired for the expenses of the said board
for the year ending the thirtieth OF Septem.
Der, 1877, amounting to eight hundred and
dollars and fifty nine cents lS309, 932 59l, and
| Whereas, Under authority of an act Of the
Legislature, entitled IAN act for the relief Of
| the officers and members OF the MetrOpOli-
tan Police" being No. n, Of the session of
1870, passed over the Governors
veto, the said Board Of Commission
ers have assessed this city thirty per cent
on the amount OF the warrants issued by
said board in their fiscal year eighteen hun
dred and sixty said thirty per cent
| amounting to II sum of two hundred and
three thousand six hundred dollars and
siXty-fOur cents; and
Whereas, BY said act OF the Legislature,
approved March s, 1869, the Council OF this
city is directed annually to order and cause
to be raised and collected by the tax upon
the estate, real and personal, subject to tax
alton according to law, the sums of money
as aforesaid annually estimated and appOr-
! toned as the share Of this city of the total
expenses Of the Metropolitan Police district;
| therefore,
| BE it ordained by the Council Of the city
! Of New Orleans, That a special tax Of three
| quarters of one per cent be and is hereby
assessed on the real and personal property
city, to be due and payable like the other
taxes Of the city.
Read twice and laid over.
BY Mr.. West:
Ordinance repeating ordinance No. H6, Ad-
ministration series.
l. WHEREAS, The Orleans Railroad Company
has failed to comply with the terms and con-
| ditions Of ordinance No. 276, Administra-
ton series, therefore,
BE it ordained by the Council of the City
of New Orleans, That ordinance No. 276,
Administration series, is hereby repealed,
and that the Administrator Of Improve
ments is directed to prohibit the running Of
the cars of the Orleans Railroad Company
upon Burgundy street, from the Ursulines
street to Canal street, and upon st. Peter
street from Burgundy street to Basin street.
Mr.. West suggested that the ordinance
should lie over for one week to give the
president and officers of the company a last
chance of complying with their charter by
putting the streets in proper order.
1t was so ordered.
Petitions and Communications.
The following Waterworks claim was
read and laid over:
To the City Council of New Orleans
Your petitioners, Sullivan, Billings &
Hughes, by Billings s. Hughes, respectfully
state
That under an ordinance of the honor
able the Common Council of the city OF
New Orleans, passed on the seventh day OF
Mayor thereof, certain arbitrator were ap
pointed on the part Of said city to
consider and appraise the value of
the Waterworks of the Comm e-cial Bank of
New Orleans, and to meet and confer with
commissioners on the part of said bank, and
under and by virtue of an act passed by the
Legislature of said State, and entitled IAN
act to incorporate the Commercial Bank OF
New Orleans" approved April /. 1889. to
represent and bind said city in the matter
of the transfer and sale Of said Water
works.
That in the prosecution of their duties
questions arose involving very important
consequences 10 said city OF New Orleans,
and requiring the construction and applica-
ton Of the statutes and laws Of this State.
That said arbitratOrs OF the city OF New
Orleans, being thereto duly authorized, re-
tanned your petitioners, who are by profess
sion, lawyers, to advise with and assist
them in the performance of their duties.
That said arbitrator, on the part Of said
city, propounded to your petitioners many
questions in writing, involving the discus
sion and decision OF intricate questions of
law, and ON which your petitioners, after
careful examination and reflection, gave
their written opinion.
That said arbitrators had frequent and
protracted interviews and consultations
with your petitioners, and that said services
and interviews were rendered and had dur
ing many months.
That the subject mater Of said consulta-
tons was property OF q value exceeding
two millions Of dollars iS2,00o,000), and
that the security of the title of said city to
said Waterworks materially depended upon
the wise and sound advice which said arbi-
traitors should receive.
That your petitioners gave to the con-
sideration OF said matter the care, pains,
time and serious consideration which the
grave interests involved required.
That said services are reasonably worth
the sum OF twenty-five hundred dollars.
Wherefore your petitioners pray that
they may be paid the sum Of twenty. five
hundred dollars by the said city Of New
Orleans.
SULLIVAN, BILLINGS & HUGHES,
BY Billings & Hughes.
The following petition was received and
ordered to be printed, and referred to the
Administrator Of Police:
To the City Council of New Orleans:
We, the undersigned property holders and
citizens residing on St. Joseph and Delord
streets, respectfully request that the appli-
cation made bv the New Orleans, jackson
run steam cars through Delord and st.
Joseph streets, may be refused.
Ii such privilege is granted. our property
will be greatly deprecated in value, and
the use Of orr houses for residences will be
much impaired
These streets were laid out and dedicated
to general public use by proprietors from
whom we derive title, and whose rights
have descended to us. Ii they are given
over to private corporation, to increase its
revenues, and for its own almost exclusive
use as proposed, then they will be diverted
from that use, general and public, for which
they were laid out and dedicated. They
will no longer be highways common to all
the people,
AS citizens and taxpayers we protest
against the granting of the application, as
injurious to the general welfare OF the city
and citizens No steam cars can be moved
through those populOus streets without
greatly endangering human life. In all
other cities where such grants have been
improyidently made, they have been rescin-
ded or abrogated at the earliest time posi-
bic. 1t will be almost impossible, and
always unsafe for any vehicles to move
through the streets crossing the proposed
rail route The city is under the strongest
obligations to maintain free and safe passage
to the drays, carts, passenger cars andl other
vehicles, all Of which pay special taxes.
The question of the right Of the city to
make such grant to this railroad company
for its own advantage, and 10 in
crease its own revenue, is. now pending
before the court, and on theN hearing of