New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-05
CITY couNcIL--oEElciAL
hoard OF ALDERMEN.
Extra Session.

Extra session-
CITY HALL New ORLEANS,
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The board convened g. half past six o'clock
Pm.
Present: Aldermen Clay, Hassnger, Pes
sou, Poynot, Shields, and President Pott-
hoff in the chair.
On motion of Mr.. Shields, the minutes OF
last session were approved as published.
The following was read and received:
STATE OF LoUIsIANA,j
Mayoraiay OF New Orleans.
Oity Hall. March 81. 1910
To the Secretary b d Of Aldermen:
SIK-Five mem bers Of the Board of Alder
men, viz: Messrs. Hassnger, Clay, Pessou,
Shields and Poynot, having requested in
writing that the Board of Aldermen be con-
vened in extra session to morrow, Friday
evening. at half. past six O'Clock, to devise
means for paying the employees OF the city OF
New Orleans the amount due them and
other business that may be brought before
them, you will notify the members OF the
Board OF Aldermen to meet at the hour
above named.
By direction of the Mayor.
Very respectfully,
T.. l.. BOWER,
Assistant Secretary.
The following was unanimously coucurred
in on both readings, the rules being sus'
/ pended:
: "A RESOLVED, That the Finance Committee be
II uncovered to pledge or dispose OF any secu-
rites of the city now in possession OF the
CITY Treasurer or Controller in order TO
meet the salaries now due to the ofncers OF
the city govern ment, as the same may ap-
pear upon the monthly pay rolls.
The following was concurred in on both
readings, the rules being suspended, Mr.
Clay voting nay:
Resolred, That the adjudication by the
Controller of a contract, agreeably TO ordi-
nance No. 1885, new series, for the rebuild
ing of the engine house OF Milneburg Fire
Company No. l, TO j. G. Lennon as prIE-
cipsl, and Spencer Field, ST., as security,
for the sum OF twenty. eight hundred and sew
enty-fve dollars (S2S75), be and the same is
hereby approved. security accepted, and
the Mayor authorized to enter into contract,
per notarial act, with said parties, for the
Performance of said work.
The Deputy Sheriff here entered and
served on the President the following d0cu-
ment. which was read:
State of Louisiana, Eighth District Court for
the Parish of Orlesns-J. NJ. Hoyle VS..
City of New Orleans and J. r. Conway ct
als.-No. IL.
Friday the first day of April, lS7o-Preaent,
the Hon. d. c. Dlbble, Judge.
Let the petition of intervention be filed
upon consent of petitioner above given and
signed: let Injunction herein issued be dis.
solved in SO far as the defendants are en-
Joined and restrained from dsposing of the
stock OF the New Orleans, Jackson and
Great Northern Railroad Company, owned
hv aai1 citv as Dravpd for in unti.IOn.
New Orleans, April, 1870.
A true copy-extract from the minutes.
J. CORPREW, Deputy Clerk.
The following was concurred in on final
reading:
ResolUed, That sixteen hundred and nine
ty-four dollars (Sl694) be and the same is
hereby appropriated for the payment OF
damages sustained by the Economy Society,
Second District, by the violent Eruption of
an armed mob, Old or about the night of the
twenty-seventh of October, 1863, on which
occasion property Of SAID society to he
above amount was destroyed IN the Ec0n0%
my Hall, on Ursulines street, by said mob.
Resolved, That the Controller be and is
hereby instructed to warrant on the Treas
urer in said sum Of sixteen hundred aud
nineiy-four dollars (Sl69D in favor Of the
proper officers OF said society.
President Potthofr called Mr.. Shields to the
chair and retired.
The following was, on motion of Mr..
6hields, withdrawn from the Committee on
Streets and Landings, and unanimously con.
CURED in on both readings, under suspen.
sion of the rules:
Resolved by the Common Council of the
City of New Orleans, That ordinance No.
l425, new series, be and the same is hereby
repealed, SO far as relates to the tracks of the
City Railroad Company, on Canal street,
from Claiborne street TO the Metairie Ridge
or so far as relates to giving said company
the right to remove said tracks from the
present location; and that the Controller be
authorized to sell the dirt along said Canal
street, per square, to the highest bidder,
after five days notice in the official journal.
On motion, the Board then adjourned.
John II. REEFS. Secretary.