New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-13

Total ............ So, 222 %
Read twice and laid over.
By Mr.. Shaw:
Resolred. That the sum of one hundred
and forty-fve dollars be and the same is
hereby appropriated and made special
order, to purchase one Excelsior horse
mower for use in the public squares, and
that the Administrator of Public Accounts
warrant on the Department of Finance in
favor of G., w. Sizer, for the above amount.
Adopted. -r
By Mr.. Shaw:
An ordinance to provide for the payment
of the several accounts therein named.
Be it ordained, That the following APP
preparations be and are hereby made, and
that the Administrator of Public Accounts
warrant on the Administrator of Finance in
payment of The same.
John Klein, jury warrants, $lOS.
j. +. Campson, jury warrant, $72.
Owen Bruen, jury warrant, $54.
r. L. McMurdo, jury warrants, S49S.
Adopted.
BY Mr. Shaw: ItF
An ordinance providing for the payment of
the account therein named.
Be it ordained, That the following appro-
the Administrator of Public Accounts war
rant on the Administrator of Finance in
payment of the same:
X. l.. McMurdo, jury warrants, Sl100.
Read twice ana laid over.
BY Mr.. Shaw:
An ordinance to provide for the settlement
of accounts therein named. So
Be it ordained, That the Administrator
r Ill L l. L.
authorized to settle with the holders of the
following claims. at the option of said
holders, by the issue of certificates under
ordinance No $50, Administration series.
Lesassier & Binder, transferees of Ga
briel Correjolles, for amount of percentage
retained as guaranteed, $54S 81.
j. B. Ratio, ice for Insane Asylum, 0cto-
Der, 1869, SIS.
j. B. Ratio, ice for Insane Asylum, Au-
j. B. Ratio, ice for Insane Asylum, July,
1869, SIS So
John Coleman, for percentage retained as
guarantee by the city on square block paw
ing of Esplanade street, from Peters to Gal
vez streets, $l945 IL.
John Coleman, for percentage retained as
guarantee by the city on the square block
paving of Rampant street, $4902 81.
Approved by the Administrator of I'm
No. $50, Administration series.
Read twice and laid over.
By Mr.. Shaw:
An ordinance to pay the Bank of New Or
leans current interest on its advances.
Be it ordained by the Council of the city
of New Orleans, That the Administrator of
Public Accounts warrant on the Admins
traitor of Finance in favor of the Bank of
No nrIao Al, Al.
hundred and ninety-one dollars and ten
cents, being the amount of interest accrued
to date on its cash advanced to the city of
three hundred thousand dollars.
Adopted.
Mr.. Shaw called up the claims of Gabriel
CorrejOlles, passed once, but held over on
account of some interrogatories propounded
to the city, and moved that the warrant
now issue, and be referred to the Mayor
with power.
Adopted.
The Lake Front Levee-Committee Re-
ports.
The Mayor and Administrator of Finance
presented the following majority report of
the Committee on Drainage:
CITY HALL,
New oiAcdust July IL, Aotl
To the City Council of New Orleans:
The undersigned, members of the COM
mittee on drainage, report that measures
have been adopted to make the line of
the Metairie and GENTLY ridges perfect
security against overflow from the lake
by putting food gates in the canals
and strengthening the canal levees, and
that we deem it inexpedient and unneces-
sary at present to enter upon the extensive
work Of a levee in the lake. The works al
ready commenced are as much as the city
can undertake, and more than it can pay
for, at the present time, at the prices
charged by the Mexican Gulf Canal Com
pany.
When the subject of setting this company
to work under the law of the Legislature
was frst agitated it was unanimously de-
clared by the Council, on the motion of the
Administrator Of Public Accounts, that the