New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-23

| on said space. subject to present city or
| dinances: provided. further, that the city
| NAV annul this privilege, and order the re-
| moval OF all works or tracks made or laid
under this ordinance, upon giving six
months notice and paying the cost of the
| works and tracks, otherwise the grant shall
| continue ten years.
Resolred further, That said Charles Nor
gan be and he is hereby authorized and
empowered to connect this ferry landing
and batture by means of a track with the
small square of ground bounded by st.
| Ann, ST. Peter and Peters streets and the
tracks of the Pontchartrain Railroad Com
pany, which small square OF ground Mr..
| Morgan now occupies, and the exclusive
use OF which is hereby granted him for ten
| years. with the right and power to erect
such depots and warehouses as he may deem
necessary. And for the objects herein
named. Charles Morgan shall have the
| right to use at all times steam power to
load and unload cars, to switch. to move,
and to propel his ears and trains.
Mr.. Remick moved the adoption Of the
ordinance.
The Mayor suggested one amendment.
that the ordinance, cor any part of it,
should be revocablc at the pleasure of the
Council
The amendment was adopted.
Mr. Lewis objected to the building of
warehouses and depots on the levee in front
of jackson square. This property had been
given to the city, and to obstruct and de-
stroy the square with warehouses was some
thing to which he would never consent.
The Mayor said the ordinance. without
this additional clause, had been drawn up
by himself, and he suggested that the ordi-
nance as originally drafted by him should be
passed. leaving this subsequent right to be
granted or refused hereafter, as the Council
on deliberation might see tit.
Mr. Remick accepted the suggestion, and
the ordinance was unanimously passed,
without the warehouse building clause.
BY Mr.. Lewis:
An ordinance providing for the lighting by
gas of the Fifth District of the city of New
Orleans, right bank of the Mississippi
river, and granting for that purpose
special and exclusive privileges, and au-
thorizing the construction and main
tenance OF gasworks and appurtenances
IL said district. and authorizing the vend-
ing of gas to the inhabitants thereof
SECTION l. Be it ordained by the Mayor
and Common Council of the city of New
Orleans, That c. L. Girardey, William Me-
Culough, John FL. O'Conner, and such
others as they may associate with them
selves, and their assigns, under the name
and style of the Algiers Gaslight Company,
be and are hereby granted the sole and ex-
elusive right and privilege OF constructing
and maintaining gasworks and appurtenant
buildings in the Fifth District of the city of
n,la T. ~.
such persons or bodies corporate as NAV
voluntarily choose to contract for the same,
for the term and period of twenty years
from and after the passage of this ordi-
nance.
SEC. 2 Be it further ordained, That
in order to enable the said Algiers Gas
light Company to carry into effect the fore
going section hereof, the exclusive au-
thority and right are hereby granted to
said company to lay such gas pipes, mains,
conduits, ETC., as may be necessary, at their
own expense in any of the streets or high
ways of said district as may be required:
the same TO be done in such manner as may
produce the least possible inconvenience to
the inhabitants OF said district; provided,
that said company shall afterward repair
the streets and highways which they may
have broken up for said purpose within the
least possible delay, it being well under
stood that the said company shall be
bound to commence the work of pipe-laying
necessary for the lighting of said district
with gas within ore year from and after
the passage Of this ordinance: and that said
works shall be prosecuted by said company
according to the wants, requirements and
limits OF said district and of the inha bitants
thereof, whenever the consumption of gas
will justify the laying Of pipes in particular
localities.
SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That in
order to properly light the said Fifth Dis
trict. or such portions thereof as may be
deemed necessary by the said company the
company shall be bound to furnish the most
modern style of east iron lamp-posts and
glass lanterns, and set them o. all the s-reets
to be lit. and at no greater intervals, inclu-
sive of intersections, than one hundred and
fifty feet; to supply light and extinguish the
same by the moon, or ut the rising or the
setting of the same during the night, at the
sole cost and expense Of said company, for
the price and sum of fifty dollars per annum
tor each and every lamp or gaslight so
erected, lighted and extinguished; said
amount to be payable monthly to said TOM
pany by the said city of New Orleans.
SEC 4. Be it further ordained, That
in order to further stimulate and extend
this work of public improvement, the said
city of New Orleans obligates itself to pay
TO said company the cash price of each
lamp-post and lantern SO erected and light
ed: provided, that the said price and sum
shall not be exigible before fifty such lamps
and lanterns shall have been erected and
lighted, and thereafter settlements for all
such further ercctions of posts and lanterns
shall be made made monthly, with the set
Element for Lighting the said lamps.
SEC. ). Be it further ordained, That the !
said company shall be bound to deduct from
its monthly settlem cnts with the city of New |
Orleans, a pro rata for all lanterns not |
lighted, in conformity with the provisions |
OF this ordinance, SAID company Obligating |
itself to furnish gas TO private consumers in |
the said Fifth District, at no greater rates |
than is now charged or may be charged. to |
consumers By the New Orleans Gas Com |
pany.
SEC. 6. Be it further ordained, That in |
the event of said Algiers Gas Company fail |
ing to commence work within twelve months |
from and after the date OF this ordinance, |
then and in that event this ordinance shall |
be considered as repealed, and as comforting |
no rights or privileges upon said company.
SEC. Z. Be it further ordained, That the |
light to be furnished by the said company |
shall be equal in quality and efficiency to |
that furnished. by tlie New Orleans Gas |
light Company.
SEC. 8. BE it further ordained, That the |
Mayor OF the city OF New Orleans is hereby |
authorized and instructed to enter into /
notarial contract with said Algers Gaslight |
Company, under the terms and conditions of |
this ordinance.
Laid over to be printed.
BY Mr.. Lewis
DEPARTMENT OF Police /
August p, 1871. |
To the City Council of New Orleans:
On the petition of A. Kuhnert, asking |
permission to erect ornamental advertisin0