New Orleans Republican., 1871-10-04
THE CITY HALL,
Department of Accounts.


During the session Of the Council yester
day resolution, presented by Mr.. Shaw
was read and passed increasing the SALARY
Of the chief clerk of the Administrator o
Finance. The Mayor, Immediately upor
the passage of the resolution, prepared t.
read his veto of the increase but, the Ad
ministrator of Finance suggesting that the
ink was scarcely dry with which the resolu
tiOn was written. his honor, the Mayor, con
sented to let the matter lie over until mex,
week.
Another Dog Ordinance.
As will be seen by the official proceed.
ings IN another column of te-day's Re-
PUBLICAN. new dog ordinance was intro.
duced at themeeting of the Council yester-
day. 1t provides that all dogs running
about the streets of New Orleans shall be
muzzled, in default of which the police and
citizens shall be authorized to dispose OF
them IN summary manner-by killing
them.
About year ago, when the late Mr.
Pierce was Administrators of Police, it was
found that the dog ordinance then in exist
ence was rather an expensive affair to the
city. and several propositions were made to
rid the city Of all the vagabond ours then
running about, without entailing so much
expense. The most economical and feast.
BILE proposition at the time was made by
Mr.: L. +. Wing, contractor and manager Of
Chinese labor. His petition. however, was
laid on the table, and there it has remained
ever since. 1t was as follows:
fTranslation.l
Prayer Of Lee -Fouk- Wing to the Mayor
and Administrators of the city of New
Orleans sayeth:
Lee-Fouk- Wing, son of Chamlingo, of the
province Tsin.hO, by the waters Of Tsank.
se-ki Yong. empire of China, at present en-
gagged, with six hundred of his countrymen,
in cultivating the plantation lands Of the
great mandarins, Oakes Ames IL Co., ad-
jacent to this great city. boweth obsequi-
ously to the dust in token of loyal homage
and humility, and thus speaketh to the most
august and wise mandarins who control
and direct the destinies and government of
this great city.
1t having come to my ears, most wise
and gifted of lawgivers, that your supreme
will has directed the arrest and slaughter
Of all ownerless and homeless dogs, and
that the execution of the said sage and
beneficient law las I heareth it is thought
to be in this fertile and luxurious land), is
attended with more expense to the great
cirys exchequer than is compatible with an
economical and pr0vident outlay Of the
cIty's revenues. by reason Of a most unrea-
sonable prejudice existing in this land
~SUASS q yAOpCA, PAOAI0OAC tuN AuA0uC
use Of the bodies of the said animals, such
as Is well understood and practiced in
other less favored countries where all of
natures gifts to man are carefully gar
nered up and economically applied to the
comfort and wellbeing of the human family.
The contemplation Of the great crime
against social wealth and domestic economy
embraced in this wholesale and useless
destruction of a natural product of whole
some food and nutriment-apart from the
cost of its wantOn and brutal de-
my heart to pity. and
summons river of compassionate tears to
my eyes.
Alas. that men should be so blind, per
verse and impracticable.
That your great city may be saved from
the dreadful fate Of the once great city OF
Hang .yo-hi, whose inhabitants, spurnng
the simpler and more wholesome offerings
Of nature. ran madly riot in artificial luxu-
rles; that your people should be disbur-
1ened OF an Onerous and most useless tri-
butte.
l, Lee-Fouk-Wing, aforesaid. do hereby
promise to your most grave and potent
council to receive from your officers all
such vagrant, wandering dogs as may be
arrested and are now under arrest, and to
pay for same into the Golfers of your chief
curse bearer q sum equal to fifteen cents in
Chinese silver money for each and every
log delivered to me or such agents as l
nay appoint to receive them.
Praying that the sun of enlightenment
Oleration and economy may shed its ravs
lpOn you, | bow myself to the earth and
Kiss your feet.
LEE-FOCK-WING.
Contractor and Manager of Chinese Labor.
The new ordinance. we presume will
ONE up for final consideration at the next
Meeting.
Department Of Improvements.
The Bienville street drainage machine
'roke down yesterdy. in consequence of the
eavy rains. Administrator Cockrem has
AIKEN prompt measures to repair the dam
ge by employing Leeds & Co., foundrymen.
o furnish new wheel The machine will |
e in working order to-day.