New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-29
Mr.. Cockrem: The ordinance as whole

Mr.. Cockrem: The ordinance as a Who'll,
has been vetoed.
The Mayor: l understand the Admins
traitors vote to be nay.
Mr. Remick voted yea.
Mr.. Lewis: understand the Mayor does
not veto only that part of the ordinance
locating the levee in the lake.
Mr.. Shaw: You can not divide your vote
The Mayor: The plan of the City Surveyor
is to locate this levee in the lake. So says
the Administrator of Accounts. So says the
Administrator of improvements. l veto
| that.
Mr.. Cockrem called for the reading of
| the paragraph from the Mayors message
already read.
Mr.. Shaw: | think there is no doubt on
this subject. 1t is levee along or near the
line of the shore, and as the shore slopes, a
good deal of land at high water is sub
merged, and at low water is dry. 1t is a
question of where you shall locate this
levee. My proposition is to locate it outside
the ordinary shore, on the slope of land
where the water is of very slight depth.
The Mayor: That is the way under
stand the proposition.
Mr.. Shaw: In high tides the waves will
strike the levee if we put it half mile
from the shore, just as they will inside the
shore. Think this is not a subject for divi-
sion of votes. The ordinance has been fin
ally discussed. There were plenty of chances
to amend it; plenty of chances to vote on
the question of separating it into para
graphs, but now it comes before us on a
veto, and | vote yea to carry it over the
veto of the Mayor, and / think every MEM
Der of the Council should vote yea or nay.
The Mayor: | understand the Admins
traitor OF Waterworks to have voted no, UNI
less he tells me to the contrary.
Mr.. Remick inquired if the Administrator
voted an unqualified no.
Mr.. Lewis voted nay
Mr.. Walton vote nay, not because am
not in favor of a protection levee, but be-
cause l want further information.
Mr.. Lewis: 1 vote nay for the same
reason.
Mr.. BonzanO voted nay.
The vote stood:
Yeas: Cockrem. Shaw and Remick-3.
Nays: Delassize, Lewis, Walton and Bon
The Mayors veto was accordingly sus-
tanned.
Mr.. BonzanO: l now move that the drain |
lge committee prepare plans, and give the |
surveyor instructions, instead of the Sur |
Veyor giving us instructions.
Mr.. Remick: l should object to that, be- |
'ause some members of the drainage COM |
nittee acknowledge they do not know any
hing about it,
Mr.. Bonzano: There are plenty of men
besides the Surveyor who can be called |
lpon.
Mr.. Cockrem: Does the gentleman pro-
pose to do without the aid of the Surveyor
The Mayor requested the Administrator
If Assessments to put his resolution in
writing.
Mr.. BOnzano did so, as follows:
Resotred, That the drainage committee
prepare plan for the construction of a
protection levee near the lake shore, which.
liter being approved by the Council, shall
'e the guide for the contractor and Survey
II, under the direction of the Administra-
or OF improvements, in the execution of
he work.
The resolution was amended to read. ION
r near the lake shore"
Mr.. Remick moved that the resolution be
aid over
Mr.. Shaw said he thought the Council
we're ready to pass it.
The resolution was then carried.
miscellaneous.
BY Mr.. Remick:
amendment to Ordinance No. 787, Sections
four and six.
Be it ordained by the City Council of
lew Orleans, That no fish shall be sold in
ny market in this city after the hour of
IN o'clock A. M under penalty of not less
nan 1--WE dollars or more than TWENTY-FIVE |
ollars for each otfense
Be it further ordained, That all ordinances
parts of ordinances, inconsistent here
lth be and the same are hereby repealed.
Laid over to be printed
Mr.. Lewis called up his dog ordinance,
hich was adopted.
The Council then adjourned.
Fl. CONQUEST CLARKE.