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

/ pairs to the public schoOlhOuses OF the city,
I said sum to be expended under the direc-
| ton of the Administrator Of sWaterworks
and Public Buildings, according to law.
Mr.. Walton saidsh had resolution to
present, which might well come in under
this same head, especially as the adoption
of his resolution would provide the ten
thousand dollars called for by the Admins
traitor of Public Buildings resolution. 1t
was as follows:
WHEREAS, by the litigation growing out
| of the will of the late John McDonogh, the
| CITY of New Orleans has become the Gus
| todian of large amount of bonds, the in
| come of which it has been customary to in
| vest as fast as earned. and s
Whereas, it is well known that one of the
| objects which Mr.. McDonogh had in view
| in making his will, was 10 establish schools
! therefore 20 ~"
Be it ordained, That for the purpose of
| perpetuating the memory of Mr.. John Nc
Donogh, and of identifying it with the
| city of New Orleans, the income from the
| bonds aforesaid shall be, and it hereby is
specially devoted to the preservation of the
schoolhouses now belonging to the city of
| New Orleans and as tar as practicable to
| the erection of new cues. lsHs
Be it further ordained, That in considera-
| ton of this use of the income, the several
| schoolhouses shall be named, in the order in
which they shall be reftted, McDonogh
Public School No. L, 2, 3, and so on.
Both resolutions were laid over to be
printed. H .+a..
| BY Mr.. Walton:
| DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
| July II, 1871.
To the City Council of New Orleans:
| have to report the resignation of Mr. H.
| P w. Sehrt, Inspector of Licen ses, to take
| effect on the fifth instant.
JOHN S. WALTON, Administrator.
Laid over to be printed.
BY Mr.. Remick:
| An ordinance to suppress and punish
vagrancy in the city OF New Orleans
SECTION |. Be it ordained by the Council
of the city of New Orleans, That all idle
persons having no visible means wherewith
to support and maintain themselves, and
| who live without employment; all persons
| wandering abroad or about the streets,
wharves, landings, public squares or places,
and lodging in beer houses, market places.
| sheds, barns, uninhabited buildings, or in
| the open air, and not able to satisfactorily
account for such acts and conduct; all per-
| sons who, without any apparent means of
| honestly earning their livelihood and sup
| port, or who live in or habitually loiter
| about and frequent houses or places known
| to the police authorities to be. harboring
places for, and the resort of thieves. bur
| glars and suspicious characters; all persons
who shall have been officially reported to
the police authorities of the Metropolitan
| Police District in which the city of New Or
| leans is included, by the police authorities of
any other State or city in the United States,
| as notorious thief or criminal, and who
| shall remain in the city of New Orleans
| without honest employment, or in some
| honest avocation, twenty four hours after
| the said police authorities shall have noti-
fed to such person that his character is
known to them; all persons who fellow the
occupation of enticing strangers and other
persons to visit gambling houses, or to
| gamble: all ropers and cappers, and such
| persons as are commonly known as pimps;
I all persons who follow gambling for a
vocation, and depend on gambling games,
| or furnishing rooms, tools or implements
for playing gambling gaines for means
| of subsistence and income: all per-
sons who are habitual beggsrs, and who
beg on the streets, or who go from house to
house soliciting aims without first having
obtained "a permit therefor from the Mayor
of the city; all habitual drunkards who
| shall abandon their families, or neglect or
refuse to aid in the support thereof, and
who shall be complained of by any member
| of their family shall be deemed, and
are hereby declared to be Migrants. and
| it shall be the duty of the members
and officers of the Metropolitan Police to
| arrest all such persons when found within
the limits of the city of New Orleans and
bring them before any recorder holding his
court within the city, who shall hear and
! determine the charge and accusation made
| against such person without unreasonable
delay, and if he shall find the accused to be
| guilty, and vagrant, according to the pro-
| vision of this ordinance, such recorder shall
| impose On said vagrant fine not exceeding
one hundred dollars, and in default of the
| payment of such fine and all costs, may
commit said vagrant to the Parish Prison
| for term of Imprisonment not exceeding
| one calendar month, or such recorder mayi
| in his discretion commit such vagrant to
| the Parish Prison for a term of imprison-
ment not exceeding one calendar month
without fine, as in his discretion shall best
subserve the ends of justice. ,,....
SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That all
| persons who shall, within the limits of the
| city of New Orleans, establish, maintain or
keep any tavern, boarding house, grocery
house, grOg shop. as resort OF thieves,
| burglars or criminals, and shall keep, har-
| Dor, board or entertain therein thieves bur-
| glars or notorious criminals, knowing such
persons to be reputed thieves, burglars and
criminals, or Migrants without any visible
| apparent honest vocation, business or means
of support, and all persons keeping, estab-
| fishing, or maintaining any place or places
| known to be the resort of thieves, burglars,
| criminals, or persons by the first section of
| this ordinance declared to, be Migrants, may
be arrested and brought before any Re
corder in the city, and upon conviction shall
| be fined the sum of one hundred dellars,
and in default of payment of fine and costs
| shall be committed to the Parish Prison for
| time not exceeding one calendar month,
| and upon second conviction under this
| section, it shall be the duty of the Recorder
| to commit the offender to the Parish Prison
| for the full term of one calendar month,
| which punishment shall be repeated on each
| subsequent conviction of such offender.
| Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That this
ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after its adoption, approval by
the Mayor and official publication.
Laid over to be printed,
By Mr.. Cockrem:
| DEPARTMENT OF IMPROVEMENTS,
| June 80, 1871.
| To the City Council of New Orleans
The undersigned respectfully submits the
| advertisement inviting proposals for biick
| banquettes, with wooden curbing, on both
| sides of Howard street, from Delord to
| Jackson street:
Nicholas Connell bids 50 a5 per running