New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-06

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the principal. The city and company shall
srree to apply to the Legislae6rps for APP
nFoval q The iesu6 Of the sid honda.
The city shall have power to sell said bonds
or give the same in payment Of the work
contracted for; but no sale or exchange
shall be made at Q price less than par, OK
elusive of interest; and any holder of 9
warrant, after thirty days notice, if not paid
Id money, may demand bonds for the same
& The company shall receive fifty cents
cents per cubic yard for levees and embank-
ments herein provided for. according to the
measurements aforesaid.
z. Amendments to the plans and details
Of the work herein provided for shall be
made prior to the signing Of the contract,
or thereafter upon the Recommendation of
the Mayor, Administrator of Improvements
and Surveyor, or at the order Of the Coun-
Gil, and the company shall be bound by
such plans and details in such particulars
of tbs same a. may be SO changed.
Mr.. Shaw subsequently entered the Coun-
Gil and offered the following ordinance, to
be printed and laid over till next meeting:
An ordinance to provide for the moro eff
Gent drainage of the city of New Or
leans and envirOns, and to enter into
contract with the Mississippi and Mexican
Gulf Canal Company.
WHEREAS, BY the provisions of act No.
30 of the session OF 1871 of the Legislature
Of Louisiana, it is made mandatory upon
the Council of the city Of New Orleans to
provide. ON the part Of the city, for an ex-
tensive system OF drainage, to lay out the
lines, and fix the location and dimensions
Of certain canals and levees, and in various
ways to recognize the claims and accounts
of, and to make settlements with, the Missis-
sippi and Mexican Gulf Canal Company in
performing the excavation of such canals,
and the building Of levees: and
Whereas, The Council Of the city deem
ing certain portions of said bill to put in
question the right Of the city to the proper
control Of its drainage system and its right
voluntarily to contract for the work, and
agree upon price for the same, did notify
the said company that it did not recognize
the validity or cOnstituti0nality of the said
act in certain Of it's parts; yet recog-
nizinx the importance of an effective
drainage system, the desire Of the pub
lie for its accomplishment without further
delay, and satisfied of the capacity and
ability of the said company to perform the
work required by the city, it is deemed pro-
per by the Council aforesaid to contract as
follows: :.
SECTION L. Be it ordained by the Council
of the city of New Orleans, That the Mayor
of the city be empowered and directed, on
its behalf, to contract with the Mississippi
and Mexican Cult Canal Company:
SECOND DRAINAGE DIsTRICT.
1. For the excavation of canal and the
erection of . protection levee on the outside
thereof, beginning at or near the Mississippi
river and extending along or near the upper
line of the city of CarrOllt0n, and produced
90 o. to meet the line of the upper canal of
the first drainage district.
2. To widen and deepen and produce or
extend the said upper drainage canal to the
Lake POntchartrain ON the one end, and to
connect with the line extending along and
from the upper line of Carr0lltOn aforesaid,
90 ~ to form continuous canal and prOtec-
ton levee from the river to the lake; the
canal to begin with width Of thirty-6ve
feet and depth Of eight feet, near the
river, and gradually increase to width of
fifty feet and depth OF fifteen feet, at the
lake; the leveu to have an average base of
sixty three feet, with width at top of forty
feet and height of seven.
3. To widen and deepen the Fourteenth
street canal to Q width of forty feet and a
depth of twelve feet; and to prOlOng the
came to an intersection with the MelpOmene
tailrace; the said Melpomene tailrace to be
extended to the Claiborne canal and
widened and deepened to an average width
of thirty-five feet and depth Of ten feet.
4. The Peters avenue canal to be pro-
lOnged to an intersection with the Four
teenth street canal, and to be made thirty
five feet wide and ten feet deep throughout.
FIRST DRAINAGE DISTRICT.
S. In the first drainage district the
company shall widen and deepen the un.
finished Orleans canal and produce the
same 80 as to extend from the Lake Point
chartrain through to Bayou St. John, with an
average width Of forty feet and depth, in
creasing toward the lake, of from twelve to
fifteen feet. From the vicinity of the bayou
it shall extend along or near the same, to
connect with Hagan avenue; thence along
Hagan avenue to Banks avenue; the whole
from the end of the Orleans canal to have
an average width of thirty-five feet and
depth Of twelve feet.
6. A canal to be excavated on Banks ave-
nue., from Hagan avenue to Galvez street,
thirty-fve feet wide and ten feet deep.
THIRD DRAINAGE DISTRICT.
7. In the third draining district the
Marigny canal to be widened and deepened
from Bayou St. John to Elysian Fields
street, thence through Florida walk to
Bayou Bienvenu, average width forty feet
depth twelve feet, increasing gradually to
fifteen at Bayou Bienvenu. A protection
levee to extend along the whole of said
canal from Bayou st. John, having base Of
sixty three feet, width at the top of forty
feet, and height Of seven feet
8. A canal and protection levee to com
mence at or near the Mississippi river and
lower boundary Of the city Of New Orleans
and to extend along or near the said bound
to be thirty-fve feet wide and ten feet deep
Protection levee same as in paragraph
seven.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
9. The surveyor shall measure and certify
the dimensions Of all the canals and leveea
now existing along the line of the works
provided for herein, 80 far as the same may
| form part Of the canals and levees to be con
structed; tho same to be allowed for by the
| company in deduction of their measure
| ments Of work performed and completed.
TO- The canal work to be measured and
certified monthly; the levee work also to be
measured and certified monthly so far as the
| same shall have been shaped and completed
and sufficiently dried for the passage thereon
| of vehicles,it being the intention hereof tina,
the levees shall have the full Dimensions re
quired after being dried and ready for use
| and all payments shall be based upon
measurements made of them in that cOndi
| ton.
IL. The earth removed from the canals
and not required for levees. shall be the
property of the city. and disposed Of as the
city may deem proper.
1S. The city shall proceed to take charge
| of the drainage works and properties trans