New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-10-18

| alley, street, DanQueCue, elu0W8lK OF W0ar
within the corporate limits of the city. MOI
or in part az dwelling house, nor upon thu
floor OF any building above the first floor.
SEC. g. Be it further ordained, etc., Tha
any and even : person guilty OF violation
| Of this ordinance shall be subject to the
payment Of fine, not to exceed one hun
dred dollars, for each and every contraven
ton, and to Imprisonment for period no,
| to exceed one month.
| SEC. 7. Be it further ordained, ETC., Tba,
| this ordinance shall take effect from and
after its passage.
Laid over to be printed.
| BY Mr.. Bonzano:
An ordinance to provide for the inspection
| Of prisons, asylums and charitable insti
buttons receiving aid from the city.
SECTION l. Be it ordained by the Council
appoint, with the consent of the Council, q
suitable person, who shall be styled in
| spectOr Of prisons aud charitable ipstitu.
| lions, who shall hold office dun ing the
| pleasure of the Council and receive q salary
of -
SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, etc, That
| it shall be the duty Of the officer SO selected
| and appointed to make q thorough daily in
ssPection of the jails, prisons and locknps in
to the Mayor, with such suggestions as
| may, on examination, appear appropriate
and necessary to such inspector.
And it is hereby firstly ordained, That it
shall be the duty Of said officer to inspect
and report to the Mayor on all charitable
public institutions that receive aid from the
city treasury, and to make such report to
the Mayor at least twice in each week.
and to make full and complete semi
nOnfh1v rQnOrts hOrh IN tho Admin.
istrator of Police and Administrator
of Waterworks, which report shall show
the condition and management of all
of the Institutions in their respective charge,
and referred to in this Ordinaace, and that
this ordinance be in full force and effect
from and after its passage.
Ordered printed, and referred to the
Mayor and the Administrators of Police and
Public Buildings.
Mr.. COckrem called up the report and
resolution for the shelling of Marengo
street, laid over from the last regular meet
ing. which were both adopted.
The Nletrspolif.m Psaiee Advertisement.
The Mayor laid before the Council the
following communication:
CENTRAL DxPAkruKHv, METROPOLITAN PoL,cE,
New Orleans October is, 1871.
To the Hon. B F. Flanders. Mayor, and the Admin.
istratO,s Of the cay Of New Orleans
The Board of Metropolitan Police. con-
vened this day as q board of estimate and
appOrtiOnmeut, ia accordance with sections
twenty-five and twenty-si of act No. 81
copy of ordinance No. 1886, Administration
series. respecting the assessment of the
Metropolitan Police Board against the city
of New Orleans for the year ending Sep
TENDER 80, 1872, proceeded to consider the
request bf the honorable Council Of the
city, that the Police Commissioners revise
and reduce to the lowest possible figure the
estimate for the expenses OF the department
for the coming year.
In reply to the request of the Council,
the board desires to say, that in preparing
the estimate Of expenses Of the police for
the coming gear, the greatest possible re-
ductiOn WAS made, consistent with the legal
and public requirements in the matter Of
police duties.
1.-The Mayor is directed to make his objec-
tons to the whole estimate" We wish to
however willing we may be to comply with
their request that our powers and duties
in the matter Of the number and cost of the
force is fixed by the act creating the Metro
politan Police force, and it would not be
possible to reduce the cost for the coming
year without destroying its usefulness.
Section six Of the act Dinety-two, approved
March 8, 1863 provides that the Metropoli-
tan Police force shall consist of not more
police surgeons, six captains, twenty
teen clerks isperators). i've hundred
patrOlmen and ten dOOrmen, a superin-
tendent and assistant superintendent of
police FL alarm telegraph. Sections
forty-seven and fifty-one Of the same at
fixes the salary of the above named Off
hundred patrOlnen for the city Of New
Orleans, with it's present limits, including
the City of Jefferson and Algiers, is too
many, when we remember that five hun
dred patrOlMen were employed ON the city
force with its old limits. 1t must also be
that among the present ex-
penses OF the police force is included the
cost Of maintaining and repairing the fire
alarm and police Telegraph There is also
included the salary of two police surgeons,
who act as city physicians. and, in add
ton to attending on the police force, visit |
the city institutions, and act as experts for
The COrOners, and make post mortem ex-
aminations whenever called upon.
Before the establishment of the present |
police force, the city had four city physi- |
clans at $500 each. Under the present |
system the whole labor is performed by |
two surgeons at $4,000 year each, thereby |
making a saving Of 5000, besides large
amount often paid for post norton exami- |
nations.
1t is hardly to be expected that the city
If New Orleans, with its present limits, can
We pOliced for the same amount it used to
cost before it was enlarged.
While the Mayor and Council are COM
planning Of the great cost of the police, at
ention is invited to the following facts: The
,ay Of patrOlman is by law fixed at $1,000
'er annum; yet the actual cost per man, in
.luding pay Of commissioners and expenses
# the central department. superintendent
,tfice, ratiOns and blankets for prisoners,
ire alarm and police telegraph, city ply
icians, forage and shoeing Of horses, cost
# maintaining steam launch for harbOr
'Olice, law charges, stationery, and all other
General expenses, not salaries, only av-
RACES sl2l2 10. while the cities of Boston
nd Cincinnati pay as salaries to each
$lO95 per annum, and the city
f New York pays $1,000 per annum to her
this exclusive of the general
nd incidental expenses of management
These cities, in addition to paying larger
alaries to their policemen, pay regularly in
ash and not in certificates of appropriation
t a discount of more than thirty per cent.
Under all the circumstances the Board of
'olice. met as board Of estimate and ap-
are of opinion, after careful
of the estimate made for the
ity of New Orleans, that they can not
ately reduce the estimate. and therefore
dhere to the original one made October 9,
81.
Adopted October l6, 1871
Yeas: Commissioners Robinson, Raynal,
ISABELLE and Baker.
Nays: Administrator Lewis.