New Orleans Republican., 1872-10-02
REGrLAR mEETING.

Cry HAIL. NEW ORLEANS, !
Tuesday, October J, 1872. 5
The Council met in regular session to-
day at noon.
Present-Mayor Benz f. Flanders tpre-
sidingj, and Administrators John Cockrem
(Improvementsj, Alfred Shaw Public Ac.
counts), L. n Delassize tWaterworks and
Public BuiIdings), John S. Walton lFi
nance) and Fl. Bonzano (Assessmentsl.
Absent-Administrat James Lewis (PO-
Heel, and f. G. Remick tCommerce).
The minutes of the last meeting were
improved and their reading dispensed with.
Communications from the Mayor.
The Mayor announced that in the absence
OF Administrators Lewis and Remick, be
had appointed Administrator Delassize to
act as Administrator Of Police ad interim,
and Administrator Bonzano to act as Ad-
Sninistrator Of Commerce ad interim.
The Mayor announced that an opinion
having been given by the acting City At
Sorney that the ordinance passed last week
anaking a redistribution of certain items of
the budget was legal, he had caused the
game to be promulgated.
The Mayor asked leave to withdraw his
veto Of the extension of the Magazine street
railroad during the coming week, provided
he was satisfied that the objections on
which his veto was founded had been re-
moved.
Leave was given.
The following communication was or
dared to be printed:
NEW ORLEANS, September 25, 1872,
TO the Hon. B. F. Flanders, Mayor, New Orleans:
The undersigned, appointed by the Board
of Metropolitan Police as a committee to
draw up and prepare an estimate of the ex-
Tenses Of the Metropolitan Police for the
wear ending September 30, 1873, in accord
ance with the requirements OF sections
twenty-five and twenty-six of act No % of
She session of 1869, desire to draw your at
tentiOn to the following facts, and ask your
approval Of the proposition herein sub
Enitted.
The lease of the building at the corner of
Earondelet and Girod streets, at present oc-
eupied by the board as a central depart
ment, will expire on the first of November
next On the score of ecOnomy-we do not
desire to renew the lease, because we be-
lieve that sufficient room may be spared in
the City Hall for our purpose.
We would respectfully suggest that the
rooms on the lower floor of the Hall, oppo-
site the Office Of the Administrators of
Finance would furnish all the room re-
uuired, provided the Council Chamber
could be used for the public session of the
board.
BY this means we could save $2400 per
annum for rent, and the pay Of two tele-
I graph operators, $1,000 more, making in all
. saving Of $4,000 per annum.
As the Board Of Police are, by law, re-
\ Al. L. naLr
ber to make the annual assessment, it is
important that we should be in receipt of
your answer before that date, SO that we
may know whether to estimate for the
rent of this or some other building as an
office for the Board of Police.
WILLIAM BAKER,
GEORGE BALDEY,
Committee on Apportionment.
Monthly Report.
By Mr.. Bcnzano;
DEPARTMENT OF AssRssSKMTs, !
October /, 1872. )
mvR. BENZ. F. Flanders, Mayor of New Orleans:
The assessment books containing the as
Eessments for the current year were open
for examination OF taxpayers from the tenth
of August to the fifteenth of September,
inclusive. Since that time the employees
of the Department have been busily en-
gagged IN the revision Of assessments com
plained of as excessive. These labOFs are
being pushed forward to completion as rap
Idly as practicable.
H. BONZANO, Administrator
Department Reports, Eetc.
BY Mr. Dalassize:
DEPARTMENT OF WATERwoRKs AND
Public Buildings, October l, 1872 5
To the City Council Of New Orleans:
ask the passage of the accompanying
resolution accepting the bid of j. ii. Keller
for furnishing 2l00 feet of eight-inch pipe,
She bid of Mr.. Keller, So rs per foot, pay
xnent to be made in certificates of apprO-
ariation, being the lowest by far of those
received in response to the advertisement |
an the official journal.
l.. I. DELASSIZE, Administrator.
Resolued, That the bid of J. H. Keller to |
furnish 2l00 feet Of eight-inch water pipe |
MT 81 rs per foot, payable in certificates of |
appropriation be and is hereby accepted, |
and the Administrator of Public Accounts |
be authorized to warrant on the Admins
&ratOr Of Finance, in the sum of $5575, in
payment of said pipe.
Adopted.
BY Mr.. Delassize:
Resoluea That the Administrator of
SVaterworks and Public Buildings be and
he is hereby authorized to advertise for one
alatboat load of coal for the use Of the
WaterwOrks.
Adopted.
By MIR. Delassize:
DEPARTMENT OF WATKRwoRKs AND I
Public Buildings, October /, 1872
To the City Council of New Orleans:
beg leave to state that have appointed
General James Longstreet to fill the posi-
tiOn of assessor and collector Of water rents,
made vacant by the removal Of V. Roux. 1
ssk for my action the approval of the
Council.
L. T. DELASSIzE, Administrator.
Received and approved
Financial Business.
By Mr.. Shaw: ]
Ia ordinance appropriating money to de-
fray the expenditures of the Department
OF Police for the month of September,
1872.
BE it ordained That the following sums,
It 80 much as may be necessary, be and the
anne are hereby appropriated to defray the Z
expenditures Of the Department of Police for
he month of September, 1872 and that the
administrator of Public Accounts draw his
on the Administrator of Finance
! payment Of the same: 1
ADMINISTRATORS OFFICE.
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