New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-25
REGULAR MEETING.
Cry HALL, NEW ORLEANS,
nTvrnr1r nly4V,, f,ays. 81 I 9TO

Present: Mayor Louis A. Wilt, presid
ing, and Administrators Charles Fitzen
reiter (Waterworks and Public Buildings)
James Lewis improvements, Robert Brew
ster Police, and H. F. Sturcken assess
mentsl
The credentials of Administrator Johr
Calhoun Public Accounts and Louis
Schneider lFinance) were presented. and
on motion Of Mr.. Lewis these gentlemen
we're seated at the board.
Messages from the Mayor.
MAYORALTY OF NEW ORLEANS, I
December "a, 1872. )
TO the City Council Of New Orleans:
At your regular session Of Tuesday, De
cember 10, resolution was presented, as
follows:
Rcsoived, That the resolution adopted No
vember %, 1872, purpOrting to authorize
the Mayor to employ special counsel on
the part OF the city and to consult with said
counsel relative to the claims of candidates
for office, etc, be repealed and that pay
nent for any legal service therein referred
to be refused.
The yeas and nays were called GU this
resolution, resulting as follows:
Yeas-Fitzenreiter, Turnbull, Brewster
3
Administrators Walton and Lewis asked
to be and were excused from voting.
The minutes OF that session enormously
stated that "the Chair decided that the
resolution was not carried, majority Of
the Council not voting in its favor"
was iii the chair, and remember that a
motion was made and carried to adjourn
before / had declared whether the resolu-
ton had or had not passed. At the next
session | declared the resolution passed.
+I,,f IL a.
that it may appear on the minutes Of this
day Is session as a correction.
LOUIS A. Witt, Mayor.
The message was received and ordered
spread upon the minutes.
MAYoRALTT or EBw ORLEANS
December23, 1872. )
70 the City Council Of New Orleans:
/ herewith return tan ordinance appro-
priating money to defray the expenditures
of the Department of Police for the month
of November, 1872" beginning "New Or
leans REPUBLICAN, $50" Also, ian ordi-
nance providing for the payment of the
several accounts therein named" begin
ming, &C. II. Gutenberg, $3.50" Not ap-
proved on account OF several errors therein.
recommend that they be respectfully re-
ferred to the Administrator of Public Ac- |
counts for correction.
The message was received and the or
dinances referred to the Administrator Of
Public Accounts, as suggested by the
mayor.
MAEoRALTY OF NEW ORLEANS, | |
December p, 1872. !. |
To the City Council Of New Orleans:
have with reluctance, and after much
hesitation, approved and signed the follow
ing entitled ordinances
a ~.
Of the accounts therein named, beginning
g P. Keenan,
An ordinance providing for the payment
Of the several accounts therein named, be-
ginning Stetson q Armstrong, $50 25"
An ordinance apprOpriating money to de-
fray the expenditures'Of the Department
of Police for the month of. November,
1872, beginning City Workhouse"
These ordinances appropriate money
which is not in the treasury, and make it
to issue certificate of appropria-
ton, which are liable to be thrown upon the
as subjects of speculation, contrary +
to the principle which you have resolved to
pursue and contrary TO the expectation
and hope OF friends of reform. But these
debts. accrued under your predecessors, and
we're contract with the expectation Ct =
heir being settled by such certificates of
| have therefore signed the
ordinances and caused them t be published
lnder this my protest, that the habit of APP
lropriatiDg against an empty treasury and
paying in deprecated scrip is altogether
lernicious ana wholly inconsistent with
financial reform.
LOUIS A. Witt Mayor.
The message was received and ordered
printed.
Mr.. Lewis said as this message seemed to
efer especially to the Department. of Police,
@ would like the Secretary to read the in
ofsement on the back of the certificates
f appropriation.
The Secretary read the ordinances printed
n the back OF tile certificates of appropria- [
on, which said that the holder was emit I
led to the amount when it was in the !
:
Tho Mayor said it was not intended to I
LIST any reflection on the Department of Y
olice, but while the laborers were suffering
Y receiving certificates for their work r
hich they were compelled to sell, the
edit of the city also suffered, and the c
,gotiation of the city bonds was impaired
8 long as the city issued paper selling at
zty or seventy cents on the dollar, the
ty's credit could not be expected to 90 up.
BY the Mayor: !.
MAYoRALTY OF NEW ORLEANS .
December d. 1872. |
the City Council of New Orleans:
| herewith return, not approved, an ordi- p
nee entitled ian ordinance for the paw tt
ant of the pay rolls therein named" appro- W
iating $4,000 for payment Of the weekly pi
y rolls of the city for the week ending bt
Dvember %, 1872. This ia identical as to OF
Mount and object with ordinance No. 1888, al
lministration series, promulgated Novem-
+ &c, 1872, F.
LOUIS A. WILT, Mayor. vi
The message was received and ordered 70
read upon the min utes. mr.
Reports from Departments. to
By Mr.. Schneider:
DEPARTMENT OF FIyAYCR
December %, 1872. ! ne
the City Council Of New Orleans: ri
have the honor to report that in accord tri
&c with official notice, the following pro-
sails for furnishing the city with license In
ties for the year 1873, were opened in the be
yor's parlor at twelve NJ, nineteenth in
Mt, viz
Jacob Rindt, all round, at twelve and
, half cents.
Jniacke & Konrad, all round, at fourteen pr
its. the
}. Duvice tin plates ten cents brass ra1
ties at eighteen cents. pa,
'hll McCabe, tin plates at nineteen cents, sit
tai plates at twenty cents. not
ohm Lem, tin plates at sixteen cents,
rman silver at sixteen cents F.
J. Lambert, all round, at twenty cents. a
William H. Phelps, tin plates at twelve '
ts, metal plates at eighteen cents. Fl.
he proposal of C. Duvcie being the low. Vo
| recommend that the contract be