New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-04

REGULAR MEETING.

The Council met this day at II NJ, in
regular session.
Presentation. Louis A. Witt, Mayor,
presiding, and Administrators Brewster,
| Calhoun, Fitzenreiter, Lewis, Sturcken
and TurnbuIl
The minutes Of the last regular meeting
and of the special meeting held on the
twenty eighth ultimo were approved.
Commune lions from the Mayor and Adj
ministrat0rs.
The following message from the Mayor
| was read and received, and the subject
thereof was referred to the committee Of
the whole:
MA,oRAI1Y OF NEW ORLEANS,
jane 3, 1873. )
To the City Council of New orleans:
respectfully invite your attention TO the
contract between the city and the Mlssis-
sippi and Mexican Gulf Ship Canal Com
paEv for excavating canals and making en-
bankments Owing to the heavy liabilities
and limited resources of the city, it is nee
essary to use extreme economy IN outlay
for public works of all kinds, both as to
amount of work and rate of payment. The
city can, without danger or Inconvenience,
dispense with more than three. tOurths of
=
done each month by the above named com
pany, and the remainder can be done for
about one-balf the price now paid under
the contract. l recommend the reference
of this subject to the committee OF the
whole, with the purpose of inquiring
whether, and by what means, the contract
for said work can be annulled or suspended,
and for such action as may seem proper.
LOUIS A. WILTZ, Mayor.
The subj oined message from the Mayor
was also read and the notice referred to
was ordered to be recorded in the minutes
as requested:
MAYoKAlTY OF NEW ORLEANS,
June 5, 1873.
To the City Council Of New Orleans:
l submit for your information and ap-
proyal copy of notice issued cObjointly by
the Hon, George S. Lacey, City Attorney,
and myself, and request that it be recorded
in the minutes of the Council for reference.
LOUIS A. WILT, Mayor.
To all whom it may concern:
WHEREAS In certain suit instituted by
Henry J. Gardner and Peter Butler, trust
ees, vs.. New Orleans, Mobile and Texas
Railroad Company, in the Circuit Court OF
the United States, District of Louisiana,
and known on the docket Of said court as suit
No. 695S, the aforesaid trustees have a1ver-
tised for sale, On Friday, June 6. 1873, GER
tain property lying within the city OF New
| Orleans; and
Whereas. From uncertainty in the de-
| scription of such property, the same can
| not be correctly designated and located,
| and in such sale the aforesaid trustees may
| seek to include the property and ferry
| rights referred to in, and embraced by, GER
| tain acts and Joint resolution OF the Gen
eral Assembly Of the State Of louisiana
more particularly the following:
Act No. q. page twenty eight, approved
| august 10, 1868;
Act No 20, page twenty-five, approved
| February II, 1869;
Joint resolution No. 81, page sixty seven,
| approved March 6, 1869;
Act No. 81, page tfty-fve, approved Feb
| ruary u. 1870;
| Now, then, this is to notify all persons
whomsoever intending to purchase at SAID
sale. OF otherwise, that the several acts and
the Joint resolutions of the Legislature OF
| Louisiana hereiDabOve referred to, and any
and all other statutes of the State, so far as
they have, or pretend TO have, conveyed
or interiered with any property then and
| now belonging to the city of New Or
leans, or held by her as trustee or for the
use of the public, or SO far as they
have pretended to, or have granted the
right of way through her public streets, or
| upon, or through, or over her batture and
| other public places, or have lntertered
Herewith, and SO far as they seek to trans
fer or have transferred, any right, claim,
franchise or privilege appertaiaing, or in
anv way or manner belonging to the city
| of New Orleans in her own right, or held
in trust by her for the public, or for any
| person or persons whomsOever, are I'M
constitutional and void; that neither the
l Ill, Nt,nr<
| Railroad Company, nor the New Orleans,
Mobile and Texas Railroad Company had
or have any right, title, interest or claim
in and to the property and rights atore-
| said and that they were without legal
or equitable right to mortgage and
| hypothecate the same, or to affect
the said property and rights, or any
part thereof, by the deed Of trust re-
terred to in and forming the basis
that the city of New Orleans claims to be
the sole and only owner, legal and equita-
| BILE, OF all of the property and rights afore-
| said; and fortified and sustained as her
claim has been aud now is by judgment
of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, rem
| dered contradictorily with the New Or
leans, Mobile and Texas Railroad COmpa-
| ny, she will regard any person or persons
| setting up any adverse right or title to the
said property, grants, privileges and fran
| chises, whether claiming to hold under the
| contemplated sale or not, as trespassers
| and will prosecute the same, as such, to the
| fullest extent of the law.
| LOUIS A. WILT. Mayor.
GEORGE s. LACEY, City Attorney.
The annexed message from the Mayor
was likewise read and received and the
suggestion therein was referred to the
committee of the whole:
| MAYoRALTY OF new ORLEANS, !
| City Hall, June 3, 1873.
| To the City Council of New Orleans:
] am informed that in many of the cite;
| of Europe and this country the authorities
have caused the removal OF all iron ratings
| chains walls and other barriers from thell
public squares and parks and that citizens
are well pleased with the change. Both az
to use and appearance our own squares
would, in my opinion, be much improved
BIZ dispensing with iron ratings, thus
| giving an unobstructed view and easy access
| a. all points. l therefore, respectfully re
commend that the council consider this
| matter at some early meeting in committee
of the whole with the purpose of obtaining
| an expression of the wishes OF the pubic
az TO such improvement.
LOUIS A. WILT, Mayor
The Mayor laid before the Council thu
| following reports addressed to him, as re
quired by the charter, and the same were
read and ordered to be fled:
The monthly report of the Administrator
of Commerce for the month of May.
The monthly report of the Administrato
| of Public Accounts.
The monthly report OF the Administrator
| of Waterworks and Public Buildings.
| Financial Business for Immediate ant
Final Passage and ether Bills on Thir'
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