New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-23
NOTICE
TO TAX AND LICENSE PAYERS,
We will pay old State and City Taxes and City
Licenses at liberal discount
JOHN KLEIN & CO.,
No. SO Carondeet street, front Office.
mh17 GOT 20
WE ARE STILL PAYING
STATE AND CITY TAXES
DUE PRIOR TO JANUARY ], 1874,
AND CITY LICENCES FOR 1874,
On the most liberal terms.
JOHN KLEIN & CO.,
ap22 Imp No. 80 Carondeet street front Office
PROCLAMATION.

! STATE OF LOUISIANA
| Executive department. ,
New Orleans, April 20, 1874
To all State aad pari sh officers in the overhowe
districts Of Louisiana, and to the citizens gen
| orally:
| The calamity VIII ich has so unexpectedly over
| taken our State when ali indications pointed to
| speedy renewal of agricultural and Commercial
prosperity, calls for the highest exercise OF you
judgment forbearance and humanity.
The State government has done and is doing al
that its will allow to alleviate the suffer
ngs of those who have been reduced to destitutioI
by the disastrous crevasses in the levees OF oul
great rivers and by the foods consequent upon The
rece Mt heavy ram storms.
acquisitions have been made by the State au
thorities and By our Representatives in Congres;
upon the general government for immediate aid
and have reason to believe that the acquisitions
thus made will 0e promptly responded to.
The Mayor of New Orleans, the president Of the
Chamber of Commerce, and a well chosen commit
tee of distinguished ctzens doing all that IAN
be done to send immediate assistance to those most
need of it, and the appeals that hare been made
to the great cities of the Moth. East ard West will
doubtless, in due time, bring a generous response
In the meantime, let me enjoin upon you pa
tience, forethought and confident reliance upon
siole, the evils which now thre aten you
Supplies of money food and clothing will be
for W arded to you without moments unneces-
sary delay. To send your distressed population to
this city, already ove,crowded with unemployed
people, will only embarrass the etfortA that are
being made for your relief.
I rec ommend that you organize in each parish a
CON mi;tee of trusted citizens who will undertake
the proper distribution of the supplies sent For
ward the names of the committees SO organised at
once to the president of the Chamber of Com
morce, to the Mayor of New Orleans, to the chair
man of the re.iei committee II. n Marks, Esq.J or
to myself As far possible enable the laborers
of the inundated districts to make their way to
those pari shes which are not under water, where
payment. Relax no efforts to diminish and control
the overflow which now afiicts you, and it may
be that even out of this dire calamity some good
may come, through the attention of the nation at
large being so painfully concentrated upon the
question Of making the building and maintenance
of the levees of the Mississippi also the preser
vation of proper outlet for the river, a national
work.
Given under my hand, and the seal of the State
hereto attached, this twentieth day OF April in
the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
seventy-four, and of the independence of the
United States the ninety-eighth.
WILLIAM P. KELLOGG
By the Governor: