The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-06

ing city in the month Of September, 1875, as
per contract, $S742 As.
jefferson City Gas Light Company, for
lighting the Sixth District in the month Of
September, 1875, as per contract, S263O 35:
Thomas Pickles, for lighting the city with
oil in the month of September, 1875, as per
contract, $4,000 so; less 10 per cent retained,
$500 Is. $27O2 Is.
Grand total, $29012 SO.
st. Mary's Catholic Orphan Boys Asylum,
BAL inmates, $ll93 so.
st. Vincents Home, 12l inmates, $423 So
st. vincent's Infant Orphan Asylum, 1877 in
mates, S654 SO.
St Elizabeth's Asylum, 144 inmates. 1904.
Fem ale ASYLUM of the Immaculate Concep-
i'm, 100 inmates, $780,
Mount Carmel Asylum, 1913 inmates,
S43O so.
New Orleans Female Orphan Asylum, 143
inmates, $500 SO.
Protestant Episcopal Children's Home, "a
inmates, $119.
Home for Jewish Widows and Orphans, IS
inmates, $3OS.
Orphans Home, Ill inmates, 1888 so.
St. Anna Asylum, sixty-nine inmates,
S24l SO.
Louisiana Asylum, thirty-two inmates.
SIP.
ASYLUM of the Little Sisters of the Poor,
139 inmates, S4S6 SO.
Convent of the Good Shepherd, 270 in
mates, 1915.
Germ an Protestant Or han Asylum, Bloom
ingdal., 80 inmates, S311 so.
St. Josephs German Boys and Girls Asy-
lum, 1874 inmates, 1919.
ST. vincen.s Infant Orphan Asylum, for
wet nurses, 5000
st. Vincent's Infant Orphan Asylum, for
forage, etc., 1925.
Ladies of Providence, 81 inmates, SIS.
Total, SS547 so.
The following resolution was adopted:
RESOLVED, That the Administrator OF Pub
lie Accounts warrant in favor Of ]. @ A. Eel
lows and Ri ,hard Lloyd, assignees, for the
sum of $780, being in full satisfaction OF
Judgment of David Magner vs.. city of New
Orleans, rendered in suit No. $50 of the
docket of the Eighth District Court and now
No. 25 926 of the docket of the Superior Dis
trict Court
Administrator Burke, on behalf of the
Committee of the Whole, submitted the fol-
lowing report on the petition OF citizens rela-
tive to
THE FOURTH DRAINAGE DISTRICT.
tTente,nen-The Committee of the Whole,
to whom the petition of citizens for repeal of
the ordinance creating the Fourth Drainage
District was referred, instruct me to report
that they can not recommend the repeal OF
the ordinance, for the following reasons -
l. The ordinance was passed by the Council
Of 1872 in pursuance of the acts of the Legis-
lature of 1858 and 1870 and judgments have
been obtained which involve the question of
vested rights that would render the city liable
in damages.
2. This administration is in no wise liable
for the ordinance. Collections have been
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age of the Fourth District. and repeal OF
the ordinance would render the city liable for
the amount paid.
8. Your committee cannot ignore the fact
that numerous petitions and complaints from
citizens of the lower portion Of the Third
Municipal District, indicate the necessity OF
drainage in that section, and the Board OF
Health directly charge the great prevalence of
malarial fevers and increasing mortality from
such fevers to the lack of proper drainage.
In view of these facts, it is probable that the
residents of this district would, at no distant
day, require the extension of the benefits OF
drainage to that section; repeal OF the ordl-
nance would then necessitate the homologa-
ton Of tableau suits, judgments, and repiti-
ton of litigation, which the city has passed
through, adding further burdens to property
holders
4. The tail race canal for the drainage of
the Fourth District and lover protection
levee has been excavated to within short
distance of the Fourth District line at an
expenditure of s250,000; and the dredge
boats will be placed at work in the lower
portion of the Third Municipal District, with
in few weeks, excavating the Claiborne
Canal, which has been almost entirely filled
up to the prejudice of the health OF tn. dis
trict and to the injury OF properly.
of fha wOntH th6r6fOrn.
be equivalent to the abandonment OF the
work that has cost the people s250, 900, and
prevent the Council from having any drain
age work done in localities where the most
| imperative demands are made tor 1t.
Your committee respectfully calls atten-
ton to the fact that when the petition was
first made to the Council by committee of
property holders, the issue of writs of Fl ri
facias was promptly suspended, aud no steps
are now being taken by the Council
to enforce the collection OF the tax
in the Fourth Drainage District; also, that
when such tax was paid that it could
be paid in ten yearly installments, as
allowed to other districts; and a reIeal
of the ordinances and suspension OF the
work now would simply result in rob-
bling the people of the lower portion OF
the Third Municipal District of all benefits of
drainage without now tightening their bur-
dens as, under the odious law giving this i'm
portant work to the Mississippi and Mexican
Gulf Canal Company, the boats working to-
ward the Fourth Drainage District, and now
instructed to clear out the Claiborne Canal,
would have to be assigned to work in other
districts, or under the law, the city would be
liable for damages.
Your committee will cheerfully and earn
estly cooperate with the petitioners in pro-
curing, by litigation, repeal of this obnox-
ious law, but in view Of the injurious effects