The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-04
CITY COUNCIL.

The City Council met in regular week.
session at MOI yesterday. Hon. @. j. Iced
presiding Present: Administrators brown
Landry, Pilsbury and Mccarthy. 49,.
The Mayor reported bids for the building
of McDonogh School No. 6.
n The Administrator of Commerce reported
bids-all rejected-for the lease OF the Dry
AIDES Market
An ordinance appropriating $15,340 90. fo
the payment of expenses OF Department o.
improvements was adopted, as was also az
tions:
Court officers employed in the several
municipal police courts in the
month OF May, 1875. .............N q, 1888 I;
Court officers employed in the several
| municipal police courts in the
| month Of june, 1875. .......:..... 1,4l6 81
Sanitary police officers for June, 1875. 666 GA
Total. ss,472 9s
A resolution authorizing the Administrator
| of Public Accounts to warrant in favor of the
| heirs of John Slidell for the sum Of $1.47l 95,
receivable in payment of taxes of 1873 and
previous years. for the general fund, portion
of said taxes being for reimbursement of tax
of 1885, paid twice."
By resolution, the Administrator Of Public
Accounts was authorized to warrant for $50 05
in favor of Miss A. Sallean, reimbursement
of tax Of 1866 twice paid.
Permission was granted to Henry Hoehn to
erect bake oven on the corner OF Port and
Urquhart streets.
BY resolution, the Administrator of FL
nance was authorized to pay to F. Diebold
1926 81 in Metropolitan Police Warrants for
the years 1873 and 1874 from the first war.
rants received by him; being for reimburse
ment of an equal amount of police warrants
deposited by said Diebold as Treasurer of the
late city of Carrollton, subject to ownership in
final settlement of his accounts, by which it is
shown that the said warrants are the property
of the said Diebold, the original warrants
having been cancelled through error.
A number of communications aud petitions
were received and appropriately referred.
Among them was several from property own
ers protesting against the digging Of the Pc
ters Avenue Canal. Referred to the Commit
tee of the Whole. And one from the N. O.,
NJ. and 7. r. R.. asking permission to lay
track on the levee; also referred to the Com
mittee of the Whole
By resolution of the Administrator of I'm
provements, the Administrator of Finance
was instructed to advertise for bids for street
sweepings
By resolution the bid of JAS. Cox for &c.
900. for the building of McDonogh School
No. 6, was accepted.
The following was submitted by Admins
traitor Burke:
ResoIued. That drainage canal be located
on Nashville Avenue, to connect the
Claiborne canal with the low ground on b.
sin street between st. Charles Avenue and
the Mississippi River; said work to be per.
formed by the Mexican Gulf Ship Canal Com
pany; and the City Surveyor is hereby autho-
rized and directed TO locate the said canal SO
IS to cause the least possible obstruction to
the street.
Administrator Burke explained that there
had previously been canal on Nashville |
Avenue, and property owners had purchased |
heir property with q full knowledge OF the |
canal, and he did not think it would be any |
hardship to them to have the canal widened |
md deepened, as it was absolutely necessary |
20 have g canal to relieve the Sixth District;
md as the complaints against locating the |
ANAL on Peters Avenue had been so great he |
thought it best to change to Nashville Avenue /
The resolution was adopted.
Leave of absence for one week was granted |
70 Administrator Burke.
A motion to adjourn prevailed.