The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20
CITY COUNCIL.


Hon. C. J. Leeds, Mayor, in the chair, and
Administrators Bertoli Brown, Bouny, Burke,
Landry, Mccarthy and Pilsbury present.
The following communications were pre-
sented
MAYoRALrY OF NEW ORLEANS,
City Hall, Oct. 10, 1878.
To the Council of the City of New Orleans:
REPRESENTATIONS having been made to me
that the various eating houses and other shops
on the levee, especially in the neighborhood
of Canal street, are nuisances, l call your
attention to the matter for such action as the
nature of the case may demand.
CHARLES J. LEEDS, Mayor.
Referred to the Committee OF the Whole.
DEPARTMENT OF WATER WORKS AND
Public Buildings, Oct 10, 1879.
To the City Council of New Orleans:
would respectfully call your attention to
the communication of the City Surveyor,
hereto attached, and would beg Of your hon
orable body for the authority to undertake
the work as therein set forth.
LEON BERToLI, Administrator.
SURVEYORS OFFICE |
City Hall, October 16, 1915.
To the Hon. Leon Bertoli, Administrator of Water
Works and Public Buildings:
At your request | have made careful ex-
animation of the two conduit pipes leading
from the two engines to the river, and find,
owing to the accretions of the batture, that
the supply of water is now limited and liable
to be cut off if the river should continue to
fall 1 would, therefore, respectfully recon-
mend that the said pipe be extended at least
twenty feet into the r,ver. | would also
recommend that the wharf above and the one
below the pipes be extended into the river,
SO that they will form protection for the
criha coverinp the pipes
The probable cost of the work would be as
follows:
100 piles at SO per pile. $1,000
10000 feet of 3x12 lumber at SIS per 1O00... $50
5000 pounds of cast IRON at &c per pound. 800
Labor and lead. l60o
Total. ............... $3.50
The labor may amount to more than the
estimate, and | would suggest an appropria-
ton of at least $4,000
The work should be attended to at once.
H G. Brown,
Assistant City Surveyor.
Several financial ordinances were called up
and passed.
The Committee of the Whole reported un-
favorably on the petition OF Firemens Chart
table Association of Algiers for an appropria-
ton for the purchase of hose, etc.
A resolution authorizing the Administrator
of Water Works and Public Buildings to in
vite sealed proposals for the construction OF
two cribs in the river at the foot OF Richard
street, was adopted.
An ordinance to authorize the Mayor to
make the title to the Louisiana Agricultural
aud Mechanical College Of the property known
as the Powder-House property, was introduced
and laid over.
The following ordinance was introduced,
read twice and laid over:
An ordinance providing the manner in which GER
tam past due Indebtedness Of the city may be
received in payment of back taxes.
Whereas, 1t has become necessary to pro-
vide the means required to retire the out
standing floating Obligations OF the city; and
Whereas, the back taxes, now due the city,
are more than sufficient in amount to meet
said obligations,
Be it ordained by the Council of the city Of Aee
Orleans That from and after the passage OF
this ordinance payments of city taxes from
1860 to 1874, inclusive, may be made as fol-
lows:
Taxes of 1860 to 1871, inclusive, IN scrip
and interest coupons, stamped "half paid.
Interests and costs advanced by the city re-
mitted.
Tax of 1873, fifty cents in cash, 81 so in
interest coupons stamped "half paid" 81
in scrip; and for interest and costs advanced
by the city, one half in cash and one-half in
half-paid interest coupons.
Tax of 1874, ST rs in cash, and seTenty-fve
cents, with accrued interest and costs, adj
vanced by the city in ordinances OF 1874,
from Nos. 263G to 2697 inclusive.
Be it further ordained, ETC., That the pro-
visions of this ordinance shall not operate to
the benefit, or be taken advantage OF by any
one who has not paid his city tax for 1875
Be 1t further ordained, ETC., That the word
scrip as used in this ordinance, is meant unpaid
ordinances, registered judgments and trans
fers of same, appropriation and tive-eights
tax excess certificates, metropolitan police,
criminal jury, coroners' and tax warrants.
Be it further ordained, ETC., That this ordi-
nance shall be repealable at the pleasure Of
the Council.
A number of petitions and communications
were received and appropriately referred, and
tha GounciI adionrned