The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-05-19

It will be perceived that there are to be
four drawings each year; one on the iotn Oh
March and one on the 18th of September for
REDEEM ptiou of premium bonds; and Tor dlstri-
button Of premiums one on the 10Th OF June
and one on the 18th Of December, the day on
which the premium bonds themselves are
PAYABLE. All drawings to be under the joint
management and supervision OF the city
authorities and committee appointed by the
holders of premium bonds.
It was received and referred to the Commit
tee of the Whole.
Leave of absence for eight days was granted
to City Surveyor T. S. Hardie
An ordinance making the following appro-
priations was adopted:
Department Of Improvements
Bureau Of Streets. ~ 100 10 10
Bureau of Wharves and Landings. 1858 IS
Various bills (tees Of Criminal Sheriff,
An ordinance appropriating $11, 965, Pay
Roll Department of improvements, was also
adopted.
Administrator Landry, on behalf the Com
mittee of the Whole, reported, recommending
the adoption of can ordinance to provide for
building and repairing wharves and levees
and for the payment of the debts contracted
on account Of them, by transferring the reye-
nues of the same for limited time.
Administrator Burke said he was opposed
to the ordinance because he did not see what
good would be derived by the city by this
sale, and it was confession of weakness and
and inability on the part OF the Admlnlstra-
tors to manage the affairs of the city. He
thought the control of the wharves should be
in the hands Of the agents of the people He
was opposed to placing the commerce In the
hands of any man or set OF men.
The past expenses attendant on the wharves
could not be taken as a criterion OF future
expenses. In the first place $500, 900 had
been expended in 1870, on the wharves, and
then many of them were not placed in good
condition, and S475,00 would have been
sufficient to entirely rebuild them all.
He thought the plan was merely transfer
of one of the most valuable franchises OF the
CITY to the bondholders. He was in favor OF
abolishing the wharf dues, and he believed
that in not more than year the city would
be in condition to do it. If this ordinance
was passed it would tie their hands SO that
they could not do it.
MIR. Landry said he did not think that Ad-
ministrator Burke understood the ordinance.
The control oil the wharves was rot taken
from the city, but the city would be relieved
of the burden of maintaining them.
Administrator Pilsbury said that he would
vote for the ordinance, not as matter OF
choice but as matter of necessity. The
CITY was unable to repair the wharves; there
was no revenue derived from them; in fact,
they were continual drain on and were
swapping the finances.
The question was called and the ordinance
was adopted by vote six yeas to one nay,
Administrator Burke voting in the negative
By ordinance, the wharf dues for steam
boats laying up was fixed for thirty days or
more at one dollar day.
By ordinance, the pay Of city employees
was made preference claims, to be paid over
all others.
The ordinance in reference to the cleaning
of streets, adopted May Is, 1870, was
amended, so as to make it compulsory on
householders to leave offal buckets on the
banquettes by A. NJ, and re-enacted.
On the petition of citizens asking the erec-
ton of two gas lamps on First street. between
Carondelet and Baronne streets, the Admin
istrator of Police reported recommending
that one of the two lamps asked for be
granted.
TIE report was approved and accompanying
resolution providing for the erection OF the
lamp was adopted.
The Administrator of Police submitted his
monthly report for April, from which the
folio wing summary of the cash expenditures,
receipts and earnings is taken: