The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-27
CITY COUNCIL.

At noon yesterday the Council, after COZ
5 fab On the floor, met. Present: Mayor
Leeds, and Administrators Brown, Bertoli
Mccarthy, Landry, Burke and Pilsbury.
The reading of the minutes of the previous
meeting was dispensed with and the orde,
OF business taken up. Communications from
the several Administrators were then read.
From the Mayor A letter from the Secre-
tary of the city of Houston, inclosing the fol-
lowing resolution of that city relative to the
late military outrage:
Extract Of Minutes of City Council meeting.
Saturday, January 16, 1851
he It resolred By the Mayor, aldermen and
Inhabitants of the city Of Houston in Council as
senbled, That we deeply sympathise with the
people OF the State OF Louisiana, in their
present atfliction, caused by Federal in
tervention and oppression, and that we
deplore the partisan course pursued by Lieut..
Cen Sheridan. A copy of this resolution to
be sent to the Mayor of the city of New Or
leans and to r. H. Mari, Esq, Chairman of
! the Committee of Seventy.
JOHN REIcuMAN. Secretary.
Mr.. Bertoll presented a communication ac-
knowledSlng the receipt of certain contribu-
tons for the Insane Asylum.
An ordinance to pay several accounts was
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The following was then read and after
some debate, adopted
An ordinance to pay the expenses of reris
tratlon OF voters and election expenses in |
and for the city of New Orleans for the
year 1874.
BE it ordained, That the sum of SIG Ono or
SO much thereof as may be necessary. be and |
Is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses
OF the registration of voters, under act No
100 OF 1914, and election expenses of Novem-
Der 1, 1874, on the production of vouchers ar
cordins to law, and to be paid on the warrant
OF the Administrator of Public Accounts. when.
ever there is money in the treasury to the
credit of said accounts.
And the following was read and adopted.
Be it ordained, That the following annro-
priations be and are hereby made, and that
the Administrator of Public Accounts warrant
on the Administrator of Finance in PAYMENT
OF the same whenever there shall be money
IN the city treasury to the credit of the an.
proprlate fund for each account and not
otherwise appropriated:
BUREAU OF DRAINAGE.
W. u. N!lmot d Co., coal, fifty TONS to
Melpomene draining machine. at So. S3O0
london Avenue draining machine w G.
Wllmot u Co., fifty tons coal at Sc 30 s325
From the Administrator of Police ranort
vas read relating to his department. The re-.
,oit was ADOPTED. lie also returned the me- Z
itlon OF +. Sellers, also petition RELATING to
he establishment Of Seamans Bethel A
eport relating to the founding of a cemetery A
lpon the property of the Sisters OF St. Bene.
ict, was adopted -
report from the City Attorney upon the
qestlon of the citys liability tor joint indebt-
dness with the parish of Jefferson for the
III IN Carrollton, was referred to the Navor
The Surveyor presented report setting !,
'rth that the walls of the Crescent Hall ara n
nsafe, and recommended that an ordinance
e passed condemning the ruin as unsafe !,
fter desultory debate the report was re. y
rred to the Mayor and City Attorney ~
Administrator Burke offered a resolution
skiing for committee OF three to INVESTIGATE
lie accounts and affairs of the Department of
improvements, including dredging, drainino
hart construction and repairs during the
ears 1870, II, ~, 70 and "a. Adontad ED :
I'd Messrs. Burke Pilsbury and Brown an
olnted a committee. P
The Councils thanks. on motion of Mr.
ertoll. were voted to the donators Of cloth
g, etc., tor the inmates of the Insana ne
5ylum. Adjourned. '''Ao ge
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