New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-03

1874. 3SS 80
City tax for 1874. IL go AZ
| Metropolitan Police tax
for lS74...... ....... IL 537 IL
New Orleans Park tax
School tax for is74.... 6,56l %
Carrollton city tax tor
lSi rs 81
CarrO)ltOn school tax
for 1874 ............. l Oh 81 S42 s.
E. PILSBURY,
Administration Of Finance.
By Mr.. Burke:
DEPARTMENT OF IMPROVEMENTS,
February 1875.
To the City Council of New Orleans
l have the honor to submit the following
report Of the operations of this Department
for the month OF January, 1875:
ADMINISTRATORS OFFICE.
Salaries and employees. ............ 1920 Ct
BUREAU OF STREETS.
Ballast used in streets, tons w 35C
Nails and spikes used in repairing
bridges and crossings, pounds. 49l
New lumber used in repairing
bridges and crossings, feet. . Is, 4Of
Old lumber used in repairing
bridges and crossings, feet. 9,701
Bridges and crossings repaired. l6l
Salaries, labor, and cart roll. 80. $l3, 926 %
BUREAU OF wHARvEs AND LANDINGS.
Belfast used on landings, tons. 80. $50
Shells used in repairing steamboat
landings, barrels. ............ $3.50
Lumber used in repair Of wharves,
leet. b|,bly
Timber used in repair OF wharves,
feet. 1861
Salaries, labor, and cart rolls . IS ,0Ol 30
BUREAU OF DRAINAGE.
Coal consumed by draining ma
chimes, barrels. ............ $50
Salaries and employees ............. 81, $50
Forty-seven carpenters were employed
in the general repairs of the wharves. The
steamboat wharves have been generally
repaired, and the force is now engaged
upon the wharves allotted to steamships
and sailing vessels. The three cotton land
iDgs above Canal street. and the cotton
landing between Canal and Customhouse
The sugar landing, from Customhouss to
Bienville street. has been covered with
ballast and shells, making durable land
ing, and the force is now engaged in i'm
proving the entire levee front used for the
accOmmOdatiOn of the sugar and mOlasses
crop. The break in the levee, at Soraparu
street, has been filled with earth and bal.
last, but has not been completed; the cost
of same, to date, has been $3.50.
The Poland street bnlkhead has been
completed, aad work has been commenced
upon the breaks in the levee above Poland
street. also at the break below the Convent,
Third District.
The Mississippi and Mexican Gulf Canal
Of 90
crossing CarrOllton avenue at Tenth street
by their excavations, necessiuating an ex-
penditure of about $1,000 for a new bridge.
As this was the only available route Of
communication between the Seventh Dis
trict the work had to be promptly done.
The total expenditure of this department
for salaries, labor and cart hire for the
month Of January, 1875, is $2O,33l So.
E. A. BURKE, Administrator.
Financial nnd Other Business ON Final
Passage.
Ms. Brown called up the ordinances de-
scribed as follows, which, having been read
twice, were now ON third reading, and they
passed unanimously, the yeas and nays
having been called on each, and all the
members present at roll call voting:
As amended, an ordinance providing for
the payment of the several accounts therein
named, beginning "Otficers, clerks and en-
ployes in the Department of Finance"
On motion OF Mr.. Brown, Administrator
of Public Accounts, the item of appropria-
ton for salaries Of municipal police courts
was reduced to S3ls3 30 by striking out the
names of Eugene Staes, Webster Long and
Lucien Adams, police judges. for the reason
that the said officers refuse to pay into the
city treasury the fines collected by them in
their several official capacities as required
by law.
An ordinance providing for the paymen t
of the several accounts therein named,
beginning New Orleans Times.
An ordinance providing for the payment
of the several accounts therein named F.,
beginning Stevens & Seymour, stationery
An ordinance providing for the payment
of the several accounts therein named :,
beginning johnson Armstrong, stationery
and binding for Department of Finance in
December, 1874.
Also resolution directing the wharfinger
of the Fourth District to refund the sum of
$lO43 80 to Messrs. jackson, Fitzpatrick &
Henderson, amount expended by them IN
the reconstruction of wharf at the head Of
First street.
An ordinance providing for the payment
of the several accounts therein named, be-
ginning A. w. Hyatt, stationery.
An ordinance providing for the payment
of the several accounts therein named, be-
ginning Messrs. Baldwin & Co.
Reports of Committees.
BY Mr.. Pilsbury and adopted:
Unfavorably on petitions of L. J. Highly
and A. Weimann asking to pay their taxes
with bills due them by the city.
Unfavorably on petition Of citizens asking
that city time of employees be taken in
payment of licenses of 1875.
By Mr.. Bouny and adopted:
Unfavorably on petition of Mrs. H. Fell
rath for reduction of assessment.
By Mr.. Mccarthy and adopted:
Unfavorably on petition of Lizzie Wal
tiers to keep an apple stand on the neutral
ground on Basin street, and of William e.
Miller to erect booth in same locality.
By Mr.. Landry:
Favorably by resolution on petition OF
Charles Kieinohle to retain his eating stand
at The bead of Canal street. On motion the
res 5ldtion was rejected by the Council.