New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-23
CITY coUNCn-oFF1C1AL
REGULAR MEETING.

| Tuesday, August W. 1870. }
The Council met this day at twelve
O'Clock NJ, in regular session.
Presentation. Charles j. Leeds, Mayor,
presiding. and Administrators Bouny,
Landry, Mccarthy and Pilsbury.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were approved and their reading dispensed
with.
Financial and Other Business ON Final
| Passage.
Mr.. Pilsbury 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, and all the members
present at roll call voting:
"An ordinance providing for the payment
of certain interest" beginning NJ. F. Bonis.
IAN ordinance providing for the payment
of certain interest,"" beginning Barton g.
| Seixas.
IAN ordinance providing for the payment
of certain interest,"" beginning G. R. West
feldt.
IAN ordinance providing for the payment
| Of certain interest,"" beginning Home In
| surance Company.
Reports OF Committees.
By Mr.. Landry and adopted:
/. Favorably by resolution on the petit
ton of the Atlantic Rowing Club, for per
mission to erect boathouse at the head of
Chestnut street. Algers.
2. Favorably by resolution on the peti.
ton of ]. DAILY, to erect building at the
New Lake End.
3. Returned petition Of Jean Ray, lessee
of the Vegetable Market, relative to levee
dues on skiffs landing opposite the French
Market, with the opinion that the petitioner
is entitled to relief.
mr. Burke entered and took his seat in
the Council]
By Mr.. Bouny, and adopted:
Favorably, by resolution, on the petition
of Rev. j. Blackstone for cancellation of
assessments.
Ordinances and Resolutions Offered.
By Mr.. Landry, and adopted:
|. Resolution granting j. DAILY permission
to erect building at the new lake end.
2. Resolution granting Atlantic Rowing
Club permission to erect boathouse at the
head Of Chestnut street, Algiers.
3. Resolution granting the New Orleans
City Railroad Company permission to estsb.
| lish stand for the lake cars on the neutral
ground on Canal street, between Baronne
and Carondelet streets.
By Mr.. Pilsbury, and adopted:
An ordinance providing for the payment
of certain interest, beginning up. A. Hyde"
By Mr.. Bouny, and adopted
Resolution cancelling assessments against
Second Free Will Baptist Church"
BY Mr.. Pilsbury, and read twice:
Be it ordained by the City Council, That
| the sum of $4,000 is hereby specially ap-
propriated to the Department of Improve
ments, for the sole and exclusive purpose
| of cleansing the streets and cutters of the
| city, and otherwise preserving its present
| favorable sanitary condition; it being the
| desire of the Council that the sum thus sp-
propriated shall, by q system of alternate
| labor, extend the greatest amount of relief
| to the greatest amount of unemployed la
| bOrers of the city.
| By Mr.. Landry, acting Administrator of
Public Accounts, and read twice:
| An ordinance providing Tor the payment of
the several accounts therein named.
Be it ordained, That the following appro-
| priations be and are hereby made, and that
| the Administrator of Public Accounts war
rant on the Administrator of Finance in
| payment of the same, whenever there shalt
| be money in the city treasury to the credit
| of the appropriate fund for each account,
and not otherwise appropriated:
Ed. Pilsbury, Administrator of Finance,
| for reimbursement Of each advanced for law
charges, etc., as per vouchers, 1858 so.
| NJ. H. Applegate, for repairing water
| pipes in the Department of Public Accounts,
A. w. Hyatt, stationery for the Depart
| ment Of Commerce, for the month Of July,
1876, 1874
Reports Of Committees Resumed.
Mr.. Burke returned the papers relative to
the construction of banquettes on jackson
street, and moved their reference to the
City Attorney. Adopted.
Petitions.
From Mrs. L. c. Steptoe and S. Fernan-
dez, for reduction Of assessments. To the
Administrator of Assessments.
From F. Documents, complaining of q
UdIIy VI Gspl0A0uCs OooA OASoA otAOOe' Az
the Administrator of Police.
From G. Flory, for permission to hunt game
between the third canal or Bienville drain
ing machine and the lake; j. Sticch, to
rent q vacant lot belonging to the city;
committe from meeting Of workingmen,
asking for employment; private market
men, requesting the city authorities not to
interfere with their business. To the COM
mittee of the whole.
From John Klein, for cancellation of
bond. To the Administrator of Public Ac-
counts.
From citizens complaining of the OBJ
struction of the banquettes near the French
Market, on Sunday mornings, by chicken
vendors; John Mahony, for himself and for
ty-six more, for banquettes on jackson, be-
tween Baronne and Claiborne streets. To
the Administrator of Improvements.
The Council then adjourned.