New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-30
CITY COUNCII-oFFICIAL
REGULAR MEETING.


REGULAR MEETING.
CRY HALL. NEW ORLEANS,
Tuesday, August IS. 1876.
The Council met this day at twelve
O'Clock NJ, in regular session.
Presentation. Charles j. Leeds, Mayor,
presiding, and Administrators Bouny,
Burke, Landry, MCCARTHY and Pilsbury.
The minutes of tho previous meeting
were approved and their reading dispensed
with.
Financial and Other Business on Final
Passage
Mr.. Landry, acting Administrator OF
Public Accounts, called up the ordinance
appropriating $4,000 for the Department
of improvements, which passed, the yeas
and nays having been called, and all the
members voting yea.
Reports of Committees.
The following opinion from the City
Attorney was received and ordered spread
on the minutes: .
OFFICE CRY ATTORNEY
Rooms Nos 81 and % City Hall. :
New Orleans, August %, 1875
Hon j. O. Landry Administrator Of Commerce;
have examined the letter and memeran
dunn furnished by the president OF the New
Orleans and CarrOllton Railroad Company,
dated the sixth instant, and find no reason
to change my opinion previously given;
l consider that the land was coded for
the purposes for which it Is now used-a
railroad and public road or street-and
that it can not be used tor any other pur-
poaes: and I think the cessiOn to the rail
road was conditional and for the public use,
and did not confer full ownership upon the
railroad company.
The act Of oession expressly stipulates
that in case the charter ehau not be re-
uewed Eat the period fixed by law for the
expiration thereof that the said space or
passage of l2O feet in width shall forever
remain open and serve as . public road.
The period fixed and alluded to in the
said act of cession ia 1888. No one knows
whether the charter Of the railroad com.
pany will be renewed at that time. and
ahould it be, the condition of the cessiOn
would attach to the renewal:
The president of the railroad company
states that tho charter has already been ex-
tended. If 80, have been unable to find
the act authorizing such extension, and
have asked in vain to be referred to it.
But even admitting the ownership Of the
company in this property, it would be i'm
poesible for the Council to grant their
drawer, which, although somewhat dis
euised, amounts simply to this-that the
citv shall release the company from the
payment of taxes until the year 1910.
The city has NO power to release or OK
empt any person or property from the pay.
ment Of taxes, and ehe has not released
other companies therefrOm, as il asserted
in the letter of the president.
She has, I believe, released them from
the obligation to pay q bonus agreed upon
for the right of way, but this was not taxa
B.F. JONAS. City Attorney.
By Mr.. Landry, and adopted:
Favorably by resolution on the petition OF
C. Land. for permission to erect building
at the New Lake End; also, favorably by
resolution on the petition Of the Louislana
Cotton Tie Company to erect compress
and boilers head of Delta street.
From the City Attorney and referred to
the committee Of the whole:
On the petitions for sidewalks on jackson
street, reports that the City Council is not
compelled to order the paving asked for, a.
the petitions are not represented by the re-
ouisite number Of frontage.
By Mr.. Bouny, ana ADOPTED:
Untavorsbly on the petition of James
Scallsn for reduction of assessment.
By Mr. Burke, and adopted:
Returned petition of citizens in the neigh
borhood of French Market relative to the
obstruction of the streets; stating that the
removal of same properly belongs to the
Administrator of Commerce, and the en-
forcemen. of city ordinances to the police
By Mr.. Landry, and adopted:
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, I
August %, 1915. }
To the City Council Of New Orleans:
have the honor to report that the fol
lowing bids were made for the collection Of
the revenues of the public markets, tor the
month of September, 1870, and recommend
that they be accepted:
Fruit and Vegetable Market, to A. Du. 40, -
mestre for. .......... eolSs
French Meat Market, to F. Cazesu1, 900,
po ,Vdi and Pile Markets, to Julien
Mara-;na Market. to Pierre Alder, tor l7lt
| IRENE Market, to B. Beobsy, for..... lbO>
| Warrington and Port Markets, TO
Samuel Moore, for. ................ ~:
LIE Breton Market, to Augusta Sara, tor ::
| Jefferson City Market, 10 j. Dies tor. -.
| Sorapuru Market, to ]. Courrege, for ".
| AlRiers Market, to j. Larrieux, for. =, :;
Claiborne Market, to D. Monlezun, for 50;
Ninth Street Market, to j. Dies, for. 1o'
| St. Bernard Market, to V. A. Cron-
| zeilies, for. .......-......,.. o4
St. Mary Market, to Thomas Pickles, 81,
for. W.
| J. o. LANDRY, Administrator.
| Ordinance and Resolutions Offered.