New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-22
Beard Of Health.

Beard Of Health.
A special meeting of the Board of Health
washeld yesterday.
The following letter was received and re-
ferred to the attorney of the board:
MISSISSIPPI QUARANTINE STATION, I
Louisiana December l6, 1876.
d.. Y: B. LeAonnier, Secretary Board Of Health
DEAR SIR-Your communication in which
you inform me that my proposition fol
''some amicable and equitable adjustment
of differences now in litigation" was, ton
motion of Mr.. DevrOn, rejected" BY the
board, il received.
You state that vouchers Nos. 15 and IA
have D6cn referred to the attorney of the
boar for his advice. Permit me to suggest
that you could and can, in twenty minutes,
obtain said advice. Doubtless voucher NJ.
-. for $I85, will b accepted; voucher No.
IA, for @43 50, had attached to it, when
handed to you, the written and duly signed
agreement of the Beard If Health to pay
the Same. Including thess two vouchers
you were, by your own books and personal
sta sment, slightly indebts 1 to me on the
FIRST instant. II still agreeable to you.
desire to settle and balance our accounts on
the first of January.
was not ''in the city" for personal busi-
ness Of pl006UI0 IA XNVV0nU0IS 00U t0010kU10
respectfully decline to reduce my pay roll.
Heretofore when temporarily absent from
here, although usually on "leave Of absence"
/ have voluntarily relinquished NY pay to
tho Board of Hsalth, because of ito pecu.
mary embarrassments, and because it
seemed to me right and proper to do 10;
and the amount thuB Felinquished has been
. considerable part of my salary; but -
my generosity does not seem to have been
lat 4 To
state that hereafter, when Justly entitled to
my salary, I shall not relinquish it.
Your Jealous attempts to interfere with
the collection of quarantine fees, which, by
law (Revised Statutes, section 5Ds2), is
made exclusively . part of my duty, seem
to justify, and our mutual desire and }ab0rs
for economy and propsiety require that
should very respectfully make to yoa the
following suggestions:
Firstly-That you step publishing and
paying for . useless and improper adver-
tisement concerning ''dYafts," that I must
reserve and account for - cash, if l consent
to take then 1T all, and over which, except
those duly sent to the secretary, the Board
of Health has no shadow of authority or
control. See NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN
of DecenbeY 10.
Secondly-Thaty you immediately consider
whether tho Board of Health 10 not mad
vertently Dissppropristine public funds in
paying its secretary and treasurer $4,000
year, when the law positively fixes bis
SALARY 1t $l5OO year. Sec section six Of
IAN act to establish qusrantiRe," etc., ap-
proved March Is, 1855, which provision u
unchanged. Permit me to remind you that
the funds forwarded by me to you are .
part of the Quarantine fees" collected
here, and are made by law Revised Sta
tutes, section 3042) . sacred fund for the
support of quarantine"
In conclusion, allow me to express hope
that greater familiarity with the quAran
tine laws, and tho duties and limitations Of
your Office, will render it unnecessary to
consume 90 much of the valuable time Of
tho Board of Health, and Of our time, in ex-
plantations and discussions Of relatively I'M
important questions abOut what part of the
acknowledged indebtedness shall be first
paid, who shall pay it, our respective rights
and duties, etc. Let us rather congratulate
ourselves, and the community, on the most
euccesaful quarantine season ever known
ct New Orleans; for while NO vessel has
been detained here, except for . few hours
of daylight for sanitary treatment, and in
four instances for the completion of the six
days from tho infected port of Havana,
of unacclimated crews; still, during the
season, no infection OF contagion has passed
this stanton toward New Orleans.
very Le a. soTTfHiwoRrH, M. D.,
Resident Physician.
DR.. Devron submitted letter to tho City
Council, asking that the Claiborne canal be
cleaned, asd his saggestions were adopted.
Dr.. L. koanise, secretary Of the board,