The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-27

ing Club permission TO arect boat-house be-
tween posts SO and SO, Fourth District. Adopted.
8. Resolution directing the City Surveyor to
make survey Of the damages to the revetment
levee by the recent storm. Adopted.
6. Resolution instructing the City Surveyor to
issue orders to the lessee OF the wharves and
Ievees to repair the bu1khsads Of the Third Dis
trict from the Lower Cotton Press to Piety street.
Adopted.
BY MIR. Cavanac, for Mr.. Diamond
/. Ordinance amending ordinance No. 4077.
Administration Series relative to privies.
Adopted.
An ordinsnce amending section of ordinance
No. 1898, approved December 80, 1856.
SECTION 2. The Mayor shall grant licenses to
vendors OF gunpowder by wholesale. who may
keep on hand one hundred pounds and no more
at any one time, and who shall not be authorized
to sell any quantity less than package; procsaea'
that all wholesale dealers shall keep their pow
der in kegs or canisters, carefully packed in
chests made Of copper or OF wood, lned INSIDE
and out with tin or Zinc, riveted ana with nan
dles and labeled ''powdsr" In large letters, TO be
placed on the ground floor, within zen Ieet OF tne
main entrance. For this license wholesale desi-
ers must pay annually twenty dollars.
Laid over.
BY Mr.. McCaffrey and laid over
the digging out Of Claiborne canal from Press TO
Poland streets, in this city, for the sum OF $25
ner acre. be and the same is hereby accepted,
and that the Mayor be authorized TO sign con-
tract for said work.
BY Mr.. Brown
1. An ordinance providing for the payment Of
the several accounts therein named, beginning
~. O. Denis Administrator Of Finance" and
amounting to $436 81. Passed unanimously. the
yeas and nays having been called.
2. An ordinance providing for the payment Of the
several accounts therein named, beginning Peter
Marley. and amounting to $4,000 o.. Read
twice.
8. Resolution sppropriating 1919 rs to pay for
labor employed during the late storm. Read
twice.
4. An ordinance providing for the payment Of
the account therein named, beginning Board Of
Health, and amounting to $2l29 88.
MIR. Edwards inquired what had become OF the
pay rolls of city off 3ers. Ordinance No. 43O, Ad
ministration Series required the Administrator Of
Accounts TO present the pay. rolls on the last
Tuesday Of every month, and article 2l2 Of the
Revised City Laws and Ordinances gives the rolls
Of officers and employees preference over all other
claims Of what nature soever.
Mr.. Brown replied that the above ordinance
were repealed by subsequent decisions Of the
Council to give precedence to the rolls of labor
ers and the ordinance in favor Of the contractors
was simply substitute for that Of the laborers.
Mr.. Edwards did not view the matter in that
light. He thought that there was vast differ
ence between contractors and laborers.
The Mayor stated that he thought the ordi-
nances alluded to had been repealed During
the last administration, when the city was short
of funds, it was found necessary to discriminate
between labor and other ordinances and that 1t
had been decided to give the preference to the
former, as ell the men whose pay depended on
the passage of the ordinance were poor and had
families depending on them for support. The
adoption Of the contract system had changed the
face Of things and necessitated further consld-
GRAFTON Of the subject.
Mr.. McOafftey stated that he did not think the
ordinance requiring the introduction Of the pay
rolls on the last Tuesday Of each month hsd
been repealed, and, in his opinion, 1t should be
obeyed by the Administrator urtil repealed. As
to the relative poverty Of those who have claims
against the city he thought none we're poorer or
more deserving than the employees, and they
should have the preference.
Mr.. Brown gave notice that at the next meet
ing he would move the repeal Of the ordinance
relative to pay rolls.
Petitions.
From O. A. and L. L. Conrad and Sam. Gould,
for reduction Of assessments. Referred to the
Administrator Of Assessments.
From az F. Heiderhoff for permission TO use
frame cabin near the head Of Gravier street, on
the levee, to sell milk, coffee, etc.. (2) merchants
and dealers asking that the petition Of the Liver
pool Steamship Company for wharf accommods-
tions at the foot Of Oalliope street be granted;
(3 citizens and others for the enforcement Of the
ordinance establishing steamship landing at
the foot Of Esplanaie street; and az G.. W. Dun
bar & Sons for permission to erect an eight-horse
power boiler and engine at 81 Tchoupitoulas
street. Referred to the Administrator Of Com
merce.
From residents in neighborhood of Pickles. oil
warehouse, in square bounded by Canal, Liberty.
Gasquet and Franklin streets, complaining OF it
as dangerous to property. This, with plan
submitted to the Mayor for a general oil ware
house, was referred to the City Surveyor.
From O. 8. Rice, attorney for DIR. Chastant;
notifies the city that he will hold 1t responsible
for all fees paid DR.. Roche, in case the court
should decide in favor Of DR.. Chsstant. Referred
to the Administrator of Public Accounts.
From president and foreman OF Phoenix Fire
Company No. 8, relative to the condition Of their
engine-house. Referred to the Administrator of
Waterworks and Public Buildings.
From ~ Geo. Mather, secretary Board Of Un-
derwriters. transmitting report of the chief
levee inspector of the Cotton Exchange relative
to the dangerous practice Of dumping rice bulls
on the levee, and ~ H. Pohlman, 10 purchase
elk inches Of ground in Washington Cemetery
No. /. Referred to the Administrator OF Police.
From a. E. M. Williams, to be compensated
for damages sustained by the recent overflow at
Milneburg; (2) proprietors Of livery stables, COM
planning Of the condition Of Common street, be-
tween Baronne and Dryades streets; ~ citizens,
for the construction of q bridge over the canal
at the head Of New St. Bernard street; ~ M. J.
Connors contractor of third draining section, for