The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-07
MUNICIPAL MATTERS.
rmE Crry.s FINAnCIAL CONDITION.
UsnversyAtiO with the may"F v" use
Ton Of Jadgc smith and sher'"
ug0ustOn.

s,nversy. tion with the Mayor ON tine Ac.
vou of Jadge smith and shcri6
Houston.
rha Administrators Of Finance ana Oh Accounts
=, "a their combined monthly report TO the oouh'
81 v.sterdsy, together with . statement Of 'ne
mount OF taxes collected by the city Tor eaon
va.r. from 1861 TO the thirty~hrst October Oh .ne
..ra.an. year, These documents, publishea ON.
ss.llv Ia this mornings DEMOCRAT, show that up
y. 49, date last mentioned. the collections Tor
rs7o have amounted TO ,B96 I'll, against
q ma. oss "a during the same period In. 1875
I,rr;ng tha month of October only SAB, BAD
.... cn,ectea. however, from This source OF
revenue.
Tina reoeipts from taxes, socording TO the
midget. we're estimated at sl,750 600, In round
numbers, which would show that the ta1p =. .
n tne city are delinquent Tor the year lsff 10 the
,snaouat Ok about $4,000.
"a make these statements to show to what ex-
mt the city IL embarrassed In this particular.
4he failure Of taxpayers to come mp ana settie
1heir taxes on capital and real estate: for we do
sut include the delinquencies In the payment OF
license taxes and other revenues. which are far
hshindhand ~ yet.
ID new takes SIG, 900 month
no sErrnH THE ACCOUNTS
III the general fund, which includes the bills for
supplies salaries and Tees q clersa
and along list OF other items, or 81 $50 0O0 year.
INT Il should be remembered that during the
Arst four months OF this year more than sll6,O0O
3 month we're required to pay the otys current
expenses; for example. there was one item Oh
a56O0O alone. over and
ABOVE THE APPoRrIorMENT
raid the "Nichos Police ~ IL was called during
4he stat,.s qso II also cost during the first elk
months OF the year $4,000 month for street
improvements, whilst now, under the CONTRACT
avstem. IL only costs $4,000 month But for
chs difference In the expenditures Of the city gov
eminent In 1877 we could give our readers precise
statement OF the manner In which II has been run
during the year. Az IL IL, the task would be too
laborious 70 undertake just now. At oil events
: ana facts will appear when the financial depart
ment shall make
IT'S ANNUAL REPORT,
within the next two months.
Our main object to-day liz to show with better
flstx than heretofore why the creditors OF the
j city have not been paid mp. Nevertheless, and
which the city has had to pay this year, the
monthly bills have been settled up to the FIRST oil
September, with the exception OF 1000. the
August pay OF the fire department and one OF
two trifing sums besides.
THIS Is AN IMPROVEMENT
on the year 1876, when the city stopped paying
! IN April. we think, and on the year 1876, when
payments were stopped In July or August.
IL the rate specified above. IL would require to
nay for September, October, November aud De.
osmber, 1877, the sum q e. least saeo. wy. This
on captsl and real estate. license taxes, re-
corders' fines, pound fees. etc., and these rev.
enues must come in at q more rapid rate than
on the 81st OF October there was q balance OF
only t4678 80 on hand in the CITY treasury.
We had occasion
70 SPEAK TO MAYOR pILsBuRy
yesterday on the subject Of the determination OF
Recorder Em th not TO turn into the city treasury
the fines collected in his court The Mayor OF
course, thinks that
THE JUDGE rs WRONG,
because, he says Judge Smith, as well as every
BODY else. understands the condition Of the city
and the reason why IL cannot pay Its monthly
bills; that no preference was made IN favor OF
any creditors farther than to pay each in q GER
tam order, according to their Importance, and
Ill the citys creditors have been paid for the pre-.
vious month. II, said the Mayor. We paid our.
selves In preference to the other creditors OF the
6lty, Judge Smith would have cause for COM
plant, but We do not.
We then spoke Of the injunction taken out by
SHERIFF HOUSTON.
The Mayor expressed himself as being without
apprehension on that score. Sheriff Houston, he
said, had already been paid about 100000 during
1S77, and had no reason to complain, and that he
the injunction he thought that It would be dis
solved. for the courts had time and again decided
that they could not interfere with the machinery
Oh the city government, for otherwise IL would be
putting the government entirely under
THE DIRECTION OF THE COURTS.
AT all events, said the Mayor, since It seems
that the main objection Of the sheriff is to the
payment In cash OF the street contractors, he
would derive very little benefit should he win his
case. The preference, IL preference il may be
sailed, given to the contractors by paying them
monthly il not only the result OF special con-
tract, but IL we did not pay them as stipulated,
neither MIR. Houston nor any other creditor could
ret the money disbursed for streetimprovements,
Tor this money il derived from the monthly sale
OF the revenues OF the public markets, which
we're pledged to
THE LOUISIANA NATIONAL BANK
FOR loans made to the city by the bank when it
was the fiscal agent of the municipal govern
ment. When the street contracts were entered
into, % matter Of accommodation, and clever
one, the bank agreed to waive for the time being
it's lien upon the market revenues but 1t may
any time resume its position a.
PRIVILEGED CREDITOR
of the city-then where will MIR. Houston find
y the money to satisfy his caimp This accommo-
dalton of the bank, the Mayor added, has en-.
abled the city to economize thus far the difference
between the cost of street repairs and improve
ments when under the control of the Depart
ment OF Improvements and the present cost un.
der the contract system, or as So, 900 month il
10 $4,000, and hence during the two years fol
which the contracts are entered into the city will
save something like 1886, GOO on this single item
OF street improvements.
RATIONS FOR PRISONERS.
The Mayor Issues an Order to Afford a
Needed Relief.
Yesterday Chief Boylan waited on the Mayor tt
AK that some measures should be taken to pro