The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-25
CITY C0UNClL--0FFICIAL.
REGULAR m EXITING.

Cry HALL, NEW ORLEANS |
Tuesday, July "a, 1877. !
The Council met this day NJ Ia o'clock IN. In
regular session.
Presents Hon. j. q. Denis, Mayor pro tenn,
presiding, and Administrators Brown, Osvanse
Diamond. Edwards McCafIrey and i,engatorff.
The minutes of the previous meeting we're ap.
proved and their reading dispensed with.
Question of Privilege.
MIR. Uavanae roee toa question of privilege AMI
asked that the card or MIR, James Sweeney, pub
llshed Ia the Times Of The 22d instant, charging
that more money had been collected II, the Rixtl
District than has been turned into The city treas
TRY be read.
The card having been read by the secretary
MIR. Oavanao said. sdit. {...
M. Chottman--1 rise 10 question OF privi.
tege. II has not been my custom 10 take hotiee
OF loose aud elanderous charges against my own
official cenduct or that Of The department over
which have the honor 10 preside. but, sif,
when citisen, be he high or low. prefers charges
10 tangible and direct form, and furthermore,
publishes them 70 the world through The public
prints, conceive IL to be my duty 10 myself az we'll
AZ TO those working under me, that these charges
should be fully examined into In order. that the
guilty may be convicted and punished, the public
interest protected, II they be true, OF II they be
false, that the utterer Of such charges may stand
IN his proper light az aslanderer and ealumniatur
OF honest men. / therefore offer The following
preamble aud resolution: FIJI ..5.s.
Whereas, by a publication ID the New Ofleans
TIMES or the 22d inet, II IL charged that certain
irregularities and fraudulent practices have pre-
vailed during the present administration Of The
Department OF Commerce, by which tbe city. II
IL asserted has been defrauded Of portion of
ts revenues for wharfage Ia The Sixth District of
New OrleRnR,
De u ,esotoet, That a committed Of three be
appointed by hie Honor, the Mayer, TO investigate
sad charges ID 60 far III they relRe 10 The present
administration Of the Department OF Commerce,
and that eaid committee be authorized 10 send for
all persons and papers necessary to said invests+
CATION and to make report of The resnlt OF their
aabUfs TO the City Council, aEa
The resolution was unanimously adopted and
the Mayor appointed az the committee Messrs.
Brown, Diamond and Edwards, MIR. Uavapac &c
his own request being excused from serving on
the committee.
Communications from the Mayor anu
Administrators.
The Mayor pro tent. laid before the Council The
following semt annual report OF the Administrs-
tor OF improvements, which was ordered 10 TO
spread on The minutes. a 80
No the Honorable The CITY Uouncill asf bfs
Gentlemen Il have the bopnr, 10 submit the fol.
lowing report or The Departments Of Improve
sznents for the elk months ehdsaa jane 30. 1877,
When Me present adminissration assumed con-
troll on the 18th December, 1BJG, ths unpaved and
ballast streets were Ia wrssched condition
work Of any Importance having been euspended
by my predecessor, owing 10 the einb rAaaments
uf tue city government for tho last six months OF
the year 1879, Indeed. most all Of the unpaved
streets we're IN such 4 condition, caused BIZ the
heavy rains Of November and December AZ Go be
utterly impossible 10 vehicles Oh the lightast
character.
The cobbleatone streets no ALEC In d neg
lected condition. and nearly all Of then, required
immediae attention and repairs. ma
The following, taken from reports or Che biz
trict superintendent will ahow the number of
streets and bridges out Of repair on January /,
ls7v, to wit.
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