The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-15
AN ACT

| No. 38 AN ACT
To provide for the municipal budget or
estimate OF receipts and expenditures
| Of the city OF New Orleans; for the ap-
preparation OF moneys to be withdrawn
prohibiting a change in the destination
OF appropriated funds; making such
change penal; providing for the order OF
paying claims appropriated by ordln-
ances, and attaching penalty to q viola
lation OF ordinances In last mentioned re-
spect
SECTION l.. Be enacted bg The Senate and
House of Representatives, IN General As
semtIy conUened, That it shall be the
duty Of the Board of Administrators or
Orleans. on or about the second Tuesday of
December, 1879, and upon the second Tuesday
OF December Of each and every year there
after, or thereabout, to propose n detailed
statement exhibiting the amount of revenues
for the ensuing year expected to be derived
by the said city from taxes and licenses, and
with such estimate of receipts as aforesaid
1t shall be the duty Of the aforesaid Board of
Administrations or Common Council to pro-
pose detailed statement or estimate, exhib-
itng the several items Of liability and expen-
diture on the part of said city for the year
| aforesaid, including the requisite amount for
contingent expenses during that time; such
estimate OF liabilities and expenditures shall
not, however, in the aggregate amount
thereof, exceed four-ffths of the estimated
amounts Of revenues or receipts therein
above provided for.
SEC. 2. Be IL further enacted. etc, That the
estimates OF receipts and expenditures and
liabilities hereinabove required to be pro-
posed, Immediately after such proposal, or as
soon thereafter as may be practicable, shall
be published for ten consecutive days In the
official journal of the city OF New Orleans.
SEC. B. Be IL further enacted, etc. That at
the first regular meeting OF the Board OF Adj
ministrators or Common Council of the city
Of New Orlean8, held after the expiration of
the aforesaid publication, 1t shall be the duty
OF said Board or Council, to proceed to adopt
the estimate OF receipts or revenues, and OF
the liabilities and expenditures herenaboye
required to be proposed, and then and there
TO levy tax, and to provide for the collection
thereof, and for the realization OF the license
tax, for the purpose OF meeting the liabilities
and expenditures thus estimated and adopt
ed; provided however, that the tax thus to be
levied shall not exceed the limit prescribed by
law.
SEQ. 4. Be ii further enacted, etc, That the
adoetion OF the detailed estimates OF receipts
and expenditures shall be considered as an
appropriation Of the amounts therein stated,
for the purposes therein set forth, and no
money shall be drawn from the city treas
ury, except the same shall have been previ-
ously appropriated Tor the purpose for which
it shall be drawn.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, ETC., That any
amount or amounts set forth In the city
budget Of the city Of New Orleans, or the es
Inmates OF receipts and expenditures OF said
city for any particular purpose, shall not be
diverted from that object for any cause or
reason whatsoever, 80 long as any part or
portion Of the liability or expenditure, for the
payment OF which said amount or amounts
were appropriated, remains unpaid; and any
and all appropriations shall remain and be
kept sacred to the object Of their approprfa-
tions until the liability or debt thus provided
for shall have become paid and extinguished;
and for any violation of this section the Mayor
be punished by q fine OF not less than five
hundred dollars or by Imprisonment for not
less than three nor more tnan six months, or
by fine and imprisonment.
SEC. 6. BE ii further enacted etc, That any
and all sums of money appropriated by the
Board OF Administrators or Common Council
of the city OF New Orleans shall be paid In
the order Of the adoption Of the ordinances
wherein the appropriation Is made; and for
any violation of this section the Mayor or
Administrators found guilty thereof shall be
subject to the like penalty as is prescribed In
the fifth section of this act for an improper
use of appropriated funds.
SEC. 7. BE ii further enacted etc. That this
law shall take effect from and after it's pas
sage. -
JOHN G. MONCURE,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
LOUIS A. WILTZ
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved February IA, 1879.
FRANCIS I. NICHOLS,
Governor OF the State OF Louisiana.
A true copy:
WILL. A. STRONG,
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