Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-12
(OlFICAL)
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

1fCSellt--iiOll. -. JaSifciiiShi, h"sV''
and all the members of the City C0nncll'
The Secretary was requested to READ
the minutes of Council Of meeting April
10Th, l-.O, which was done. Moved ny
Mr.. Burke aud seconded, that the nun"
,tcs Of the meeting of April 18th as rcad
by the Secretary be approved.
Mr.. Wax offered the following 'ubsti-
tutc
Resolved. That all the minutes OF the
meeting of April 10th, ls90, after the
protest and retirement OF the -four Co''h-
cil,ucn from the First Ward be stricken
ont, and that the minutes OF said meet
ing previous to the refinement OF SAID
members be corrected in the first line by
striking out the word regular, IN accord
ance with City Charter, Section :, and
that said minutes so corrected to be
Yipncd and read, George Henderson, Sec
rctary, v,o tenn My reasons are these:
lat. That it was not a regular meeting
according to the City Charter, Section
~, and also ~ established by the City
Council, consequently all business trans
acted such as fixing salaries and elecstng
officers are null and void,
I'd. No quorum prcsenti III accordance
with Section 9? of the City Charter,
which saws that five members shall be
requisite to constitute quorum tor DO
inc business, for reference see Charters
of Amitc City page 10, See. and ~,
Houn,a page 40, Sec. = and =, ColfaX
PAGE 9l, Sees ., Pincville page lag, See
3,Jcancrettc page l53, ,Scc.3, PlaQucminc
page l67, Sec. l.. Acts OF the Leglsla-
ture, Session ISIS
In all these cases the Mayor is most
explicitly mentioned in constituting a
quorum. In orr Charter he is left ont
but it says plainly that five members
shall be requisite to constitute quorum
to transact business,
Moved and seconded that the reso-
luton of Mr.. Wax be adopted. ON cal
of the yeas and nays the vote was,
o Yca-Wax. Gimlcr, Grady and McCa5c
Nay-Wicck, Burke, Dnggan and
Brooks,
The Mayor gave his vote against the
resolution and the substitute was not
adopted.
By Mr.. Week and seconded, it was
resolved that that portion of the minutes
of mcetin. of April 10th, ls-o, requiring
the election of q police officer by ballot
bc stricken out for tue reason that the
Constitution requires that at such elec'
tions the vote shall be rira rocc--adopted
Ayes-Wax, Gimlcr, Grady, McCabe
Wieck, Burke, Duggan and Brooks
The question then came upon the orig
innl motion as amended, with the fol
lowing result on call Of votes.
Aycs-Wieck, Duggan, Burke ant
Brooks.
Navs-Wax, Gimlcr, Grady and Nc
Cabe.
The Mayor gave his vote for the adop
ton of the resolution and the minute
ofmeeting April 10th, 1880, were adopte'
as amended.
The minutes of meeting May 81, looO
wcrc read and on motion to adopt tn
vote stood:
Aycs-Wax, Gimlcr, Grady, McCabe
Wieck, Burke, Duggan and Brooks
Minutes adopted.
The minutes of adjourned mcctln
MAY 4th, 1880, were read and on motto
to adopt the vote stood:
Ayes-Wax, Gimlcr, Grady and Nc
Cabe.
Nays-Wicck, Burke, Duggan an
Brooks.
The Mayor voted nay and the motto
to adopt was lost.
The minutes of meeting of May 24tl
1880 were read and unanimously adop
ted.
The Council in Committee of til
Whole proceeded to examine bills f'
approval.
The following bills were referred:
Bill of A. Grouchy, referred to til
Administrator of improvements, SIS
Bill of Il. J. McCabc, $3.50, referred t
Administrator of Police; and bill of .
u. Fisher, S2l.0O, to same officer for al
proval. Bill of A. Jackson, for SSS.l'
referred to the Committee on Improve
mcnts. Charity bills, amounting
$lG.5O were allowed and bills on san
appropriation amounting to Sl4.9O rctc
red to Committee on Charities for the
approval,
The following bills were allowed:
=. Favre, charity. -..SS.'
G. ID. Waddill, charity ..24.4
+. NJ. Brooks, charity y-...--.--.-.. ~
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