Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-08
OFFICIAL
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Mayors OFFICE, Cry or BATON ROUGE
Monday, May I, 1850.

10Th, 1880, which was done. Moved Ny
Mr.. Burke and seconded, that the min
utcs of the meeting Of April 18th as read
by the Secretary bc approved.
Mr.. Wax offered the following Snbstl-
tntc:
Resolved, That all the minutes OF the
meeting of April 10Th, 1880, after 'hc
protest and retirement of the four CoIlll-
cilncn from tho First Ward, be stricken
ont, and that the minutes of said meet
inr previous to the retirement OF said
members be corrected in the first line by
striking out the word regular, III accord
ancc with City Charter, Section =, ami
that said minutes so corrected to De
signed and read, George Henderson, Sec
rctary, pro tenn. My reasons are these:
LIST. That it was not u regular meeting
according to the City Charter, Section
%, and also as established by the City
Council, consequently all business trans
acted such ~ fixing salaries ANA e'ecS'nS
officers are null and void.
2d. No quorum present IN accordance
with Section % of the City Charter,
which says that five members shall be
reanisite TO constitute quorum '"r 90
ing business, for reference see Charters
Of Amitc City page 10, Sec. '6 AMI ",
lIonn,a page 40, Sec. 2 and e, Co'laS
page "a, Secs 2, pincviIle page lag, Sec
3,Jcanercttc page l53, ,sec.3, Pla1ncmInc
page l67, Sec. IS. Acts of tho Les's'a-
tnm, Session 1873.
In all these cases the Mayor is most
explicitly mentioned in constituting Il
onor,m. IN our Charter he is left out
but il says plainly that five members
shall be requisite to constitute y quorum
to transact business.
Moved and seconded that the rcso-
Luton of Mr.. Wax be adopted. On call
Of the yeas and nays the vote was,
Yca-Wnx, GimIcr, Grady and McCa''
Nay-Wicck, Burke, Dnggan ANA
Brooks.
The Mayor gave lrls vote against tho
resolution and the substitute was not
adopted.
By Mr.. Week and seconded, it was
resolved that that portion of the minutes
of meeting of April 10Th, 1850, requiring
tho election of police officer by bal'o
bc stricken ont for the reason that TIN
Constitution requires that at such clrc
,ions tho vote shall BIC rira rocc-adoptcd
! Aycs-Wax, Gimlcr, Grady, McCah"
Week, Burke, Dnygan and Brooks
The question then came upon the Org
inal motion as amended, with the iol
lowing result on call of votes.
! Aycs-Wicck, D,Ggan, Burke and
Brooks
Nays-Wax, Gimlcr, Grady and Nc
! Cabc.
The Mayor gave his vote for the ad"l
ton Of the resolution and the minute
of meeting April 18TH, lS5O, were ad"ptc
as amended.
Tho minutes of meeting May "d, lS"'
were read and on motion to adopt III
vote stood:
Aycs-Wax, Gimlor Grady, Mccab
Week, Burke, Duggan and Brook
Minutes adopted.
Tho minutes of adjourned mcctll
May Ath, 1880, were read and on motto
to adopt the vote stood:
Aycs-Wax, Gimlcr, Grady and NJ
+ Cabc.
Nays Wick, Burke, DngGan al
Brooks.
! !. The Mayor voted nay and the motto
!, to adopt was lost.
y The minutes of mcctin. of May 2it
c 1850, were read and unanimously ado
T. ted.
The Council in Committee OF 1
Whole proceeded to examine bills
+ approval.
# The following bills were referred;
Il Bill of A. Grouchy, referred to t
+ Administrator of improvements, |'2,'
o Bill of K. J. McCabc, $3.50, referred
d Administrator of Police and hi|i OF
IS D. Fisher, $2t.oo, to same officer for
IS rova1 Bill of A. Jackson, tor w.,
t. referred to the Committee on inipro'
n mcnts Charity bills, amounting
III $3.50 were allowed and bills on sa
IS appropriation amounting to Sit.M ref
4 red to Committee ON Charities for tn
,c approval.
is The following bills were allowed
IL p. favrc, charity. ...-.............H7
G. y. WadditI, charity. .....-.--.N
:, +. NJ. Brooks, charity y.........---. :
cs Jail fccs2 months, ,contingcnt..--..!t 81
lc NJ. Langc, Contingent ........---.E
~ NJ. Langc, streets aud landings. .253
~ NJ, Lanuc, streets and landings -. 81