Committee on Streets and Landings, Minutes and Proceedings, 1848-1849

Item — Reel: 89-179

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Scope and Contents

Manuscript volume arranged by date of committee meetings. The minutes for each meeting include brief records of the petitions and other communications received by the committee, along with a memorandum of its actions on each. Members present for each meeting are also noted. There is a reference at the end of the volume to a continuation in book #3. None of the other volumes in the suggested series remains in the City Archives Collection.

Dates

Creation: 1848-1849

Creator

From the Collection: New Orleans (La.). Second Municipality (Organization)

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Biographical / Historical

The "Rules for conducting business in the Council of the Second Municipality," adopted on May 2, 1836, provided for four standing committees. Of these the Committee on Streets and Landings was charged with "the consideration of all subjects connected with the paving, opening, or widening the streets, and in any manner tending to their improvement." Matters relating to the port of the Second Municipality also came within the purview of the committee. Communications from the Street Commissioner and from the Surveyor were referred to this committee, which was also responsible for examining and certifying expenditures for street and port related activities. This, along with the other standing committees of the Council, was composed of three members, one appointed from each of the municipality's three wards. Appointments were made annually, in the month of May, but the Council had the option to make them for terms of as little as three months.