The Daily Crescent

THIRD MUNICIPALITY.—This body met last evening. Alderman Flanders in the Chair. The following Aldermen were present: Messrs. Jones, Bernard, Flanders, Siewerssen, De la Rosa, Collins, Meehan, Solomon and Page. Absent: Messrs. Farrar and Nicomede.

A message was received from the Mayor in relation to the late disastrous catastrophe that occurred near the Nunnery. He requested that the Council would take prompt measures to prevent any farther inundation. The Surveyor of the Municipality was complimented for the course he took to prevent, as far as possible, any farther injury. The Mayor also recommended that the levee road should be carried through the Convent yard, so as to make it secure for a time at least. The message was warmly approved and referred to the Committee on Control.

A letter was received from the Surveyor, stating that the line of the levee, made by the crevasse, must necessarily cut into the property of the Convent. The letter was referred to the same Committee.

A communication was received from the Board of Commissioners of the Charity Hospital, in regard to payment, pro rata, of each Municipality, for expenses incurred by immigrants arrived at this port during the past season. Most of these persons were afflicted with the ship and typhoid fever, and not being able to be accommodated in the Charity Hospital, they had to be removed to the Franklin Infirmary, under the charge of Dr. Luzenberg. The whole amount claimed is $11,302 50. Referred to the Committee on Claims.

A communication was received from Major D. D. Tompkins, U. S. Quartermaster at this post. This letter was in regard to giving up and surrendering to the Municipality the wharves known as 'Government Wharves.' Major Tompkins states, that according to a former agreement, he will have the wharves that he has vacated thoroughly repaired, but that the Council would confer a favor upon Government to allow him to retain for a few weeks only two of the wharves immediately above the one occupied in connection with Mr. Williams' warehouse.

Leave of absence was granted to Mr. D. T. Farrar, Superintendent of the Work-house, for the period of ten or twelve days. Mr. Farrar is an excellent officer, and every member of the Council seemed glad to grant his request.

After a warm debate, in which Messrs. Jones, Bernard, Meehan, Siewerssen and Solomon participated, in regard to advancing the salary of the Treasurer of the Municipality to $3600 per annum, out of which he is to pay however, $60 per month to one clerk, and $75 per month for another. Mr. Collins made some very pertinent and sensible remarks in favor of granting the aid of an additional Secretary to the Treasurer.

This was adopted by a vote of five to three, but Mr. Solomon, who voted in the affirmative, moved a reconsideration of his vote at the next meeting.

After some uninteresting discussion, the Council then adjourned.