Reynolds v. Baldwin
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. The act of 1805, incorporating the city of New Orleans, provided that, among other officiers of the city, there should be a recorder and fourteen aldermen, to be electod in the mode therein prescribed; that, the aldermen so chosen should form a council to be called “ the city council,” of which the recorder, for the time being, should ex officio be president, but that he should have no vote, except a casting…
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APPEAL from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. The act of 1805, incorporating the city of New Orleans, provided that, among other officiers of the city, there should be a recorder and fourteen aldermen, to be electod in the mode therein prescribed; that, the aldermen so chosen should form a council to be called “ the city council,” of which the recorder, for the time being, should ex officio be president, but that he should have no vote, except a casting voto; and that the said council should have power to govern the city and administer its affairs, and to make bye-laws…
1Opinion of the Court
Tho judgment of the court was pronounced by
Host, J.
After tho late elections in tho city of New Orleans, tho council of Municipality No. 2 met, Joshua Baldwin, recorder, iu tho chair, and thirteen aldermen, being a full board, in their seats. They transacted some bxisiness, and M. M. Reynolds, one of the aldermen, presented the following resolution, and moved its adoption:
“Resolved, That we now proceed to adopt rules for the governing of this council.”
The recorder decided this resolution to be out of order, and Reynolds appealed from his decision, and called for the yeas and nays on the…
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