unspeakably in this compilation, and saved many a weary hour of fruitless research.

A few words as to the style in which the volume is published:

It was the earnest wish and desire of the Author, that a book, commemorating so magnificent an enterprise should be sent forth with some luxury of typography,

and especially with the illustration of numerous engravings, and he earnestly

pressed this view on the Committee. But considerations of economy seemed to

them to forbid any unavoidable expense, and he was therefore reluctantly compelled to publish an unadorned volume.

Such as it is, it is submitted to those at whose bidding, and through whose

gratifying confidence, it was undertaken, Messrs. HENRY E. DAVIES, EDWARD D.

WEST, CLARKSON CROLIUS, JR., FREDERICK R. LEE, and CHARLES W. SMITH, of the Board of Aldermen, and GEORGE F. NESBITT, WILLIAM DODGE, RICHARD H.

ATWELL, DANIEL WARD, and CHARLES J. DODGE, of the Board of Assistant Aldermen, and through them to the Common Council and the city, with the regards

of their obliged friend and servant,

THE AUTHOR.

ROBERT H. MORRIS, MAYOR.

MEMBERS OP THE COMMON COUNCIL. ALDERMEN. ASSISTANT ALDERMEN. First Ward. First Ward.

CALYIN BALIS. HARMON C. WESTERYELT. Second Ward. Second Ward.

CALEB S. WOODHULL. GEORGE F. NESBITT. Third Ward. Third Ward.

JOHN A. UNDERWOOD. WILLIAM DODGE. Fourth Ward. Fourth Ward.

ROBERT MARTIN. DAYID T. WILLIAMS. Fifth Ward. Fifth Ward.

ROBERT JONES. WILLIAM ADAMS. Sixth Ward. Sixth Ward.

CLARKSON CROLIUS, JR. RICHARD H. ATWELL. Seventh Ward. Seventh Ward.

CHARLES W. SMITH. JAMES NASH. Eighth Ward. Eighth Ward. SYLYANUS GEDNEY. CHARLES P. BROYYN. Ninth Ward. Ninth Ward.