rpH IS NOTE shall entitle the BEARER to the Sum of TWO SHILLINGS, current Money of the Colony of New- York, payable on DEMAND, by the MAYOR, ALDERMEN, and COMMONALTY of the City of New-York, at the Office of Chamberlain of the said City, pursuant to a Vote of the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, of this Date. Dated the Twenty-fifth Day of August, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-four. By Order of the Corporation,

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New- Jersey this engine it is very probable Mr. Colles had seen; arid designed to use for ;

raising water into the reservoir. On the 15th of November, this entry appears in the minutes of the Common Council :

The clerk of the Board produced three bonds from the Corporation, two of which to Augustus Van Cortlandt and John Fay for 700, and the other to Frederick Van Cortlandt for 350, bearing five per cent, interest, being the consideration money of the ground this Board purchased for the Water Works, which said bonds were read, approved, and signed by Mr. Mayor, by order of the Common Council. We have in our possession a copy of the deeds given by the Messrs. Van Cortlandt's, for the land thus sold. The boundaries are thus described. " All that certain piece or parcel of land situated lying and being partly in the west ward, and partly in the out ward of the said city, beginning on the east side of Great George Street, at the westerrnost corner of Mr. Peter Jay's land, and runs thence along the same, south, fifty-three degrees, east six chains and twenty links to a meadow, thence along the meadow, south sixteen degrees and thirty minutes, west two chains and seventy-seven links, thence north fifty-three degrees, west seven chains and twelve links to Great George Street aforesaid, thence along the east side thereof north thirty-seven degrees and thirty minutes, east two chains and sixty-four links to the place of beginning ;