Under this impression, and to avoid any further delays which may arise, unless measures are taken to prevent pecuniary embarrassments, and other difficulties in the course of the business, your Committee would recommend, That, an act be prepared and presented to the Legislature, investing the Corporation with the powers necessary to effect the great end they have in view, and granting them the moneys arising from the tax upon the sales at auction, in said city, with such further aid as the Legislature may think proper, to enable them by the reception thereof, or by loans founded thereon, to defray the expenses incident to the undertaking. JNO. B. COLES, New-York, December 17, 1798. GABRIEL FURMAN, JNO. BOGART, JACOB DE LA MONTAGNIE.

This Report was accepted, and the Mayor was directed to write to Mr. Weston. A law, such as contemplated by the Report, was prepared by the Recorder, Richard Harri-

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son Esq., approved by the Board, and confided to the members of the Legislature from the city and 500 copies of the proceedings of the Board, and of Dr. Brown's ; project for supplying the city with water were ordered to be printed in pamphlets. This looked like earnest; and as Mr. Weston accepted the appointment, and in March, 1799, made a favorable report on the practicability and sufficiency of the supply from the Bronx river, as recommended by Dr. Brown, the way seemed clear for at once undertaking the work. The memorial of Dr. Brown, argued the question on the score of health, safety, and comfort. The yellow fever had made great ravages in the city, and Dr. Brown, who believed in the domestic origin of the disease, demonstrated that its virulence was much