Burr, called on him, and stated to him, in presence of the Recorder, who was also requested to attend for the purpose, that great difficulties had arisen in the minds of members of the Legislature, touching the power requested to be vested in their Board, by the bill for supplying the city with water, and the bill for investing the Board with adequate powers in relation to the health of the city, and that it was problematical whether those bills could pass in the form proposed, and he therefore submitted the propriety of this Board requesting the Legislature, if these bills respectively should not be deemed proper in the form proposed, that the Legislature should make such provisions on the several subjects thereof, as to them should appear most eligible.

That after some conversation with Mr. Burr and the other gentlemen accompanying him, the Recorder and himself requested that the proposition might be stated in writing, to be communicated to the Board as on this day and Mr. Recorder now laid before the ;

Board a paper without signature, which he stated to the Board he had received from Major General Hamilton, as the proposition for their consideration this day, which being read Resolved, that before the Board proceed upon the said propositions, they ought to be

* Mr. Burr was then one of the members of Assembly from this city, and was employing the influence of his station, and all the address by which he was characterized, in obtaining, under the pretext of furnishing water to the city, perpetual corporate powers for a Bank.