The machinery for lifting, and the reservoirs on Harlem heights, which were to be 120 feet above tide, were to cost $50,000 more. And the three lines of twelve inch iron pipe, calculated to convey 2,000,000 gallons daily (an adequate supply for the then population), were to cost $10,000

MEMOIR OF THE per mile each. The distance from the receiving reservoir at Harlem to that at Thirteenth-street, being four miles, the whole cost of the pipes would be $120,000.

The whole expense of the work, including the extinguishing of rights, the purchase of lands, mason-work tunnel, iron pipes to connect the reservoirs, and distributing pipes

through the city, is estimated by the committee, with the concurrence in judgment, of Canvass White and Benj. Wright, at two millions of dollars. The Report sets forth as follows, the means of paying this amount :

For this expenditure, our inhabitants will have water, pure and wholesome, not only as a beverage and for culinary and domestic purposes, but an ample supply for cleaning the streets and sewers of our city, and for the extinguishment of fires. And it must not be forgotten that the estimated loss by fire in the year 1828, was $600,000. Your Committee are of opinion that the expense of this undertaking, the advantages of which will be lasting and permanent in their character, should be provided for by a loan, and they view the present or coming season as one at which this money can be procured at a low rate of interest, probably not to exceed four per cent., redeemable in It would be well secured, as due from a city whose taxable thirty years. property is rated at $125,000,000, and is worth much more. To provide for the $80,000 interest, supposing the expense to amount to two millions, we should have a fair charge on our present citizens.