The New River establishment at London charges all dwellings at the rate of five per cent. on the rent of the same, which appears to be a good criterion to regulate the charge, and this rate would produce a revenue to the city.

The committee also suggest that the superintendence and execution of the work they propose, requiring, as it would, uniformity and steadiness of views, and close attention, should not be confided to members of the Common Council, who are continually changing, but to a Board of Commissioners, appointed and paid for the purpose.

CROTON AQUEDUCT. 1V3

The Report concludes with the draft of a law embodying the views therein expressed, and asking authority to borrow two millions of dollars.

In January of next year, 1832, the Common Council approved the report and the

accompanying draft of a law, and resolved that, on the law being passed by the Legislature, they would undertake to supply the city with pure and wholesome water. The bill thus sent, did not become a law, owing to the unwillingness of the Legislature to authorise the raising of such a sum of money, until it should be satisfactorily ascertained that the object in view, both as to the quantity and quality of water, could be

accomplished by the expenditure proposed. The project, however, was too far advanced, and the city was too much committed, to draw back. Another lingering effort to procure water on the Island itself, was encouraged by an appropriation, in October, of the sum of $1000, to defray the cost of further examinations but of course, nothing satisfactory came of it, and the reports of Dr. ;