Comptroller of the city for any sum in favor of, and to be paid to, the owner of any lands, water streams, or property acquired by virtiie of this act, and in favor of, and to be paid to, any contractor, for any sum due upon his contract, and also for their incidental expenses. Such drafts shall specify the objects for which they are drawn, in the manner provided in the seventeenth section of this act, as nearly as may be and the Common Council shall ;

make it the duty of the Comptroller, to pay such drafts in every case where a deed or other voucher is delivered to him, or a copy of a contract has been filed in his office, and a duplicate receipt of the contractor for such drafts shall be presented therewith.

25. They shall also require the Comptroller to report to them a list of all the payments made by him, upon the orders of the Commissioners, once in every six months, and previous to such reports, shall have the accounts of the Commissioners and of the Comptroller examined by the Finance Committee of the Board of Aldermen.

The Governor and Senate re-appointed the same Commissioners, and on the 19th of May, they announced the fact to the Common Council, accompanied with a brief synopthe law, and asking their decision, " whether any further expense would be insis of

curred or not," in prosecuting the work.

On July 23d., the Common Council appropriated $5,000 for the purpose of paying engineers, surveyors, and other persons employed by the Commissioners, to enable them