In order to effect the aforesaid object, a portion of the interest, at least, on the capital necessary to complete the project, and the annual expense attending the delivery of the water, should be paid by a tax on the real and personal estate of the city, in the same manner that the watching, lighting, and repairing the streets and roads, are paid or as the ;

expense of the police, criminal courts, board of health and public schools are paid. These axe matters in which the poor man partakes equally with his rich neighbor, all being proper and necessary municipal expenses for preserving the peace, health, comfort and morals of the community and are of no greater importance in a public point of view, than a ;

copious supply of pure and wholesome water, an element admitted on all hands to be as necessary as any of the municipal measures we have enumerated. We spend millions for erecting and ornamenting our public buildings, while a fourth of the money would raise structures equally convenient, but not equally ornamental. We open public squares and enlarge and widen our streets at an immense expense, in order to increase the health, convenience and beauty of the city ; all of which might be saved, if we were content to live, as our ancestors did, in narrow streets, without parks, squares, or public places. In thus adding to the convenience and beauty of the city, however, and increasing its salubrity, we act wisely, because it improves the health, accommodation and comfort of the inhabitants but with the most unaccountable inconsist- ;