The Legislature very properly refused to accede to propositions such as these, but in order to quiet apprehensions, that land taken for the Aqueduct might be used for other

purposes, and to insure to the owners, through whose possessions the water passed, free and convenient access to all portions of their farms, as well as for other purposes, they passed the annexed law.

AN ACT To AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR SUPPLYING THE ClTY "

OF NEW YORK WITH PURE AND WHOLESOME WATER," PASSED MAY 2, 1834.

(Passed May 25, 1836.)

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :

1. The lands situated in the county of Westchester, which may be taken by the Corporation of the city and county of New York, by virtue of the act hereby amended, shall be held and appropriated by the said Corporation only for the use and purpose of introducing water into the city of New York and for purposes necessarily incident thereto, and for no other uses or purposes whatever, any thing in the act hereby amended to the contrary thereo i notwithstanding.

MEMOIR OF THE 2. In case said Corporation of the city of NewYork should use any of said lands situate in the county of Westchester, for purposes other than in the last preceding section permitted or in case said lands should not be required for the purpose of introducing water ;

into the city of New York, such lands so improperly used or not so required, shall become revested in the individual from whom the said Corporation obtained it, as fully and perfectly as though the act hereby amended had never been enacted, upon repaying to said Corporation the amount originally paid for the same, after deducting from such amount the damage sustained by such individual, by reason of any alteration or work which the said Corporation may have made upon said land. 3.