So much and such parts of the act hereby amended, as is inconsistent with this act, is hereby repealed.
This concession did not satisfy the complainants along the line, and at a public that the taking of the meeting held at Tarrytown, it was resolved, among other things, lands of individuals as authorised by the state law, was unconstitutional and ought to be to the Supreme Court of the U. S. resisted, and that the case should be carried up
Yet, according to all sound reasoning independently of the near interest which WestChester County has in all that tends to add to the security, preserve the health, and enhance the advantages of the city of New York the enormous expenditures for wages, and other necessaries, for the great number of men that would be employed on provisions, the aqueduct, should have been deemed by the neighboring residents much more than an
equivalent for any temporary inconveniences, or imaginary loss.
The consequence of this discontent was, that the Commissioners were unable to
make any purchase, by private contract, of lands along the line, and were therefore compelled to resort to the Vice Chancellor for the appointment of Commissioners, to take by
appraisement whatever was needed.
In July of this year, the Corporation began their part of the work by ordering pipes, to be laid down in Barclay-street, agreeably to the size adopted by the Commissioners, from the intersection of Chapel to Greenwich-street, along Greenwich to Cedar, and up Cedar to Broadway. The Legislature also passed a law authorizing the construction of the aqueduct through lands belonging to the State, at Sing Sing. In their Report of 9th January, 1837, the Commissioners reiterate the account of