Martineau, and other engineers, who had examined the route, would be greatly exceeded, is followed up by a request that the Common Council would, at an early day, adopt measures to raise more money, taking it for granted, that as the people of the city had deliberately decided through the medium of the ballot boxes, and by a large majority, that the necessary funds should be raised for prosecuting the work, there could be no doubt that it was to be proceeded with.

They also, in this Report, advert to the expenditure that would be occasioned by furnishing and laying pipes in the streets, of which, estimating that 152 miles in length, in. addition to the 15 then laid, would be required, they calculate the expense at $1,261,627. The cost of this branch of the work, it is very properly suggested, should be included in the farther amount for completing the aqueduct, which it was proposed to ask permission from the Legislature to raise.

In view of the length of time which the construction of the aqueduct would occupy, of the vast sums that would be expended, and of various and perplexing questions that could not fail to arise in the progress of the undertaking, in the shape of claims from persons supposing themselves aggrieved, by contractors for extra allowances, &c., &c, the Commissioners suggest, for the consideration of the Common Council, the adoption of a plan similar to that adopted by the State in respect to the construction of, and expenditures on, the canals, viz.constituting two Boards, one, Commissioners of the Water :