The swearing, however, was so contradictory, that the act of killing could not be fixed upon any individual, and the Court and Jury, foregoing the capital charge, were content to bind the most conspicuous, under recognizance, to keep the peace. Order was by these means restored, and every thing went on again in harmony. The Commissioners, in this report, draw the attention of the Corporation to the fact, that the assessors of the towns in Westchester county, along the line, proposed to include not only the lands occupied by the aqueduct, but the unfinished work of the aqueduct

itself, in the property of the town to be rated for taxation and that instead of rating the ;

lands only at the valuation of the neighboring farms from which they had been taken,

they had in the town of Greensburg alone, valued the property of the aqueduct at $60,000

Believing such a measure, in regard to such a work, to be unprecedented, the Commissioners recommend to the Corporation, to invoke legislative protection.

They also renew a request, previously made, that the Corporation would take immediate measures for opening and establishing the grade of the avenues and streets through which the line of the aqueduct passed, and also those by which the receiving reservoir is bounded.

After bearing testimony anew to their constant satisfaction with the ability and devotedness of the engineer corps, and particularly of its able head, the Commissioners pay a merited tribute to the Common Council of 1835, "for the public spirit they displayed in the prompt approval of the plan for supplying the city with pure and wholesome water, as