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

proposed by the Commissioners, and in their relying for authority to raise the means, upon the favorable voice of their fellow-citizens, through the ballot boxes, founded on their knowledge of the propriety of the measure, and the ability of the Corporation to carry it into effect. The same spirit has been uniformly evinced by subsequent Common Councils, in rendering their unremitting countenance and aid to the measure ; and to these," the Commissioners add, "they are mainly indebted for their ability to progress thus far with the great and important work under their special charge."

During the whole of this year, operations were pushed with great vigor, so that nearly one million six hundred thousand dollars were expended, and from 3500 to 3800 men employed denoting, on the part of the contractors, a determination to complete the work within the time specified in their respective contracts.

160 MEMOIR OF THE The whole amount disbursed, up to 31st December, 1838, was within a small fraction of two millions of dollars.