That of the West Point Foundry Association being found a shade lower than the others, a contract was passed with them, with adequate personal security on their part for the due fulfilment of their undertaking.

The Commissioners also let out upon advantageous terms the difficult and important sections from 86 to 97, part of the fourth division. These included the bridge to support the syphons across the Harlem River, the work to support the pipes across Manhattan valley, the bridge over Clendining valley, the receiving reservoir at Eighty-sixth-street, and the distributing reservoir at Murray Hill.

This completed the contracts, from the dam at the Croton to the distributing reservoir, a distance of about 41 miles, and all the work was to be finished in 1841.

The opposition, however, to the syphon bridge over the Harlem, instead of a lofty aqueduct bridge on a continuous grade, was by no means abated. Notice was served on the Commissioners in behalf of land-owners not residents of the State, bordering on the line where it was to pass the Harlem, that application would be made to the Circuit Court of the United States, to restrain any such construction in or over that river, as ' should impede or obstruct the navigation thereof, and particularly from filling up the channel of the said river." Moreover, notices were published in the papers in which the advertisements of the Commissioners appeared for contracts to build the syphon bridge, warning all persons against undertaking such a work, as every means the law would justify, would