It will not be either useful or agreeable to renew the details of it in these pages. We content ourselves, therefore, with a single statement of the points on which it turned.

136 MEMOIR OF THE The Water Commissioners maintained that the laws of this State direct that all the moneys raised from the sale of the Water Stock, issued for supplying the inhabitants of this city with water, shall be expended " by and under the direction of the said Commissioners."

That the work thus entrusted to them embraces the full and entire completion of the original plan for supplying water to this city for the use of its inhabitants, and that " the

plan" adopted by the Commissioners, ratified by the Common Council, and approved of by the people, comprehended as well the necessary work for bringing the water to the city, as the furnishing, laying down, and fitting for use, the distributing pipes throughout the

city.

The Water Commissioners also claimed, that since the passage of the Act of April 27, 1840, no item of expenditure made by the Common Council, can be charged to the debit of the Water Fund, without their approval. The Committee of the Common Council, the Comptroller, and the Counsel to the Corporation, contended that the original plan adopted, ratified, and approved of, for supplying the city of New York with water for the use of its inhabitants, terminated at Murray's Hill, and that the Water Commissioners cannot therefore, legally, construct or