No accident has thus far attended their use, and they have been kept free of water with less difficulty than could reasonably have been expected." The whole amount expended on the works up to 20 January, is stated by the Commissioners at seven millions nine hundred and ten thousand four hundred and seventysix dollars, to which a further amount of $662,540, required for work unfinished and contracts unsettled, would be added. Both these sums, however, are exclusive of the pipes laid from the distributing reservoir, that head of expenditure being under the charge of the Corporation.

The certainty of an adequate supply of water from the reservoirs, even when the aqueduct is under repair, is thus strongly stated in this Report.

" The capacity of the reservoirs (perhaps beyond the wants of the city) is making this was good the opinions of the present Board when they first entered on their duties ;

manifested on the late occasion of examining the interior of the aqueduct the water was ;

shut off and not permitted to enter the reservoirs for ten days in these ten days, all the ;

water used in the city for fires and culinary purposes and waste (though the jets d'eau were not playing) reduced the quantity of water in the reservoirs only one-tenth. The water held back in the receiving reservoir would, at this rate, have been sufficient to supply the city for 100 days. The capacity, too, of the receiving reservoir was considerably diminished by not excavating to the depth contemplated by the original plans.