... ----- Actual money cost of the aqueduct to the distributing reservoir at Murray's Hill $7,983,503 12 Add, for procuring and laying water pipes

Total expenditure ------ Interest on water stock to 1st August, inclusive Sundry water loan, and other expenses ...... - - - 1,878,839 51 1,577,459 43 12,818 55

".*-'. 811,452,61961 The whole amount of stock authorised to be issued, is twelve millions of dollars. The balance unexpended will suffice to complete the high bridge over the Harlem, and henceforth the interest on the debt is to be paid from taxes.

222 MEMOIR OF THE CROTON AdUEDUCT.

delphia, Richmond, and Cincinnati, a large annual expenditure for forcing-pumps and steam engines.

The solidity of the general structure forbids the idea, for centuries, of other than slight occasional repairs ; the abundance of the source relieves from all solicitude as to adequate It is for the future even more than supplies for the multitudinous population of hereafter. for the present, and will attest to other lands and to other times, that, magnificent as may

be the works of conquerors and kings, they have not equalled in forecast of design, and beneficence of result, the noble aqueduct, constructed at their own cost, by the freemen of the single city of New York.

THE CELEBRATION OP THB

FOURTEENTH OCTOBER, 1842.

THE CELEBRATION FOURTEENTH OCTOBER, 1842

IT was natural that so great an event as the completion of the Croton Aqueduct, should be deemed by the citizens, at whose cost and through whose constancy it had been constructed, worthy of some public celebration.