The preamble and resolution were adopted, and the blank in the latter was filled

with $2000.

The President then appointed Aldermen Davies, West, Smith, Lee, and Crolius, such Committee on the part of this Board. The Board of Assistants concurred in these proceedings, and on their part appointed Assistant Aldermen Nesbitt, William Dodge, Daniel Ward, H. C. Atwell, and C. F. Dodge, as members of the Joint Committee. On the 10th October, the Joint Committee made this report :

The Committee appointed to make arrangements for celebrating the introduction of the Croton water into the city of New York on the 14th instant Respectfully Report : That, having taken into consideration the great importance of this stupendous monument of the enterprise of the citizens of New York a work which cannot but create in the breast of every citizen, a feeling of pride at its completion, and which will vie in magnitude with any in the world, and will be handed down to posterity as an evidence of the liberality of the free and enlightened citizens of the greatest commercial emporium in the United States, in the nineteenth century for while tyrants and despots may have caused ;

monuments to be erected, in order to commemorate their reign, your Committee believe there is not an instance on record in which the citizens of any country have, of their own free will and accord, authorised the construction of a work of the same magnitude, the beneficial effects of which will be experienced by ages yet unborn.