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.

Your Committee, feeling desirous that the completion of this proud monument of liberality and enterprise, should be celebrated with such public demonstrations of joy as a work so beneficial to our city deservedly demands, invited the co-operation of their fellow citizens connected with the various trades, societies and associations, either literary, beneficial or benevolent, and most cheerfully has it been responded to ; all, to appearance, feeling anxious to commemorate the accomplishment of this interesting object, which has cost so much profound study and application on the part of some of our most estimable citizens, before this important project was matured, and all the springs of action necessary to bring it to perfection, were fully arranged and systematized. Nor is it confined to our citizens alone various associations from our sister cities and the neighboring villages, ;