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, ;

anxious to rejoice with us, have signified their intention of uniting in the procession. Invitations have been sent to the Corporations of Brooklyn, Albany, Troy, Jersey City, Newark, Elizabeth town, Rahway, New Brunswick, Trenton, and Philadelphia, and

228 CELEBRATION OF THE Trustees of Williamsburgh, all of which have been accepted, except that to Philadelphia, who have been obliged to decline on account of its being the day on which the new Board is sworn into office a circumstance much to be regretted, from the fact, that from the most valuable information has been received in reference to authorities of that city the the work and the kind manner in which it has invariably been imparted, places this city ;