the year previous, was in consequence of a want of sufficient information to warrant the opinion of the feasibility of the project, and it recommended that immediate application should be made to the Legislature, asking for the appointment of a Board of Commissioners, with full powers to examine all the plans proposed, to cause surveys, and to

estimate the probable expense of supplying the city of New-York with water. The Committee recommended that the Commissioners should be appointed by the Governor and Senate, and that their number should consist of five, " inasmuch as the object

of their appointment is to settle conclusively the plan to be

adopted, and the amount requisite for its performance." This report was concurred in by the Board of Assistants, and approved of by the Mayor, January 17th, 1833. In compliance with the request of the Common Council the Legislature of the State, on the 26th of February, 1833, passed an Act,* providing for the appointment by the Governor and Senate, of five persons, as Water Commissioners, whose duty it was by said Act declared to be " to examine and consider all matters relative to supplying the city of New-York with a sufficient quantity of pure and wholesome water for the use of its inhabitants, and the amount of money necessary to effect that object." In pursuance of this law, the Governor and Senate appointed the Board of Water Commissioners, consisting of the following named gentlemen : -- Stephen Allen, William W. Fox, Saul Alley, Charles Dusenberry and Benjamin M. Brown. They were directed to make their report to the Legislature, by the second Monday of January, 1834, and to present a copy thereof to the Common Council of the City of New-York on or before the first day of November, 1833. The Commissioners proceeded in the discharge of their duties, employed as Engineers Canvas White, Esquire, and Major D.