date, including salaries of engineers and Commissioners Cost and rent of land for line of aqueduct Actual money cost of the aqueduct to the distributing reservoir at Murray's Hill Add, for procuring and laying water pipes ... Interest on water stock to 1st August, inclusive ----- Sundry water loan, and other expenses ------ $7,138,486 34 436,860 11 408,155 67 $7,983,503 12 1,878,839 51 1,577,459 43 12,818 55 Total expenditure - - - ...... •".*-'. 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. 56 222 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 supplies for the multitudinous population of hereafter. It is for the future even more than 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. We have seen how the Lord Mayor and citizens of London honored the introduc- tion into that city, of the New River ; and the memory of the imposing ceremonial in our own city, upon the marriage of the Lakes with the Ocean by the completion of the Erie Canal, was a precedent too recent and too agreeable, to be departed from. Accordingly on the 5th July, in the Board of Aldermen, Alderman Lee presented the following preamble and resolutions, viz : Whereas, The important work of introducing the waters of the Croton River in the city of New York is now completed, and in such a manner that it cannot be viewed without a feeling of pride at its execution ; a work upon which posterity will look back to those who transmitted the blessing with veneration, and that will be for ever remem- bered as an evidence of the liberality of the citizens of New York, the importance of which is equalled only by the legacy handed down to us by the sires of the Revolution, for, while the one ensures to us prosperity, together with freedom and religious liberty, the other secures to us and our posterity that health, without which all other blessings dwindle into insignificance : Therefore Resolved, That, if the Board of Assistants concur, a Joint Committee of five members from each Board be appointed to make arrangements for commemorating this event in a manner corresponding with its vast importance, and that they be autho- rised to invite our fellow-citizens to unite with the Common Council in celebrating, with all suitable demonstrations of joy, the completion of this great and stupendous work. 57 226 CELEBRATION OF THE These were, on motion of Alderman Davies, referred to the Joint Committee on the Croton Aqueduct, from which Committee the following report was received on 19th Sep- tember : The Joint Committee on the Croton Aqueduct, to whom was referred the preamble and resolution presented by Alderman Lee, July 5, 1842, in relation to celebrating the event of the introduction of the Croton Water into the city, presented the follow- ing report, recommending the adoption of the preamble and resolution referred to them, together with the resolution annexed to this report — Respectfully Report : That they have had the same under consideration, and that they do cheerfully respond to the sentiments therein contained : — the introduction of the healthful streams of the Croton to our homes, forms an era in our municipal history, which must always be among the brightest on the page that records our civil glories. This great work, equal to any on this continent for magnitude, and for a display of scientific skill, has been successfully completed in the space of five years, by the un- aided credit of our city, and enterprise of our citizens. The hopes of half a century are now turned from dreamy longings, with but a faint chance of fulfilment, into the enjoy- ment of a substantial blessing, whose benefits will not only delight us in our day, but will serve as a broad