Documents of the Board of Aldermen of the City of New-York, Volume 3The Board, 1837 - New York (N.Y.) |
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... improvements as the public good may seem to require . In the performance of this duty at the present time , I may be permitted to embrace the opportunity to express my grate- ful sense of the continued favor and confidence of my fellow ...
... improvements as the public good may seem to require . In the performance of this duty at the present time , I may be permitted to embrace the opportunity to express my grate- ful sense of the continued favor and confidence of my fellow ...
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... improvements in progress for the public service . The policy is believed to be sound and judicious , which appro ... improvement for other and more profitable purposes . I now renew the suggestion , and solicit for it your early and ...
... improvements in progress for the public service . The policy is believed to be sound and judicious , which appro ... improvement for other and more profitable purposes . I now renew the suggestion , and solicit for it your early and ...
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... improvement which we have reason to ex- pect in the construction of new buildings by prudent citizens , it would be comparatively a rare occurrence for a fire to extend beyond the building in which it originated . The present inadequate ...
... improvement which we have reason to ex- pect in the construction of new buildings by prudent citizens , it would be comparatively a rare occurrence for a fire to extend beyond the building in which it originated . The present inadequate ...
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... of the line under the direction of the present Engineer , and as a reason why the maps were not prepared at an earlier day , we were informed by Mr. Doug- lass , that some important improvements had been made in Doc . No. 12. ] 64.
... of the line under the direction of the present Engineer , and as a reason why the maps were not prepared at an earlier day , we were informed by Mr. Doug- lass , that some important improvements had been made in Doc . No. 12. ] 64.
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lass , that some important improvements had been made in the course of the aqueduct , that would shorten the distance and lessen the curves , and it was therefore only on the 11th day of June , 1836 , that we were put into possession of ...
lass , that some important improvements had been made in the course of the aqueduct , that would shorten the distance and lessen the curves , and it was therefore only on the 11th day of June , 1836 , that we were put into possession of ...
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12th ward AARON CLARK Alms House amount Annual Anthony street appointed assessment Assistant Aldermen avenue BOARD OF ALDERMEN Board of Assessors Board of Assistants boats buildings Canals cent Chapel street charge Chatham Chatham square citizens City of New-York Clerk Committee on Roads Committee on Salaries Committee on Wharves Common Council Company compensation Comptroller Corporation Court D. P. INGRAHAM directed District Watch docks DOCUMENT dollars duty East River EGBERT BENSON erected expense favor feet Finance Committee following resolution Harlaem increase Island James John lease Legislature loan Market Mayor ment MORTON Mud Machine necessary North River opinion ordinance owners persons petition petitioners Police present proposed purpose Randall's Island recommend referred the annexed Repairs of Piers Resolved RESPECTFULLY REPORT sewer ships Special Constables steamboats Street Commissioner Street Committee Superintendent thereof THOMAS BOLTON tion valuations vessels ward Water Commissioners widening William York
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Page 270 - Every pawnbroker shall at the time of each loan deliver to the person pawning or pledging any goods, article, or thing, a memorandum or note, signed by him or her, containing the substance of the entry required to be made in his or her book by the last preceding section...
Page 465 - ... that danger to the supremacy of Great Britain is to be apprehended ; — that it is from the silent and peaceful rivalry of American commerce, the growth of its manufactures, its rapid progress in internal improvements, the superior education of its people, and their economical and pacific government — that it is from these, and not from the barbarous policy or the impoverishing armaments of Russia, that the grandeur of our commercial and national prosperity is endangered.
Page 59 - ... meet in the conference chamber and state to each other, verbally, or in writing, as either shall choose, the reasons of their respective Houses for and against the amendment, and confer freely thereon.
Page 307 - ... increase or diminish the aggregate valuations of real estate in any town or ward by adding or deducting such sum upon the hundred as may, in their opinion, be necessary to produce a just relation between all the valuations of real estate in the county...
Page 180 - STATE OF NEW YORK, Secretary's Office. I have compared the preceding with an original act of the Legislature of this state on file in this office, and do certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original.
Page 178 - State of New York, Secretary's Office. I certify the preceding to be a true copy of an original Act of the Legislature of this State, on file in this Office.
Page 58 - When a bill or resolution, which shall have passed in one house, is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the house in which the same shall have passed.
Page 545 - An Act for supplying the City of New- York, with pure and wholesome water...
Page 540 - Legislature, for supplying the city of New York with pure and wholesome water.
Page 444 - ... first time adopted in this establishment. The import and export docks are parallel to each other, being divided by a range of warehouses, principally appropriated to the reception of rum, brandy and other spirituous liquors ; there are smaller warehouses and sheds on the quays of the export and south docks for the reception of goods sent down for exportation. The warehouses for imported goods are on the four quays of the import dock. They are well contrived and are of great extent, being calculated...