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5091. Board of Aldermen, November 23d, 1835: the following communication was received from Stephen Allen, Esq. Chairman, in behalf of the Water Commissioners, praying that the Common Council will apply to the legislature for a law authorising the appointment of commissioners with power to alter the line of any highway or turnpike in danger of injury from the Croton River Water Works

5098. Board of Aldermen, February 15th, 1836: the following communication was received from his Honor the Mayor, enclosing a communication from Stephen Allen, Esq., Chairman of the Water Commissioners, and from D.B. Douglass, Esq., Chief Engineer, N.Y. Aqueduct, in relation to the practicability and probable expense of forcing by steam engines a sufficient quantity of water from the North or East River to a reservoir to be erected on Murray Hill, in aid of the present means for extinguishing fires, which was referred to the Committee on Fire and Water

5100. Board of Aldermen, March 4, 1835: the Committee on Fire and Water, to whom was referred the report of the Water Commissioners, and the documents accompanying the same, in relation to supplying the City of New-York with pure and wholesome water, presented the following report