CROTON AQUEDUCT BOARD. May 24, 1852. At a meeting of the Board held this day, the following resolution was adopted, all the members concurring therein: Resolved, That from and after this day the wages of the men engaged in cleaning sewers shall be one dollar and twenty-five cents for each and every day engaged in such service. Adjourned. THEO. R. DE FOREST, Secretary. CROTON AQUEDUCT BOARD. May 27, 1852. At a meeting of the Board held this day, all the members present. Resolved, That for every violation of the rules and regulations adopted by this Board for the government of parties using the Croton water, the penalty attached to such violation shall be immediately enforced without notice to the offending party, and the Register be directed to carry the resolution into effect promptly and without exception. Adjourned. THEO. R. DE FOREST, Secretary. CROTON AQUEDUCT BOARD. July 1, 1852. At a meeting of the Board held this day. Messrs. Dean and De Forest present. It was Resolved, That a charge of fifty dollars be made Teunis Van Brunt for leave to connect a part of his packing establishment, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, with the sewer in Nineteenth street. CROTON AQUEDUCT BOARD. August 1, 1852. At a meeting of the Board held this day, all the members present. The following preamble and resolution was approved: Whereas, The resolution passed by this Board on the 29th of May, 1850, prohibiting Clerks and other persons employed in this Department from "receiving any compensation or gratuity from any person for services rendered to such person, either in or out of the office hours, in business relating to the Department or either of its bureaux," has been found prejudicial in its operation by introducing Clerks from other departments of the City Government and other persons into this to make searches for unpaid water rents forming a lien on real estate, which persons by coming behind the counter during business hours frequently impede its prompt transaction, and who also, if mistakes occur, screen themselves by charging such errors to the Clerks employed in this Department; therefore Resolved, That the Clerks employed in this Department be and are hereby permitted, out of office hours, and certify unpaid water rents affecting the title to real estate, and that the charge for such service be limited to ten cents for each year against every lot for which such search shall be made. Adjourned. THEO. R. DE FOREST, Secretary. CROTON AQUEDUCT BOARD. September 14, 1852. At a meeting of the Board held this day the following preambles and resolution were adopted: Whereas, this Board has received information from the Keeper of the High Bridge that an exhibition has been advertised by public notices posted in the vicinity of that structure that a person is about to leap from the parapet of the Bridge into the Harlem river at 3 o'clock p. m., to-morrow; and Whereas, exhibitions of the like character have heretofore drawn evil disposed and unruly parties to the damage of the work; therefore be it Resolved, That such exhibition as this and at any future time be discountenanced and is forbidden by this Board. Adjourned. THEO. R. DE FOREST, Secretary CROTON AQUEDUCT BOARD. At a meeting of the Board held this day. October 20, 1852. Messrs. Dean and De Forest present. Resolved, That, the consent of the Street Commissioner, having been obtained thereto, leave is hereby given to Ezra P. Davis to construct a sewer from the one now built about 100 feet east of Broadway in Franklin street, to and through Broadway about 90 feet southerly from Franklin street, the same to be done under the direction and control of the Croton Aqueduct Department. Adjourned. THEO. R. DE FOREST. CROTON AQUEDUCT BOARD. November 22, 1852. At a meeting of the Board held this day, all the members present, it was Resolved (Mr. Craven voting in the negative), That the sewer in Houston street, from Avenue A to Mulberry street, recently built by James W. Smith, be and the same is hereby accepted, notwithstanding the use by the contractor of some brickbats in the work. Adjourned. THEO. R. DE FOREST, Secretary. CROTON AQUEDUCT BOARD. January 8, 1853. At a meeting of the Board held this day, all the members present. The following preamble and resolution was offered by Mr. Craven and unanimously adopted, to wit: Whereas, Thomas Davis, an Inspector appointed by this Board to superintend the construction of a sewer in Troy street, from the North river to a point near Greenwich avenue, of which Casey was the contracting builder, has returned his certificate, under oath, that the said sewer was built in conformity with the specifica tions of the contract, excepting only where the bottom was laid without cement by direction of the Engineer, and excepting also the substitution of vitrified earthen pipes for the culverts from the basins to the sewer; and Whereas, Under an examination by direction of said Engineer, induced by suspicions of collusion on the part of said Inspector and said contractor, it was found that gross and dishonest departures from said specifications have been permitted in said sewer, such as laying brick work but four inches thick, and the omission of bottom or foundation plank, etc.; therefore, Resolved, That the said Thomas Davis be dismissed with disgrace from the service of this Department, his name be stricken from the list of Inspectors, and that under no circumstances and in no capacity shall be employed again by this Department. Resolved, That a copy of this preamble and resolution be sent to each of the other departments of the City government as a safeguard against the employment of one who has proved himself untrustworthy. Note. The last resolution was offered in connection with the first, and was rejected by the Board, but is inserted in the minutes at the request of the mover. Adjourned. THEO. R. DE FOREST, Secretary. CROTON AQUEDUCT BOARD. January 22, 1853. At a meeting of the Board held this day, the following preamble and resolution was offered and approved: Whereas, In the lease made by the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of The City of New York to "The Association for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations" of ground on Reservoir square for the erection of their buildings, the easterly line of such grant was placed parallel with and ten feet westerly from the base of the sustaining wall of the Distributing Reservoir on its westerly side; and Whereas, The said Association finds that the use of a part of the said reserved ten feet would be a convenience to them in carrying out the purposes of this exhibition, therefore, Resolved, That the "Association for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations" be and are hereby authorized to extend their erection over, and to occupy three feet in width off the westerly side of the said reserved ten feet, and in length from Fortieth to Forty-second street, such occupancy to continue for five years if the exhibition be kept open for that period of time, subject to the following conditions and limitations: No door or other passage to open out of the building so to be erected on the space of seven feet left between it and the said sustaining wall; no water or rubbish to be thrown out of the windows on such reserved space, and no nuisance to be created or permitted thereon, and also that the said Association erect a suitable fence across the said reserved space of seven feet on Fortieth and Forty-second street, with a door at each end of at least three and one-half feet in width, secured by a good lock, the key to be left at all times in the custody of the Keeper of the Distributing Reser voir. CROTON AQUEDUCT BOARD. February 16, 1853. At a meeting of the Board held this day, all the members present. The following preamble and resolutions were offered and unanimously adopted: Whereas, Captain Nathan Cobb, of Tarrytown, in the County of Westchester, has constructed fences on the Aqueduct grounds belonging to The City of New York adjoining his property, and has placed a gateway on and maintains and insists upon a right of way over these grounds for all persons interested in or attending an extensive school adjacent thereto, and also a right of way for his private tenants occupying a house fronting on the Highland turnpike to and from a privy placed on the easterly side of these grounds, in contravention and defiance of a judgment of the Supreme Court of this State pronounced in the case of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of The City of New York against Nathan Cobb, in which among other things it was decided: First-The plaintiffs have the right to fence any part of the Aqueduct in their discretion, and their acts are conclusive as to the propriety of so doing. This right does not depend upon the statute requiring it to be done at their expense, but existed prior to that statute. Second-The right is subject to the duty of erecting and sustaining convenient passes across or under the Aqueduct wherever it intersects land belonging to an individual, for the farming and other purposes of the land, by section 4 of the Act of 1836 (Laws of 1836, page 709). Third-The defendant not owning both sides of the Aqueduct, his land is not intended within the meaning of the Act, and he is not entitled to any passes across or under the Aqueduct; and Whereas, The convenience of the school referred to would be as great if the entrance to it were removed easterly off the Aqueduct grounds, and that of his tenant |