...Which bears imprint "Printed at New York— for John Reid." This A! in. •\•K•• contains "An act for supplying the City of New- York with pure and wholesome Water, and incorporating the Manhattan Company." It is probably the earliest specimen of printing issued from...

...and devious statesman, Aaron Burr. In 1799 Burr introduced in the New York State legislature "An Act for Supplying the City of New York with Pure and Wholesome Water." In a period when banking privileges were far more jealously and meticulously scrutinized than are railroad...

...for 1799 Which bears imprint "Printed at New York— for John Reid." This Almanac contains "An act for supplying the City of New- York with pure and wholesome Water, and incorporating the Manhattan Company." It is probably the earliest specimen of printing issued from...

...who had in mind the forming of a private company, and on April 2, 1799, the Legislature passed an act "for supplying the City of New York with pure and wholesome water," and incorporated the Manhattan Company, with a capital stock not to exceed two million dollars, divided...

...slavery, and also one for the abolition of imprisonment for debt arising from contract; it passed a bill for "supplying the city of New York with pure and wholesome water," which was really a bill for chartering the Manhattan Banking Company, in the interest of Burr and his...

...of its possibilities, on April 2, when there was enacted by the Legislature a bill of Colonel Burr's "for supplying the City of New York with pure and wholesome water." The city had, during the summer of 1798, been visited by one of the most virulent of those epidemics...

...who had in mind the forming of a private company and on April 2, 1799, the Legislature passed an act for supplying the City of New York with pure and wholesome water, and incorporated the Manhattan Company with a capital stock not to exceed two million dollars divided...

...the federalists. On April 2, 1799, an act was passed by the legislature of New York entitled "An Act for supplying the city of New York with pure and wholesome water." Under this act a body politic and corporate was created by the name of The President and Directors...

...Burr had introduced a bill into the New York legislature authorizing the establishment of a company for supplying the city of New York with pure and wholesome water. An unobtrusive clause in the bill also authorized the company to utilize the surplus of the funds for...

...Now York City. — Water Commissioners. The Water Commissioners were appointed in pursuance of "An Act to provide for supplying the city of New York with pure and wholesome water," passed May 2, 1834. The Crotón Aqueduct Board was established by ordinance of the Common Council,...