DOCUMENT No. 38.

Report of the Committee on Public Health, in favor of
paying William B. Reynolds the amount due him.
on contract for removal of blood, offal, &c.......

DOCUMENT No. 39.

Report, majority, of the Committee on Streets, in the mat-
ter of opening Albany street....

DOCUMENT No. 40.

Report, minority, of the Committee on Streets, against re-
pealing the ordinance for the extension of Albany

street...

DOCUMENT No. 41.

Report from the Comptroller, in relation to the market

property of the city of New York....

DOCUMENT No. 42

Report from the Comptroller, in relation to the accounts

of George G. Campbell....

DOCUMENT No. 43.

Report from the Comptroller, in relation to the contract.

with William B. Reynolds, for removing dead
animals, offal, &c...

575

613

629

641

745

757

DOCUMENT No. 44.

Report of the Committee on Assessments, in relation to
confirmation of assessment list for regulating and
grading Forty-fourth street, from Eleventh avenue
to Hudson river.....

851

DOCUMENT No. 6.

Resolution and ordinance creating Board of Fire Depart-
ment Commissioners, prescribing their powers and
duties, and the time and inanner of their election

117

DOCUMENT No. 14.

Resolution relative to memorializing the Legislature for
the passage of an act authorizing a City Conven-
tion to revise and amend the charter, &c... . . . . .

265

DOCUMENT No. 16.

Reynolds, Wm. B., communication from the Comptroller,
in relation to contracts with...

DOCUMENT No. 38.

.277, 302

Reynolds, Wm. B., report in favor of paying amount due
on contract for removal of blood, offal, &c.......

DOCUMENT No. 43.

Reynolds, Wm. B., communication from the Comptroller,

in relation to contract with.....

575

757

DOCUMENT No. 15.

Rules and orders of the Board of Aldermen....

267

DOCUMENT No. 16.

Russ & Reid, communication from the Comptroller, in

relation to contract with....

..277, 299

DOCUMENT No. 32.

Russ & Reid, reports in relation to the contract of, for
paving the Bowery.....

(S)

DOCUMENT No. 34.

Sailors' Snug Harbor, annual report of the, for 1853....

499

533

DOCUMENT No. 9.

Salaries and appropriations for extra services, communi-
cation from the Comptroller, in relation to.......

211

DOCUMENT No. 16.

Sales of lands for taxes, assessments and regular rents of

Croton water...

287

DOCUMENT No. 22.

Specifications for cleaning streets..

405

DOCUMENT No. 31.

Steam fire engines, communication from the Chief En-
gineer of Fire Department, in relation to using.

DOCUMENT No. S.

Street Commissioner, annual report of the.....

DOCUMENT No. 27.

Street Commissioner, communication from the, in relation
to regulating Eighth avenue, from Fifty-ninth to
One hundred and eighth street...

(W)

DOCUMENT No. 11.

Wall street ferry, communication from the Clerk of the
Baard of Aldermen, in relation to the.....

DOCUMENT No. 30.

Williamsburgh ferries, report in relation to the condition
and management of the.....

DOCUMENT No. 35.

Williamsburgh Ferry Company, report on the petition

of the ..

487

137

453

243

467

539

DOCUMENT No. 1.

BOARD OF ALDERMEN,

JANUARY 2, 1854.

The following annual message of His Honor the Mayor was received, read, directed to be entered at length on the minutes, and double the usual number of copies ordered to be printed.

D. T. VALENTINE, Clerk.

GENTLEMEN :-In pursuance of the provisions of the charter under which you have been called 10 administer the government of this city, I proceed to submiɩ, for your consideration, such subjects as in my judgment demand your attention. The year just closed bas been fruitful in events of vast importance, as connected with our municipal affairs; evenis so familiar to every class of the community, I need not dwell upon them in a communication of this character.

You are now organized as the Common Council of this city, in accordance with the provisions of a charter which has been accepted and adopted by a great majority of our fellow citizens.

To a city like New York, the charter, defining its rights and powers, is an instrument of vast importance in every point of view; and, as security to life and property is