New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-06

rornd lately called the Vineyard, and to the Gree ap
pears your petitioners to comm tae Pre1S'91es
ever merit the attention OF this honorable Board me Pa3h;
ornament. ~, ,. ~, h,,.,ht,
psr6 to take their extreme necessities into your serious
consideration and grant % them the aoFeAd an ge OF
Ground for the erection OF new church with an SUD- oi
LOT suitable Cor cemetery subject 10 such an annua ,
20 he rendered forever 90 this honorable Board, a. wee
in their great wisdom and justice shall think reaSo d"
and your petitioners shall ever pray &c; ana
RI I,reas the said Mayor Aldermen and Commonaly ~
,hereupon order that Aid Bogart Aid Hicks. Aid Brne
erboF Mr. Thody and Gotier the MAJOR part OF tne1
he Committee to inquire into the allegations o. tl 20
e,;,;on srd make report thereof to said Board with
Convenient speed which said Committee did aitereart
make report in the words following VIZ
We the subscribers, the Committee appointed oy oras'
of tbe Common Council a copy whereof Is hsreunto an
nexed do in obedience to the said ORDER
REPORT.
That we met a Committee Of the Presoyteran Cher en-
attended by a City Surveyor, which COMMITTEE OF tue
Cbnrb unou viewing the ground belonging 10 the Corp0.
ration declared that ground OF the tOrPOraon "oau
answer their purposes so wei a the angie henone1
about nine lots the calculation of about twenty ave iees
in width and one hundred in length for which lots they
the sum Of forty pounds per snIum forever whch oHeF
with their reasons for the same also hereuno annexed
ard we the subscribers do also report that we thn me
said angle petioned for the most convenient place 70
build church on-ell which is nevertheless hunbly SUB
mlted to this Board.Daed the twenty hrs iay oil fso
ruarv one thousand seven hundred and sixty SIX
the words following, to wit;
" C1y of Ns,-- York sat Common Council held at
he CITY Hall of the said City On Tuesday the twenty nitn
day of February thousand seven hundred ani sixty
six-rresert John Crugor, Esq hoyOr, Nc.-ths board
dd thereuron unanimously resolve and order that tue
ANGULAR niece Of ground prayed Tor by the ttones Goa
tanning eight losts and one ha OF !%eh,H I'VE l'sI
an hundred each, be granted to the Ministers Dea
cons Elders and Trustees of the said English Pres
byterian Church of the City OF New YORK, and 10
tf,ir heirs ard assigns forever, according 10 the
.ha soii n4titiO and
r. asons survey, under the yearly rent OF ior pounds
10 commence from the first day ct May next ana thS e
Clerk of this Board pre- drat OF the grant accord
ngly that the grant OF the same ground may De ms1e
out and Issued under tine seal of this Corporation VITA all
convenient Sped ., .,.,,.t, NJ,
Aldermen ard Conmonay of the City Of New ork fir
and in consideration Of the pous and audioe designs o.
the said parties of the second part and OF me REM anu
conditions reserved and contained and aO OF
the sum of ten shings lawful money ot New orA no"
paid to the said Mayor, Aldermen and community,
have granted bargained aud sold, ahened, released and
confirmed and, by these presents 10 Gran bargain ana
se alien release and confirm unto the said parties OF the
the said tract piece parcel OF ground heredtaments
and premises, with the uppurenances unto them she
said parties Of the second part hereinaDoye particularly
named their heirs and assigns to the only proper use
and behoof of the same parties OF the second part and
their heirs and assigns for ever under the conditions
hereinafter particularly mentioned to wit 80 as the parties
6f the second part herein above particularly named
or either of them, their or either OF their helrs e
ecutors administrators assigns or any OF them shah
ncose the said parcel of ground above mentioned
and hereby granted within good and sufficient fence,
and either erect an edsee church thereon. or on part
thereof for the worship of Almighty God or use the same
or part thereof for cemetery or churchyard Tor me
burial ntement of the dead and shall no. aRpropre
aDDy cOHrTf The same at any hBc fer ever hcrrT,
10 pirate secular and under this further form OF con
dtion foOweih 10 wit rs the aforesaid parties OF
the second part herein above particularly named oreher
of them their either OF their heirs executors admin
sratoTs assigns, OF them shall ana DO pay or
c,p.e IN no usid INTO the MAYOR Aldermen and Common.
Az e York for 10
use OF the said Mayor Aldermen and Commonay the sum
of forty pounds awful money OF New York. on the INST
day of May next and the first day OF May every year
thence ensuing for thereafter that then this present
ndeniure and grant and everything therein contained
shall remain in its full force and virtue Tor ever
and their heirs executors and administrators and every OF
them shall years from the the date OF these pres
ens ncose said tract parcel Of ground as aforesaid
and either erect thereon any part thereof church
or edice for the public worship of Almighty God
the same or part thereof for cemetery churchyard
or shall at AMI lime thereafter appropriate apply or con
reytIe same TO pirate secular uses 9e it shall and may
be lawful to and for the said Mayor, Aldermen and Com
monay of the City of New FORK and their successors anu
assigns into all and singular the aforesaid premises with
the arpurtenances roenter and the same to them and
their their former estate 10 have AGAIN ana
enjoy this their present writing or ANYTHING N the same
any estate hereby conveyed to the contrary
notwithstanding.
In testimony whereof the said Mayor, Aldermen and
Commonptv of the City of New York the part,
have 10 these presents caused the Common Seal to be
affixed and the parties Of the second part have inter
changeaby tho hands and seals the day and year st
above written H. 81
by order Of the Common Council.
AUG. v CORTLANDr, Clerk
Rred original or lease from the Cor poratioa Of
the Guy Of Sew,iOIk nov he'd Sy Ias @ Ss tqs n
piece ground on which stands fronting
the Church from time tine and al al dur
% eth ga 70 a a 1a s1n d s' 10
@Agopted by tie board Of Asssans January 70 1885
"Adoited by the Board Of Aldermen, Feb p 1885.
Approved By the Mayor Feb s. 1885"
Ii will here be that the original lease certainly
did not contemplate any mercantile or speculative
action the part of the church. On the contrary,
it explicitly declares that the lessees shall not aPpro
pnGte apply, eOHrsrt the at any time torsrer
kereatr pirate secular But under authority Of
resolution Of the City Government passed in 1885,
they iare appropriated portion of the property TO
private and secular uses by building stores thereon
from which they are now deriving large reve-
nue.. The church, in seeking an unreasonable sum
for the property, NOW wanted for public uses,)
abuses the extreme beraity of the City, exercised to-
ward it at a time OF its most pressing needs, aud
sgan manifested by gratuitousy filling its Golfers BY it's
supplementary resolution Of 1895, which whether
il be competent not 10 change the entire character
of the absolute and peremptOry provisions OF the
original leasc, at least shows the generous disposition
of the City authorities
Tie prOprietors Of the church must see how hollow
il the ground they stand upon in relying upon simple
resolution of the City Government for all the revenues
they are now enjoying and making it the basis OF sfeir
extreme demands They should not forget that IL sGe
municipal government can pass resolution making al
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