New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-13
THE EARBOR LINE.
May 1857,

The following is the bin for perpetuatiug the extent
and security Of our harbor
AN ACT to establish bulkhead nnd pier lines for the Port Of
New.York.
The People IF the State Of N, York rtpye'en,ed in Senate and
4ssembp do enact az JolIops:
Section l. The bulkhead line line of sold filing
and the pier line dacent to the shores of the Port Of
New-Yok are hereby declared and established to be
the bulkhead and pier lines recommended TO the Leg
sla;ure bv the Commissioners appointed under the act
entitled An act for the appointment of Commission
for the preservation Of the Harbor of New-York
" from encroachments and to preserve the necessary
navigation thereof, passed March 80 1855, in their
REPORTS Of January "a 1857 and March Is, 1857, and
a. laid down on the maps accompanying said reports,
entitled Atlas of NewYork Harbor, made under the
" direction Of the Harbor Commission in two vol
umcs except that the exterior or pier-head line from
Ninth street extended to Forty-ninth street on the
New-York side OF the East River, shall be the same
az the line recommended by the Committee of Com
rerce aud Navigation of Pie Senate in their report of
March H. 1856 and on the maps, hereinafter referred
to in red ink; and sea-wall shall be erected that
line from the northeast of the bulkhead at the
foot Of Seventeenth street, to Thrty-eighh street
with openings OF not less than one hundred feet, and
AT dstances Of not less than four hundred and fifty feet
apart from center to center; and the whole water
space between the bulkhead line hereby established
aud the sea-wal between Seventeenth and Thirty
eighth streets, shall be appropriated for piers on piles
OF blocks and bridges and wet basins, and cOntinu
Gus bulkhead from Thrty-eghth to Forty-ninh streets
which bulkhead shall be the exterior line and line of
solid filling but pier other erection or structure
hall be made outside Of the said sea-wall or bulk
head from Seventeenth to Forty-ninth street. that is
to say:
l. Maps of the shores of the City and County Of
New-Iork.
.. From point mile north of Spuyten Duyvel
Creek, the east shore Of the Hudson River thence
southey to the entrance and along the north shore of
Spuyten Duyyel Creek and Harlem River, and easter
~ along the north shore of the East River to Throg's
Neck, in the County of Westchester.
al. AL. NJ. n. = Al
County of Queens, westerly along the south shore of
he East River, including Flushing and Gowanus Bay
and Newtown Creek TO the westerly end Of Coney
Island in the County OF Kings.
4 The easterly shore of the County Of Richmond TO
the entrance Of tho Kill van Kull and thence along
the southerly shore Of Kill ku and the southerly
and eastory shores of Arthurs ki, or Staten Island
Sound to a point opposite TO the entrance Of Wood.
bridge Creek in the State Of New-Jersey.
D. From the middle of the XIII van Kull, at its en-
trance from the bay Of New-York; thence northerly
along the westerly shore Of the said bay, and along
the westerly shore Of the Hudson River in the State Of
New-JeTsey, to a point opposite 10 me entrance OF
Spuyton Duyvel Creek. ~
G. The several islands in the harbor of New-fork.
sEc . Il, shall not be lawful to fill in with earth,
stone other solid maters in the waters OF the SAID
port beyond the bukhead line or line of SOLID nlnS
thereby established nor shall IL be lawful to erect any
structure exterior TO the said bukhead line except hs
sea wall mentioned il the first section OF this ac ana
peis which shall not exceed seventy feet in wiatn re-
specuNely, with intervening water spaces Oh a.
hundred feet shall il be lawful 10 extend such
pier or piers beyond the exterior pier line nor De-
y0nd or outside Of the said sea-wall.
SIC. s. II shall DO the duty of the said Commission
within thirty days from the passage OF this act 70
verify by their SIGNATURE and TO file in the office OF
tine Secretary OF State there 10 remain Of record the
aforesaid maps. together with q minute written des-
crpton by courses and distances far practics-
bic Of the aforesaid lines in front Of the Cities Of New
York and Brooklyn verified in Like manner, and the
term Of the said Commissioners is hereby extended to
the 18th day Of May next
SEC. l. TeS act takes effect Immediately.