The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-09-07
THE DOCUMENTS.

MAYOR w1cKHAM TO THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, !
CITY HALL, NEW YORK, Sept g. 1875.
To THE HONORABLE THE COMMON CoUNCIL:-
GENTLEMEN-I herewith transmit for your informa.
ton, and for such action as may be proper report
from the Board oil Commissioners of Rapid Transit ap-
pointed by me under the provisions of chapter COG,
Laws Of 1915. W. IL. WlCkHAM, Mayor.
THE REPORT
OFFICE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF RAPID TRANsTr)
NEW YORK, Sept. g. 1875. (
To His Honor WILLIAM II. WIcKHAM Mayor
STR-The undersigned, constituting the Board Of
Commissioners appointed by you under the provisions
of chapter COG Laws Of 1875 having by the selection OF
for rapid transit railways in this city concluded
portion OF the labors imposed upon them by law deem
proper TO make official record of their action in the
form Of n report to you.
The statute failed provide or direct any specific
method which the record of our official action may
be fled But the evident necessity that authentic
evidence of that action should be somewhere preserved,
and the fact that this Board of Commissioners exists by
appointment of the Mayor lea US TO regard your Office
THE PROPER PLACE OF DEPOSIT
for such record The law itself under which we were
appointed would never have been enacted but for your
efforts, and are enabled by this occasion to bear
testimony to the zeal and high purpose by
which you have been moved TO accomplish,
if possible, during your term OF office,
this great benefit TO tho people OF New York Should
1t come to pass, hope that the present ef-
forts that direction shall result in establishing rapid
and cheap means of communication THROUGH this civ
we shall always cheerully declare that among the most
efficient aids to that great benefaction, TO poor and
rich alike, will have been the wise counsel and intc-
received from you.
Upon receiving appointment and being duly
qualified required by statute, we organized on the
sth day of July 1875, by the election OF Wam Selig.
President and Burton N. Harrison as Secretary
We aiterward formally retained Mr. Harrison as coun.
sci also to the Board. To Mr.. Segman's courtesy
rmness and good sense largely indebted for The
harmony with which have worked together and for
the unanimity with which conclusions were
reached In considering the numerous and difficult
questions OF law which under this statute the a
curate and legal learning Of Mr. Harrison have
been invaluable. Acting under his advice we have
submitted various questions of importance TO Hon.
James Emo and Mr. stephen p. Nash special counsel
Upon one of the questions presented TO us we have
had the advice Of Mr. George w. Var
sclen, and AS to many OF them we have
been ADVISED by Mr.. Grosvenor p Lowreyl
and we have been guided by the opinions those several
gentlemen expressed The Board has also selected
consulting engineers Samuel H. Shreve and Isaac New
ton, civil engineers who have been and still are en-
gagged IN careful study of the plans Of struc
ture which have been submitted 90 US Very soon after
we had organized the Board caused proper adver.
tsements to be inserted in the newspapers calling for
PLANS CONSTRUCTION
and also asking for suggestions as TO routes 10 and rom
any and all parties interested In the subject We have
received and still considering many COMMUNICATIONS