Excerpt from Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York, 1784-1831, Vol. 16: January 2, 1827 to February 25, 1828 To the performance of our ordinary duties, both in private and in public life, nothing is so indispensably necessary, Gentlemen, as com mon sense, guided by honest intentions, and impelled by a zealous industry in the discharge of our proper bussiness - Attention and punctuality have become more than ever indispensible to the manage ment of the concerns of this great, growing metropolis; now the first City of the new, and second only to onc'in the Old World, in that vast commerce, internal and external, of which it is daily becoming more and more the centre. Our duties will be many and arduous, but with the exercise of those qualifications I have just named, much I trust will be done, and but little left undone, that the welfare of the community may actually require. Among the most important of our duties, as I conceive Gentlemen, is that of giving a proper direction to the means placed in our hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.