Excerpt from Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York, 1784-1831, Vol. 5: February 15, 1808 to December 26, 1809 His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of the Council of Appointment, [136] having been pleased to appoint Pierre C. Van Wyck, Esquire, to the Office of Recorder of this city, who having taken the Oaths of Office prescribed by law, appeared at the Common Council and produced his Commission under the great seal of the State, which was read and published with the usual formalities, and took his seat at the Board. 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.