Excerpt from Report of Special Committee Appointed to Examine Into Condition, Affairs and Progress of the New York Central Park: Transmitted to the Legislature January 25, 1861 More than seven-tenths of the whole outlay of money on the Park are paid directly to mechanics and laboring men. These men are regularly paid at the current market rates of labor. The number of men employed at one time on the Park has been as high as three thousand five hundred. It was not over twenty-six hundred during any one time in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, and the work has so far progressed that it is not probable that so large a number will be again employed at one time. It seemed very important to your committee, that where so large a portion of the money is disbursed in small sums, that the accounts and superintendence should be such as to secure. 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.