Note 29 — FIRST ANNUAL REPORT. (continued 2)

Perhaps, to make these passages intelligible, the reader should be apprised that the business of the Corporation is considered in a great variety of Committees, which thus have their several and particular provinces. Of the many matters adverted to, as foreign to the ordinary functions of the Commission of Sewers, some might belong to the City-Lands Committee, some to the Improvement, some to the Finance, some to the Navigation, some to the Markets Committee, and so on. Obviously it would have been out of my place to touch on these details of jurisdiction; and I therefore urged only the essentially municipal character of the several improvements I advocated.—J. S., 1854.