AN ORDINANCE 
TO ORGANIZE THE 
CROTON AQUEDUCT DEPARTMENT. 
The Mayor, Aidermen, and Commonalty of the City of 
New- York, in Common Council convened, do ordain as 
follows: 
TITLE I. 
§ 1. There shall be created and organized a department, to 
be called the Croton Aqueduct Department. 
§ 2. The office of the Croton Aqueduct Department shall 
be opened every day in the week except Sundays. 
TITLE IL 
§ 1. A Committee of the Common Council shall be, from 
time to time, appointed, to consist of three members of each 
Board, to be denominated the Croton Aqueduct Committee. 
§ 2. All bills for expenditures incurred in relation to the 
said Department, shall be carefully examined by the Croton 
Aqueduct Committee, and, if approved, shall be signed by the 
respective Chairmen thereof, and paid. 2 
§ 3. The Croton Aqueduct Committee are hereby vested 
with the powers necessary for making all contracts in rela- 
tion to the said department, and for conducting the water- 
works, purchasing materials and distributing the water; 
provided always that the powers of the said Committee shall 
not be construed to interfere with those now vested in the 
Water Commissioners, and that the contracts of such Com- 
mittee shall not exceed the amount of the moneys which may, 
from time to time, be appropriated for the several objects afore- 
said ; and the said Committee is hereby required to make re- 
ports monthly to the Common Council of their proceedings. 
TITLE III. 
Of the Aqueduct Commissioner. 
§ 1. There shall be appointed by the Common Council, a 
discreet and proper person to superintend and direct the aque- 
duct department, who shall be called the Croton Aqueduct 
Commissioner. 
§ 2. The Croton Aqueduct Commissioner shall, before en- 
tering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe an oath 
or affirmation, well and faithfully to perform the duties of his 
said office; and shall also give a bond with sufficient sureties, 
to be approved by the Finance Committees of both Boards, in 
the penal sum of $5,000, conditioned for the faithful perform- 
ance of the duties of his office. 
3. The said Commissioner shall receive for his services 
a yearly salary of one thousand dollars, in equal quarterly 
payments. 
§ 4. It shall be the duty of the said Commissioner to take 
charge of all contracts, books, accounts, vouchers, and other 3 
papers appertaining to the said department, and keep them in 
proper and correct order. 
To file copies of all contracts immediately upon their execu- 
tion in the Comptroller's office : 
To keep a complete record of every transaction appertain- 
ing to the water pipes and the distribution of the water in 
the city, showing the cost of the pipes, from whence they 
were obtained, and the quantity on hand, together with a 
complete description, map and plan of all the different sizes 
of pipes now laid down and to be laid, with the exact dimen- 
sions of their offsets in each street, and the distance they are 
laid from the sidewalks, in order that the size of the pipes 
and their offsets, with their exact location, may be known 
thereby: 
To advertise, under the direction of the Croton Aqueduct 
Committee, for estimates for all public works connected with 
the department aforesaid, or for the repairing or altering the 
same previous to any contract being concluded therefor : 
To make all contracts in relation to the said department, 
under the advice and direction of the said Croton Aqueduct 
Committee : 
To examine all bills for expenditures incurred in relation to 
the said department, previous to submitting the same to the 
Croton Aqueduct Committee, and if found to be correct, to 
sign the same: 
And generally to perform all such duties as may at any 
time be required of him by the Croton Aqueduct Committee. 
$ 5. It shall be the duty of the said Commissioner to make a 4 
quarterly report to the Common Council, showing in detail 
every expenditure made in the said department, with the num- 
ber of the different sizes of water pipes and their connections 
on hand and under contract. 
TITLE IV. 
Of Ike Water Purveyor. 
§ 1. The Water Purveyor shall be attached to the Croton 
Aqueduct Department, and shall be subject to the directions, 
regulations, and requirements of the Croton Aqueduct Com- 
mittee and the Croton Aqueduct Commissioner. 
§ 2. The seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth 
sections in relation to the duties of the Water Purveyor and of 
the Committee on Fire and Water, and all such ordinances 
and parts of ordinances as are inconsistent with any of the 
provisions of this ordinance, are hereby repealed. 
Passed the Board of Aidermen, July 27, 1840. 
Passed the Board of Assistants, August 3, 1840. 
Approved by the Mayor, August 5, 1840. 
SAMUEL J. WILLIS, Clerk.