Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years .. . Other objections of similar nature were made by various partiesconcerned, and finally the magistrates concluded to relieve the delin-quents for the present. A part was taken in installments ; the Pro-vincial Government contributed 1,000 guilders, and the expense wasfinally defrayed. In 1671, the canal was extended above its former limits, to nearthe present Exchange place, and the old graft was improved, underthe following order : 515 The residents along the graft are ordered to make it as fol-lows : 1. From the water-side t
Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years .. . Other objections of similar nature were made by various partiesconcerned, and finally the magistrates concluded to relieve the delin-quents for the present. A part was taken in installments ; the Pro-vincial Government contributed 1,000 guilders, and the expense wasfinally defrayed. In 1671, the canal was extended above its former limits, to nearthe present Exchange place, and the old graft was improved, underthe following order : 515 The residents along the graft are ordered to make it as fol-lows : 1. From the water-side to the bridge opposite Stone street, in thesame breadth and form as it was made before. 2. From the bridge to the corner of the lot of Jochem Beekman(Beaver street), to be finished in the same manner as JohannesDepeyster has already begun before his lot. 3. From tlie corner of Jochem Beekman to the corner of the laneat Jacob Kips, in the same form as the old graft. An illustrative view of the Graft is given, as more readily suggest-ive of its appearance in that VIEW OF THE GRAFT, OR CANAL, IX BROAD STREET, AND TIIE FISH BRIDGE, 1669. In May, 1676, it was ordered that all the inhabitants living onthe street called the Heere graft, shall, without delay, fill up the graftand make the same level with the street, and then to pave and pitchthe same with stone. Thus was one of the old landmarks which characterized the cityunder the enterprise of the Dutch rulers destroyed. The graft 516 was, no doubt, necessary to the proper drainage of the section iuwliich it was constructed, inasmuch as a swamp which received thewaters from surrounding hills, occupied the upper part of Broadstreet, when iu its natural condition. Even after the lapse of twentyyears after the filling up of the graft, inconvenience from baddi-ainage is found to have existed; and in May, 1G96, on a petition ofthe residents on the street, the subject of constructing a sewer wasconsidered, and referred to a committee
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