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Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Laws, to the Corporation of the City of New-York, on the Subject of Interment, Within the Populous Parts of the City: Read and Adopted at a Special Meeting of the Said Corporation, on the 9th June, 1825, and Published by Their Order Writs of error - that seventeen of the suits were still pending - and the residue had been settled. And that the Brick Presbyterian church had prosecuted the Corporation, for an infringement by means ofthe law in question, as was alleged, of their right to bury and to permit burials, in their ground, near the Park; which right they claimed under a lease to them from the Common Council - in which suit the damages claim ed were thirty thousand dollars. They added that there were belonging to the different churches, with in the prohibited limits, 87 public and 2117 private vaults; and that during the year preceding the passage of the Law, there were 821 inter ments within those limits, namely, in graves 501, in public vaults 256, and in private vaults 64. And they concluded, by submitting to the Board, the question, Whether the proposed alteration in the Law ought to be made, without expressing any opinion on the same. 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.