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Aug. 4 Reinstated by resolution of the Commissioners of 

 the N. Y. Dept. of Public Parks, a resolution to 

 discontinue his services failing to pass. 



Nov. 13 Deposited check from Buffalo State Asylum for 

 grounds. 



Nov. 15 Submitted Preliminary Report of the Landscape 

 Architect and the Civil and Topographical En- 

 gineer (Croes) upon the laying out of the 23d and 

 24th Wards (New York City) . Report ' ' introduc- 

 tory to a series of plans for laying out the new 

 wards of the city. The first of these can, if desired, 

 be laid before the Board at its next meeting, a 

 second and third are in preparation and the whole 

 series is in progress of study." All later printed, 

 including report on local steam transit routes 

 (1877). 



D e c ' r Advice to Baltimore on Washington Monument 

 grounds. 



1877: Construction work on the United States Capitol 

 proceeding according to his plans. 



July Mentions Baltimore, Washington, and Montreal 

 as going on. 



Jul. 15 "I am warmly engaged in the fight upon the 

 (N. Y. State) Capitol just now, having been most 

 of the time the last two weeks in Albany." 



Dec. 12 Board of Commissioners of the N. Y. Dept. of 

 PubHc Parks orders Mr. Olmsted's salary, with- 

 held by Comptroller on account of charges against 

 him, to be paid. 



