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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  municipality 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  In 
  1890 
  the 
  act 
  was 
  

   repealed 
  and 
  a 
  general 
  law 
  enacted 
  which 
  surrounded 
  with 
  new 
  

   safeguards 
  contracts 
  made 
  with 
  the 
  companies 
  organized 
  under 
  

   it, 
  except 
  that 
  these 
  safeguards 
  did 
  not 
  apply 
  to 
  the 
  already 
  

   organized 
  Kamapo 
  company. 
  A 
  few 
  years 
  later, 
  under 
  chapter 
  

   985 
  of 
  the 
  laws 
  of 
  1895, 
  an 
  act 
  to 
  limit 
  and 
  define 
  the 
  powers 
  

   of 
  the 
  Kamapo 
  Water 
  Company, 
  the 
  Legislature 
  considerably 
  

   extended 
  the 
  privileges 
  granted 
  to 
  this 
  company. 
  This 
  act 
  

   gives 
  the 
  Ramapo 
  company 
  power 
  to 
  contract 
  for 
  supplying 
  to 
  

   any 
  municipality, 
  or 
  to 
  any 
  corporation, 
  public 
  or 
  private. 
  The 
  

   act 
  also 
  gives 
  to 
  the 
  company 
  powers 
  of 
  condemnation, 
  and 
  

   they 
  may 
  select 
  such 
  route 
  as 
  they 
  choose. 
  

  

  At 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  the 
  Legislature 
  considerably 
  restricted 
  the 
  

   power 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  to 
  acquire 
  an 
  additional 
  supply 
  of 
  water, 
  

   as 
  indicated 
  by 
  the 
  following: 
  In 
  1896 
  the 
  Suffolk 
  county 
  act, 
  

   preventing 
  Brooklyn 
  from 
  using 
  the 
  underground 
  waters 
  of 
  

   Suffolk 
  county, 
  was 
  passed. 
  This 
  act 
  was 
  continued 
  in 
  force 
  

   by 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  charter, 
  which 
  went 
  into 
  effect 
  January 
  1, 
  

   1898. 
  A 
  clause 
  was 
  also 
  inserted 
  in 
  the 
  Greater 
  New 
  York 
  

   charter 
  preventing 
  the 
  city 
  from 
  taking 
  water 
  from 
  a 
  supply 
  

   devoted 
  in 
  whole 
  or 
  in 
  part 
  to 
  the 
  supply 
  of 
  any 
  other 
  muni- 
  

   cipality. 
  In 
  1898-99 
  the 
  Ramapo 
  company 
  proposed 
  to 
  supply 
  

   New 
  York 
  with 
  200,000,000 
  gallons 
  of 
  water 
  daily, 
  for 
  which 
  

   the 
  City 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  was 
  to 
  pay 
  $70 
  per 
  million 
  gallons. 
  The 
  

   delivery 
  of 
  water 
  was 
  to 
  begin 
  in 
  1902. 
  

  

  Very 
  earnest 
  discussion 
  occurred 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  when 
  the 
  

   Ramapo 
  proposition 
  was 
  understood. 
  An 
  extensive 
  report 
  was 
  

   made 
  by 
  the 
  Merchants' 
  Association 
  and 
  also 
  by 
  John 
  R. 
  Free- 
  

   man 
  to 
  the 
  Comptroller, 
  showing 
  that 
  water 
  could 
  be 
  furnished 
  

   for 
  very 
  much 
  less 
  than 
  the 
  price 
  proposed 
  to 
  be 
  paid 
  to 
  the 
  

   Ramapo 
  company. 
  An 
  appeal 
  was 
  made 
  to 
  the 
  Legislature 
  and 
  

   the 
  legislation 
  was 
  modified, 
  allowing 
  the 
  city 
  to 
  construct 
  its 
  own 
  

   works. 
  

  

  There 
  are 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  available 
  sources 
  from 
  which 
  Greater 
  

   New 
  York 
  may 
  be 
  supplied 
  without 
  any 
  great 
  engineering 
  diffi- 
  

   culties. 
  These 
  sources 
  may 
  be 
  enumerated 
  as 
  : 
  

  

  1) 
  On 
  the 
  east 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  Hudson 
  river, 
  where 
  there 
  are 
  the 
  

   following: 
  the 
  Housatonic 
  and 
  Ten 
  Mile 
  rivers, 
  which 
  are, 
  how- 
  

   ever, 
  interstate 
  streams; 
  Fishkill 
  creek, 
  Wappingers 
  creek 
  and 
  

   the 
  Roeliff 
  Jansen 
  kill. 
  

  

  