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The following statement will show the average number of em- 

 ployed force during the several months of the year, together with 

 a comparative table of force for a partial corresponding season of 

 I860: 



STATEMENT SHOWING THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF EMPLOYED 

 FORCE FOR THE MONTHS AND YEARS NOTED. 



Work Commenced on the Park, July, 1866. 



Year. 



Jan. 



Feb. 



Mar. 



April. May. June. 



July. 



Aug. 



Sept. 



Oct. 



Nov. 



Dec. 



1S66. 









| 





325 



450 



550 



620 



700 



725 











| 







1867. 



TOO 



630 



410 



800 Ll.OOO 



1,150 



1,200 



1,525 



1,750 



1,825 



1,800 



1,100 



There were 289 working days for the year, giving an average of 

 24 days per month. 



From the foregoing statement it will be seen that the largest 

 force employed, collectively, at any time during the season, was be- 

 tween eighteen and nineteen hundred men, although, owing to 

 changes continually occurring, employment, for a period of from half 

 a day to three days, was given to at least three thousand different 

 individuals during the year. 



The scheme of organization remains substantially the same as 

 last year, consisting in the division of the labor force into gangs of 

 convenient size, each with a competent foreman and assistant, the 

 whole being under the direct charge and supervision of a general 

 foreman, who is responsible for the efficiency of the force. He 

 suggests all details, and transfers, and recommends promotions, 

 removals, &c. 



The foremen are responsible for the exact execution of the 

 orders they receive from the general foreman, and are required to 

 make their men work industriously and effectively during all the 

 time for which they give them credit in their time-books. When, 

 therefore, from any cause, they cannot secure profitable labor, with 

 good order, from any man, cart, or team, they must immediately 

 withdraw him or it from the work, and so of the whole gang, or any 

 part of it. 



To enable them to carry out these requirements, foremen are 

 given the power of suspending any one, or any number, or all, of 

 their men, teams and carts, at any moment, and are required to 

 report every day in writing (a convenient jirinted form being pro- 



