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Excerpt from An Abstract of the Laws of the State: And Ordinances of the Corporation of the City of New York, in Relation to Vessels, Wharves, Slips, Piers, Basins, Wrecks and Salvage
The 2d section of this act confers the power to lay out regular streets, or wharves, of the width of seventy feet in front of those parts of the city which adjoin to the East and North Rivers; and, as the buildings of the city shall be ex tended, to lengthen and extend the wharves and streets.
The 3d section entitles the owners of water lots to the ground which shall be covered by the corporation in the con struction of streets and wharves, if they shall pay the expense of their filling up: and the 4th section empowers the corpo ration to levy for the said expenses by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such proprietors, or the Occupants?
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