[99] Doc. No. 134, Twenty-fourth Congress, 2d Session, Vol. ii.
[100] Doc. 129, State Papers, 1819-21, Vol. ii.
[101] See Part I, Chapter II.
[102] "Allowed itself." The various New York legislatures from the end of the eighteenth century on were hotbeds of corruption. Time after time members were bribed to pass bills granting charters for corporations or other special privileges. (See the numerous specific instances cited in the author's "History of Tammany Hall," and subsequently in this work.) The Legislature of 1827 was notoriously corrupt.
[103] Journal of the [New York] Senate, 1815:216—Journal of the [New York] Assembly, 1818:261; Journal of the Assembly, 1819. Also "A Statement and Exposition of The Title of John Jacob Astor to the Lands Purchased by him from the surviving children of Roger Morris and Mary, his Wife"; New York, 1827.
[104] MSS. Minutes of the (New York City) Common Council, xvi:239-40 and 405.
[105] Ibid., xx: 355-356.
[106] MSS. Minutes of the Common Council, xiii: 118 and 185.
[107] MSS. Minutes of the Common Council, xvii: 141-144. See also Annual Report of Controller for 1849, Appendix A.
[108] MSS. Minutes of the Common Council, xviii: 411-414.