[2] Testimony Senate Committee on Cities, 1890, Vol. II, pp. 1711-12.
[3] The amendments to the charter of 1857 had abolished the Board of Councilmen and reinstituted the Board of Aldermen and the Board of Assistant Aldermen, the two constituting the Common Council. The “Tweed charter” continued these two boards, legislating the then incumbents out of office, and ordering a new election in May. The “ring,” of course, secured a large majority in this new Council.
[4] The Tweed Case, etc., Supreme Court, 1876, Vol. II, p. 1212.
[5] Document No. 8, p. 73.
[6] Ibid., pp. 84-92.
[7] Document No. 8, p. 212.
[8] Ibid., pp. 223-25.
[9] For the passage of this bill Tweed paid “in the neighborhood of $50,000 or $100,000.” Document No. 8, p. 154.
[10] While this was going on Tweed maintained the most benevolent attitude in public. At the Fourth of July celebration in the Wigwam he “called the vast assemblage to order, and with coolness, but delighting (sic) modesty, welcomed brothers and guests.” Celebration at Tammany Hall of the 94th Anniversary, etc., by the Tammany Society or Columbian Order. Published by order of the Tammany Society, 1870.
[11] Senate Journal, 1871, pp. 482-83.