[14] The reformers of the city had unsuccessfully sought to incorporate in the charter of 1853, a clause requiring a two-thirds vote to overcome a veto.
[15] Documents of the Board of Aldermen, 1865, part 1, No. 1.
[16] Senate Documents, 1865, Vol. II, No. 38, pp. 75-76.
[17] Ibid., pp. 166-70, etc.
[18] Ibid., pp. 252-56.
[19] City Inspector’s Report for 1863. The wretched condition of the city about this time caused the Legislature to establish the Metropolitan Board of Health, to have jurisdiction over the counties of New York, Kings, Westchester and Richmond and certain other territory. This board’s first report declared that the hygienic conditions of the city were disgusting and horrible; that epidemics were frequent, and that one-third of the deaths occurring in New York and Brooklyn were due to zymotic diseases. See Report of Metropolitan Board of Health, 1866, p. 133.
[20] Senate Documents, 1865, No. 38.
[21] Loew was several times a Sachem, holding that rank as late as 1886.
[22] See Judgment Roll (1867) in the Superior Court docket and Exhibit A, forming part of the bill of particulars.
[23] He was defeated by Reuben E. Fenton.