Yours, &c.,
John How,
Mayor.
Mayor’s Office. City Hall, Brooklyn,
January 24th, 1857.
H. R. Helper, Esq.,
Sir:—
The answers to your inquiries are as follows:
The last assessment of property in this city was made in August, 1856.
The value of all the real and personal property in the city, according to that assessment, is $95,800,440.
A census of the city was taken in 1855, and the number of inhabitants, according to it, was 205,250.
The estimated population now is 225,000.
The last annual report of the Comptroller, together with a communication of the Mayor to the Common Council, made on the 5th of Jan., 1857, have been transmitted by mail to your address, and from them you may be able to obtain any further information you may desire. Yours, respectfully.
S. S. Powell,
Mayor.
By C. S. Brainerd.