If such proceedings be allowed permanently to obtain in our courts of justice, then we say that “trial by jury becomes a mockery, a delusion, and a snare.”
AN IMMORTAL PETITION.
The Wise Peter Cooper, and his most extraordinary proposal of a Tank on the summit of the City Hall, for the extinguishment of disastrous conflagrations.
[Document No. 13.]
Board of Aldermen, }
February 6, 1854. }
The following petition of Peter Cooper, in relation to the prevention and extinguishing of fire, and to give greater efficiency to the Police Department, was received and laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
D. T. Valentine,
Clerk.
To the Hon. the Mayor and Common Council of the city of New York.