Excerpt from Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York, 1784-1831, Vol. 10: September 7, 1818 to February 28, 1820 A Petition of the Captains of the, Second District of the City Watch, complaining of the insufficiency of the present caps of the Watchmen - was read and referred to the Watch Committee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.