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THE ICONOGRAPHY OF MANHATTAN ISLAND
 

3   Senators, Merabers of the House of Representatives In Town,
.    foreign pubUc characters, and all the respectable dtizens, came be-
I    tween the hours of 12 and 3 o'dock, to pay the compliments of the
season to me—and in the afternoon a great number of gentiemen
and ladies visited Mrs Wasbington on the same occasion."—Wash¬
ington's Diary (Lossing ed,), 65,
;         Mrs, Byrne announces her reraoval to that "large, degant and

convenient dwelling bouse and garden, lately occupied by Col.
Burr, and directiy opposite to her late dwelling, corner of Nassau
and Little Queen Streets.  .  .   ."—Daily Adv., Ja ^, 171)0.
5         The senate meets at the federal haU for the beginning ot the

second session ot the first congress, a quorum bring present.—/our.
ofWm.Maclay, 173.

Washington records:  "Sat from half after 8 o'dock tiU 10 for
tbe portrait painter, Mr Savage, to finish the picture of me which
he had begun [see D 21, 1789) for the University of Cambridge."—
Waskingion's Diary (ed, hy Lossing, i860), 66,
I         Washington describes in bis diary the circumstantial detaUs of

bia going to the city ball and reading, in the aenate charaber, tbe
"oral coraraunication" which, as he recorded on Jan, 4, he desired
to deliver to congress.—Diary of Waskingon (ed. by Lossing,
i860), 67-6S. The raethod ot reading messages to congresa, by the
president, was discontinued after Prea. John Adama's time, and not
revived until 1913, by Preaident Wilson.—N. Y. Times, Ap  7,

)         Washington records that on this day he "Exercised with M's

Washington and the children In the coach the 14 miles round."—
Waskingon's Diary (Lossing ed.), 68, "The route was by tbe old
Kings-Bridge road, which passed over Murray HiU, where Lex¬
ington Avenue now does, to McGowan's Pass at about One Hundred
and Eighth Stieet; then across on a line with the Harlera River to
Blooraingdale, and so down on the westerly side of the Island."—
Ibid., footnote. Cf. D ii, 1789.
!         This ia tbe day appointed for the convening of the legislature in

"rooms in the building over the Exchange Bridge."—See D 25,
1789. Subsequent sesalona were also hdd there, until March 12,
1793—^"«™''-/our. (1790), 3; (1791), 3; (179^), 3: (1792-93).
3,242,247; Senate Jour. (i7<jo),y, (1791), 31 (179^). 3! ('792-
93), 3, 114, 117. The legislature convened at Albany on Jan, 7,
1794 (q.v.).

Waahington communicatea to both houses of congress "tian-
scripts of the adoption and ratification ot the New Consritution
by the State ot North Carolina."—H'ai/iing/on'i Diary (Loasing
ed.), 69.

At 11 o'dock in the morning the senate waits on Pres. Washing¬
ton "at his house in Cherry-street," and presents an address in
answer to his speech at the opening ot the session. This address,
dated Jan. 11, and signed by Vice-President Adams, tbe president
of the senate, is replied to briefly by Washington.

At 12 o'dock, likewise, the house of representatives presents
an address, signed by Frederick A. Muhlenberg, speaker, wfiich ia
likewise briefly acknowledged.—N. Y. Jour., Ja 21, 1790; W. Y.
Mag., Ja, 1790, p. 59. The members of both houses came in car¬
riages, the representatives "with the Mace preceding the Speaker."
—Washington's Diary (Lossing ed,), 71,

The assembly appoints a committee "to prepare and bring in a
hiU agreeable to the concurrent resolution of the Senate and Assem¬
bly of July last [but see Jl 13,1789], concerning Fort George, In the city
ot New-York, and the lands adjoining the same."—Assemi. Jour.
(1790), 6. The biU waa introduced on Feb. 4 (q.v.).

Washington records in bis diary (Lossing ed., 71) the names of
his guests at dinner on this day, one of whom, William Maday,
thus refers to the event: "It was a great dinner—ail In the taste of
high life. I considered It as a part of ray duty as a Senator to sub¬
mit to it, and am glad it Is over. The President Is a cold, formal
raan; but I raust dedare that be treated rae with great attention.
I was the first person with whom he drank a glass ot wine. I was
often spoken to by bira. Yet he knows bow rigid a repubUcan I
ara.",—Maclay's Jour., 177.

On hearing a committee report on the city's indebtedness to the
Bank of New York, the common council orders that a bond of the
corporation be issued for the payraent of £1,502:4:11, witb inter¬
est at seven percent.—M. C, C. (1784-1831), I:  516,

The raayor presents to the board the draft ot a petition to tbe
legislature for a law authorizing the raiaing ot raoney by lottery or
otherwiae "to discharge tbe Debt incurred by this Corporation for
 

repairing & iraproving the City HaU."   This is agreed to.—Ibid.   Jan.
See F 19.                                                                                              15

He also presents the draft ot a petition tor a law "to raise £11000
by Tax for the support of the Poor k other contingent Expenses of
this City k County the ensuing year." This ia alao agreed to.—
Ibid.  See also D 10, 1788; Ja 17, 1791.

The common council orders " that the Treasurer be directed to "
seU, in manner most advantageous, on or before the 20'h April
next, tbe Buildings, situate in tbe Rear of the Alms House, forraerly
occupied as Barracks—tbe Purchaser or Purchasers to remove all
tbe Materials by the first day of June next."—jW. C. C, (1784-183 i),
I: 516. On Jan. 19, Danid Phoenix, dty treasurer, advertised for
proposals,—Daily Adv., Jan. 19, 1790, These barracks were built
in 1757-8 (9.0.).—L. M. R. K., HI:  924.

Washington records: "Still indisposed with an aching tooth, 18
and swdled and inflamed gum."—Washlngon's Diary (Losaing
ed.), 72. A curious and interesting account of the several serious
physical ailments which Washington suffered at various times was
pub. in theN. Y. Times, Mr 19, 1923, citing TheN. Y. Medical
Jour, and Medicd Record. See, further, My 10, 15, 24.

Levi Pease, ot Boston, publishes the following notice regarding 20
tbe"BostonStagc:" ". . . having contracted to carry tbe public
mail in the stage from New-York to Boaton, tor the year 1790—
commencing January tbe firat to go twice a week till the first ot
May, and three times a week trora first May to first November,
and to employ a person to go thro' with the mail to take Care of it.
He engages that this conductor shaU transact aU private business
comraitted to hira with fiddity at a reasonable Coraraission—he
wiU carry bundles, raoney, newspapers, kc. And may be seen every
Wednesday, and Saturday Evening in New York, at Fraunces
Tavern, in Boston at the subscribers House, in Hartford at Fred¬
erick BuU's Coffee House,

"Four active men are now engaged as Conductors, who have
given bonds for the faithful discharge ot their trust,"

The announcement adds that "Tbe Boaton, Albany and Phila¬
ddphia Stages now put up at Fraunces' Tavern, Cortlandt-Street,
where passengers will please to apply."—Gaz. of the U. S., Ja 20,
1790. This system of expressage or parcd-post between New York
aod Boston antedated by many years the so-caUed first express
line wbich was established by Wm, F. Harnden in 1839.—See
1838-1839; Loasing,Hj«. ofN. Y. City, I:  378-80.

Waahington records:  " Exercised on horseback in the forenoon.   21
Called in my ride on the Baron de Polnltz, to see the operation ot
his (Winlaw's) threshing machine." He describes It,—Washlngon's
Diary (Lossing ed.), 72.

An advertisement is published asking tor sealed proposals, prior 25
to Jan. 31, "for building a brick houae, forty feet long, by twenty-
five teet wide, for the use of the Free Scholars of the Firat Presby¬
terian Church In this city." Ebenezer Hazard, on Broadway, has
the plan ot tbe building.—Daily Adv., Ja 2^, 1790. The buUding was
finished and occupied in October.—See O 8. It stood on Nassau
St., between Liberty and Cedar Sts., opposite the Middle Dutch
Church.—Proceedings of the Trustees of tbe First Presbyterian
Church (1784-1809), Vol. n (MS.); Session Book (MS.).

The assembly cdncurs in a senate resolution tbat Francis ChUds 27
be appointed "Printer to the State," The resolution requires that
he shall print the state laws, the journals ot both bouses of the legis¬
lature, and that in his newspaper he ahaU pubUah the governor's
proclamations, etc, ali for the sura of £100 per annum, the printer
to furnish the paper,—Assemb. Jour., 13th sess., 20.

The "rdlgious aoclety called Quakers" having presented to the 28
assembly an address "relative to permitting vessels to fit out in the
port of New-York for the coast of Africa, for slaves," a committee
of the assembly, while agreeing "in sentiment with tbe petitioners
respecting the slave trade," deem it Iraproper tor the legislature to
interfere, in as rauch as "the right ot regulation is vested eicluaivdy
in the Congresa of the United States."—-Assemb. Jour., I3tb sess.,

The coramon council orders that fire buckets be raade ot auffi-   29
dent size to hold 2! gals, of water.—M. C. C. (1784-1831), I;  517.
The city pays £2:5  for  making  constables'  and  marshals'    "
es, and £4:13:101 for painting thera.—M. C. C. (1784-1831),
 

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mraittee appointed on Jan, 15 (M, C. C, 1784-1831, I;
io May 13,1789) to repott on the future disposition of the
lousc, and the best manner of disposing of the stalls and