APPENDIX IV.
 

WARDS INCLUDED WITHIN THE MUNICIPALITY HERETOFORE
KNOWN AS THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COMMONALTY OF
THE CITY OF NEW YORK, CONTINUED AND DESIGNATED AS
THE WARDS OF THE BOROUGHS OF MANHATTAN AND THE
BRONX, BY CHARTER § 1578, ante.

Division into wards.   First ward.

I.  The city of New Y'ork contains all that part of this state compre¬
hended within the bounds of the county of New York, and is divided into
twenty-four "wards, in the manner following, that is to say:

The first ward shall begin in the middle of Broadway, at a point where
it is intersected by the middle of Liberty street, and run from the said
point of intersection, through the middle of Liberty street, south-easterly,
to the middle of Maiden lane; then down the middle of Maiden lane, and
from thence in a straight line running in the same direction across the
East river, to low-water mark on Nassau or Long Island; and thence
along Nassau or Long Island shore, at low-water mark, to the south side
of Red Hook; and then across Hudson river, so as to include Nutten or
Governor's Island, Bedloe's Island, Bucking or Ellis Island and the Oyster
Islands, and all the waters of this state in the bay of New York, and to
the southward thereof, and which are not comprehended in any other
county, to low-water mark on the west side of Hudson river, or so far as
the bounds of this state extend; then up along the west side of Hudson
river, at low-water mark, or along the limits of this state, to a place due
west from the middle of the west end of Liberty street; then to the
middle of Liberty street; then through the middle of Liberty street to the
middle of Broadway, at the place of beginning.    (L. 1883, ch. 410, § 2,)

Second ward.

II.  The second ward shall begin at the south-easterly corner of the first
ward, and run thence along the easterly bounds thereof, across the East
river to the middle of Broadway; then up the middle of Broadway to
a point opposite the middle of Park row; then through the middle of
Park row to a point opposite to the middle of Spruce (formerly George)
street; then down the middle of Spruce street to the middle of Gold
street; then through the middle of Gold street to a point opposite to the
middle of Ferry street; then through the middle of Ferry street, in a line
running in the same direction across the East river to Nassau or Long
Island, to low-water mark; then along Nassau or Long Island, at lo'w
water, to the place of beginning.    (L. 1882, ch. 410, § 3.)