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NOTE.

London is regarded as being exceedingly well supplied with water. The ten Water Companies supplied recently (probably in 1856), 81,025,822 gallons to 328,561 houses. Taking the individuals in each house at six, and the supply is 41 gallons to each individual using the water. But if the consumption be averaged upon the whole population, (say 2,400,000) the individual consumption is little less than 33 gallons. The gallons used are probably imperial gallons, which are larger than our wine gallons.

RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.

STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES MADE BY THE COCHITUATE WATER BOARD, FROM DECEMBER 31ST, 1855, TO JANUARY 1ST, 1857.

Beacon Hill Reservoir, for labor, &c., $462 79

Cash paid the City Treasurer.

Amount paid by the former Clerk,

$965 43

(Including the expense of the Water Registrar's office.)

Statement of the Expenditures and Receipts, on account of the Water Works, to Jan. 1st, 1857.