The Mayor, C., of New-York v. . Colgate

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] Neither the act of 1787, regulating the buildings, streets, wharves and slips in the city of New-York, or that of 1801, with the same title, conferred the power to take lands for the purpose of altering streets; and the authority granted was consequently limited to those cases which did not require the exercise of the right of eminent domain. The assessments made by virtue of those statutes for sums expended for streets, c., were to be imposed by commissioners,…