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Mayors Office

Brooklyn, NY Febry 28th 1883

Genl. John Newton

&c. &c. &c.

My dear Sir:

I have arranged with Mayor Edson that the Committee of Examination and inquiry in the matter of the N.Y. Brooklyn Bridge shall stand as at the beginning, viz: to include Hon. Wm. R. Grace & myself, Having consulted with Mr. Grace, I now have to inform you that we both are of one mind as to the undesirableness of an inquiry into the quantities of materials used in the Bridge construction, which inquiry can at best lead, as stated in your letter of 23rd instant, not to exact but to only approximate results, with the degree of