William M. boss Tweed 1823 1878 Mayor of New York whose construction of the New York Court House and the graft associated with it nearly bankrupted New York Partly printed D.S., I p. 8yo., New York June 12 1869 approval of an invoice for surveying 145th Street from Harlem to the Hudson With two checks 1867 and 1870 signed by Tweed crooked associates Richard B. Connally and A. Oakley Hall Three pieces