Report of the Superintendent of Public Works Relative to the Trade and Tonnage of the Canals |
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10-foot lift abutments Albany April aqueduct arch Cast-iron Arch culvert Assistant Superintendent balance-beam bank Basin berme Black River canal boats Box culvert bulkhead Bushnell's Basin Canal Board Canal Repairs Cayuga and Seneca cement Champlain canal change bridge Chenango canal Cohoes Compo'te construction creek cubic yards culvert December docking Draft to apply dredge east Erie canal Estimate for engineering Expended by Assistant Fair farm bridge feet long fender planks Free Fultonville Genesee Genesee Valley canal Glens Falls Glens Falls feeder guard-lock Highway iron chords Iron Iron lineal feet lock-gates Lock-tending Lockport lower gates mile west Miscellaneous mitre-sill Mohawk river navigation needle-beams northward Lock Oneida Lake Oswego canal pier rebuilt replanked reservoir road bridge scow season September 30 side-cut slope-wall spans Stone street bridge Sup't Superintendent of Canal Superintendent of Public timber Total truss Wood upper gate valves vertical wall Waste weir waste-weir West Troy Western Division Wrought-iron
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Page 204 - The Legislature shall not sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the Erie canal, the Oswego canal, the Champlain canal, the Cayuga and Seneca canal, or the Black River canal; but they shall remain the property of the State and under its management forever.
Page 204 - ... and the principal and interest of said debt shall be met as provided in the fifth section of this article. All contracts for work or materials on any canals shall be made with the person who shall offer to do or provide the same at the lowest price with adequate security for their performance. No extra compensation shall be made to any contractor ; but if, from any unforeseen cause, the terms of any contract shall prove to be unjust and oppressive, the canal board may, upon the application of...
Page 207 - Sawed lath of less than ten feet in length, split lath, hoop poles, hand spikes, rowing oars, broom handles, spokes, hubs, treenails, fellies, boat and ship knees, plane stocks, pickets for fences, railroad ties, last blocks, stuff (manufactured or partly manufactured) for boxes, chairs and bedsteads, hop poles, brush handles, brush backs, looking-glass backs, gun stocks, plow beams and plow handles 0...
Page 204 - ... each fiscal year be appropriated and set apart for the sinking fund constituted for the payment of the principal and the interest of the aforesaid debt. But the Legislature may, in its discretion, impose for the fiscal year beginning on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, a State tax on each dollar of the valuation of the property in...
Page 202 - ... revenues of the canals, the surplus revenues of the canals, after paying the cost of collection, superintendence and ordinary repairs, shall in each fiscal...
Page 204 - ... as the same shall become due and payable, and the proceeds of such tax shall, in each fiscal year, be appropriated and set apart for the sinking fund constituted for the payment of the principal and the interest of the aforesaid debt.
Page 204 - October, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, a state tax on each dollar of the valuation of the property in this state which may by law then be subject to taxation, sufficient, with the accumulations of the sinking fund applicable thereto, to pay in full both the principal and interest of the canal debt before mentioned, and the proceeds of such tax shall be appropriated and set apart for the sinking fund constituted for the payment of the principal and the interest of said debt.
Page 207 - Boards, planks, scantling, railroad ties, pickets for fences and sawed timber, siding, lath and other sawed stuff, less than one inch thick, reduced to inch measure (except such as is enumerated in Lumber No. 3...
Page 204 - Resolved (if the assembly concur), That the foregoing amendments be referred to the...
Page 207 - On boards, plank, scantling and sawed timber, reduced to inch measure, and all siding, lath and other sawed stuff, less than one inch thick (except such as is enumerated in...