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Scope and Content Note

This series consists of a ledger of accounts of the Commissioners of the Canal Fund (through 1826), and of the Canal and the State of New York (starting in 1827). A penciled note in the front of the volume explains that this was merely a change in bookkeeping procedure.

The volume contains accounts with the Canal Commissioners, with the Superintendents of Repairs, and with banks in New York City and Albany, in which monies of the Canal Fund were deposited. The volume also includes accounts for expenses on various canals and for interest on canal stock. At the front are balance sheets for the Canal Fund for 1824 and 1825.