Scope and Content Note
Five booklets containing estimates were submitted to the Canal Commissioners by the resident engineer for various improvements on Erie (eastern division), Champlain, and Black River canal sections, locks, dams, docks and piers.
Entries give: location of improvement; quantity and value of material used; name of contractor; and labor performed.
Booklets are dated September, November, December, 1867, and January, October 1868, and are addressed to R.C. Dorn, Canal Commissioner; each booklet contains at the end a statement of the resident attesting to the accuracy of the statements contained therein. A law of 1826 provided for estimates for contracts and repairs, and bills for same, to be routed through the Canal Commissioners.
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