Scope and Content Note
Most of the documents are statements of deposit of Canal Fund monies in banks across the state.
The statements vary in format because they were submitted on bank stationery, but they generally give date of statement, name of bank, and amounts deposited on various dates. Mixed in with the statements are receipts, cancelled checks, certificates of deposit, lists of canal toll deposits, and resolutions of bank board of directors for deposit of funds by the Commissioners of the Canal Fund. Deposit of surplus monies of the Canal Fund in banks was authorized by a law of 1831.
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