Miscellaneous documents relating to canals
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Overview of the Records
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Scope and Content Note
Most of the documents in this series are vouchers, receipts, bills, clearances, and other unidentified documents.
All appear to be fragments of other series. Most are routine financial documents, but a few concern operations of the canal. Among them are: working papers for a reduction in canal tolls to compete with railroads, 1852-1853; rough minutes of the Canal Auditor, January-April 1877; a list of state stock redeemable in 1837, giving names and addresses of stock holders; report on the financial department of the State of Ohio, 1839; specifications for watch house and state scow, Cayuga and Seneca Canal, 1847; inventory of personal property conveyed by Canal Commissioner Myron Holley to Commissioners of the Canal Fund, 1825; letterheads of business concerns submitting files for payment by the Canal Commissioners; and a few printed broadsides relating to canal tolls.
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New York (State). Commissioners of the Canal Fund
New York (State). Canal Commissioners
New York (State). Department of Audit and Control
New York (State). Office of the Chief Clerk of the Canal Department
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