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These vouchers were submitted to a Canal Commissioner and are accompanied by a receipt for money paid by him.
Vouchers specify the nature of the debt incurred by the state in connection with the Enlargement: appraising property; moving buildings; advertising for proposal; excavating earth; constructing or altering locks, waste weirs, dams, and other canal structures; etc. The earlier vouchers include a separate receipt, while the later ones are printed forms bearing the receipt on the same sheet. The vouchers are numbered consecutively from 1 to 5400. Vouchers for the Erie Canal Enlargement from 1849 to its completion in 1862 are presumed to be destroyed.
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