Scope and Content Note
This series consists of printed forms submitted by division engineers to the State Engineer and Surveyor pursuant to the legislation authorizing a specific canal construction project. The abstracts were submitted monthly, and deal mainly with administration costs incurred during the project.
The abstracts provide the name of the division engineer; division (eastern, middle, western); period covered by the abstract; voucher number; date; to whom paid; position (division and resident engineers, assistants, leveler, draftsman, rodman, chainman, clerk and laborer); salary; amounts paid for stationery and printing, livery, fuel and light, postage, office rent, telephone and telegraph and miscellaneous; to whom paid; the total amount paid to each work force member; column totals; a sworn statement by the division engineer attesting to the fact that the abstract is a true and accurate account of all costs incurred and work performed; the signature of the State Engineer and Surveyor; date; the category to which the abstract applies (ordinary repairs, extraordinary repairs, general funds, bridges, surveys for the Court of Claims, hydrography, repairs and regular canal surveys); and authorizing legislation.
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