Miscellaneous documents relating to canals

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Overview of the Records

Repository
New York State Archives
222 Madison Avenue
Albany, NY 12230
Summary
The documents in this series from Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department consist of vouchers, receipts, bills, clearances, and unidentified documents. Most are routine financial documents but a few concern canal operations.
Title
Miscellaneous documents relating to canals
Quantity
2 cubic feet
Inclusive Dates
Series Number
A1167
Creator
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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