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CHAPTER IV
PLANNING, BUILDING, AND OPENING
BY an act of the New York legislature of April 17, 1816,[1] the canal commissioners were ordered to send to the legislature "a plain and comprehensive Report of their proceedings;" their duty was to find a route for the projected canal, estimate the expense, ascertain on what terms the state of New York could secure loans, and to apply for donations of both land and money.[2]
The committee met at New York May 17, 1816, and organized. The proposed line of the canal was divided into three sections and an engineer was appointed for each.
- ↑ See appendix A.
- ↑ The material for the earlier portions of this chapter is largely from the annual reports of the canal commissioners from 1816 to 1825 contained in Public Documents relating to the New-York Canals (New York, 1821), pp. 103–185, 311–333, 344–365, 429–450, and Laws of the State of New-York relative to the Canals, vol. ii, pp. 60–78, 95–118, 150–180.
