sixty-seven degrees and fifteen minutes east, two chains; thence north twenty-two degrees and forty-five minutes east, two chains and fifty links; thence south sixty-seven degrees and fifteen minutes west, two chains to the place of beginning, containing half an acre. Premises conveyed the 10th August, 1825, by Henry Malercy and wife, of the town of Florida, county of Montgomery, to the people of the State of New-York.

All that certain piece or parcel of land, lying and being situate in the town, county and State aforesaid, and bounded as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of lock house number twenty-one, and running south sixty-nine degrees and thirty minutes east, along the bank of canal three chains and nine links; thence south twenty degrees and thirty minutes west, three chains and twenty-five links to stake on hill; thence north sixty-nine degrees and thirty minutes west, three chains and nine links to a spruce stake; thence north twenty degrees and thirty minutes east, three chains and twentyfive links, to place of beginning, containing one acre and a little rising, be the same more or less.

Premises conveyed 25th November, 1824, by Jno. A. Marsellis, Hugh Mitchell and Gesrua Schemerhorn, to the people of the State of New-York.

All that certain piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the town of Rotterdam, county of Schenectady and State aforesaid, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the head of said lock on the south side, and running on a line at right angles with said lock, to the highway; thence easterly along said highway to fifty feet easterly from a house at present occupied by Nicholas V. Schermerhorn it being the first dwelling-house west of Lansim Schermerhorn's tavern; thence on a line at right angles with said road to the south bank of the aforesaid canal; thence along the bank of said canal to the place of beginning.

Premises conveyed 11th November 1824, by John A. Ehle and and Catharine his wife, of the town of Canajoharie, county of Montgomery, to the people of the State of New-York.

All that certain piece or lot of ground, situate, lying and being in Canajoharie aforesaid, and on which the lock house is placed, and bounded as follows: On the west by the premises of the said John A. Ehle; south by the highway, being west of the dwelling house of Nicholas N. Van Alstine; north by the said Erie canal, and extending east on the highway to a large stone set in the ground, and thence in a straight line to said canal, at a point ten feet below the lock aforesaid.

Premises conveyed 22d February 1826, by Pelig Freeman of the town of German Flatts, in the county Herkimer and State of New-York, to the State of New-York.

All that certain piece or parcel of land, situate on the south side of the Mohawk river in said town of German Flatts, and being part of the farm that the said party of the first part now lives on, and is bounded as follows, viz: Beginning on the south bank of the Erie

canal, opposite lock number four, and on the easterly bounds of the aforesaid farm; and runs thence along the same south nineteen degrees west, one chain and seventy five links to the east bank of the Fulmer creek; thence down along the same north forty-nine degrees west, one chain and twenty-five links to the southwest wing of the aforesaid lock; thence to place of beginning, containing seventeen perches of land, be the same more or less.

Premises conveyed 26th December 1826, by Conrad Rickard of the town Root, county of Montgomery and State of New-York, to the State of New-York.

All that certain piece or parcel of land adjoining the public road that runs along the south side of the Erie canal, and west of the small creek that empties into the Mohawk river east of the Big Nose in the town of Root, county of Montgomery and State of New-York, containing half or three-fourths of an acre of land. ("To dig gravel, stone and clay to repair the Erie canal and other uses.")

Premises conveyed the 1st November 1826, by Nicholas P. Clute, of the town of Rotterdam and county of Schenectady and State of New-York, to the people of the State of New-York.

One half of a certain spring of water situate in the town of Rotterdam, county of Schenectady and State of New-York, on the farm of the said N. P. Clute, near his dwelling house, under or near a large tree that stands about eight rods north of Clute's house.

Premises leased 7th February 1827, by Harmanus A. Van Slyck of the town of Rotterdam and county of Schenectady, to the people of the State of New-York, for six years.

All that certain piece of land situate in the town of Rotterdam, county of Schenectady and State of New-York, and bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake in the fence on the line between John B. Yates and the said H. A. Van Slyck, and running along the said line north seventy-eight degrees west, five chains and thirty-eight links to a small apple tree; thence north twelve degrees east, two chains to stake south side of road that runs along the canal bank; thence south fifty degrees east, one chain and seventy-five links along the said road; thence south sixty degrees east, four chains to the place of beginning, containing eighty rods of land; to take stone and gravel for repairing the Erie canal for the time above mentioned.

Premises conveyed 2d August, 1824, by Samuel Hoar and Timothy J. Campbell, both of the town of Frankfort in the county of Herkimer, to the people of the State of New-York.

All that certain piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the town and county aforesaid, and described as follows: Beginning at the south bank of the Erie canal in the centre of the highway where it crosses the said Erie canal below lock No. 1, and running thence along the said highway south eighty-two degrees and twenty-five minutes west, one chain and eighty-nine links; thence north two degrees and fifty minutes west, three chains and seventy-four links, or until it

strikes the southern bank of the Erie canal; thence down along the said bank to the place of beginning, containing about thirty-four hundredths of an acre of land; reserving the right and privilege at all times to enter in and upon the above described premises to repair, build and rebuild water conductors or aqueduct logs, penstocks, and all things appertaining or necessary for the conducting of water upon and through the above described premises.

Premises conveyed 2d August, 1824, by Henry F. Myers, of the town of Frankfort in the county of Herkimer, to the people of the State of New-York.

All that or those pieces or parcel of land situtate in the town of Frankfort in the county of Herkimer, and bounded as follows: Beginning on the southerly bank of the Erie canal, where the line of Lands between the said Henry F. Myers and Andrew Pipers crosses the said canal, and runs thence south forty-three degrees west, one chain and sixty-seven links; thence south thirty-eight degrees and twenty minutes east, six chains; thence north forty-three degrees east, one chain and sixty-seven links to the said canal; thence northwesterly on the bank of the said canal to the place of beginning, containing one acre of land. And also a road leading from the above described premises to the bridge next below lock No. 2, on the said Erie canal and across the said bridge; and from thence, as the road now runs, to a gate on the line of the highway leading from Albany to Utica, reserving the right and privilege of keeping two gates, to wit: one gate on the said bridge, and one at or on the line of the said highway leading from Albany to Utica.

Premises conveyed the twentieth day of February, 1823, by Nicholas Miller, of the town of German Flatts, county of Herkimer, to the people of the State of New-York.

All that piece or parcel of land lying and being in the town of German Flatts, county of Herkimer and State of New-York, known and distinguished by being a part of lot number twenty-eight in Petrie's patent: Beginning at a stake near the foot of lock No. 7, on the south side of the Erie canal, and running south one chain and sixty links to N. line of road; thence along the line of said road N. 80 W. three chains and eighty-six links; thence S. 84 W. three chains; thence N. 3 W. seventy-five links to the bank of the canal; thence N. 82 E. two chains and ninety-three links along the bank of the canal; thence N. 88 E. three chains and ninety links to place of beginning, containing seventy hundredths of an acre of land, more or less.

Premises conveyed 30th March, 1826, by George Tibbits, Nathan Warren, Richard P. Hart and Philip Schuyler to the people of the State of New-York.

All those two lots, pieces or parcels of land situate, lying and being in the town of Watervliet, in the county of Albany, known and distinguished on a certain map of the town plot of West Troy, made by William Roberts, junior, for the trustees of the proprietors of West Troy, as lot No. forty-six, situate on the west side of Erie

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street and lot No. seven, situate on the south side of Union-street, lot No. forty-six, being fifty front and rear and one hundred and twenty feet deep, with side lines at right angles with said street; and lot No. seven, being thirty-one feet front and rear and sixty feet deep, with side lines at right angles with said Union-street. Premises conveyed the fourteenth day of June, in the year 1826, by Thomas Hardin, of Utica, in the county of Oneda, and Priscilla his wife, to the people of the State of New-York.

All that certain piece or parcel of land, being part of subdivision number eight, which is part of great lot number 98, Cosby's Manor, and part of a piece of land deeded to the party of the first part by Arthur Breese and Ann his wife: Beginning at the south bank of the Erie canal at the north-west corner of said piece of land deeded by said Breese and Ann his wife to said Thomas Harden; and running from thence on said Harden's west line to the front of a stone wall standing at the foot of the embankment of said canal; thence on said west line six rods to a stake; thence in an easterly direction to the centre of Nail Creek; thence down the centre of said creek five rods to the south front of the stone aqueduct over said creek; thence along the canal bank to the place of beginning.

EXHIBIT M.

In Committee, 12th May, 1832.

Onondaga, August 3d, 1831. Dear Sir-As you particularly requested me to inform you by letter whether any thing was done or not, by the Canal Board at their meeting on the 28th of July last, in relation to the survey of the canals I now inform you that the Board did not make any order upon that subject. Some of the members of the Board intimated that no order would be made by that Board until a map and field notes were submitted, as required by law; and that they considered it the duty of the Canal Commissioners to have the surveys and maps made. Yours with respect,

JACOB TRUMPBOUR, Esq.

JONAS EARLL, Jun.

(No. 1.)

In Committee of the Assembly-10th April, 1832,

Present-Mr. HOWELL,

Mr. McDONALD,

Mr. HAMMOND, Chairman.

Hiram Greenman's Deposition.

Hiram Greenman, a witness produced on the part of Jacob Trumpbour the memorialist, being sworn, deposes as follows:

1 Q. Do you know the hand-writing of Henry Seymour, late acting Canal Commissioner?

[A. No. 835]

A. I think I do. I know it the same as I know the hand of others whose writing I have not seen more than I have his. have frequently scen him write.

2 Q. Is the paper now shown to you, marked C, in the handwriting of the said Seymour?

A. I think it his writing. It varies a little, but I think it is his.

The paper is read and marked by the chairman. The following is a copy:

"JACOB TRUMPBOUR, Esq.

"Utica, April 7th, 1829.

"Dear Sir-The bearer is Mr. Hutchinson, who made proposals for surveying the canals. He will confer with you on the subject of dividing the job with you, and any agreement which you may make with him, not more disadvantageous to the State than Mr. Hutchinson's proposition, will be acceptable to the Canal ComWith much respect,

missioners.

Sworn and taken in eommittee, the 10th April, 1832.

J. HAMMOND, Chairman.

Your obedient servant,

HENRY SEYMOUR."

(No. 2.)

Lot Clark's Deposition.

The Committee met-April 14, 1832.

Lot Clark, a witness produced on the part of Jacob Trumpbour, the memorialist, being sworn, deposes as follows:

1 Q. Is the letter which you now hold in your hand in the hand+writing of Henry Seymour ?

A. It is. I received it from him a few days after it bears date. I believe it was brought to me by Mr. Trumpbour himself.

The following is a copy of said letter:

"Utica, Dec. 7th, 1829. "Dear Sir-The engineers who were engaged in surveying the canal have closed their labors for the season, and I am under the necessity of engaging on your behalf to pay them for the journey and time spent at Lockport, which will be an extra expense and charge to them. Judge Trumpbour goes out on this service instead of Mr. Hutchinson. I have paid him twenty dollars, which I will charge to you, and the balance you will please pay Judge Trumpbour; his charge will be $3 and all expenses.

LOT CLARK, Esq."

Yours respectfully,
H. SEYMOUR.

3 Q. Did Henry Seymour, at any time previous to the 29th of November, 1829, inform you that Jacob Trumpbour had been em