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New York State Assembly; USACE archive reproduction mirrored on Wikimedia Commons
Page or archive reference: Printed/PDF page 57, Crooked Lake Canal section: lower-lock superstructure failure; intended timber rebuilding by next April; eight-mile/28-lock description. This is a proposed 1841 repair, not completion proof.
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Page or archive reference: Printed/PDF page 1: State of New York No. 72, In Assembly January 27, 1841; annual report transmitted from Albany January 25, 1841.
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Page or archive reference: Printed/PDF page 57, Chemung Canal opening paragraph: two interruptions in prior season, including a two-day stoppage caused by gates and their supporting timbers breaking down.
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Page or archive reference: Printed/PDF page 60, Great delay and inconvenience paragraph: Havana-to-Seneca inlet navigation, bars with about 32 inches of water during last three navigation months, dredging failure and proposed separate channel.
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Page or archive reference: Printed/PDF pages 61–62: chapter 192 act names Thomas Noyes and others; drain not commenced because act omitted payment provision; porous/defective feeder, survey and $2,856.48 estimate; alternative lining unexamined.
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