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1827 |
Petitions to Legislature for the construction of Oneida Lake canal. |
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1831 |
Petition to Legislature for the incorporation of a company to build a canal from Erie canal to Oneida lake. |
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1832 |
Chapter 53 – Oneida Lake Canal Co. incorporated to build canal from Erie canal to Oneida lake, capital stock $40,000. |
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1835 |
Chapter 70, – Amount of capital increased by $30,000. Canal completed 6.5 miles; 7 locks, 1 guard-lock, 40 ft. surface, 26 ft. bottom, 4 ft. water; cost $78,825. September 12, – Navigation opened. |
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1836 |
Chapter 534 – Canal to be extended 4 miles up Fish creek. |
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1840 |
Chapter 258 – Canal to be purchased by State for not over $50,000. |
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1841 |
Canal transferred to State for $50,000. |
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1846 |
Constitution, Art. VII, Sec. 6, – Canals never to be sold, leased or otherwise disposed of. New towing-path built along Wood creek, one mile long. |
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1847 |
Feeder made navigable for boats of 3 feet draught; Erie canal to Oneida depot. Towing-path along Wood creek destroyed by floods. |
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1849 |
Chapter 425 – Additional land to be purchased and towing-path to be built on Wood creek. |
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1855 |
Contracts let to keep canal in repair for 5 years. |
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1860 |
Chapter 46 – When rebuilt, locks to be same size as on enlarged Erie canal. |
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1862 |
Chapter 486 – Commissioners to present comparative estimates for rebuilding locks of existing and enlarged dimensions; locks to be repaired as long as possible. |
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1863 |
Contracts let for rebuilding locks. Report to Senate by canal board, recommending new route, from Durhamville to South Bay, 5.3 miles. Contractors on locks abandon work. Navigation suspended entire season, owing to uselessness of old locks and preparations for rebuilding new ones; never again opened on this route. |
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1865 |
Chapter 626 – Canal board to settle with contractors for rebuilding locks. |
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1867 |
Chapter 934 – Canal contracting board may rebuild locks or build canal in new location; $346,153.47 appropriated. December 18, – New canal placed under contract. |
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1868 |
Moneys appropriated under chapter 934-1867 to be paid into State treasury. |
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1869 |
Chapter 815 – Reappropriates $264,498.26 for building canal. Chapter 913 – Authorizes canal board to make supplementary contracts. December, – Supplementary contracts made. |
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1870 |
Chapter 737 – Canal commissioners to allow contractors building locks their actual cost, where bids were less. June, – Second supplementary contracts made for locks. Work suspended; funds exhausted; one section completed, remainder ¾ done, locks nearly finished. |
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1871 |
Chapter 930 – Appropriation to continue enlargement. |
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1872 |
Chapter 700 – Appropriation for payment of labor performed and not paid for. Chapter 850 – Appropriates $50,000 to complete enlargement. (Nothing done till 1874.) |
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1873 |
Chapter 766 – Additional appropriation of $25,000 for completion. February 4, – Report of canal commissioners, responding to legislative inquiry concerning canal finances, time of completion, etc. December 19, – New contracts let; to be completed January 1, 1875. |
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1874 |
June, – Work again commenced. |
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1875 |
Chapter 594 – Appropriation to complete canal. January, – Work again suspended. |
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1877 |
Chapter 301 – Reappropriates unexpended balances to complete canal, if canal board approves. September, – Canal completed. October 6, – Navigation opened. October, – Two breaks, latter closes canal for rest of season. |
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1878 |
Canal open after July 1; serious break; canal open again till close of season; not open after this year. |
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1879 |
Superintendent of Public Works advises abandonment of the canal. |
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1883 |
Chapter 495 – Oneida Lake canal fund appropriation. |
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1887 |
Chapter 428 – Lands taken for New Oneida Lake canal released to parties from whom acquired. Canal officially abandoned. |
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1889 |
Chapter 570 – Appropriation for constructing and repairing road crossings. |
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1894 |
Chapter 198 – Interest to be allowed claimants on awards for damages caused by construction of canal. |
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1897 |
Chapter 566 – For a steel swing-bridge over canal at Higginsville. (Completed 1898.) |
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