Also a survey and estimate of the expense of a canal route along the west or Sacandaga branch, from Murphy's mills in Northampton, to the said falls; thence by the most eligible route to the Erie or Champlain canal, with an estimate of the benefit to the state lands by opening such canal routes, and the income to be derived therefrom.

Sec. 2. The said surveys and estimates shall be reported to the legislature at their next session.

Sec. 3. The expenses of the said surveys and estimates shall be audited by the comptroller, and paid on his warrant by the treasurer.

CHAPTER 733, LAWS OF 1872.

AN ACT making appropriations for certain expenses of government, and for supplying deficiencies in former appropriations.

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Sec. 2. For Verplanck Colvin, of Albany, New York, ten hundred dollars, to aid in completing a survey of the Adirondack wilderness of New York, and a map thereof; and he shall render to the Legislature, within thirty days after the opening of the next annual session thereof, a full report of his explorations and survey.

CHAPTER 760, LAWS OF 1873. AN ACT making appropriations for certain expenses of government and supplying deficiencies in former appropriations. Sec. 1. * For Verplanck Colvin, to complete the topographical survey and exploration of the Adirondack wilderness, and to render available for mapping the work already done, four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

AN ACT making appropriations for certain expenses of government, and supplying deficiencies in former appropriations.

Sec. 1.

For Verplanck Colvin, for services in the Adirondack survey during eighteen* and seventy-two and

*So in the original

eighteen hundred and seventy-three, the sum of five thousand dollars; to be in full of all services, to be paid on the first printing of map of the survey, and he shall personally superintend the drafting and printing of said map, which shall be accepted and approved by the Comptroller and State Engineer and Surveyor, before any part of such payment is made.

CHAPTER 541, LAWS OF 1875.

AN ACT to provide for the completion and publication of the map of the Adirondack survey.

Sec. 1. The Treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the Comptroller the sum of eighteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to Verplanck Colvin for expenses of Adirondack survey, for the assistants and draughtsmen employed in the preparation of the map of the wilderness, and for contingent expenses of office and field work. The engraving and publication of the said map shall proceed as the draughting is completed.

CHAPTER 193, LAWS OF 1876.

AN ACT making appropriations for certain expenses of government and supply deficiencies in former appropriations. Sec. 1. For Verplanck Colvin, to complete the topographical survey and exploration of the Adirondack wilderness, the sum of four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

CHAPTER 275, LAWS OF 1877.

AN ACT making appropriations for certain expenses of government and supplpy deficiencies in former appropriations.

Sec. 1.

For deficiency in appropriation to complete the topographical survey and exploration of the Adirondack wilderness, the sum of nine hundred and seventy-five dollars.

The sum of three thousand dollars, appropriated by chapter four hundred and twenty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five for the expenses of renewing and replacing State boundary monuments, is hereby reappropriated for the same purposes.

CHAPTER 370, LAWS OF 1878.

AN ACT limiting the time and expense of completing the Adirondack survey.

Sec. 1. The time for the completion of the topographical survey and exploration of the Adirondack wilderness region is hereby limited to six years from the passage of this act; and the topographical character of the work shall be completed in all respects throughout the area under survey.

Sec. 2. The annual appropriation for the purposes of the survey shall be ten thousand dollars; and the compensation of the superintendent thereof shall be paid out of this sum at the rate fixed by chapter three hundred and twenty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and the said sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions hereof for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.

Sec. 3. A full report on the progress of the survey shall be annually presented, printed, to the legislature, within sixty days after the meeting thereof.

LAWS OF 1875.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION providing for copies of the report on the topographical survey of the Adirondack wilderness for the Legislature of eighteen hundred and seventy-five.

Resolved (if the Senate concur), That there be printed and bound in cloth, for the use of this Legislature, by the legislative printer, five thousand copies of the report on the topographical

survey of the Adirondack wilderness, sent to the Legislature of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and the expense thereof not to exceed one dollar and fifty cents per copy, to be paid out of the appropriation for Legislative printing.

CHAPTER 499, LAWS OF 1883.

AN ACT to provide for the survey of detached portions of state lands, in the northeastern portion of New York and Adirondack wilderness, and making appropriation therefor.

Sec. 1. The superintendent of the Adirondack survey is hereby directed to make surveys showing the location and area of the detached portions of state lands in the counties of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Saratoga, St. Lawrence, and Warren, and to connect the same with the surveys of the interior, and to show upon a map or maps the position of such lands.

Sec. 2. The methods of survey shall be in accordance with those now in use on the Adirondack survey, and copies of all maps relating to such state lands shall be filed in the office of the Comptroller and State Engineer and Surveyor, and the said superintendent shall render a report to the Legislature of his proceedings and of the results of the work within sixty days after the meeting of the Legislature, and the sum of fifteen thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, payable by the State Treasurer, on the warrant of the Comptroller, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act; which said sum shall be accounted for to the Comptroller, with bills of items and vouchers therefor.

CHAPTER 449, LAWS OF 1887.

AN ACT to provide for the survey and location of certain disputed boundary lines of lands granted by the state in the first tier of lots on the north one-half of the Arthurboro patent in the county of Hamilton.

Sec. 1. The State Engineer and Surveyor is hereby authorized and directed to survey as soon as possible, the lands in the

first tier of lots on the north half of Arthurboro patent, in the county of Hamilton, and to run out the lines of said lots, so far as may be necessary, for the settlement and location of disputed boundaries as to said lots, and in order to determine the respective rights of the State, and purchasers from the State in the said lands.

Sec. 2. The Treasurer is hereby directed to pay, upon the warrant of the Comptroller, the necessary expenses of making said survey, and the sum of two hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated for carrying out the provisions of this act.

CHAPTER 330, LAWS OF 1886.

The sum of six thousand dollars, appropriated by chapter three hundred and thirty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, "to construct reservoirs upon the Independence and Beaver rivers, in Lewis county;" the balance remaining unexpended of the sum of six thousand dollars, appropriated for the same purpose, by chapter three hundred and sixty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, being the sum of five thousand eight hundred and four dollars and seventy-three cents, and the balance remaining unexpended of the sum of six thousand dollars, appropriated for the same purpose by chapter five hundred and fifty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, being the sum of two thousand three dollars and thirty cents, are hereby reappropriated, and the further sum of one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the same purpose and for the completion of the reservoirs upon Independence and Beaver rivers, the work to be done under the direction of the superintendent of public works, upon plans prepared, or to be prepared by the State Engineer and Surveyor.

For the Comptroller, to pay the expenses of serving notices on occupants or despoilers of lands now owned by the State, or bid in therefor at the Comptroller's tax sales; of protecting the