No. 101. IN SENATE, April 20, 1864. REPORT OF THE STATE ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR IN ANSWER TO A RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO REPORTS OF CHARLES W. WENTZ, IN RELATION TO AN AQUEDUCT ACROSS THE SENECA RIVER TO CONNECT THE CAYUGA AND SENECA CANALS. OFFICE OF THE STATE ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR, ALBANY To the Honorable the Senate: In answer to the following resolution of your honorable body: "Resolved, That the State Engineer and Surveyor is hereby respectfully requested to report to the Senate, copies of all the reports of Charles W. Wentz, resident engineer on the Cayuga and Seneca canal, and of all other engineers of the name of Wentz, made to the Canal Commissioners or any of them on the subject or including the subject of a proposed aqueduct across the Seneca river, to connect the Cayuga and Seneca canals at their junction, during the years 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852 and 1853, if said reports are in the office of the said State Engineer and Surveyor, or are attainable by him." I would respectfully submit the following REPORT. I am unable to find any reports on file in this department, relating to the subject matter contained in the resolution. Mr. Wentz states that he is of opinion that the reports were made to the Canal Commissioners, but were never printed and are, therefore, not on file in this or the Canal Commissioners' office. Diligent searches have been made through the documents of the years mentioned, and also reports of the State Engineer and Canal Commissioners with unsuccessful results. Respectfully submitted. W. B. TAYLOR, State Engineer and Surveyor. No. 102. IN SENATE, April 15, 1864. COMMUNICATION FROM THE CITIZENS ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW NEW YORK, RELATIVE TO THE TAX LEVY OF SAID CITY. To the President of the Senate: The committee appointed by the inclosed resolution of the Citizens' Association of the city of New York would respectfully inform your honorable body that they have attended at Albany, in pursuance of an understanding that they would be heard upon the floor of the Senate on the subject of the tax levy, and desire to be informed at what hour they may appear before your honorable body. JAMES BROWN, Chairman. At a meeting of members of the Citizens' Association of the city of New York, held at the rooms No. 813 Broadway, on the 12th day of April, 1864, Mr. James Brown being in the chair, it was Resolved, That the gentlemen hereinafter named be appointed a committee specially delegated to represent the Citizens' Association before the Legislature at Albany, to be heard before that body upon the tax levy, at the time appointed for that purpose. ROB'T B. ROOSEVELT, Sec'y. William B. Astor, Christopher R. Robert, John W. Greene, M. D., [Senate, No. 102.] 1 Edwin Hoyt, Wm. S. Mayo, M. D., |