DOCUMENTS OF THE ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, FIFTY-FOURTH SESSION, 1831. VOLUME IV. FROM No. 280 TO 362, INCLUSIVE. ALBANY : PRINTED BY E. CROSWELL, PRINTER TO THE STATE. IN ASSEMBLY, April 8, 1831. REPORT Of the Committee on Canals and Internal Improvements on the memorial of Lyman A. Spalding and 1,247 inhabitants of Niagara county, relative to the surplus waters at Lockport, and on the remonstrance of Lot Clark against the petition of L. A. Spalding, and the annual report of the Canal Commissioners. Mr. Edmonds, from the committee on canals and internal improvements, to whom was referred the memorial of Lyman A. Spalding and the memorial of 1,247 inhabitants of the county of Niagara, relative to the surplus waters at Lockport, the remonstrance of Lot Clark against the petition of L. A. Spalding and the annual report of the Canal Commissioners, made to the Honorable the Assembly on the 17th January, 1831, RESPECTFULLY REPORTS: That the committee have devoted to the subject all the attention which its interest and importance, as well as the wishes of the parties, required. Their labors have been increased by the wide range to the inquiry, which was permitted, from a strong desire on the part of the committee to investigate all matters which could be supposed to relate to the question submitted to them. The general, and in some instances, the hypothetical character of the charges, have tended in some measure to this result. It will not, therefore, be surpri sing, that some of the testimony is irrelevant, or that more evidence was admitted to some points than seemed to be necessary, or that [A. No. 280.] 1 IN ASSEMBLY, April 8, 1831. REPORT Of the Committee on Canals and Internal Improvements on the memorial of Lyman A. Spalding and 1,247 inhabitants of Niagara county, relative to the surplus waters at Lockport, and on the remonstrance of Lot Clark against the petition of L.A. Spalding, and the annual report of the Canal Commissioners. Mr. Edmonds, from the committee on canals and internal improve. ments, to whom was referred the memorial of Lyman A. Spalding and the memorial of 1,247 inhabitants of the county of Niagara, relative to the surplus waters at Lockport, the remonstrance of Lot Clark against the petition of L. A. Spalding and the annual report of the Canal Commissioners, made to the Honorable the Assembly on the 17th January, 1831, RESPECTFULLY REPORTS: That the committee have devoted to the subject all the attention which its interest and importance, as well as the wishes of the parties, required. Their labors have been increased by the wide range to the inquiry, which was permitted, from a strong desire on the part of the committee to investigate all matters which could be supposed to relate to the question submitted to them. The general, and in some instances, the hypothetical character of the charges, have tended in some measure to this result. It will not, therefore, be surpri sing, that some of the testimony is irrelevant, or that more evidence was admitted to some points than seemed to be necessary, or that [A. No. 280.] 1 |