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19. Bittern pans.

20. Salt in barrels.

21. Quantity of salt in barrels.

22. Name of manufacturer to be branded on package.
23. Boat sunk in canal.

24. Duplicate inspection bills.

25. Receiver's duties.

26. Delivery of bills to the inspector.

27. Wells, pumps and lines of aqueducts.

28. Ascertainment of quantity of water.

29. Numerical list of salt blocks to be kept.
30. Distribution of brine.

31. Cisterns; repair of buildings.

32. Unauthorized communications.

33. Discharge of laborers for neglect.

34. Earth works.

35. Charges against the State; estimates to be made out.

36. Sale of lands on the Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation. 37. Title to lands.

38. Moneys arising from sale.

39. Affecting appointments already made.

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to the Erie canal at Rome, with a navigable feeder from the Black river to the summit level near the village of Booneville.

The term canal, as used in this chapter, includes all the sidecuts, feeders and other works belonging to the state connected therewith.

§ 3. State dam at Waterloo.-The superintendent of public works is authorized to maintain a state dam at Waterloo, at a height not exceeding the height of the original state dam at that place, but so as not to raise the waters of Seneca lake above the natural height of the waters of the lake, and when the bridge above the outlet of the lake is rebuilt, to lower the same to a height no more than sufficient to pass the largest size canal boats, but no claim shall be made or allowed for any damages to any property by reason of raising such dam to its original height.

§ 4. Maps and field-notes.-There shall be kept on file in the office of the state engineer complete manuscript maps and field-notes of every canal now or hereafter to be built and of all the lands belonging to the state adjacent thereto or connected therewith, in which the boundaries of every parcel of land to which the state shall have a separate title, shall be designated, and the names of the former owners and the date of each title entered. The expense of all such maps and field-notes shall be paid out of the appropriations made for the support and maintenance of the canals. All such maps and field-notes approved by the canal board or canal commissioners or certified by such board or commissioners or by the state engineer to be correct, shall be presumptive evidence of the truth of the facts therein stated and of the ownership by the state of the lands therein described.

§ 5. Copies of maps and field-notes in county clerk's office.-A copy of every map and of all field-books and notes so filed or of such part thereof as relate to the canal lands in any county, certified by the state engineer to be a correct copy thereof, shall be filed in the clerk's office of such county, and shall be evidence with like force and effect as the original maps and fieldnotes of which it is a copy. Transcripts of a part of any such map or field-notes, certified by the officers having the custody of the original or certified copies from which they are made to be correct copies thereof, shall be evidence as to the parts contained in such transcripts, with the same force and effect as if the originals were produced.

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I. Have the possession, government and management of all lands, wood, timber, trees, buildings, erections, pumps and machinery of every kind, and of all water courses, conduits, wells, aqueducts, springs and other property belonging to the state on the Onondaga reservation, and the Montezuma salt springs.

2. Superintend and have charge of the salt springs and of the mauufacture and inspection of salt and regulate and control the delivery of salt water to salt manufacturers.

3. Daily examine or cause to be examined the cisterns attached to the several manufactories in order to discover any leaks or waste of salt water therefrom or from the logs or conduits leading the water to them and to discover any leak or waste of salt water, either by negligence or design whether in the cisterns, logs or conduits or in the use of the water in any mannfactory, or in letting the same into the cistern or in any other manner; and shall order the owner or other person occupying such manufactory or his agents or servants who may be present to immediately stop such leak or waste.

4. Cause any person wrongfully possessed of any land or property on the Onondaga reservation or the Montezuma salt springs to remove therefrom and take possession of the same and may sue in his name of office for the recovery of, damages for any injury to such lands or property according to the nature of such injury.

5. Keep in each of his offices regular books of entry in which all of his accounts and transactions shall be entered.

6. Provide suitable books of entry, blank books, blank inspection bills, returns, forms and other stationery for the use of himself and his deputies for the performance of their official duties.

7. Receive all moneys payable to the state for the duties, rents, fines or penalties specified in this chapter or arising from the salt springs or property of the state connected with the salt manufactory.

8. Deposit each week to the credit of the state treasurer in such bank or banks as may be designated by the comptroller all moneys received by him as superintendent, and transmit every Monday to the comptroller a statement showing the amount of the revenues collected, received and deposited during the preceding week.

9. Forward a statement to the comptroller on the first Monday in each month exhibiting the whole amount of revenue col

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