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Society for improvement of roads and inland navigation 158, 160 



State debt 213, 218, 229 



State works abandoned 257 



cost of 174, 208, 222, 228, 229, 238, 240, 280, 286 



expenditures on 228, 229 



gross revenue of 228, 229, 286 



main line of, completed 195 



main line of, sold 256 



sale of 218, 228, 245, 248, 250, 253, 254, 256, 257, 258, 259 



vote on sale of main line 250 



Stocks held by State, sale of 221, 222 



Strickland, William 175, 180, 189 



report of 176 



Surplus revenue, distribution of 204, 217 



Susquehanna river 160, 170, 171, 172, 178 



Taxation 211, 212, 214, 217, 218, 219, 222, 225, 226, 227, 245, 253 



Tax laws of 1831 212, 219, 220, 225, 226 



Tax laws repealed 212, 215, 225 



Tolls, rates of established, and first collected 193 



Tonnage on Erie and Pennsylvania canals compared 248 



Tonnage, tax on 252, 253 



Transportation companies 247 



Timnel, Staple Bend 198 



Turnpikes ' 165, 166, 184 



Union canal 155, 160, 163, 164 



United States Bank of Pennsylvania 214, 215, 216, 217, 224, 225 



failures of 217 



Ways and Means, committee on 211, 219, 227, 250, 251, 258 



West, canals of 167, 245 



canal routes to the 159, 173, 190 



growth of 167, 168 



Western trade, rivalry for ..159, 169, 174, 177, 183, 187, 245, 248, 251, 253 



Westward movement 150, 151 



Wiconisco canal 200, 231 



company 249 



Wilson, William Bender 243 



Wolf, Gk>vernor 211, 226 



