268 A. L. Bishop — The State Works of Pennsylvania. 



Section 1. That the commissioners appointed by the act entitled 

 "An act to appoint a board of canal commissioners," passed the 

 eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, are 

 hereby authorized and empowered, in behalf of this state, imme- 

 diately to locate and contract for making a canal and locks, and 

 other works necessary thereto, from the river Swatara, at or near 

 Middk'town, to or near a point on the east side of the river Sus- 

 quehanna, op])Osite the mouth of the river 'Juniata; and from Pitts- 

 burg to the mouth of the Kiskeminetas ; and also as soon as they 

 shall deem it expedient and practicable, to construct a navigable 

 feeder of a canal, from Prench Creek to the summit level at 

 Conneaut lake, sufficient to convey at least two hundred and twenty- 

 one cubic feet of water per second, and to survey and locate the 

 route of a canal from thence to Lake Erie: provided, That if it 

 shall be found necessary, in order to construct the said canals, to. 

 obstruct the navigation of either of the rivers Susquehanna and 

 Allegheny, by dams or other means, that befere such obstructions 

 shall be authorized to be made, that the said commissioners shall 

 cause to be made a means of navigation, in either or both of said 

 rivers, equally safe and practicable as now exist in the said rivers. 



Section 2. That the said commissioners shall be authorized to 

 appoint one or two of the board, as occasion may require, as acting 

 commissioner or commissioners, who shall receive four dollars per 

 day, each, while actually engaged in the superintendence of the 

 works contemplated by this act, and which sum shall be in full of all 

 compensation for services and expenses. 



Section 3. That the state treasurer for the time being shall, in 

 addition to his official duties, act as treasurer to the board of canal 

 commissioners ; and that said board shall have the power to appoint 

 engineers, clerks, and other officers, toll gatherers and such other 

 agents as they may judge requisite; and to agree for and settle 

 their respective wages, and to establish reasonable toll. 



Section 4. That it shall be the duty of each and every acting 

 canal commissioner; appointed in pursuance of this act, to super- 

 intend ilie making and constructing of said canal, before entering 

 upon the duties of his office, to enter into bond to the commonwealth, 

 with at least two substantial freeholders as sureties, in the penal sum 

 of fifty thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful accounting 

 of all moneys entrusted to him as canal commissioner, whenever and 

 as often as he may be required to do so by law, or by concurrent 

 resolution of the senate and house of representatives, or by the 

 accounting officers of the treasury department; and the said bond 

 shall be approved by tlie governor, and filed in the office of the secre- 

 tary of the commonwealth. 



Section 5. That whenever the sum or sums of money paid to 

 any canal commissioner, shall amount to fifty thousand dollars, it 

 shall not be lawful for the treasurer of the board to advance or 

 pay to such canal commissioners, any further sum or sums of 

 money, until he shall first have produced an account and vouchers, 



