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to tlie accounting officers of the treasury department, showing the 

 payment and expenditures of the money received by him. 



Section 6. That in order the better to guai-d against mistakes 

 and losses, it shall be the duty of the acting canal commissioners 

 respectively to take duplicate receipts for all sums of money which 

 they may advance and pay to their engineers, contractors and 

 agents, one whereof, in each and every case, shall be filed with 

 the accounting officers of the treasury department ; and all contracts 

 for the construction of any part of the improvements contemplated 

 by this act, shall be made in writing, one copy of which shall be 

 forthwith deposited with the state treasurer, and one copy shall be 

 given to and retained by the contractor; and at least thirty days 

 notice shall be given in one or more of the newspapers printed in 

 Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburg, respectively, and in such 

 other newspapers as may be deemed expedient by the canal com- 

 missioners, or a majority of them, of the time and place at which 

 proposals will be received for entering into such contracts ; and no 

 extra alloAvance shall in any case be made, for the performance of 

 any such contract, beyond the sum stipulated therein. 



Section 7. That the location and dimensions of the said canals 

 and locks shall be determined by a majority of the board, with the 

 approbation of a skilful engineer, and with the consent of the 

 governor. 



Section 8. That it shall and may be lawful for the said board, 

 or a majority of them, to agree with the owner or owners of any 

 land through which the said canal is intended to pass, for the 

 purchase, use, and occupation thereof, on behalf of the state; and 

 in case of disagreement, or in case the owiier or owners thereof 

 shall be a feme coA^erte, under age, non compos, out of the state or 

 county, on application to a justice of the county in which such land 

 shall be, the said justice of the peace shall issue his warrant, under 

 his hand, to the sheriff of the county, to summon a jury of eighteen 

 inhabitants of his county, not related to the parties, nor in any 

 manner interested, to meet on the land to be valued, at a day to be 

 expressed in the warrant, not less than ten nor more than twenty 

 days thereafter; and the sheriff, upon receiving the said warrant, 

 shall forthwith summon the said jury, and when met, shall adminis- 

 ter an oath or affirmation to every juryman who shall appear, being 

 not less than twelve in number, that he will faithfully, justly and 

 impartially value the land, and all damages the owner or owners 

 shall sustain, by cutting the canal through such land, or the 

 partial or temporary appropriation, use or occupation of such land, 

 according to the best of his skill and judgment; and that in such 

 valuation, he will not spare any person or persons, for favor or 

 affection, or any person or persons grieve, for malice, hatred or 

 ill-will; and in every such valuation and assessment of damages, 

 the jury shall be, and they are hereby instructed to consider, in 

 determining and fixing the amount thereof, the actual benefit which 

 will accrue to 'the owner or owners from conducting the said canal 



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