MO INTRODUCTION. 



Peter A. Jay, Oliver Judd, Alexander Kelsey, Nathan Kimball, Herman Knick- 

 erbacker, Edward W. Laight, Jacob L. Larzelere, Thomas Lawyer, Henry 

 Leavenworth, Henry B. Lee, Henry Livingston, James Lynch, Samuel L Mc- 

 Chestney, John McFadden, Arunah Metcalf, Elijah Miles, Green Miller, Samuel 

 Milliman, Benjamin Mooers, Andrew Morris, Roderick Morrison, Thomas J. Oak- 

 ley, Elias Osborn, John L Ostrander, James Palmer, William Parks, Timothy H. 

 porter, James Powers, Edmund G. Rawson, John Reid, Jacob Roggen, Abraham 

 Rose, David Russell, Reuben Sanford, John Schoolcraft, Barnabas Smith,. Jesse 

 Smith, Joseph Smith, Roger Sprague, James Stevenson, Selah Strong, Thomas C. 

 Taylor, William Thompson, Jacob R, Van Rensselaer, George Warner, Elizur 

 Webster, Dirck Westbrook, Roswell Weston, John Whiting, Mason Whiting, 

 Nathan Williams, Isaac Wilson and Augustus Wyncoop. Those who voted in 

 the negative were Gamaliel H. Barstow, James Burt, Phineas Carl, Stephen Car- 

 man, Richard Cowson, Chillus Doty, Zechariah Hoffman, Benjamin Isaacs, Wil- 

 liam Jones, Daniel Kissam, Abraham Miller, William Munroe, William Requa, 

 Amos Stebbins, Richard Van Home, Harmanus A. Van Slyck, John B. Van 

 Wyck, William Woodward. 



When the bill reached the senate, Martin Van Buren proposed an amendment 

 which would limit the powers of the commissioners to the consideration and 

 adoption of measures requisite to facilitate the preparations for constructing the 

 canals, the employment of engineers to explore and examine the routes ; to mak- 

 ing application to sister states and territories for aid, and to proprietors of land, 

 corporations and citizens, for grants of land, or donations of money"; and to gene- 

 ral inquiries concerning finances. This amendment prevailed, by a vote of 

 twenty to nine, and the bill passed the senate, after being further amended so 

 as to constitute Stephen Van Rensselaer, De Witt Clinton, Samuel Young, Joseph 

 EUicott and Myron Holley commissioners, and to appropriate twenty thousand 

 dollars for the purposes contemplated. As thus amended, the bill received the 

 votes of David Allen, Russel Atwater, Jacob Barker, Stephen Bates, Bennet 

 Bicknell, Francis A. Bloodgood, Moses I. Cantine, Archibald S. Clark, Lucas 



