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yielding the acknowledgment of that influence, still entertained so much distrust 

 of the productiveness of the works, that they insisted upon incorporating in the 

 law a provision for levying a tax of $250,000 upon the lands lying along the 

 routes of the canals, and within a distance of twenty-five miles on each side 

 thereof. This provision undoubtedly affected the votes upon the passage of the 

 law. In the assembly sixty-four members voted for, and thirty-six against it 

 Those in the aflfirmative were, Henry Albert, David I. Ambler, Isaac Barber, 

 Wheeler Barnes, John H. Beach, Abijah Beckwith, John Brown junior, John H. 

 Burhans, Abram Camp, William Campbell, Daniel Carpenter, Jonathan Childs, 

 Gerret Cuck, Rowland Day, John D. Dickinson, William A. Duer, Tunis B. El- 

 dridge, James Faulkner, James Finch, Henry Fonda, William D. Ford, James 

 Ganson, Archer Green, Henry Gross, Burton Hammond, Elihu Hedges, Peter A. 

 Hilton, James Houghtaling, Hezekiah Hulburt, Samuel Jackson, Jacob L. Larze- 

 lere, Joshua Lee, Newton Marsh, Moses Maynard, Greene Miller, John Miller, Ben- 

 jamin Mooers, Zebulon Mott, Cyrenus Noble, Jonathan Olmsted, John I. Ostran- 

 der, Humphrey Palmer, Nathaniel Pendleton, Nathaniel Pitcher, John Pixley, 

 Henry Piatt, Timothy H. Porter, Jedediah Prendergast, William B. Rochester, 

 James Roseburgh, George Rosenkrantz, Isaac Sears, Richard Smith, Gideon 

 Tabor, Elijah Turner, Ebenezer Wakeley, Ebenezer W. Walbridge, Rufus 

 Watson, James Webb, Asa Wells, Gideon Wilcoxson, Elisha Williams, Isaac 

 Wilson and David Woods. Those who voted in the negative were, Cornelius 

 A. Blauvelt, Levi Callender, Stephen Carman, Wilham Cook, Richard C. Cor- 

 son, Clarkson Crolius, Chillus Doty, James Emott, John Gale, Cornelius Heeny, 

 William Jones, Martin Keeler, Daniel Kissam, John McFadden, Asa Mann, 

 Elijah Miles, Abraham Parsons, John Pettit, Samuel B. Romaine, Samuel Russell, 

 Reuben Sanford, Isaac Sargent, Edward Smith junior, Joseph Smith, Samuel A. 

 Smith, Justus Squire, Amos Stebbins, Christopher Tappen junior, John Town- 

 send, John Victory, George Warner, Elizur Webster, Ebenezer White junior 

 and Ebenezer Wood. 



In the senate the vote on the law was eighteen to nine. In the affirmative 



