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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 I. 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 I. 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 Horne, 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 
Ellicott 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 
