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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  as 
  to 
  the 
  actual 
  cost 
  of 
  improvements 
  of 
  a 
  nature 
  similar 
  to 
  that 
  

   authorized 
  by 
  chapter 
  79 
  of 
  the 
  laws 
  of 
  1895. 
  They 
  are 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Erie 
  canal, 
  original 
  estimate 
  f 
  4,926,738 
  00 
  

  

  Actual 
  cost 
  7,143,789 
  00 
  

  

  Erie 
  canal, 
  enlargement 
  estimate 
  23,402,863 
  00 
  

  

  Actual 
  cost 
  32,008,851 
  00 
  

  

  Oswego 
  canal, 
  estimates 
  . 
  . 
  227,000 
  00 
  

  

  Actual 
  cost 
  565,437 
  00 
  

  

  Oswego 
  canal, 
  enlargement 
  estimate 
  1,926,339 
  00 
  

  

  Actual 
  cost 
  2,511,992 
  00 
  

  

  Champlain 
  canal, 
  engineers' 
  estimates 
  871,000 
  00 
  

  

  Actual 
  cost 
  1,746,062 
  00 
  

  

  Black 
  river, 
  engineers' 
  estimates 
  1,068,437 
  00 
  

  

  Actual 
  cost 
  3,157,296 
  00 
  

  

  Hoosic 
  tunnel, 
  engineers' 
  estimates 
  1,948,557 
  00 
  

  

  Actual 
  post 
  20,241,842 
  31 
  

  

  Manchester 
  ship 
  canal, 
  engineers' 
  estimates 
  26,000,000 
  00 
  

  

  Actual 
  cost 
  67,351,105 
  00 
  

  

  Chicago 
  drainage 
  canal, 
  engineers' 
  estimates 
  12,000,000 
  00 
  

  

  Already 
  expended 
  (1898) 
  27,303,216 
  00 
  

  

  Estimate 
  to 
  complete 
  10,358,436 
  94 
  

  

  Hudson 
  river 
  improvement, 
  original 
  estimate, 
  

  

  United 
  States 
  army 
  engineers 
  2,000,000 
  00 
  

  

  Estimate 
  to 
  complete 
  after 
  |2,000,000 
  had 
  been 
  

  

  expended 
  2,600,000 
  00 
  

  

  State 
  capitol, 
  Albany, 
  estimate 
  4,000,000 
  00 
  

  

  State 
  capital, 
  Albany, 
  cost 
  24,000,000 
  00 
  

  

  Theodore 
  Roosevelt 
  succeeded 
  Frank 
  S. 
  Black 
  as 
  Governor 
  

   January 
  1, 
  1899, 
  and 
  on 
  January 
  25th 
  of 
  that 
  year 
  he 
  appointed 
  

   Austin 
  G. 
  Fox 
  and 
  Wallace 
  McFarlane 
  as 
  special 
  counsel 
  to 
  

   assist 
  the 
  Attorney-General 
  in 
  the 
  prosecution 
  and 
  trial 
  of 
  any 
  

   criminal 
  proceedings 
  which 
  should 
  be 
  instituted 
  against 
  Camp- 
  

   bell 
  W. 
  Adams 
  or 
  George 
  W. 
  Aldridge, 
  or 
  against 
  any 
  other 
  

   person 
  concerned, 
  as 
  a 
  result 
  of 
  the 
  Canal 
  Investigating 
  Commis- 
  

   sion, 
  appointed 
  under 
  chapter 
  15 
  of 
  the 
  laws 
  of 
  1898. 
  The 
  

   documents 
  furnished 
  to 
  Messrs 
  Fox 
  and 
  McFarlane 
  were 
  copies 
  

  

  