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for the use of the Erie canal was at an end in 1825. In con- 

 sequence of that belief they only made out a bill for specific 

 temporary damages sustained during the years while the 

 Genesee river water was used as the sole or nearly sole source 

 of supply, which was during 1822 to 1S25 before Lake Erie was 

 reached. 



On bills rendered as stated in the foregoing, and on the under- 

 standing that the awards were for temporary diversion only, 

 the Canal Appraisers, in 1826, awarded damages to the owners 

 of water rights at Rochester, as follows: 



Childs & Ketchum $140 00 



Richard Gorsline 247 90 



Hervey Ely 700 00 



Hervey Ely 1584 79 



William Atkinson 1000 00 



William Atkinson 1211 65 



E. Peck ' 382 00 



A. & S. Carpenter 717 84 



H. N. & A. B. Curtis 1318 62 



Williams & Whitney 275 00 



E. S. Beach ' 1332 16 



E. Johnson and heirs of O. Seymour 300 00 



E. Johnson 500 00 



Thos. H. Rochester Co 1106 08 



Buck & Loekwood 309 45 



E. Gilbert 140 00 



Amount $12,049 66 



So far as can be learned from the available records the fore- 

 going sum of |12,049.66 includes all that has ever been paid to 

 the owners of the hydraulic privileges at Rochester on account 

 of diversion of the waters of the Genesee river for the use of 

 the Erie canal. 



The foregoing list includes a list of the original proprietors of 

 the Rochester water power and in use at the time of the original 

 construction. 



The matter of payment for temporary damage al Rochester was 

 a source of controversy from 1826 to 1852, in which year Jacob 

 Graves and others, occupants of water power on the Genesee 



