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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 . $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 



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



Actual cost 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 S2.000.000 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 



