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Certificate issued to Jacob A. Lansing for one share in the stock of the Northern Inland Lock-Navigation Company.
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Title
Certificate
issued
to
Jacob
A.
Lansing
for
one
share
in the
stock
of the
Northern
Inland
Lock-Navigation
Company
.
Format
image/jpg
Description
A
thirty-five
page
report
of the
commissioners
to
explore
the
route
of an
inland
navigation
from the
Hudson
River
to
Lakes
Ontario
and
Erie
. The
commissioners
were
appointed
by
joint
resolutions
of the
New
York
State
Senate
and
Assembly
. In
1810
, this
Board
of
Commissioners
was
organized
to
make
further
surveys
regarding
inland
navigation
in
New
York
and to
report
the
estimation
of the
probable
expense
of the
completion
of the
canal
. The
commissioners
were also
directed
to
make
application
to
Congress
and the
legislatures
of the
individual
states
. This
is
the
first
report
of that
commission
. The
commissioners
Gouvenor
Morris
,
S
.
Van
Rennsselaer
,
W
.
North
,
DeWitt
Clinton
,
Thomas
Eddy
,
Peter
R
.
Porter
, and
Simeon
DeWitt
submitted
this
report
in
February
,
1811
.
One
of the
questions
that
remained
unanswered
at the
end
of the
report
was
who
should be
financially
responsible
for the
canal's
construction
.
Date Original
1811
Subject
Rensselaer
,
Stephen
Van
,
1764–1839
;
North
,
William
,
1755-1836
;
Eddy
,
Thomas
,
1758
–
1827
;
Porter
,
Peter
B
.
(Peter
Buell)
,
1773-1844
;
De
Witt
,
Simeon
,
1756-1834
;
Commissioners
;
Expenditures/Expenses
;
Report
;
Financing
;
New
York
(State)
;
Erie
Canal
Relation
IsPartOf
Creator
Northern
Inland
Lock
Navigation
Company
.
Digitization Specifications
Scanned
using
Epson
Expression
10000XL
Graphic
Arts
Scanner
;
master
tiff
file
for
title
page
47,785,508
bytes
and
90,263,564
bytes
for
pages
34
and
35
;
bit
depth
of
master
tiff
file
24
bit
color
;
spatial
resolution
of
master
tiff
file
600
ppi
;
spatial
dimension
of
master
tiff
file
100%
of
original
;
created
using
Adobe
Photoshop
Elements
2.0
;
OCR
files
created
using
Abbyy
FineReader
7.0
.
Images
created
using
Dell
Optiplex
GX
280
P
4
3.8
GHz
1GB
RAM
computer
.
Language
eng
Resource Identifier
e0003_001/002
Date Digital
2005-05-26
Rights Management
The images and information provided in this exhibit may not be reproduced in any form without permission from either The 18th-Century Reading Room or The Seymour B. Durst Old York Library, except for "fair use" as defined by copyright law.
Contributing Institution
City
University
of
New
York
.
Graduate
School
and
University
Center
.
Publisher
City
University
of
New
York
.
Graduate
School
and
University
Center
; The
Seymour
B
.
Durst
Old
York
Library
.
Source
Excerpted
from
original
publication
:
Report
of the
commissioners
appointed
by
joint
resolutions
of the
Honorable
the
Senate
and
Assembly
of the
State
of
New
York
, of the
13th
&15th
March
,
1810
, to
explore
the
route
of an
Inland
Navigation
from
Hudson’s
River
to
Lake
Ontario
and
Lake
Erie
.
Albany
:
Printed
by
S
.
Southwick
,
1811
.
ACCESSION
#
2277
;
EC0014
;
EC0015
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