Documents of the Senate of the State of New York Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...accompanying documents, together with the following resolution: "Resolved, That the committee on canals be discharged from the petition of Elizabeth S. Granger and William W. Chapin, and from the petition of sundry inhabitants of Buffalo, praying relief from the injury sustained by damming the Conjockety creek by the works of the Erie canal, and that said petitions with the accompanying documents, be referred to the Canal Commissioners, and that said Commissioners report to the Senate their opinion of the cause and extent of the injury complained of, and of the propriety and practicability of affording the relief prayed for." REPORT: The petitionors, Elizabeth S. Granger and William W. Chapin, represent, "that in damming the eastern channel of Niagara river, between the main land and Squaw island, and from extending a pier from thence to Bird island, the water at the mouth of Conjockety creek is raised about five feet, and that more than forty acres of land owned by the petitioners, some distance above the mouth of said creek, is thereby overflown and rendered useless for cultivation; that the atmosphere in that vicinity is rendered un Senate, No. 78. l healthy by such overflowing, and the inhabitants subjected to fevers." The other petitioners give a statement, the same in substance as above, and the affidavits of William W. Chapin and Samuel R. Atkins, which accompany the petitions, are in corroboration of the statements therein made. "The petitioners pray that a law may be passed, authorising the Canal Commissioners to make a dam across the said creek a short distance above its mouth, and turn the water through an artificial channel into Cornelius' creek, which would reduce the Conjockety to its natural bed, and remove every caus...