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Report Of The Committee Appointed To Procure A Survey For The Route Of The Contemplated Cumberland & Oxford Canal To Which Is Added The Report Of The Engineer, Containing An Estimate Of The Expence Of Making The Canal, Cumberland & Oxford Canal Operation, Woodbury Storer, John Perly, Phinehas Varnum, Eli Longley
Report Of The Committee Appointed To Procure A Survey For The Route Of The Contemplated Cumberland & Oxford Canal To Which Is Added The Report Of The Engineer, Containing An Estimate Of The Expence Of Making The Canal, Cumberland & Oxford Canal Operation, Woodbury Storer, John Perly, Phinehas Varnum, Eli Longley
Maine Bicentennial
The Committee chosen for the purpose of procuring a Survey to be made, of the Route of the contemplated Cumberland and Oxford Canal, and of causing an estimate of the probable amount necessary for carrying the design into full effect, have performed the services assigned them, and now present the annexed Report and Estimate of the Engineer, which will in part, exhibit the result of their labours.
The Estimate of actual expense is $130,804,89 ; to which is added 5 pr. cent, or $6,540,24, lest in any event that sum should prove insufficient for the completion of the work. Although …