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Report of the Committee of the Common Council of the City of Troy, and adopted by them, remonstrating against the direct route for the eastern termination of the Erie Canal. and in answered to the report of Allan Campbell, civil engineer, made by the authority and under the direction of the Common Council of the City of Albany.
Thirty-six page report of the Committee of the Common Council of the city of Troy. By 1836, the development and economies of cities along the canal route had come to depend on the Erie Canal and its revenue. A proposal made for the canal to bypass…