If these observations are founded as the committee conceive they are, then it will follow that the exertions of the company ought to be directed in the first instance to those parts of the navigation only, in which the most immediate obstacles are interposed, and which promise the best revenue at the smallest expenditure, that is with the least possible burthen on the produce of the country. Effectually to do tliis, legislative interposition ought to be sohcited. The canal and locks by the act are to be 20 feet wide, this stipulation was inserted in the law, under an idea that large rafts of timber would descend the improved navigation. But your committee have critically examined into this, and find that very little, if any, will be conveyed-- that if any does, the expence of narrower raffs, will not be so injurious to the community, as that increase of toll, which must necessarily be incurred from the expence of such wide canals and locks, because the quantum of lumber will at any rate be little, compared with that of other produce.

The improvement of the navigation of Wood Creek has been stated as indispensable. -- But should the company find tlieraselves incapable of extending the navigation to Ontario and tlie Seneca lakes, no toll could be taken for the improvements which may be made in Wood Creek, -- the legislature sliould, therefore, be intreated to leave it optional in the company, to carry tlieir improvements to any point beyond Fort New-Port, which they please ; and their "charter to extend to the point at wliich their improvements may be arrested, although they should not be