REVISERS' NOTE. All laws (R. S., 8th ed., pp. 691-781) relating to the state canals, their construction and their navigation are consolidated and included in the following chapter of the revision, to be known as the Canal Law. A great number of enactments (id., pp. 694-716), providing for the extension and improvement of state canals and feeders, for the disposition of abandoned canals and the lands, rights and other property connected there with, and for the restoration of the lands occupied by such abandoned canals to their original surface, are omitted but not repealed. Being of a local or temporary nature no place could properly be found for them in the revision. Article V, section 3 of the constitution, as amended in 1877, abolished the office of canal commissioner and provided that all laws applicable to the canal commissioner shall be applicable to the superintendent of public works. In accordance with this amended section the revision makes the change in these laws. Article VII, section 3 of the constitution, as amended in 1882, abolished canal tolls, and chapter 165 of the laws of 1883, abolished the office of collector of tolls. All acts and provisions regulating tolls and their collection are repealed by the revision. Chapter 205 of the laws of 1883 abolished the office of canal appraiser and the board of state audit, created the board of claims and defined the powers and duties of that board. By this act all jurisdiction and power to hear and determine claims against the state formerly possessed by the canal appraiser and state board of audit, is vested in the board of claims. We have therefore repealed article III, title 9, chapter IX, part I of the Revised Statutes (8th ed, pp. 730-734). The several acts (R. S., 8th ed., pp. 765-771) relating to steam and other mechanical towage are repealed as obsolete. 2866 AN ACT relating to canals, constituting chapter 13 of the The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate ARTICLE 1. Superintendent of public works. (§§ 1-10.) 2. Engineer, department of canals. (§§ 20-30.) 5. Appropriation of canal lands. (§§ 60-93.) SECTION 1. Short title. 2. Superintendent of public works, assistant superintendents 4. Accounts of superintendent. 5. Powers and reference to railroad near canals. 1 § 2. Superintendent of public works, assistant superinten- |