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No. 36. Was not the only allowance you ever heard spoken of for the diminution of work, something for leaving out a part of the lower lift lock wall?
37. Did Carney Sayre & Co make arrangements for performing a much larger quantity of work than they did and what injury did they sustain by not filling up the vacant space in the lower lift lock wall?
38. From the frequent [illegible], deposits & washings and the great undulations in the rock at Sutherland and Adams job, was it not very difficult to make any intermediate calculations of the amount of excavation.
39. Is not the letter of which the following is a copy in the hand writing of David S. Bates the [illegible] Engineer in the Louisville & Portland Canal?

"Hon. President & Directors of Louisville & Portland Canal Company

Gentlemen,
The many and arduous duties which I have to perform include me to ask from you as a favor, a dismission from your service, as your Engineer - I do not mean to request this to take place instantly, but at such subsequent time as will enable you or the gentlemen interested in Philadelphia to supply the part by introducing osme other persons. I will if it is in your wish, consider myself in your employ till September, or even if it should be thought necessary till the work is completed.
I am induced to take this course from the difficulty with which strangers may be made to understand the nature of my engagementson the work under your direction - and also...