RESOLUTION

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IN COMMON COUNCIL.

November 7^th, 1825.

His honor, the Mayor, submitted to the Common Council the Memoir of the Honorable Cadwallader D. Colden,

WHEREUPON, IT WAS RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY,

That the thanks of the Board be presented to Mr. Colden for the ability and impartiality with which he has prepared a Memoir on the subject of our Canals, at the request of the Common Council, and for the use of the Corporation.

And to mark the estimation of the Board for his able and laborious research,

IT IS ORDERED,

That this Resolution be printed with the Memoir, and be elegantly engrossed and splendidly framed, and presented to him in the name of the Common Council: and, as a further testimony of the respect, that the Committee transmit to Mr. Colden, in behalf of this Board, A MEDAL, of the highest Class, which shall be struck to commemorate the completion of the GREAT STATE WORK, which unites our Lakes with the Ocean.

J. MORTON, Clerk.

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