B was given the contract as the lowest bidder, after which the work was changed as follows:
| 3,955 cubic yards of vertical wall, at $6 | $ | 23,730.00 |
| 62,400 feet B.M. white oak, at $70 | 4,368.00 | |
| Actually paid B by the State | $ | 28,098.00 |
On ten of these contracts, originally amounting to $424,735.90 the State paid $1,560,769.84.—Tilden's Public Writings and Speeches, Vol. 2, pp. 106-108.
[709] This commission was composed of John Bigelow, Daniel Magone of Ogdensburg, Alexander E. Orr of Brooklyn, and John D. Van Buren of New York.
[710] Indictments were found against the son of a State senator, a member of the board of canal appraisers, an ex-canal commissioner, two ex-superintendents of canals and one division engineer, besides numerous subordinates and contractors.—See Bigelow's Life of Tilden, pp. 262-263; for names of the parties, see Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1875, p. 558.
[711] Bigelow, Life of Tilden, Vol. 2, p. 263.
[712] Harper's Weekly, August 28, 1875.
[713] Held at Saratoga on September 8, 1875.
[714] Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1875, p. 560.
[715] The ticket was as follows: Secretary of State, Frederick W. Seward, New York; Comptroller, Francis E. Spinner, Herkimer; Treasurer, Edwin A. Merritt, St. Lawrence; Attorney-General, George F. Danforth, Monroe; Engineer, Oliver H.P. Cornell, Tompkins; Canal Commissioner, William F. Tinsley, Wayne; Prison Inspector, Benoni J. Ives, Cayuga.