"No expenditures shall be required merely for the purposes of ornament, but the work shall be substantially performed, and the rails shall weigh not less than fifty-six pounds to the lineal yard; for any defective materials or work, a proportionate amount of scrip shall be withheld.

"The governor and council shall have a general supervision of the work, and for that purpose shall visit and inspect the same at least once in each year, and as much oftener as they may deem expedient; and they shall have power to correct abuses, remedy defects, and enforce requirements, by withholding scrip or imposing new requirements in such manner as the interest of the Commonwealth shall in their judgment require."

Under the provisions of this Act scrip to the amount of $455,034.70 has been delivered on account of the railroad and $40,131.95 on account of the tunnel.

State scrip was delivered in sterling up to and including the delivery of March 7, 1861, and afterwards in dollar bonds. In this statement the sterling is changed into dollars, to show it all in one currency, and the pound sterling is reckoned, as by the State treasurer when the deliveries were made, at $4.4444/100.

The certificates for amounts due on account of the railroad or tunnel were for irregular sums, and the scrip delivered was in round amounts; the fractional difference sometimes in excess and sometimes below the amount of the certificates is divided between the tunnel and railroad in proportion to the amount due on account of each.

Stated and divided as above, the scrip which has been delivered on account of the railroad and tunnel, is as follows:—

Date.On account
of Tunnel.		On account
of road west
of Tunnel.		On account
road east
of Tunnel.		Total.
1858, October, 6,$50,000 00$50,000 00-$100,000 00
1859, October 4,49,777 78--49,777 78
1860, January 3,--$50,222 2250,222 22
1860, March 1,80,222 22--80,222 22
1860, October 8,15,829 79-64,170 2180,000 00
1860, Dec. 12,5,580 37-112,197 40117,777 77
1861, January 5,2,781 99-30,601 3438,883 83
1861, February 18,2,545 83-23,281 9525,777 78
1861, March 7,2,052 82-19,724 9521,777 77
1861, May 8,5,061 65-80,438 3585,500 00
1861, June 27,2,831 89-84,668 1137,500 00
1861, July 12,3,497 61-90,002 3993,500 00
$170,131 95$50,000 00$505,256 92$125,388 87

The amount of State scrip which according to statutes, had been earned by the progress made towards constructing the tunnel before the surrender of the property to the State, may be stated as follows:—

Strictly considered, no portion of the tunnel at the East End was cut to the required size of 14 feet wide and 18 feet high, much of it was less than 12 feet wide, and some of it only about 13 feet high. At the entrance the excavation was so nearly sufficient that only a small amount more was required to bring it to full size, and had all the rest been well done, a not very exacting inspector might have passed 25 feet of this as completed. The remaining 2,964 feet of penetration at this end could form no ground whatever for a claim as completed work.