ESTIMATE. 2.-COMPLETING the CANAL now under execution at the Chûte à Blondeau. 29,382 cubic yards of excavation remaining to be cut through hard rock 22 feet deep, with a great part of it below the surface of the River, at 6s. 6d. sterling 300 6 £. 7,598 15 3 Sterling. 6,585 11 10 Extra coffer-dam, and machinery for pumping, at £. 200 currency Contingencies, O Total required to complete £. 11,312 cubic yards of excavation already performed in 1829, 4s. 5 d. sterling Expended in building a Barrack, Store, and Workshops - 3.-COMPLETING the GRENVILLE CANAL, according to the Plan and Instructions already approved of. 3,024 cubic yards of excavation in hard rock, in bed of River at the 810 cubic yards of excavation, in forming a drain at the back of 982 16 222 15 300 1,312 10 Contingencies, O To complete Nos. 6 and 7 Locks, agreeably to the Estimate dated 8th November 1828; being the Amount remaining unexpended on that Estimate on the 31st December 1829 Expended in 1829, including £.1,301. 12. 3. amount of Materials purchased and remaining in store, to be used in the Works Reported in Lieut.-Colonel Du Vernet's letter to the Military Secretary, dated 19th June 1829. Correspondence relative to the Canal Communication in Canada. Correspondence relative to the Canal Communication in Canada. REPORT. These locks were built as formerly ordered, 108 feet long and 20 feet wide. It is calculated that they cannot be taken down and rebuilt complete, of the dimensions now approved of (130 feet by 33) feet for steam navigation, at a less expense than stated. The Canal had been originally laid out 28 feet wide at bottom, excepting at the deep and expensive cuttings, where, for a distance of about 1,600 yards, it is only 20 feet wide. The excavation herein stated is for making the whole length of Canal, about six miles, forty feet wide at bottom; and the average price of 3s. 6d. per cubic yard is assumed, as in the deep cutting it is entirely through rock, and in no other part is there less than two or three feet of rock at the bottom. The re-forming a tow-path or road is estimated, as in some places the whole, and in others the greater part, will have been cut away in widening the Canal. The Canal having isolated between it and the Ottawa River a long slip of land, although not more than about 360 acres, yet extending nearly six miles, and belonging to different proprietors settled on it; five permanent bridges had been established, which must now be replaced by draw-bridges (and of a greater extent), to allow the passage of steamboats, or the land be purchased; which, however, may not be so practicable, except in one instance, where the sum required for the bridge exceeds the value of the land. This item is for the entire establishment for three years and a half, which period may be considered necessary for the completion of the whole line of works, twelve miles in extent from the Carillon village to Grenville, and includes the subsistence, clothing, rations, and total expense, of the two companies of the Royal Staff Corps. The labour of the two companies has been considered in the foregoing Estimate; but as their services are chiefly directed towards the superintendence of the works, as well as affording the necessary military protection, since there is, in consequence, no detachment of other troops at the station, the charge for them is now made a separate item. The actual charge for the establishment, from the 25th June to the 31st of December 1829, not having been otherwise provided for, is necessarily inserted in this item. ESTIMATE. 4.-ALTERING the three Locks now constructed on the Grenville Canal on the small Taking down and re-building on the approved large scale for Steam- boat navigation £. s. d. 7,000 4,500 5,000 20$. 300 300 300 toises of dry masonry in forming a Pier on south side of entrance at upper end of Canal Coffer-dam, and machinery to pump out water 163,147 cubic yards of excavation through rock and earth, in widening Correspondence relative to the Canal Communication in Canada. 5.-ESTABLISHMENT. Pay and Allowances, including every charge of one Field-Officer and two Companies of the Royal Staff Corps for 365 days (as per Return) for the year 1830 [Vide page 105.] Clerk of Works, 365 days, at 7 s. 6 d. Lodging Money Office Rent Currency. 136 17 6 24 18 £. S. d. Sterling. 6,520 18 7 Similar Establishment for two years in addition, viz. 1831 and 1832 Pay and Allowances, including every charge of one Field Officer and two Companies of the Royal Staff Corps, as per Return from 25th June to 31st December 1829 [Vide page 104.] Pay of Acting Paymaster, including Postage Account, from 25th June Pay of Ordnance Clerk and Acting Paymaster, including Contingent 56 13 61 31 12 164 5 4 5 4 12 6,960 18 91 13,921 17 7 In reference to ITEM 5, p. 103. DETAILED EXPENSE of the Detachment ROYAL STAFF CORPS employed on the Public Works on the Ottawa River, from the 25th June, the day handed over to the Ordnance Department, to the 31st of December 1829, inclusive. In reference to ITEM 5, p. 103. Correspondence relative to the Canal Communi ESTIMATE of PAY and ALLOWANCES for a Detachment of the Royal Staff Corps cation in Canada. stationed in Canada, consisting of one Field Officer, and two Companies complete, to the Establishment turned over to the Ordnance; from the 1st January to 31st of December 1830. Henry Du Vernet, Lieut.-Colonel Royal Staff Corps. |