"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 $4.44-44/100. 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:-- ========================================================================= | | On account | On account of| Date. | On account | of road west| road of east | Total. | of Tunnel. | of Tunnel.| of Tunnel. | ------------------+------------+-------------+--------------+------------ 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 22 | 50,222 22 1860, March 1, | 80,222 22 | - | - | 80,222 22 1860, October 8, | 15,829 79 | - | 64,170 21 | 80,000 00 1860, Dec. 12, | 5,580 37 | - | 112,197 40 | 117,777 77 1861, January 5, | 2,781 99 | - | 30,601 34 | 38,883 83 1861, February 18,| 2,545 83 | - | 23,281 95 | 25,777 78 1861, March 7, | 2,052 82 | - | 19,724 95 | 21,777 77 1861, May 8, | 5,061 65 | - | 80,438 35 | 85,500 00 1861, June 27, | 2,831 89 | - | 84,668 11 | 37,500 00 1861, July 12, | 3,497 61 | - | 90,002 39 | 93,500 00 +------------+-------------+--------------+------------ |$170,131 95 | $50,000 00 | $505,256 92 | $125,388 87 =========================================================================