The Text

No money shall be appropriated or paid by the State, or out of the canal revenues, for the construction or maintenance of any bridge, except for the use of the State, over any of the completed State canals or feeders, at any point where a bridge was not maintained at the expense of the State prior to the first of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven ; nor for any damages or injury sustained in the navigation or use of any of the canals, or of the feeders or structures connected therewith ; nor as extra allowance or compensation to any person for the performance of any contract relating thereto. No claims for damages, growing out of the construction, maintenance or repair of the canals, feeders, or structures connected therewith, shall be heard or allowed, unless made within two years after it shall arise, except claims for damages for appropriation of property, in which case it shall be made within two years after notice of such appropriation, as shall be provided by law ; but if the claimant shall be under legal disability the claim may be made within two years after the removal of the disability.