United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 92
Chap. XCII.—An Act for improving the navigation of the Ohio river.[1]
Snags, &c., to be removed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all snags, sawyers, stumps, logs, and obstructions of every description, which tend to endanger the steamboat navigation of the Ohio river, at any navigable stages of the water, and which present themselves, and are to be found on the banks and sides of the river, shall be removed so that the navigation of said river, may be rendered at all times safe: and the same shall be done under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of War, and through the aid of some practical agent acquainted with the situation of the river, its respective bars, island, and danderous [dangerous] places and parts; and he shall likewise cause the channel of said river, at a part usually called the Grand Chain, near its mouth, so to be deepened by a proper channel formed, that at the usual state of the water, steamboats may be enabled safely to pass and re-pass the same.
30,000 dollars appropriated.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for carrying this act into effect, the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1827.
- ↑ See notes of the acts for the improvement of the navigation of the Ohio river, act of May 24, 1824, ch. 139.