United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 58
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Chap. LVIII.—An Act making appropriations for carrying on certain roads and works of internal improvement, and for providing for surveys.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to the several objects respectively herein named, to be applied during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the same to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz:
Detroit, &c.For continuing the road from Detroit towards Chicago, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
For continuing the road from Detroit to fort Gratiot, Michigan, eight thousand dollars.
For continuing the road from Detroit to Saganaw bay, eight thousand dollars.
T. S. Knapp.For arrearage due to T. S. Knapp, fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents.
Surveys, &c.
1824, ch. 46.For defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations and surveys under the act of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Navigation of Ohio and Mississippi rivers.For improving the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, to be expended under the existing laws, fifty thousand dollars.
That the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the improvement of the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers from Pittsburg to New Orleans, in removing the obstructions in the channels at the shoal places and ripples, and by such other means as may be deemed best for the deepening of the channels of the Ohio river, which said sum shall be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, by the superintendent appointed to execute said works of improvement;Sum expended under direction of the President of the United States. and the President is hereby authorized and required to take bond with approved security in fifty thousand dollars conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties required of him under such instructions as may be given him for the improvement of the navigation of said rivers, and that an officer of engineers be associated with said superintendent, with authority to suspend the operation of any work, or payment of any account, until the order of the President is received.
Road in Arkansas.To open a road from Washington, in Arkansas territory, to Jackson, in said territory, fifteen thousand dollars.
Approved, March 2, 1831.