United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 90
Chap. XC.—An Act further to extend the powers of the board of canal commissioners for the improvement of the Tennessee river in the state of Alabama.
Commissioners to suspend improvement of Tennessee river.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioners appointed by the state of Alabama to superintend the improvement of the Tennessee river, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby authorized to suspend the improvement of so much of said river as is below Florence, in said state, and every part of the same, until the canal and other improvements, between Lamb’s ferry and Campbell’s ferry, shall have been completed; any thing in the act entitledAct of May 23, 1828, ch. 75. “An act to grant certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the state of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahawba, and Black Warrior rivers,” approved twenty-third of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, March 2, 1833.