United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 23
April 14, 1842.
Chap. XXIII.—An Act to establish certain post roads.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,The post roads established, designated. That the following be established post roads: From Rome, in Georgia, to Commerce, in the State of Mississippi, and also to Memphis in the State of Tennessee, namely, from Rome, through Warrenton, Decatur and Tuscumbia, in Alabama and Jacinto, in Mississippi, to Ripley, in said State, as a common point, and from said point through Holly Springs and Hernando, to Commerce, and from Ripley through La Grange, in Tennessee, to Memphis, in said State.
Approved, April 14, 1842.