United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 66

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5
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4108037United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Eighth Congress, First Session, Chapter 66United States Congress


June 15, 1844.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXVI.—An Act making appropriation for certain improvements in the Territory of Iowa.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriations, how to be expended. That the following sums of money be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.

Dubuque harbor, provided it will make a permanent improvement.For the improvement of the harbor at the town of Dubuque, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Provided, upon due examination and survey, under the direction of the Secretary of War, it shall appear that a permanent improvement can be accomplished and completed for this amount, so as to admit the landing of steamers of the largest class navigating the river at the town of Dubuque at all seasons of the year.

Bridges on the ‘Agency’ road.For the construction and keeping in repair bridges on the “Agency” road, (so called,) laid out by the United States in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, five thousand dollars.

Bridges on military road from Dubuque to Missouri.For the construction and keeping in repair bridges on the Military road, (so called,) from Dubuque to the northern boundary of the State of Missouri, which road was laid out by the United States in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, ten thousand dollars.

Approved, June 15, 1844.