Chapter VII. making further Appropriations for the Construction of Roads in the Territory of Minnesota
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Chap. VII.— An Act making further Appropriations for the Construction of Roads in the Territory of Minnesota. Jan. 7, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums of Appropriation for Roads in Minnesota.money be, and they are hereby appropriated for the construction of roads in the Territory of Minnesota, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for the same objects, by the act approved July eighteenth, 1850, ch. 23.eighteen hundred and fifty, to wit: for the construction of a road from Point Douglass, on the Mississippi River, to the falls or rapids of the St.
Louis River of Lake Superior, by the most direct and convenient route between those points, twenty thousand dollars; for the construction of a road from Point Douglass to Fort Gaines, now Fort Ripley, ten thousand dollars; for the construction of a road from the mouth of Swan River, or the most expedient point near it, north or south of said river, to the Winnebago agency at Long Prairie, five thousand dollars; and for the construction of a road from Wabashaw to Mendota, five thousand dollars; and for the survey and laying out of a military road from Mendota to the mouth of Big Sioux River, on the Missouri, five thousand dollars.
The said roads to be constructed under the direction of the Secretary of War, pursuant to contracts to be made by him. Approved, January 7, 1853.