Chapter L. for the Construction of a Wagon Road from Fort Kearney via the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains and Great Salt Lake Valley, to the eastern Portion of the State of California, and for other Purposes
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Chap. L.— An Act for the Construction of a Wagon Road from Fort Kearney via the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains and Great Salt Lake Valley, to the eastern Portion of the State of California, and for other Purposes. Feb. 17, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriation for a wagon road from Fort Kearney to California.That the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the construction of a wagon road from Fort Kearney, in the Territory of Nebraska, via the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, to the eastern boundary of the State of California near Honey Lake, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to contracts to be made by him—said road to connect with and form an extension of the road already authorized from Fort Ridgely to the aforesaid South Pass.
Sec. 2. Also from El Paso to Fort Yuma.*And be it further enacted*, That the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the construction of a wagon road from El Paso, on the Rio Grande, to Fort Yuma, at the mouth of the Gila River, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to contracts to be made by him. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That a sum of fifty thousand dollarsTHIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 50, 55, 56. 1857.163 be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasuryAlso from Fort Defiance to the Colorado. not otherwise appropriated, for the construction of a wagon road from Fort Defiance in the Territory of New Mexico, to the Colorado River, near the mouth of the Mohava River. Approved, February 17, 1857.