Chapter IX. authorizing the President to appoint Commissioners to examine and report upon the Sutro Tunnel in the State of Nevada
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CHAP. IX.— An Act authorizing the President to appoint Commissioners to examine and report upon the Sutro Tunnel in the State of Nevada.April 4, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatCommissioners to examine and report upon the Sutro tunnel in Nevada.1866, ch. 244.Vol. xiv. p. 242. the President of the United States is hereby authorized and requested to appoint a board of three commissioners, two of whom shall be officers of engineers of the army and one a mining or civil engineer, to examine and report upon the Sutro tunnel in the State of Nevada, authorized to be constructed by an act of Congress approved July twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, with special reference to the importance, feasibility, cost, and time required to4FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 9, 14–17. 1871. constructReport of commissioners to state what. the same; the value of the bullion extracted from the mines on the Comstock lode; their present and probable future production; also the geological and practical value of said tunnel as an exploring work, and its general bearing upon our mining and other national interests in ascertaining the practicability of deep mining. Approved, April 4, 1871.