Chapter 207.
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CHAP. 207.— An act directing a survey of a road from the Aqueduct Bridge to Mount Vernon and making an appropriation therefor.February 23, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mount, Vernon, Va. Survey of road from Aqueduct Bridge to, authorized. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to detail one or more engineer officers of the Army to make the necessary surveys for a national road from a point in Alexandria County, Virginia, at or near the Virginia end of the Aqueduct Bridge, and thence through the counties of Alexandria and Fairfax, in said State, to Mount Vernon, who shall report the same, together with the estimated cost of 691 building such road, to the Secretary of War, who shall transmit the same to Congress.
Sec. 2. That the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereofAppropriation. as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses of the United States in carrying out the provisions of this act. *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be construed to bind the Government*Proviso*. No liability to buy right of way. of the United States to pay for any portion of the right of way for the avenue contemplated by this act.
Approved, February 23, 1889.