Chapter CLXIV. to authorize the surveying and laying out a road from Detroit to the mouth of Grand river of Lake Michigan, in the Michigan territory, and for the survey of canal routes in the territory of Florida
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Chap. CLXIV.— An Act to authorize the surveying and laying out a road from Detroit to the mouth of Grand river of Lake Michigan, in the Michigan territory, and for the survey of canal routes in the territory of Florida. July 4, 1832. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Commissioners to be appointed to survey and lay out road. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint three commissioners, who shall explore, survey, and mark, in the most eligible course, a road from Detroit, westwardly, by way of Sciawasse, to the mouth of Grand Plats of surveys to be certified and transmitted to President; if approved, to be deposited, &c.Proviso.river, in the territory of Michigan; and said commissioners shall make out accurate plats of such surveys, accompanied with field notes, and certify and transmit the same to the President of the United States, who, if he approve of said surveys, shall cause the plats thereof to be deposited in the office of the Treasury of the United States, and the said road shall be considered as established and accepted:
Provided, That said commissioners shall be disinterested persons, not residents of any county through which said road may pass. Sec. 2. Pay of commissioners and assistants.*And be it further enacted*, That the said commissioners shall, each, be entitled to receive three dollars, and their assistants one dollar and fifty cents, for each and every day they shall be necessarily employed in the surveying, exploring, and marking of said road, and making their Proviso.returns thereof; *Provided*, The whole expense thereof shall not exceed the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars.
Sec. 3. Appropriation.*And be it further enacted*, That for the purpose of compensating the said commissioners and their assistants, there shall be, and is hereby, appropriated, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 4. Survey to ascertain practicability of canals to connect bays and rivers in Florida.*And be it further enacted*, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be made, an accurate and minute survey of the country between the waters of St.
Andrew’s bay and the river and bay of Chattahoochie, and between Pensacola bay and Bon Secour, along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, with a view to ascertain the practicability and cost of canals to connect said bays and rivers, with notes, plans, observations, and opinions, of the Estimates to be made.Appropriation.engineers on each of said parts designated, with estimates of the cost of each; and, for the purpose of carrying into effect the foregoing provisions, the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 4, 1832.