Chapter CXX. to authorize the surveying and opening of a road, from Detroit to Chicago, in the state of Illinois
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Chap. CXX.— An Act to authorize the surveying and opening of a road, from Detroit to Chicago, in the state of Illinois. March 3, 1825. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * The President of the United States to appoint three commissioners who shall explore, &c., in the most eligible course, a road from Detroit in Michigan to Chicago in Illinois. 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, in the territory of Michigan, to Chicago, in the state of Illinois:
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 approves of said survey, shall cause the plats thereof to be deposited in the office of the treasury of the United States. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the said commissioners shallCommissioners to receive three dollars, and their assistants one dollar and fifty cents per day. each be entitled to receive three dollars, and their assistants one dollar and fifty cents each, for each and every day which they shall be necessarily employed in exploring, surveying, and marking said road, and making out the plat and field notes above required.
And for the purpose of compensating the said commissioners and their assistants, there shall be, and is hereby, appropriated, the sum of three thousand dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1825. 136 EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 1, 2. 1825. RESOLUTIONS. Resolution I: authorizing the public documents, printed by order of Congress, to be furnished to the Gardiner Lyceum. Resolution I 4 Stat. 136 1825-03-03 Charles C.
Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-26 18 2 public I. Resolution authorizing the public documents, printed by order of Congress, to be furnished to the Gardiner Lyceum. March 3, 1825. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * One copy of Seybert’s Statistical Annals, &c., to be furnished the Gardiner Lyceum.
That one copy of Seybert’s Statistical Annals, and of Pitkin’s Statistical View, and also one copy of the public journals of the Senate and House of Representatives, and of the documents published under the orders of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, which have been, or shall be, published, by virtue of a resolution passed December twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, be transmitted to the executive of the state of Maine, for the use and benefit of the Gardiner Lyceum, in said state.
Approved, March 3, 1825. Resolution II: directing an inventory of the furniture in the President’s house to be taken. Resolution II 4 Stat. 136 1825-03-03 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-26 18 2 public II. Resolution directing an inventory of the furniture in the President’s house to be taken. March 3, 1825. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * An inventory of the furniture of the President’s house to be taken.
That the commissioner of the public buildings be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to take an inventory of the furniture of the President’s house, at such time as may be convenient to the President, and to deliver a copy thereof to the President elect, and one copy to each House of Congress. Approved, March 3, 1825. 19 19 1 1825 1826 ACTS OF THE NINETEENTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the first day of December,* 1825, *and ended on the twenty-second day of May,* 1826.
John Quincy Adams, President; J. C. Calhoun, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; Nathaniel Macon, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 20th of May; J. W. Taylor, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I.
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