Chapter XXXI. *for the continuation and repair of the Cumberland road in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.*(*a*)(*a*) See notes of the acts relating to the Cumberland road, vol, ii. p. 357
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Chap. XXXI.— An Act *for the continuation and repair of the Cumberland road in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.*(*a*)(*a*) See notes of the acts relating to the Cumberland road, vol, ii. p. 357.March 3, 1835. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, That the sum of two hundred Appropriation for continuing the road in the state of Ohio;thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for the purpose of continuing the Cumberland road in the state of Ohio; also that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, Indiana.for continuing the Cumberland road in the state of Indiana; which sums shall be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated, and replaced out of the fund reserved for laying out and making roads under the direction of Congress, by the several acts passed for the admission of the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states.
Appropriation to complete the road east of the Ohio river, and to carry into effect the acts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That for the entire completion of repairs of the Cumberland road, east of the Ohio river, and other needful improvements on said road, to carry into effect the provisions of an act of the general assembly of Pennsylvania, entitled “An act for the preservation and repair of the Cumberland road,” passed the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and of an act of the general assembly of the state of Maryland, entitled “An act for the preservation and repair of that part of the United States’ road within the limits of the state of Maryland,” passed the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; also an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “An act concerning the Cumberland road,” passed February the seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; the sum of three hundred and forty-six thousand one hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty-eight cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.
Money appropriated not to be expended until the states accept the road. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That before any portion of the sum by the second section of this act appropriated, shall be expended in the repair of said road, east of the Ohio river, agreeably to the provisions of this act, the same shall be surrendered to and accepted by the states, respectively, through which said road passes; and the United Slates shall not thereafter be subject to any expense in relation to said road.
Approved, March 3, 1835.