Chapter LXVI. making appropriation for certain improvements in the Territory of Iowa
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Chap. LXVI.— An Act making appropriation for certain improvements in the Territory of Iowa.June 15, 1844. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following Appropriations, how to be expended. sums of money be, and they are 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. For the improvement of the harbor at the town of Dubuque, seven Dubuque harbor, provided it will make a permanent improvement. thousand five hundred dollars; *Provided,* upon due examination and survey, under the direction of the Secretary of War, it shall appear that a permanent improvement can be accomplished and completed for this amount, so as to admit the landing of steamers of the largest class navigating the river at the town of Dubuque at all seasons of the year.
For the construction and keeping in repair bridges on the ‘Agency’ Bridges on the ‘Agency’ road. road, (so called,) laid out by the United States in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, five thousand dollars. For the construction and keeping in repair bridges on the Military Bridges on military road from Dubuque to Missouri. road, (so called,) from Dubuque to the northern boundary of the State of Missouri, which road was laid out by the United States in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, ten thousand dollars.
Approved, June 15, 1844.