Chapter XLVI. to provide for continuing the construction, and for the repair of certain roads, and for other purposes, during the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven
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Chap. XLVI.— An Act to provide for continuing the construction, and for the repair of certain roads, and for other purposes, during the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.March 3, 1837. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatContinuing the Cumberland road in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.Act of July 2, 1836, ch. 264. the sum of one hundred and ninety thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the purpose of continuing the Cumberland road in the state of Ohio;
That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of continuing the Cumberland road in the State of Indiana; And the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of continuing the Cumberland road in the State of Illinois; *Provided,*Proviso. That said road within the State of Illinois, shall not be stoned or gravelled, unless it can be done at a cost, not greater than the average cost, of stoning or gravelling said road, within the States of Ohio and Indiana; which sums shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; *Provided,*Proviso.
That in all cases where it can be done, it shall be the duty of the superintending officers, to cause the work on said road to be laid off in sections, and let out to the lowest substantial bidder, after due notice. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That2d section act 2d July, 1836, ch. 264, shall not be applicable, &c. the second section of an act for the continuation of the Cumberland road in the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, approved the second day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, shall not be applicable to expenditures hereafter to be made on said road.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* ThatRepairs on the Cumberland road east of the Ohio river. the following sums be and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to wit: For the repairs of the Cumberland road, east of the Ohio river, seven thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars and sixty-three cents; ForRoad from northern boundary of Florida to Appalachicola. continuing the construction of the road from the northern boundary of the Territory of Florida, by Marianna, to Appalachicola, twenty thousand three hundred and thirteen dollars; 196TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 49. 1837. ForExpenses incidental to making examinations, &c., under act 30th April, 1824, ch. 46, &c. defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations and surveys, under the act of the thirteenth of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, and for geological and mineralogical surveys and researches in the Indian country, on the public lands, and in the territories of the United States, thirty thousand dollars; ForSurveys of a military character, &c. surveys of a military character, and for the defences of the Atlantic and western frontiers, fifteen thousand dollars.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* ThatThe sums hereby appropriated for the Cumberland road in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, to be replaced by said States, &c. the several sums hereby appropriated for the construction of the Cumberland road in the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, shall be replaced by said States respectively, out of the fund reserved to each for laying out and making roads under the direction of Congress, by the several acts passed for the admission of said States into the Union, on an equal footing with the original States.
Approved, March 3, 1837. Chapter XLIX: to grant the Atchafalaya Railroad and Banking Company the right of way through the public lands of the United States. 5 Stat. 196 1837-03-03 Chapter XLIX United States Government Publishing Office 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 2025-11-29 24 1 public
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to provide for continuing the construction, and for the repair of certain roads, and for other purposes, during the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven
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