Communication between Moscheto or Halifax or Indian rivers.
1824, ch. 22.ing the communication between Moscheto or Halifax and Indian river, in the line of communication to Cape Florida, described in the report of the engineer, appointed in pursuance of an act of Congress, of the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, authorizing the survey of a military road from St. Augustine to Cape Florida.
Approved, March 2, 1827.
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Chap. XLIV.—An Act for the preservation of the Cumberland road.[1]
30,000 dollars appropriated.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated for the purpose of repairing the public road from Cumberland to Wheeling, under the direction of the President of the United States, to be paid out of any money in the public treasury not otherwise appropriated.
A suitable person to superintend the repairs to be made on said road to be appointed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint some suitable person so superintend the repairs to be made on said road, whose compensation, to be paid out of the sum appropriated by this act, shall be fixed by the President of the United States.
Approved, March 2, 1827.
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Chap. XLV.—An Act to refund certain duties paid upon vessels belonging to citizens of Hamburg, and their cargoes.[2]
Secretary of the Treasury to refund the discriminating duties paid between the 3d of March, 1815, and the 13th November of the same year.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to refund the discriminating duties that were paid in the ports of the United States between the third of March, eighteen hundred and fifteen, and the thirteenth November of the same year, upon any vessels belonging to citizens of the city of Hamburg, and their cargoes; and that the same be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1827.
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Chap. XLVI.—An Act to authorize the improving of certain harbours, the building of piers, and for other purposes.
Sums, respectively, appropriated.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to accomplish the objects hereinafter mentioned; that is to say:
Improving Hyannis harbour.For improving Hyannis harbour, in the state of Massachusetts, a sum not exceeding ten thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
Building two piers at the mouth of Oswego harbour.1826, ch. 78.For building two piers at the mouth of Oswego harbour in the state of New York, thirty-three thousand three hundred and forty-eight dollars and sixty-four cents; no part of which last-mentioned sum shall be expended until a contract shall have been made for completing said piers, agreeably to the plan proposed in a report made under the act of the twentieth of May last; and for erecting a pier by contract, at the mouth of Dunkirk harbour, in the state of New York, three thousand dollars.
- ↑ For the notes relating to the Cumberland road, see vol. ii. p. 357.
- ↑ See notes as to discriminating duties Act of Jan. 7, 1824, ch. 4.
