United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 67
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Chap. LXVII.—An Act making an appropriation for opening and cutting out a road therein described.
4,000 dolls. appropriated for cutting out a road agreeably to the survey, &c. of Johnson and Dickson.
Under direction of the Secretary of War.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of four thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, and payable out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of opening and cutting out a road from Reynoldsburg, on Tennessee river, in the state of Tennessee, through the Chickasaw nation, to intersect the Natchez road near the south end of the Chickasaw old town, agreeable to the survey and marked lines heretofore made by Messrs. Johnson and Dickson, commissioners, appointed by the President of the United States; and that the opening of said road shall be under the direction of the Secretary of War.
Approved, March 3, 1817.