United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 54
Chap. LIV.—An Act for clearing, repairing, and improving, certain roads for the purpose of facilitating the transportation of the United States’ Mail.
President to cause certain mail-roads to be cleared, repaired, and improved.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to cause to be cleared, repaired, and improved, the United States’ mail road, from Nashville in the state of Tennessee, to New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana: Provided, He shall not expend more than seven thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars, in clearing, repairing, and improving, the same, and that the said sum shall be expended on that part of the road which may lie within [the] territory occupied by the Indians, and to which their title has not yet been extinguished.
Approved, March 3, 1823.