United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 43
Chap. XLIII.—An Act authorizing the completion and repair of certain roads in the territory of Florida, and for other purposes.
President to cause to be opened a public road from the Georgia line, by St. Augustine.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the Untied States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be opened and repaired, in the territory of Florida, a public road, known by the name of the King’s road, from the Georgia line, by St. Augustine, to New Smyrna.
Troops of the United States in Florida to assist in opening and repairing the same.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ the troops of the United States, stationed in Florida, in such manner as he may think proper, in opening and repairing said road; and for defraying the expenses thereof, the sum of eleven thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.
Additional sum of 5000 dollars appropriated for the completion of the United States’ military road from Pensacola to St. Augustine by the construction of a bridge across the St. Sebastian’s river.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the additional sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the completion of the United States’ military road from Pensacola to St. Augustine, by the construction of a bridge across the St. Sebastian’s river, near St. Augustine; and that the further sum of six thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for the purpose of completing the road from Colerain, in Georgia, to Tampa Bay, in the territory of Florida; and the appropriations aforesaid shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any part of the above appropriations shall remain unexpended, it shall be appropriated to Communication between Moscheto or Halifax or Indian rivers.
1824, ch. 22.opening 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.